Bette Midler

Known for ActingBorn 1945-12-01 (age 80)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Parkinson at 50

The Circuit

The Divine Miss M in Performance

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request

Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

The Bette Midler Show

Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

A Century of Cinema

Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song

Seinfeld

George Carlin's American Dream

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

The Greatest Night in Pop

The Nanny

The Simpsons

Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas

Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

Live Aid

Bette

Vegetable Soup

The Thorn

Musikladen

MTV Video Music Awards

Inside the Actors Studio

RuPaul's Drag Race

Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

Hocus Pocus 2

Lucy and Desi

20 Feet from Stardom

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover

Waking Sleeping Beauty

The Graham Norton Show

Numéro un

Sitting in Bars with Cake

Six by Sondheim

Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Politician

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Addams Family 2

American Masters