Carol Burnett

Carol Burnett, an American comedian, actress, singer and writer, was born April 26,1933, in San Antonio, TX and raised by her grandmother in Hollywood, CA. After graduating from Hollywood High, Burnett enrolled at UCLA and studied theater and musical comedy before heading to New York City. Once in NYC, Burnett originated the role of “Winifred” in the 1959 Broadway production Once Upon a Mattress while simultaneously being a featured performer on The Garry Moore Show, for which she won her first Emmy.

CBS took notice and signed Burnett to a ten-year contract. On September 11, 1967, The Carol Burnett Show premiered and ran for the next 11 years. While bringing laughter to millions around the globe and inspiring generations of performers, the show also transformed Burnett into a television icon. Following the show’s run, Burnett starred in multiple film, television and theatre projects and wrote four NYC best-selling books. With her daughter, Carrie Hamilton, she co-wrote the screenplay Hollywood Arms, which premiered on Broadway in 2002 directed by Hal Prince. 

Throughout her seven-decade career, Burnett received multiple Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, People’s Choice and Peabody Awards, a Tony and a Grammy. Burnett also immortalized her hand and footprints at the TLC Chinese Theatre, received the Kennedy Center Honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mark Twain Prize, SAG Lifetime Achievement Award, was the first recipient of the Golden Globe’s Carol Burnett Lifetime Achievement Award for Television and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Burnett currently stars in Palm Royale for Apple TV+, won her seventh Emmy for Best Variety Special for NBC’s Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love and had a recurring role on AMC’s Better Call Saul. She resides in Montecito, CA with her husband, Brian Miller and her cat, Nikki.