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

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Seinfeld

The Graham Norton Show

All Movies (99)

• Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything2025 · as Self
• The Fabulous Four2024 · as Marilyn
• The Greatest Night in Pop2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Sitting in Bars with Cake2023 · as Benita
• Commitment to Life2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hocus Pocus 22022 · as Winifred Sanderson
• Lucy and Desi2022 · as Self
• The Addams Family 22021 · as Grandma (voice)
• Parkinson at 502021 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Glorias2020 · as Bella Abzug
• Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special2020 · as Self
• In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover2020 · as Winifred Sanderson
• Coastal Elites2020 · as Miriam Nessler
• The Addams Family2019 · as Grandma (voice)
• Camp! The Movie2019 · as Self
• What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David2019 · as Host
• Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash2018 · as Self
• Freak Show2018 · as Muv
• Bette Midler: One Night Only2014 · as Self
• BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M2014 · as Self
• Six by Sondheim2013 · as Mama Rose (archive footage)
• 20 Feet from Stardom2013 · as Self
• Parental Guidance2012 · as Diane Decker
• Casting By2012 · as Self
• Vito2011 · as Self (archive)
• Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On2010 · as Self
• Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore2010 · as Kitty Galore (voice)
• The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story2010 · as Self
• The Divine Miss M in Performance2010 · as Self
• Waking Sleeping Beauty2009 · as Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
• The Women2008 · as Leah Miller
• Then She Found Me2007 · as Bernice Graves
• Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens2007 · as Self
• Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built2007 · as Self - Narrator
• From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans2006 · as Self
• Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook2005 · as Self
• Nos Bastidores de Hollywood2005 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Divine Bette Midler2005 · as Self
• 'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration2004 · as Self
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies2004 · as Self
• Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden2004 · as Self
• The Stepford Wives2004 · as Bobbie Markowitz
• A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request2003 · as Self
• What Women Want2000 · as Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
• Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some2000 · as Self
• Drowning Mona2000 · as Mona Dearly
• Isn't She Great2000 · as Jacqueline Susann
• Fantasia 20002000 · as Self - Host
• Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium1999 · as Self
• Jackie's Back!1999 · as Bette Midler
• Get Bruce!1999 · as Self
• Motown 40: The Music Is Forever1998 · as Self (archive footage)
• That Old Feeling1997 · as Lilly Leonard
• Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas1997 · as Self
• The First Wives Club1996 · as Brenda Morelli Cushman
• Get Shorty1995 · as Doris Saphron
• How to Be Absolutely Fabulous1995 · as Self
• Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz1995 · as Self
• Gypsy1994 · as Rose Hovick
• A Century of Cinema1994 · as Self
• Hocus Pocus1993 · as Winifred Sanderson
• Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary1993 · as Self
• Earth and the American Dream1992 · as Reader (voice)
• For the Boys1991 · as Dixie Leonard
• Scenes from a Mall1991 · as Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer
• AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT1990 · as Self
• The Earth Day Special1990 · as Mother Earth
• Stella1990 · as Stella Claire
• The Lottery1989 · as Woman
• Beaches1988 · as CC Bloom
• Oliver & Company1988 · as Georgette (voice)
• Mickey's 60th Birthday1988 · as Self
• Big Business1988 · as Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
• Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo1988 · as Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
• Outrageous Fortune1987 · as Sandy Brozinsky
• Barbra Streisand: One Voice1986 · as Self (Interviewee)
• Ruthless People1986 · as Barbara Stone
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills1986 · as Barbara Whiteman
• Women in Rock1986 · as Self
• Live Aid1985 · as Self
• We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song1985 · as Self
• Bette Midler: Art or Bust1984 · as Self
• Bette Midler: No Frills1983 · as Herself
• Jinxed!1982 · as Bonita Friml
• Divine Madness1980 · as Self - The Divine Miss M
• The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's1980 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Rose1979 · as Mary Rose Foster
• Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back1977 · as Self - Host
• Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary1977 · as Self
• The Bette Midler Show1976 · as Self - Host
• The Thorn1974 · as Virgin Mary
• Bette Midler at the Continental Baths1971 · as Self
• Goodbye, Columbus1969 · as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
• The Detective1968 · as Woman at Party
• Hawaii1966 · as Passenger (uncredited)
• Hocus Pocus 3— · as Winifred Sanderson
• A Childhood History Plan—
• Cut Off—
• Steps— · as Fairy Godmother (voice)

All TV Shows (55)

• George Carlin's American Dream2022 · as Self
• When Ruby Wax Met...2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Circuit2021 · as Self - Singer/Actor
• The Politician2019 · as Hadassah Gold
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self - Guest
• Inside Comedy2012 · as Self
• The Marriage Ref2010 · as Self - Panelist
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• RuPaul's Drag Race2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show2007 · as Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• The One Show2006 · as Self - Guest
• Dancing on Ice2006 · as Self - Guest
• The Reichen Show2005 · as Self - Guest
• Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List2005 · as Self
• Project Runway2004 · as Self - Guest Judge
• Strictly Come Dancing2004 · as Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003 · as Self
• American Idol2002 · as Self
• Good Day Live2001 · as Self
• Bette2000 · as Bette
• The View1997 · as Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show1996 · as Self - Guest
• Ruby Wax Meets1996 · as Self - Guest
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• Intimate Portrait1993 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Nanny1993 · as Bette Midler
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992 · as Self - Guest
• Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories1992 · as Narrator (voice)
• Laf Lafı Açıyor1991
• The Simpsons1989 · as Bette Midler (voice)
• Seinfeld1989 · as Bette Midler
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988 · as Self - Guest
• American Masters1986 · as Self
• MTV Video Music Awards1984 · as Self - Host
• Wogan1982 · as Self
• Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self (archive footage)
• Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self
• Entertainment Tonight1981 · as Self
• Wetten, dass..?1981 · as Self
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Musical Guest
• Vegetable Soup1975 · as Woody The Spoon
• Numéro un1975 · as Self (archive footage)
• Numéro un1975 · as Self
• Cher1975 · as Self - Guest
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self - Guest
• Musikladen1972 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Performer
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Today1952 · as Self