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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 1, 1945
Place of Birth
Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]
Bette Midler
1.5 Popularity
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
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Cut Off
2026
6.8
Self
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
2025
6.0
Marilyn
The Fabulous Four
2024
7.9
Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024
7.0
Benita
Sitting in Bars with Cake
2023
7.2
Winifred Sanderson
Hocus Pocus 2
2022
8.0
Self
George Carlin's American Dream
2022
7.1
Self
Lucy and Desi
2022
6.9
Grandma (voice)
The Addams Family 2
2021
10.0
Self (archive footage)
Parkinson at 50
2021
Credits
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Cut Off
2026
0.0
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
as Self
2025
6.8
The Fabulous Four
as Marilyn
2024
6.0
The Greatest Night in Pop
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.9
Sitting in Bars with Cake
as Benita
2023
7.0
Hocus Pocus 2
as Winifred Sanderson
2022
7.2
George Carlin's American Dream
as Self
2022
8.0
Lucy and Desi
as Self
2022
7.1
The Addams Family 2
as Grandma (voice)
2021
6.9
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
2021
10.0
When Ruby Wax Met...
as Self (archive footage)
2021
6.7
The Circuit
as Self - Singer/Actor
2021
0.0
The Glorias
as Bella Abzug
2020
6.4
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
as Self
2020
6.1
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
as Winifred Sanderson
2020
7.1
Coastal Elites
as Miriam Nessler
2020
5.8
The Addams Family
as Grandma (voice)
2019
6.6
The Politician
as Hadassah Gold
2019
7.0
Camp! The Movie
as Self
2019
4.6
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
as Host
2019
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Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
as Self
2018
7.0
Freak Show
as Muv
2018
6.7
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
6.2
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Bette Midler: One Night Only
as Self
2014
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BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
as Self
2014
0.0
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
5.9
Six by Sondheim
as Mama Rose (archive footage)
2013
7.1
20 Feet from Stardom
as Self
2013
7.2
Parental Guidance
as Diane Decker
2012
6.0
Casting By
as Self
2012
6.9
Inside Comedy
as Self
2012
6.5
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
as Self
2010
8.0
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
as Kitty Galore (voice)
2010
5.2
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
as Self
2010
4.7
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The Marriage Ref
as Self - Panelist
2010
3.8
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The Divine Miss M in Performance
as Self
2010
10.0
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
2009
7.2
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self (archive footage)
2009
7.5
The Women
as Leah Miller
2008
5.1
Then She Found Me
as Bernice Graves
2007
5.6
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The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self - Guest
2007
3.7
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
as Self
2007
7.7
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
as Self - Narrator
2007
7.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.4
Dancing on Ice
as Self - Guest
2006
5.2
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
as Self
2006
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The Reichen Show
as Self - Guest
2005
4.8
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
as Self
2005
0.0
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
as Self
2005
5.0
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2005
10.0
The Divine Bette Midler
as Self
2005
0.0
Project Runway
as Self - Guest Judge
2004
6.2
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
as Self
2004
0.0
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
as Self
2004
8.0
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
as Self
2004
0.0
The Stepford Wives
as Bobbie Markowitz
2004
5.7
Strictly Come Dancing
as Self
2004
5.9
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
as Self
2003
0.0
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
American Idol
as Self
2002
5.1
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Good Day Live
as Self
2001
3.0
What Women Want
as Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
2000
6.4
Bette
as Bette
2000
7.9
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
as Self
2000
0.0
Drowning Mona
as Mona Dearly
2000
5.4
Isn't She Great
as Jacqueline Susann
2000
4.9
Fantasia 2000
as Self - Host
2000
7.0
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
as Self
1999
0.0
Jackie's Back!
as Bette Midler
1999
6.5
Get Bruce!
as Self
1999
6.2
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
as Self (archive footage)
1998
0.0
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
That Old Feeling
as Lilly Leonard
1997
6.2
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
as Self
1997
7.3
The First Wives Club
as Brenda Morelli Cushman
1996
6.7
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
3.9
Ruby Wax Meets
as Self - Guest
1996
6.0
Get Shorty
as Doris Saphron
1995
6.5
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
as Self
1995
6.0
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
as Self
1995
0.0
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
A Century of Cinema
as Self
1994
8.0
Gypsy
as Rose Hovick
1993
6.2
Intimate Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
1993
4.5
The Nanny
as Bette Midler
1993
8.1
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Hocus Pocus
as Winifred Sanderson
1993
7.0
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
as Self
1993
0.0
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
6.7
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest
1992
5.4
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (voice)
1992
10.0
For the Boys
as Dixie Leonard
1991
6.2
Scenes from a Mall
as Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer
1991
5.1
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AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
as Self
1990
0.0
The Earth Day Special
as Mother Earth
1990
6.3
Stella
as Stella Claire
1990
5.7
The Simpsons
as Bette Midler (voice)
1989
8.0
Seinfeld
as Bette Midler
1989
8.3
The Lottery
as Woman
1989
5.5
Beaches
as CC Bloom
1988
6.7
Oliver & Company
as Georgette (voice)
1988
6.7
Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Self
1988
6.7
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
Big Business
as Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
1988
6.3
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
as Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
1988
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Outrageous Fortune
as Sandy Brozinsky
1987
6.0
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self (Interviewee)
1986
7.6
Ruthless People
as Barbara Stone
1986
6.6
American Masters
as Self
1986
7.5
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Barbara Whiteman
1986
5.9
Women in Rock
as Self
1986
0.0
Live Aid
as Self
1985
7.9
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
as Self
1985
8.5
MTV Video Music Awards
as Self - Host
1984
7.7
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
as Self
1984
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Bette Midler: No Frills
as Herself
1983
0.0
Jinxed!
as Bonita Friml
1982
4.5
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Champs-Elysées
as Self (archive footage)
1982
6.3
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
4.1
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
Divine Madness
as Self - The Divine Miss M
1980
6.2
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
as Self (archive footage)
1980
4.0
The Rose
as Mary Rose Foster
1979
6.7
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
as Self - Host
1977
8.7
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
as Self
1977
0.0
The Bette Midler Show
as Self - Host
1976
9.5
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
1975
7.0
Vegetable Soup
as Woody The Spoon
1975
0.0
Numéro un
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.0
Numéro un
as Self
1975
6.0
Cher
as Self - Guest
1975
6.2
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self - Guest
1975
6.0
The Thorn
as Virgin Mary
1974
8.5
Musikladen
as Self
1972
0.0
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
as Self
1971
0.0
Goodbye, Columbus
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1969
5.3
The Detective
as Woman at Party
1968
5.9
Hawaii
as Passenger (uncredited)
1966
6.3
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
5.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
A Childhood History Plan
N/A
0.0
Hocus Pocus 3
as Winifred Sanderson
N/A
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