She was born on January 19, 1946, in Sevier County , Tennessee, United States and she is an American actress and singer.
– If you want rainbows, you have to put up with rain –
- One of the most popular country singer-songwriters of the 70s.
- Songs : I Will Always Love You, Jolene
- Genre : Country, bluegrass, gospel
- Parents : Robert Lee Parton and Avie Lee Owens
- Spouse : Carl Thomas Dean (d. 1966)
- Name : Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean
- Height : 1.52m
Dolly Parton Biography
She was the fourth of twelve children born to Robert Lee Parton, a tobacco farmer, and his wife, Avie Lee Owens.
Her siblings are Willadeene (1940), David Wilburn (1942), Coy Denver (1943), Bobby Lee (1948), Stella Mae (1949), Cassie Nan (1951), Randel Huston (1953), Larry Gerald (July 1, 1955 -July 6, 1955), Floyd and Freida Estelle (1957), and Rachel Ann (1959).
Her family was extremely poor; her father paid for her birth with a sack of flour. 
She sang of her family’s poverty in her first compositions: Coat of Many Colors and In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad). They lived in a rustic one room cabin on Locust Ridge . Her grandfather was a Pentecostal Holy Roller preacher.
Her first performances were in church, with her family.
She is known to have undergone considerable plastic surgery. On a 2003 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show , Winfrey asked what type of cosmetic surgery Parton had undergone. She responded that cosmetic surgery was a must to maintain the famous image of him.
She has repeatedly joked about his physical image and his surgeries, saying, “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.”
Her breasts have earned her mentions on several songs, including Bobby Braddock’s “Dolly Parton’s Hits”, Bruce Baum’s “Marty Feldman Eyes” (a parody of “Bette Davis Eyes”), “No Show Jones” by George Jones and Merle Haggard, and “Make Me Proud” by Drake ft. Nicki Minaj.
When asked about future plastic surgeries, she famously said, “If I see something sinking, pocketing, or crawling, I’m going to get myself to bite, bend, or suck on it.” Her feminine escapism is recognized in her words: “Femininity was a hard thing to control in those hills, unless you were a man.”
She has publicly expressed support for the LGBTQ+ community since at least 1991.
How Old Is Dolly Parton
She is 76 years old.
Dolly Parton Husband
On May 30, 1966, she married Carl Thomas Dean in Ringgold, Georgia. Her husband runs a road-paving business in Nashville and rarely accompanied his wife to her performances.
The couple has no children, but Parton is godmother to singer and actress Miley Cyrus .On May 6, 2016, she announced that she and her husband would renew her vows in honor of her 50th wedding anniversary.
Dolly Parton Nude
She had turned down several offers to pose nude for Playboy magazine , but appeared on the cover of the October 1978 issue wearing a Playboy Bunny outfit, complete with ears (the issue featured Lawrence Grobel lengthy and candid interview with Parton, representing one of his characters) first high-profile interviews with the mainstream press). 
The association of breasts with Parton’s public image is illustrated in the naming of Dolly the sheep in honor of her, as the sheep was cloned from a cell taken from the mammary gland of an adult sheep.
In Mobile, Alabama, the General WK Wilson Jr. Bridge is commonly called “the Dolly Parton Bridge” because its arches resemble her bust. The Hernando de Soto Bridge over the Mississippi River in Memphis is also sometimes named for the same reason.
Dolly Parton Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $600 million.
Dolly Parton Career
She began singing as a child on local radio and television shows in Tennessee. She had her first guitar at age eight.
At thirteen, she recorded the single Puppy Love at a small Louisiana company, Goldband Records, and she performed at the Grand Ole Opry where she met Johnny Cash , who encouraged her to pursue her career.
Dolly Parton Hall Of Fame Honors
During her career, she has been inducted into numerous Halls of Fame. Those honors include:
- Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1986)
- Small Town of America Hall of Fame (1988)
- East Tennessee Hall of Fame (1988)
- Country Music Hall of Fame (1999)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (2001)
- Junior Achievement of East Tennessee Business Hall of Fame (2003)
- American Highway Hall of Fame (2006)
- Grammy Hall of Fame – “I Will Always Love You – 1974 Recording” (2007)
- Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame – Composer Category (2008)
- Gospel Music Hall of Fame (2009)
- Music City Walk of Fame (2009)
- Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame (2010)
- Grammy Hall of Fame – “Jolene – 1974 Recording” (2014)
- National Mountain Craftsmen Hall of Fame (2014)
- The Happiness Hall of Fame (2016)
- East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame (2019)
- Grammy Hall of Fame – “Shield of Many Colors – 1971 Recording” (2019)
Dolly Parton Songs
In 1964, the day after graduating from high school, she moved to Nashville. She had her first success as a songwriter after signing with Combine Publishing shortly after her arrival; Along with her uncle Bill Owens, she wrote a series of singles such as Put it off Until Tomorrow and Fuel to the Flame .
Her songs were recorded by artists, such as Kitty Wells and Hank Williams Jr.
She joined singer Porter Wagoner ‘s group in 1967 and worked with him on television until 1974. In that year she created the Traveling Family Band and toured until 1977, when she brought together a group of nine musicians, the Gypsy Fever .
In that same year, she achieved her first success in country pop, thanks to her single De Ella Here You Come Again , belonging to her album De Ella Here You Come Again .Seller of more than 100 million records, her music was awarded with gold, platinum and multi-platinum records certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Dolly Parton Films
He made his film debut in Colin Higgins’ 1980 comedy 9 to 5 ( How to Get Rid of Your Boss ), a comedy with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda , for which he wrote the title song.
She acted in The Funniest House in Texas (1982, Colin Higgins) and Steel Magnolias (1989, Herbert Ross ).
She won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocalist (1978, 1981) and Best Vocal Performance with a Group (1987).She wrote the song ‘ I will always love you ‘ from the ‘ Bodyguard ‘ soundtrack . In 1987 she recorded Trio , with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt .
In 2000, she returned to the cinema with Solid Gold Cadillac , where she also worked as a producer. A remake of a feature film that she already starred in Judy Holliday in the fifties, playing the small shareholder of a large corporation.
In 2018, she announced a Netflix series about her music career. She was his executive producer and co-star. The series, titled Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings , aired in November 2019.
Dolly Parton Awards And Honours
Composer of over 3,000 songs, she had 25 of her songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country charts; winner of nine Grammy Awards, with two Oscar nominations, ten Country Music Association Awards, seven Academy of Country Music Awards, three American Music Awards, and one of only seven female artists to win the Award Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year.
Her name is in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Dolly Parton Discography
Dolly Parton Philanthropy
Since the mid-1980s, she has supported many charitable endeavors, particularly in the area of literacy, primarily through her Dollywood Foundation.
Her literacy program, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a part of the Dollywood Foundation, sends one book per month to each child enrolled from the time of her birth until they enter kindergarten. 
Today, more than 1,600 local communities provide the Imagination Library to nearly 850,000 children each month in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and the Republic of Ireland.
In 2018, she was honored by the Library of Congress for “the charity that sent her 100 millionth book”. In 2006,she published a cookbook, Dolly’s Dixie Fixin: Love, Laughter, and Lots of Good Food .
The Dollywood Foundation, funded from Parton’s profits, has been noted for bringing jobs and tax revenue to a previously depressed region. She has also worked to raise funds for various other causes, including the American Red Cross and HIV/AIDS-related charities.
