Bette Midler
Acting
- Born:
- 1945-12-01
- Place of birth:
- Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]
Biography
Bette Midler (/bɛt ˈmɪdlər/ bet MID-lər; born December 1, 1945) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her five-decade career, Midler has received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several off-off-Broadway plays before her engagements in Fiddler on the Roof and Salvation on Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing at the Continental Baths. In this local gay bathhouse, she managed to build up a core following. Since 1970, Midler has released 14 studio albums as a solo artist, selling over 30 million records worldwide, and has received four Gold, three Platinum, and three Multi-Platinum albums from the RIAA. Many of her songs became chart hits, including her renditions of "The Rose", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "Do You Want to Dance", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", and "From a Distance". She won Grammy Awards for Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "The Rose", and Record of the Year for "Wind Beneath My Wings". Midler made her starring film debut with the musical drama The Rose (1979), which won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress. She went on to star in numerous films, including Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Ruthless People (1986), Outrageous Fortune (1987), Big Business (1988), Beaches (1988), Stella (1990), Hocus Pocus (1993) and its sequel (2022), The First Wives Club (1996), The Stepford Wives (2004), Parental Guidance (2012), and The Addams Family (2019) and its sequel (2021). Midler also had starring roles in For the Boys (1991) and Gypsy (1993), winning two additional Golden Globe Awards for these films and receiving a second Academy Award nomination for the former. Midler held a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with the show Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On from 2008 to 2010. She starred in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, which began previews in March 2017 and premiered at the Shubert Theatre in April 2017. The show was her first leading role in a Broadway musical. Midler received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bette Midler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Steps
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
The Fabulous Four
The Greatest Night in Pop
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Commitment to Life
Hocus Pocus 2
George Carlin's American Dream
Lucy and Desi
The Addams Family 2
Parkinson at 50
When Ruby Wax Met...
The Circuit
The Glorias
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Coastal Elites
The Addams Family
The Politician
Camp! The Movie
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
Freak Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Bette Midler: One Night Only
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Six by Sondheim
20 Feet from Stardom
Parental Guidance
Casting By
Inside Comedy
Vito
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
Waking Sleeping Beauty
The Marriage Ref
The Divine Miss M in Performance
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
RuPaul's Drag Race
The Women
Then She Found Me
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
The Graham Norton Show
The One Show
Dancing on Ice
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
The Reichen Show
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
The Divine Bette Midler
Project Runway
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
Parkinson
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
The Stepford Wives
Strictly Come Dancing
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
American Idol
50 Years of NBC Late Night
Good Day Live
What Women Want
Bette
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
Drowning Mona
Isn't She Great
Fantasia 2000
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
Jackie's Back!
Get Bruce!
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
The View
That Old Feeling
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
The First Wives Club
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Ruby Wax Meets
Get Shorty
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Gypsy
Inside the Actors Studio
A Century of Cinema
Intimate Portrait
The Nanny
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Hocus Pocus
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
Earth and the American Dream
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
For the Boys
Laf Lafı Açıyor
Scenes from a Mall
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
The Earth Day Special
Stella
The Simpsons
Seinfeld
The Lottery
Beaches
Oliver & Company
Mickey's 60th Birthday
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Big Business
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
Outrageous Fortune
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Ruthless People
American Masters
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Women in Rock
Live Aid
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
MTV Video Music Awards
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
Bette Midler: No Frills
Jinxed!
Wogan
Champs-Elysées
Entertainment Tonight
Wetten, dass..?
Divine Madness
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
The Rose
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
The Bette Midler Show
Saturday Night Live
Vegetable Soup
Numéro un
Cher
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
The Thorn
Musikladen
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
Film '72
Goodbye, Columbus
The Detective
Hawaii
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Today
Hocus Pocus 3
A Childhood History Plan
Cut Off