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.
Movies (93)
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
2025
The Fabulous Four
2024
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024
Sitting in Bars with Cake
2023
Commitment to Life
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
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
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
The Stepford Wives
2004
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
2003
What Women Want
2000
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
2000
Drowning Mona
2000
Isn't She Great
2000
Fantasia 2000
2000
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
1999
Jackie's Back!
1999
Get Bruce!
1999
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
1998
That Old Feeling
1997
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
1997
The First Wives Club
1996
Get Shorty
1995
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995
Gypsy
1994
A Century of Cinema
1994
Hocus Pocus
1993
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
1993
Earth and the American Dream
1992
For the Boys
1991
Scenes from a Mall
1991
The Earth Day Special
1990
Stella
1990
The Lottery
1989
Beaches
1988
Oliver & Company
1988
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988
Big Business
1988
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
1988
Outrageous Fortune
1987
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
Ruthless People
1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
Women in Rock
1986
Live Aid
1985
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
1985
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
1984
Jinxed!
1982
Divine Madness
1980
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
The Rose
1979
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
1977
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977
The Bette Midler Show
1976
The Thorn
1974
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
1971
Goodbye, Columbus
1969
The Detective
1968
Hawaii
1966
Hocus Pocus 3
A Childhood History Plan
Steps
TV Shows (52)
George Carlin's American Dream
2022
When Ruby Wax Met...
2021
The Circuit
2021
The Politician
2019
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Inside Comedy
2012
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The One Show
2006
Dancing on Ice
2006
The Reichen Show
2005
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
2005
Project Runway
2004
Strictly Come Dancing
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
American Idol
2002
Bette
2000
The View
1997
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Ruby Wax Meets
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Nanny
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
Laf Lafı Açıyor
1991
The Simpsons
1989
Seinfeld
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
American Masters
1986
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
Wogan
1982
Champs-Elysées
1982
Champs-Elysées
1982
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Saturday Night Live
1975
Vegetable Soup
1975
Numéro un
1975
Numéro un
1975
Cher
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Musikladen
1972
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Tony Awards
1956
The Oscars
1953
Today
1952