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