
Bette Midler
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.
152 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 152

The Simpsons
1989

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Seinfeld
1989

Saturday Night Live
1975

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

RuPaul's Drag Race
2009

The Nanny
1993

The View
1997

Project Runway
2004

The One Show
2006

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

American Idol
2002

Champs-Elysées
1982

Tony Awards
1956

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

MTV Video Music Awards
1984

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

Wogan
1982

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Wetten, dass..?
1981

American Masters
1986

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Intimate Portrait
1993

The Oscars
1953
Good Day Live
2001

The Reichen Show
2005

Numéro un
1975

Strictly Come Dancing
2004
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007

Dancing on Ice
2006

Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
2005

Entertainment Tonight
1981

Inside Comedy
2012

The Politician
2019

Today
1952

Musikladen
1972

Cher
1975
The Marriage Ref
2010

Hocus Pocus
1993

Bette
2000

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996

What Women Want
2000

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010

Oliver & Company
1988

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992

The Addams Family
2019

Fantasia 2000
2000

Get Shorty
1995

Hocus Pocus 2
2022

The Stepford Wives
2004

The Addams Family 2
2021

Ruby Wax Meets
1996

George Carlin's American Dream
2022

When Ruby Wax Met...
2021

Vegetable Soup
1975

The First Wives Club
1996

The Women
2008

The Greatest Night in Pop
2024

Ruthless People
1986

Beaches
1988

Then She Found Me
2007

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009

The Earth Day Special
1990

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005

The Detective
1968

Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986

The Fabulous Four
2024

Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
2020

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004

Drowning Mona
2000

Live Aid
1985

Inside the Actors Studio
1994

The Glorias
2020

Freak Show
2018

Big Business
1988

Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
2018

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007

Parental Guidance
2012

That Old Feeling
1997

Stella
1990

In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980

The Rose
1979

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
1985

Hawaii
1966

The Circuit
2021

Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986

Sitting in Bars with Cake
2023

Casting By
2012

Earth and the American Dream
1992

A Century of Cinema
1994

Six by Sondheim
2013

Gypsy
1994

For the Boys
1991

Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988

Jinxed!
1982

Outrageous Fortune
1987

Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977

Coastal Elites
2020

Goodbye, Columbus
1969

Laf Lafı Açıyor
1991

Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
1998

Isn't She Great
2000
Cut Off
—

Steps
—

Get Bruce!
1999

Jackie's Back!
1999

Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
2025

Commitment to Life
2023

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995

20 Feet from Stardom
2013

Vito
2011

Lucy and Desi
2022

Camp! The Movie
2019

Scenes from a Mall
1991

Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
1993

Hocus Pocus 3
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Parkinson at 50
2021
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
1990

Women in Rock
1986

The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
2010

How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
2010

Divine Madness
1980

Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
1988

Bette Midler: Art or Bust
1984

Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
1971

A Childhood History Plan
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'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
2004

Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
2007

A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
2003

From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
2006

Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
1997

The Divine Bette Midler
2005

What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
2019

The Bette Midler Show
1976

Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
1977

The Thorn
1974

The Lottery
1989
Bette Midler: No Frills
1983

Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
2000
Bette Midler: One Night Only
2014

Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
1999

Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
2005

Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
2004

BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014
The Divine Miss M in Performance
2010