Bette Midler
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
150
Gender
Female
Birthday
1945-12-01 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]
Bette Midler
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
The Simpsons
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Seinfeld
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
The Nanny
The View
The One Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
RuPaul's Drag Race
Project Runway
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Wogan
Wetten, dass..?
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées
MTV Video Music Awards
American Idol
Good Day Live
Intimate Portrait
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Oscars
Strictly Come Dancing
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
The Reichen Show
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
American Masters
Freak Show
Stella
What Women Want
Casting By
Dancing on Ice
Numéro un
Numéro un
Beaches
Jinxed!
That Old Feeling
Isn't She Great
Get Bruce!
Hocus Pocus
The First Wives Club
The Women
Bette Midler: One Night Only
The Marriage Ref
The Thorn
Then She Found Me
Entertainment Tonight
The Addams Family
Cut Off
For the Boys
The Politician
Today
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Gypsy
The Addams Family 2
Women in Rock
Musikladen
Inside Comedy
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
Hawaii
Camp! The Movie
Hocus Pocus 2
Six by Sondheim
Get Shorty
Cher
Fantasia 2000
Drowning Mona
Outrageous Fortune
Oliver & Company
The Stepford Wives
The Rose
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Ruby Wax Meets
When Ruby Wax Met...
The Greatest Night in Pop
Bette
Ruthless People
George Carlin's American Dream
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Parkinson at 50
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Parental Guidance
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
Big Business
Live Aid
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Lucy and Desi
The Fabulous Four
20 Feet from Stardom
Vegetable Soup
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
The Glorias
Inside the Actors Studio
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Laf Lafı Açıyor
The Lottery
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
The Detective
Hocus Pocus 3
Mickey's 60th Birthday
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
The Earth Day Special
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Goodbye, Columbus
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
The Circuit
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Earth and the American Dream
Scenes from a Mall
Jackie's Back!
A Century of Cinema
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Coastal Elites
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
The Bette Midler Show
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
Divine Madness
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
The Divine Bette Midler
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
A Childhood History Plan
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
The Divine Miss M in Performance
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
Bette Midler: No Frills
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
