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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 26, 1949
Place of Birth
Inglewood, California, USA
Also Known As
- Victoria Ann Axelrad
- Victoria Ann Lawrence
- Vicki Lawrence Schultz
- Vicki Lawrence-Schultz
- Vickie Lawrence
Vicki Lawrence
1.1 Popularity
Biography
Vicki Lawrence is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her character Mama (Thelma Harper). Lawrence also originated many other characters on CBS's The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1978, the variety show's entire series run. In 1973, Lawrence became a one-hit wonder singer in the USA only, landing on the U.S. chart with "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia". It reached number one on both the United States and Canada charts. Lawrence has multiple Emmy Award nominations, winning one in 1976. She is also a multiple Golden Globe nominee, all for The Carol Burnett Show.
Known For
5.0
Self
Hollywood Squares
2025
7.6
Leigh
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
2024
6.2
Lotte
Palm Royale
2024
8.4
Self - Guest
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023
7.7
Joan Shivers
The Really Loud House
2022
9.5
Self
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022
6.3
Phil's Mama
Call Me Kat
2021
5.3
Margaret
The Cool Kids
2018
8.4
Gloria Ortiz
The Resident
2018
6.7
Herself
The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special
2017
Credits
Hollywood Squares
as Self
2025
5.0
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
as Leigh
2024
7.6
Palm Royale
as Lotte
2024
6.2
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
as Self - Guest
2023
8.4
The Really Loud House
as Joan Shivers
2022
7.7
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
as Self
2022
9.5
Call Me Kat
as Phil's Mama
2021
6.3
The Cool Kids
as Margaret
2018
5.3
The Resident
as Gloria Ortiz
2018
8.4
The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special
as Herself
2017
6.7
Great News
as Angie
2017
6.6
Celebrity Family Feud
as Self
2015
7.8
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
as Self - Guest Judge
2012
7.3
Annie Claus Is Coming to Town
as Martha
2011
6.3
Hermie & Friends: The Flo Show Creates a Buzz
as Flo
2009
0.0
Hermie & Friends: Hermie and The High Seas
as Flo
2008
7.3
Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular
as Mama
2007
2.8
Phineas and Ferb
as Hilda
2007
7.9
The Fox and the Hound 2
as Granny Rose (voice)
2006
6.0
Hannah Montana
as Ruthie Ray Stewart
2006
7.1
Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider
as Flo
2004
6.0
🎬
The Carol Burnett Show: Let's Bump Up the Lights
as Herself
2004
6.5
Hermie & Friends: Flo the Lyin' Fly
as Flo (voice)
2004
6.8
Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers
as Herself
2001
8.0
🎬
The Test
2001
0.0
Elvis Is Alive! I Swear I Saw Him Eating Ding Dongs Outside the Piggly Wiggly's
2001
0.0
Yes, Dear
as Natalie Warner
2000
6.7
Nunsense 3: The Jamboree
as Sister Mary Amnesia / Thelma Harper
1998
0.0
Ally McBeal
as Dana
1997
6.6
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
3.9
All-American Girl
as Phone Lady
1994
7.3
Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
as Herself
1994
4.4
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
as Nora Kingsley
1994
6.5
Duckman
as Vicki Lawrence (voice)
1994
7.1
Burke's Law
as Felicia Harper
1994
6.7
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
Diagnosis: Murder
as Kitty Lynn Hastings
1993
7.1
🎬
Vicki!
as Self - Host
1992
5.0
🎬
The Carol Burnett Show
1991
7.3
Major Dad
1989
6.4
Roseanne
as Phyllis Zimmer
1988
6.8
Murder, She Wrote
as Jackie MacKay
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Phoebe Carroll
1984
7.5
Body Language
as Self
1984
0.0
Mama's Family
as Thelma Harper
1983
7.6
Eunice
as Mama
1982
9.0
The Tim Conway Show
as Self
1980
7.5
🎬
Carol Burnett & Company
1979
7.2
Express to Terror
as Karen Price
1979
0.0
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
5.0
The Love Boat
as Robin Brandt
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Gloria Baxter
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Carol Holtham
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Patty Beller
1977
6.3
Having Babies
as Grace Fontreil
1976
6.0
Laverne & Shirley
1976
7.2
🎬
The Bobby Goldsboro Show
1973
0.0
🎬
Carol Burnett and Friends
1972
5.5
The Midnight Special
as Self
1972
7.8
🎬
The Barbara McNair Show
as Self
1969
0.0
The Carol Burnett Show - The Lost Episodes
as Mama, Various Characters
1968
0.0
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
as Self / Member of the Young Americans (uncredited)
1968
2.0
Young Americans
as Vicki Lawrence
1967
5.7
The Carol Burnett Show
as Various Characters
1967
7.7
Miss USA
as Judge
1963
6.0
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4