Lily Tomlin Married Long-Time Partner Jane Wagner On New Year’s Eve
Tomlin, who is 74, reportedly came out in 2001 and has won four Emmy awards, a Grammy, and a Tony. Wagner, 78, Tomlin’s partner in her personal and professional life, is a writer, director and producer, and has won three Emmys and two Peabody awards.
The couple met in 1971.
“Jane and I have been together for 42 years,” Tomlin said at last year’s Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Pre-Emmy Performers Peer Group reception. “We’re thinking maybe we’ll get married,” E! Online’s Marc Malkin reported in August.
The Chicago Tribune’s Liz Smith broke the news this weekend, announcing, “my longtime friends, Lily Tomlin and her love, the writer Jane Wagner, got married on the eve of 2014. … My wish is that their happiness will be as great as their combined talents.”
Tomlin has appeared as an actress in over 60 productions, including recurring roles in Damages, Desperate Housewives, Will & Grace, Murphy Brown, and Sesame Street. She may be best known for her roles in two of my personal favorites: President Bartlet’s executive assistant Deborah Fiderer on The West Wing, and in Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
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Image via the couple’s Facebook page
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