Burnett was innate within San Antonio, Texas to two alcoholic parents, Jodie & Louise Burnett, world health organization left her using her grandma. Carol moved to Hollywood, California with her grandmother in which she graduated from either Hollywood High School and then attended University of California, Los Angeles and worked her way up across minor role in TV. Burnett come to prominence in the mid-1950s singing a novelty love-song, "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles". Just about this instance, she too appeared inside the 1-year NBC sitcom, Stanley, with Buddy Hackett. She achieved profits in Broadway in the 1959 musical Once Upon a Mattress. In the equivalent season she appeared on The Garry Moore Show as a regular until 1962, most unforgettably by having her portrayal of the charwoman. Sustaining her profits on this variety she eventually come to star status & appeared in the 1962 favorite Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall co-starring her friend Julie Andrews.

Burnett's number one married man was Don Saroyan (there are no known relation of creator William Saroyan) to whom she was married from December 15, 1955 until they divorced within 1962. In Will Four, 1963, Burnett married Roman Catholic TV producer Joe Hamilton, a divorced father of Ogdoad, by owning whom she got Threesome girl, including late actress & writer, Carrie Hamilton, & singer Erin Hamilton. A marriage ended withwithin divorcement in 1984, and Hamilton would at long last die of cancer. Her survive married man is the tremendously-younger Brian Miller, to whom she has been wed since November 2001. Burnett (left) and Vicki Lawrence (right) appearing with host Allen Ludden on an episode of Password. Prior to generating her variety, Burnett too appeared as a panellist on the game indicate Password — an association she maintained until the early Eighties.

A hour-long The Carol Burnett Show was a brobdingnagian profits, garnering Xxii Emmy Awards and continuing to own profits within syndicated reruns. Its ensemble cast involved Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, and Vicki Lawrence, who was cast partially because she seemed rather the immature Burnett.

Burnett drew attention around 1981, when she sued a National Enquirer for libel after the tabloid newspaper described her alleged public drunkenness, supposedly by using Henry Kissinger. (A fact that two of her parents suffered from either alcoholism made this a particularly sensitive issue to Burnett.) A outbreak occurs as landmark in a survey of libel events involving celebrities, although the unprecedented $1.6 milliin finding of fact for Burnett was reduced on appeal, & a pack was finally settled away from court.

Her film act includes The Four Seasons, Annie, and Noises Off.

Burnett returned to TV in the mid-1990s as a supporting character on the sitcom Mad About You when she played Theresa Stemple (originally played by Nancy Dussault), the mother of independent character Jamie Buchman, played by Oscar & Emmy winning actress Helen Hunt.

Individual tragedy smitten Burnett around 2002 when her daughter, actress & writer Carrie Hamilton, died of lung cancer at the age of 38. Hamilton got the condition by using doses as a adolescent however overcame it by having her mother's aid. She & her mother typically spoke retired against habit. Carrie Hamilton was the gifted actress inside her have best, & she & her mother appeared together in the 1988 television film Hostage.

Burnett was the recipient of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors at the age of Lxx.

Burnett has been an extended instance fan of the a good soap opera All My Children. She realized the dream whenever Agnes Nixon created the role of Verla Grubbs for her. Burnett suddenly detected herself swimming a long-wasted girl of Langly Wallingford (Louis Edmonds), and raising hell for her stepmother Phoebe Tyler-Wallingford (a late Ruth Warrick). She hosted a Twenty-fifth day of remembrance favorite all about the indicate around 1995 and made the brief cameo when Verla on the January 5, 2005 episode celebrating the 35th day of remembrance of the program. Due to programming conflicts, a scene was shot on the Los Angeles placed of General Hospital instead of the New York City placed in which Totally The Youngsters is taped.

TV Work
The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show (regular in 1955) Stanley (1956-1957) The Garry Moore Show (regular from 1959-1962) The Carol Burnett Show (1960) Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962) An Evening with Carol Burnett (1963) Calamity Jane (1963) Once Upon a Mattress (1964) The Entertainers (1964-1965) Carol + 2 (1967) The Carol Burnett Show (1967-1978) The Carol Burnett Show in London (1970) Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center (1971) Once Upon a Mattress (1972) 6 Rms Riv Vu (1974) Out to Lunch (1974) Sills and Burnett at the Met (1976) All My Children (cast member in 1976 and in 1983, 1995, and 2005) Dolly and Carol in Nashville (1978) The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank (1978) Friendly Fire (1979) Carol Burnett & Company (1979) (canceled after 4 episodes) The Tenth Month (1979) Eunice (1982) (pilot for ''Mama's Family) Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice' (1982) Between Friends (1983) ''Mama's Family (cast member from 1983-1985) Burnett Discovers Domingo (1984) The Laundromat (1985) Follies in Concert (1986) Fresno (1986) (miniseries) Plaza Suite (1987) (also executive producer) Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin (1987) Hostage (1988) Julie & Carol: Together Again (1989) Carol & Company (1990) (canceled after a few months) The Carol Burnett Show (1991) (canceled after Two months) The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion (1993) Carol Burnett: The Special Years (1994) Seasons of the Heart (1994) Men, Movies & Carol (1994) Grace (1998) The Marriage Fool (1998) Putting It Together (2000) Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers (2001) (also executive producer) The Carol Burnett Show: Let's Bump Up the Lights (2004) (also executive producer) Once Upon a Mattress (2005) (also executive producer)

Filmography
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968) (short subject) Star Spangled Salesman (1968) (short subject) Pete 'n' Tillie (1972) The Front Page (1974) A Wedding (1978) HealtH (1980) The Four Seasons (1981) Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981) Annie (1982) Noises Off... (1992) Moon Over Broadway (1997) (documentary) Get Bruce (1999) (documentary) The Trumpet of the Swan (2001) (voice) Broadway: the Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary) The Last Guy on Earth (2006) (currently inside pre-production)

Stage Work
Once Upon a Mattress (1959) Fade Out - Fade In (1964) Moon Over Buffalo (1995) Putting It Together'' (1999)