Born in 1933 in San Antonio, TX, Carol Burnett is a actress, comedian, singer, and writer, whose career spans six decades of television. She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, “The Carol Burnett Show”. She got her start performing in nightclubs in NYC and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She soon made her television debut, regularly appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and won her first Emmy Award in 1962.