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.

Filmography

• Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story — Leigh
• Palm Royale — Lotte
• The Really Loud House — Joan Shivers
• Call Me Kat — Phil's Mama
• The Cool Kids — Margaret
• The Resident — Gloria Ortiz
• Great News — Angie
• 2011Annie Claus Is Coming to Town — Martha
• 2009Hermie & Friends: The Flo Show Creates a Buzz — Flo
• 2008Hermie & Friends: Hermie and The High Seas — Flo
• 2007Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular — Mama
• Phineas and Ferb — Hilda
• Hannah Montana — Ruthie Ray Stewart
• 2006The Fox and the Hound 2 — Granny Rose (voice)
• 2004Hermie & Friends: Flo the Lyin' Fly — Flo (voice)
• 2004Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider — Flo
• 2001Elvis Is Alive! I Swear I Saw Him Eating Ding Dongs Outside the Piggly Wiggly's
• The Test
• Yes, Dear — Natalie Warner
• 1998Nunsense 3: The Jamboree — Sister Mary Amnesia / Thelma Harper
• Ally McBeal — Dana
• All-American Girl — Phone Lady
• Burke's Law — Felicia Harper
• Duckman — Vicki Lawrence (voice)
• 1994Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die — Nora Kingsley
• Diagnosis: Murder — Kitty Lynn Hastings
• Vicki! — Self - Host, Creator
• The Carol Burnett Show
• Major Dad
• Roseanne — Phyllis Zimmer
• Murder, She Wrote — Jackie MacKay, Phoebe Carroll
• Mama's Family — Thelma Harper
• 1982Eunice — Mama
• Carol Burnett & Company
• 1979Express to Terror — Karen Price
• Supertrain — Karen Prince
• The Eddie Capra Mysteries
• The Love Boat — Robin Brandt, Gloria Baxter, Carol Holtham, Patty Beller
• 1976Having Babies — Grace Fontreil
• Laverne & Shirley
• The Bobby Goldsboro Show
• Carol Burnett and Friends
• The Carol Burnett Show - The Lost Episodes — Mama, Various Characters
• The Carol Burnett Show — Various Characters
• 1967Young Americans — Vicki Lawrence

Appearances as themselves (19)

• Hollywood Squares — Self
• 2023Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love — Self - Guest
• 2022Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl — Self
• 2017The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special — Herself
• Celebrity Family Feud — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars — Self - Guest Judge
• 2004The Carol Burnett Show: Let's Bump Up the Lights — Herself
• 2001Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers — Herself
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• 1994Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women — Herself
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• Body Language — Self
• The Tim Conway Show — Self
• Match Game — Self
• The Midnight Special — Self
• The Barbara McNair Show — Self
• 1968Rowan & Martin at the Movies — Self / Member of the Young Americans (uncredited)
• Miss USA — Self - Judge
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self