SAG to honor Lily Tomlin with Life Achievement Award

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Lily Tomlin is to receive SAG-AFTRA's Life Achievement Award at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild gala on Jan. 29.

The ceremony is to be simulcast live nationwide on TNT and TBS.

Tomlin, 76, is already the recipient of the 2014 Kennedy Center Award, the 2003 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, two Peabody Awards, multiple Emmys, numerous American Comedy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, a Writers Guild of America Award and both the Crystal Award and the Lucy Award from Women in Film.

"Lily Tomlin is an extraordinary actress, as equally adept at narrative drama as in comedy roles," SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris said in a statement Thursday.

"But it is through her many original characters that Lily's creative genius fully shines. She has an ability to create diverse and distinct characters that are at once familiar, eccentric and oh so honest -- in a way that illuminates life's hidden corners. From Edith Ann to Frankie, her characters are wholly unique, and by exposing every nuance of human behavior they widen our scope of understanding. On behalf of nearly 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members, we are honored to bestow our SAG Life Achievement Award on the truly amazing Lily Tomlin."

Tomlin can currently be seen in the Netflix comedy series Grace & Frankie.