Bette Midler

Acting · 1.5 popularity

Age

Movies

100

Born: December 1, 1945
From: Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]
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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.

Works

100 films

Fantasia 2000

20007.0

What Women Want

20006.5

Hocus Pocus

19937.0

The Addams Family

20196.6

Hocus Pocus 2

20227.1

Get Shorty

19956.5

Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special

20206.2

Oliver & Company

19886.7

The Women

20085.1

The Addams Family 2

20216.9

The Stepford Wives

20045.7

The First Wives Club

19966.7

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

20105.2

Beaches

19886.7

The Greatest Night in Pop

20247.9

Get Bruce!

19996.5

Ruthless People

19866.6

Big Business

19886.4

Steps

2026

Parental Guidance

20126.0

Waking Sleeping Beauty

20097.2

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

19865.9

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

The Glorias

20206.5

Then She Found Me

20075.6

Isn't She Great

20005.0

Sitting in Bars with Cake

20237.0

Live Aid

19857.9

Drowning Mona

20005.5

Six by Sondheim

20137.1

The Fabulous Four

20246.0

Cut Off

2026

The Earth Day Special

19906.1

Earth and the American Dream

19926.7

The Rose

19796.7

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

20077.7

Commitment to Life

2023

That Old Feeling

19976.2

Hawaii

19666.3

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

19867.6

Freak Show

20186.7

Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash

20187.0

Lucy and Desi

20227.1

Goodbye, Columbus

19695.4

For the Boys

19916.4

The Detective

19685.9

Outrageous Fortune

19876.0

20 Feet from Stardom

20137.2

Women in Rock

19867.0

The Lottery

19896.2

Gypsy

19946.3

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song

19858.5

Mickey's 60th Birthday

19886.8

Stella

19905.8

Scenes from a Mall

19915.2

50 Years of NBC Late Night

20015.0

A Century of Cinema

19948.3

Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything

20257.0

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous

19957.0

Camp! The Movie

20194.6

Jackie's Back!

19996.9

Casting By

20126.9

Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo

198810.0

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

20207.1

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz

1995

Parkinson at 50

202110.0

Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary

1993

Motown 40: The Music Is Forever

1998

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

19804.0

Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back

19778.5

Vito

20116.9

Coastal Elites

20205.8

Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary

19778.0

A Childhood History Plan

2026

Jinxed!

19824.6

The Thorn

19748.0

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

20048.3

The Divine Miss M in Performance

201010.0

Hocus Pocus 3

2026

Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas

19977.8

Divine Madness

19806.4

Bette Midler: Art or Bust

19847.0

The Divine Bette Midler

2005

Bette Midler: One Night Only

2014

A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request

200310.0

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

20108.0

Bette Midler: No Frills

1983

BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M

2014

From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans

2006

'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration

2004

What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David

2019

AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT

1990

Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some

20009.0

The Bette Midler Show

19769.5

Bette Midler at the Continental Baths

1971

The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story

20104.7

Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built

20077.0

Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden

2004

Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium

1999

Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook

2005