Bette Midler
Acting
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.
TV Shows(53)
George Carlin's American Dream
Self
2022
When Ruby Wax Met...
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Circuit
Self - Singer/Actor
2021
The Politician
Hadassah Gold
2019
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
Inside Comedy
Self
2012
The Marriage Ref
Self - Panelist
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self - Guest
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The One Show
Self - Guest
2006
Dancing on Ice
Self - Guest
2006
The Reichen Show
Self - Guest
2005
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Self
2005
Project Runway
Self - Guest Judge
2004
Strictly Come Dancing
Self
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
American Idol
Self
2002
Good Day Live
Self
2001
Bette
Bette
2000
The View
Self
1997
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
1996
Ruby Wax Meets
Self - Guest
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
1993
The Nanny
Bette Midler
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (voice)
1992
Laf Lafı Açıyor
1991
The Simpsons
Bette Midler (voice)
1989
Seinfeld
Bette Midler
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
American Masters
Self
1986
MTV Video Music Awards
Self - Host
1984
Wogan
Self
1982
Champs-Elysées
Self (archive footage)
1982
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
1975
Vegetable Soup
Woody The Spoon
1975
Numéro un
Self (archive footage)
1975
Cher
Self - Guest
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self - Guest
1975
Musikladen
Self
1972
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Tony Awards
Self - Performer
1956
The Oscars
Self
1953
Today
Self
1952
Movies(97)
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
Self
2025
The Fabulous Four
Marilyn
2024
The Greatest Night in Pop
Self (archive footage)
2024
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Benita
2023
Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
2023
Hocus Pocus 2
Winifred Sanderson
2022
Lucy and Desi
Self
2022
The Addams Family 2
Grandma (voice)
2021
Parkinson at 50
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Glorias
Bella Abzug
2020
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
Self
2020
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Winifred Sanderson
2020
Coastal Elites
Miriam Nessler
2020
The Addams Family
Grandma (voice)
2019
Camp! The Movie
Self
2019
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
Host
2019
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
Self
2018
Freak Show
Muv
2018
Bette Midler: One Night Only
Self
2014
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
Self
2014
Six by Sondheim
Mama Rose (archive footage)
2013
20 Feet from Stardom
Self
2013
Parental Guidance
Diane Decker
2012
Casting By
Self
2012
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
Self
2010
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Kitty Galore (voice)
2010
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
Self
2010
The Divine Miss M in Performance
Self
2010
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
2009
The Women
Leah Miller
2008
Then She Found Me
Bernice Graves
2007
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Self
2007
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
Self - Narrator
2007
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
Self
2006
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
Self
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2005
The Divine Bette Midler
Self
2005
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
Self
2004
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Self
2004
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
Self
2004
The Stepford Wives
Bobbie Markowitz
2004
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
Self
2003
What Women Want
Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
2000
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
Self
2000
Drowning Mona
Mona Dearly
2000
Isn't She Great
Jacqueline Susann
2000
Fantasia 2000
Self - Host
2000
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
Self
1999
Jackie's Back!
Bette Midler
1999
Get Bruce!
Self
1999
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
Self (archive footage)
1998
That Old Feeling
Lilly Leonard
1997
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Self
1997
The First Wives Club
Brenda Morelli Cushman
1996
Get Shorty
Doris Saphron
1995
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Self
1995
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Self
1995
Gypsy
Rose Hovick
1994
A Century of Cinema
Self
1994
Hocus Pocus
Winifred Sanderson
1993
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
Self
1993
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
1992
For the Boys
Dixie Leonard
1991
Scenes from a Mall
Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer
1991
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Self
1990
The Earth Day Special
Mother Earth
1990
Stella
Stella Claire
1990
The Lottery
Woman
1989
Beaches
CC Bloom
1988
Oliver & Company
Georgette (voice)
1988
Mickey's 60th Birthday
Self
1988
Big Business
Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
1988
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
1988
Outrageous Fortune
Sandy Brozinsky
1987
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Self (Interviewee)
1986
Ruthless People
Barbara Stone
1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Barbara Whiteman
1986
Women in Rock
Self
1986
Live Aid
Self
1985
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Self
1985
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
Self
1984
Bette Midler: No Frills
Herself
1983
Jinxed!
Bonita Friml
1982
Divine Madness
Self - The Divine Miss M
1980
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Self (archive footage)
1980
The Rose
Mary Rose Foster
1979
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
Self - Host
1977
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Self
1977
The Bette Midler Show
Self - Host
1976
The Thorn
Virgin Mary
1974
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
Self
1971
Goodbye, Columbus
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1969
The Detective
Woman at Party
1968
Hawaii
Passenger (uncredited)
1966
Hocus Pocus 3
Winifred Sanderson
A Childhood History Plan
Cut Off