Bette Midler
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
150
Gender
Female
Birthday
1945-12-01 (79 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 Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seinfeld
The Graham Norton Show
RuPaul's Drag Race
Saturday Night Live
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The One Show
The Nanny
Tony Awards
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Project Runway
American Idol
Wogan
Wetten, dass..?
The View
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées
Good Day Live
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
MTV Video Music Awards
Hocus Pocus
Intimate Portrait
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Strictly Come Dancing
American Masters
Numéro un
Numéro un
The Reichen Show
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Hocus Pocus 2
Dancing on Ice
The Oscars
The First Wives Club
The Addams Family
Today
Entertainment Tonight
What Women Want
Oliver & Company
The Fabulous Four
The Addams Family 2
Get Shorty
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Musikladen
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
The Greatest Night in Pop
Inside Comedy
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Politician
Vegetable Soup
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
The Women
Ruthless People
Cher
Goodbye, Columbus
The Marriage Ref
Fantasia 2000
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Jackie's Back!
Parental Guidance
Bette
Scenes from a Mall
Stella
Big Business
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
The Stepford Wives
Casting By
The Rose
Women in Rock
Ruby Wax Meets
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Then She Found Me
A Childhood History Plan
Outrageous Fortune
Earth and the American Dream
Beaches
George Carlin's American Dream
Parkinson at 50
The Glorias
Bette Midler: One Night Only
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
Six by Sondheim
Hawaii
For the Boys
Coastal Elites
Jinxed!
Gypsy
The Thorn
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
When Ruby Wax Met...
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
The Detective
Camp! The Movie
That Old Feeling
Freak Show
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
Hocus Pocus 3
Divine Madness
Drowning Mona
The Circuit
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Get Bruce!
Lucy and Desi
Cut Off
Inside the Actors Studio
The Divine Bette Midler
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
The Earth Day Special
Isn't She Great
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
A Century of Cinema
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
The Bette Midler Show
20 Feet from Stardom
Live Aid
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
Mickey's 60th Birthday
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Bette Midler: No Frills
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
The Lottery
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
The Divine Miss M in Performance
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
