Burnett, Carol (1933-…), is a versatile American actress, singer, and comedian. She gained her main popularity as the star of her own television variety show but has also appeared in motion pictures and in Broadway musicals and comedies.
Carol Creighton Burnett was born in San Antonio on April 26, 1933. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles from 1952 to 1954. She made her stage debut in the leading role of the musical fairy tale Once Upon a Mattress (1959). Burnett was featured on the Garry Moore television show from 1959 to 1962 and then appeared in several TV specials. She became one of the most popular entertainers in the United States as the star of “The Carol Burnett Show” on television from 1966 to 1977.
Burnett made her motion-picture debut in Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963). She also starred in Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972), The Front Page (1974), A Wedding (1978), The Four Seasons (1981), Annie (1982), and Noises Off (1992). On the stage, she appeared in Fade Out-Fade In (1964), Plaza Suite (1970), I Do! I Do! (1973), Same Time, Next Year (1977), and Moon over Buffalo (1995). She also provided a voice for the animated feature film The Secret World of Arrietty (2010). She has made several movies for television and performed in Las Vegas showrooms. Burnett’s best-selling memoir, One More Time (1986), was adapted into the play Hollywood Arms (2002), which was co-written by Burnett and her daughter Carrie Hamilton. Burnett also wrote the memoirs This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection (2010) and Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story (2013), written about her daughter after her death.
