Born
1 December 1945 (80)
Place of Birth
Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]
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 ...
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.
Cut Off
2026
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
2025
The Fabulous Four
2024
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024
Sitting in Bars with Cake
2023
Hocus Pocus 2
2022
Lucy and Desi
2022
The Addams Family 2
2021
Parkinson at 50
2021
The Glorias
2020
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
2020
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
Coastal Elites
2020
The Addams Family
2019
Camp! The Movie
2019
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
2019
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
2018
Freak Show
2018
Bette Midler: One Night Only
2014
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014
Six by Sondheim
2013
20 Feet from Stardom
2013
Parental Guidance
2012
Casting By
2012
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
2010
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
2010
The Divine Miss M in Performance
2010
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
The Women
2008
Then She Found Me
2007
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
2007
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
2006
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
The Divine Bette Midler
2005
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
2004
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
2004