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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1945-12-01 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]

Bette Midler

Biography:

Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays, prior to 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 in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse where she managed to build up a core following. Since 1970, Midler has released 14 studio albums as a solo artist. Throughout her career, many of her songs became hits on the record charts, including her renditions of "The Rose", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "Do You Want to Dance", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", and "From a Distance".

In a career spanning almost half a century, Midler has won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. She has sold over 30 million records worldwide, and has received four Gold, three Platinum, and three Multiplatinum albums by RIAA.

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Known For

Acting

2025

2024

The Greatest Night in Pop as Self (archive footage)

2023

2022

Hocus Pocus 2 as Winifred Sanderson

2021

Live at Mister Kelly's as Self (archive footage)
Parkinson at 50 as Self (archive footage)
The Addams Family 2 as Grandma (voice)
The Circuit as Self - Singer/Actor
When Ruby Wax Met... as Self (archive footage)

2020

2019

2018

2014

2013

Six by Sondheim as Mama Rose (archive footage)

2012

Casting By as Self
Parental Guidance as Diane Decker

2010

2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self / Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
RuPaul's Drag Race as Self (archive footage)

2008

The Women as Leah Miller

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

Drowning Mona as Mona Dearly
Fantasia 2000 as Self - Host
Isn't She Great as Jacqueline Susann
What Women Want as Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
Bette as Bette

1999

1998

Motown 40: The Music is Forever as Self (archive footage)
Parkinson as Self (archive footage)

1997

1996

The First Wives Club as Brenda Morelli Cushman
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
Ruby Wax Meets as Self - Guest

1995

1994

1993

Hocus Pocus as Winifred Sanderson
Gypsy as Rose Hovick
Intimate Portrait as Self (archive footage)

1992

1991

For the Boys as Dixie Leonard
Scenes from a Mall as Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer

1990

1989

The Lottery as Woman
The Simpsons as Bette Midler (voice)
Seinfeld as Bette Midler

1988

Oliver & Company as Georgette (voice)
Big Business as Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
Beaches as CC Bloom
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo as Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest

1987

Outrageous Fortune as Sandy Brozinsky

1986

Ruthless People as Barbara Stone
Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Barbara Whiteman
Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self (Interviewee)

1985

1984

1983

1982

Jinxed! as Bonita Friml
Wogan as Self
Champs-Elysées as Self (archive footage)

1981

1980

Divine Madness as Self - The Divine Miss M

1979

The Rose as Mary Rose Foster

1977

1976

The Bette Midler Show as Self - Host

1975

Vegetable Soup as Woody The Spoon
Cher as Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live as Self - Musical Guest
Numéro un as Self (archive footage)
Numéro un as Self

1974

The Thorn as Virgin Mary

1972

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers as Lullaby Singer (voice)
Musikladen as Self

1971

1969

Goodbye, Columbus as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1968

The Detective as Woman at Party

1966

Hawaii as Passenger (uncredited)

1962

1961

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Performer

1953

The Oscars as Self

1952

Today as Self

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Production

2020

Mae West: Dirty Blonde as Executive Producer

2010

2002

1991

For the Boys as Producer

1988

Beaches as Producer

1986

American Masters as Executive Producer

Directing

Writing