Performers
Bob Bergen
Primetime Emmy-nominated actor Bob Bergen has worked in all aspects of television: from sitcoms, to soaps, to game show host. His voice is heard in thousands of commercials, promos, animated series and specials. He has also worked on dozens of feature films, including Wreck it Ralph, The Lorax, Tangled, Tinker Bell, Spirited Away, A Bug’s Life, Iron Giant, The Emperor’s New Groove and Up. He voices Luke Skywalker in the Robot Chicken: Star Wars specials and is an Annie Award nominee for playing Cadet in the two-time Emmy-nominated series Duck Dodgers. He currently stars as Porky Pig in CN’s hit series The Looney Tunes Show. He has been an active member of the Television Academy since 1994, serving on the Performers Peer Group Executive Committee and Daytime Committee. He is on Hollywood’s SAG-AFTRA board, and is national co-chair of their voice-over committee. Since 1987 he has been a volunteer Big Brother for two boys, and was honored as Jewish Big Brother of the Year in 2007.
Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin rose to fame on the television series Laugh-In, in 1969, with her characterizations of Ernestine, the irascible telephone operator, and Edith Ann, the devilish six-year-old in the big rocking chair.
Following her early success on television, Tomlin made her Broadway debut in Appearing Nitely (1977). Written and directed by Jane Wagner, the show introduced audiences to new characters such as housewife Judith Beasley, Trudy the bag lady and 77-year-old Sister Boogie Woman and earned Tomlin her first Tony Award. In 1985, Tomlin starred in Wagner’s critically acclaimed play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, which earned her a second Tony.
Tomlin produced and starred in four Grammy-nominated comedy albums — This Is a Recording, Modern Scream, And That’s the Truth and On Stage, winning the Grammy for This Is a Recording. Tomlin has also co-produced and starred in eight award-winning comedy television specials. She has been seen in several television series, including Murphy Brown, Homicide, The West Wing, Will & Grace, The X Files, Desperate Housewives, Damages, NCIS and Eastbound and Down. Tomlin also starred as Ms. Frizzle in the animated series The Magic School Bus, and has starred in three animated specials based on her character Edith Ann. Tomlin can be seen on the Showtime series Web Therapy and currently co-stars with Reba McEntire on the ABC series Malibu Country.
Her 1975 film debut in Robert Altman’s Nashville was nominated for an Oscar, and the New York Film Critics voted Tomlin Best Supporting Actress. Since then, she has starred in more than 20 films, including The Incredible Shrinking Woman, 9 to 5, All of Me, Big Business, Tea with Mussolini, I Heart Huckabee’s, A Prairie Home Companion and Admission, which will be released in 2013. For her work in film, Tomlin has received the Crystal Award from Women in Film. She has also been awarded two Peabodys, a WGA Award and six Emmy Awards. In 2003, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
