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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything as Self
- 2024 · The Fabulous Four as Marilyn
- 2024 · The Greatest Night in Pop as Self (archive footage)
- 2023 · Sitting in Bars with Cake as Benita
- 2022 · Hocus Pocus 2 as Winifred Sanderson
- 2022 · George Carlin's American Dream as Self
- 2021 · The Addams Family 2 as Grandma (voice)
- 2021 · Parkinson at 50 as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · When Ruby Wax Met... as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · The Circuit as Self - Singer/Actor
- 2020 · ariana grande: excuse me, i love you as Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
- 2020 · The Glorias as Bella Abzug
- 2020 · Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special as Self
- 2020 · Coastal Elites as Miriam Nessler
- 2019 · The Addams Family as Grandma (voice)
- 2019 · The Politician as Hadassah Gold
- 2019 · Camp! The Movie as Self
- 2018 · Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash as Self
- 2018 · Freak Show as Muv
- 2014 · Bette Midler: One Night Only as Self
- 2014 · BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- 2013 · Six by Sondheim as Mama Rose (archive footage)
- 2012 · Parental Guidance as Diane Decker
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 2012 · Inside Comedy as Self
- 2010 · Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore as Kitty Galore (voice)
- 2010 · The Marriage Ref as Self - Panelist
- 2009 · Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
- 2009 · RuPaul's Drag Race as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 · The Women as Leah Miller
- 2007 · Then She Found Me as Bernice Graves
- 2007 · The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self - Guest
- 2007 · Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · Dancing on Ice as Self - Guest
- 2005 · The Reichen Show as Self - Guest
- 2005 · Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List as Self
- 2005 · Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
- 2004 · Project Runway as Self - Guest Judge
- 2004 · The Stepford Wives as Bobbie Markowitz
- 2004 · Strictly Come Dancing as Self
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2002 · American Idol as Self
- 2001 · Good Day Live as Self
- 2000 · What Women Want as Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
- 2000 · Bette as Bette
- 2000 · Drowning Mona as Mona Dearly
- 2000 · Isn't She Great as Jacqueline Susann
- 2000 · Fantasia 2000 as Self - Host
- 1999 · Jackie's Back! as Bette Midler
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · That Old Feeling as Lilly Leonard
- 1996 · The First Wives Club as Brenda Morelli Cushman
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 1996 · Ruby Wax Meets as Self - Guest
- 1995 · Get Shorty as Doris Saphron
- 1995 · How to Be Absolutely Fabulous as Self
- 1994 · A Century of Cinema as Self
- 1993 · Gypsy as Rose Hovick
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self (archive footage)
- 1993 · The Nanny as Bette Midler
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · Hocus Pocus as Winifred Sanderson
- 1992 · Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self - Guest
- 1992 · Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (Voice)
- 1991 · For the Boys as Dixie Leonard
- 1991 · Scenes from a Mall as Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer
- 1990 · The Earth Day Special as Mother Earth
- 1990 · Stella as Stella Claire
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Bette Midler (voice)
- 1989 · Seinfeld as Bette Midler
- 1988 · Beaches as CC Bloom
- 1988 · Oliver & Company as Georgette (voice)
- 1988 · Mickey's 60th Birthday as Self
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1988 · Big Business as Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
- 1987 · Outrageous Fortune as Sandy Brozinsky
- 1986 · Ruthless People as Barbara Stone
- 1986 · American Masters as Self
- 1986 · Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Barbara Whiteman
- 1986 · Women in Rock as Self
- 1985 · Live Aid as Self
- 1984 · MTV Video Music Awards as Self - Host
- 1982 · Jinxed! as Bonita Friml
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self (archive footage)
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1981 · Entertainment Tonight as Self
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1980 · Divine Madness as Self - The Divine Miss M
- 1979 · The Rose as Mary Rose Foster
- 1977 · Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary as Self
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Musical Guest
- 1975 · Vegetable Soup as Woody The Spoon
- 1975 · Numéro un as Self (archive footage)
- 1975 · Numéro un as Self
- 1975 · Cher as Self - Guest
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self - Guest
- 1972 · Musikladen as Self
- 1969 · Goodbye, Columbus as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- 1968 · The Detective as Woman at Party
- 1966 · Hawaii as Passenger (uncredited)
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Performer
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · A Childhood History Plan as
- Future · Hocus Pocus 3 as Winifred Sanderson
- 2026 · Cut Off as
- 2022 · Lucy and Desi as Self
- 2020 · In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Winifred Sanderson
- 2019 · What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David as Host
- 2013 · 20 Feet from Stardom as Self
- 2010 · Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On as Self
- 2010 · The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story as Self
- 2010 · The Divine Miss M in Performance as Self
- 2007 · Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built as Self - Narrator
- 2006 · From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans as Self
- 2005 · Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook as Self
- 2005 · The Divine Bette Midler as Self
- 2004 · 'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration as Self
- 2004 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies as Self
- 2004 · Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden as Self
- 2003 · A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request as Self
- 2000 · Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some as Self
- 1999 · Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium as Self
- 1999 · Get Bruce! as Self
- 1998 · Motown 40: The Music is Forever as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 · Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas as Self
- 1995 · Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz as Self
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary as Self
- 1990 · AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT as Self
- 1989 · The Lottery as Woman
- 1988 · Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo as Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
- 1986 · Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self (Interviewee)
- 1985 · We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song as Self
- 1984 · Bette Midler: Art or Bust as Self
- 1983 · Bette Midler: No Frills as Herself
- 1980 · The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's as Self (archive footage)
- 1977 · Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back as Self - Host
- 1976 · The Bette Midler Show as Self - Host
- 1974 · The Thorn as Virgin Mary
- 1971 · Bette Midler at the Continental Baths as Self
- 1952 · Today as Self