Carol Burnett: Career in pictures
Leonard Nimoy, left, appeared with Burnett on an episode of “The Carol Burnett Show.”
(CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images)Take a look at some of the highlights of comedy legend Carol Burnett’s long career.
With “The Carol Burnett Show” signing off in 1978, Burnett split her time among stage, TV and the big screen, appearing in 1981’s “The Four Seasons” and 1982’s “Annie.” In 1984 Burnett, left, reunited with Vicki Lawrence on the CBS sitcom “Mama’s Family.”
(CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images)Burnett, left, and Vicki Lawrence joke around at a gathering to announce Columbia House’s release of “The Carol Burnett Show” in a video library form on Oct. 24, 2000.
(Kim D. Johnson / Associated Press)Burnett joined pal Joel Grey at the Music Center’s 18th Distinguished Artists Awards Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where Grey received an award.
(Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)Burnett clowns around with fellow voice actors Jim Carrey, left, and Steve Carrell while promoting the 2008 animated film “Horton Hears a Who.”
(Karen Tapia Andersen / Los Angeles Times)The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored the star at “An Evening with Carol Burnett” in 2013.
(Richard Shotwell / Invision)Burnett was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in 2013.
(Owen Sweeney / Invision)Carol Creighton Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1933, and moved to Los Angeles with her grandmother at a young age. She majored in theater arts at UCLA. She is pictured at the Wal-Mart shareholder meeting in Fayetteville, Ark. on June 5, 2015.
(Danny Johnston / Associated Press)Burnett was honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award at the SAG Awards on Jan. 30, 2016.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)From left, Julie Andrews, Christine Baranski and Carol Burnett perform onstage during Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Gala on Feb. 1, 2017, in New York City.
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