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.
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Movies (102)
Hermanastras
2026 · Fairy Godmother (voice)
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
2025 · Self
The Fabulous Four
2024 · Marilyn
La gran noche del pop
2024 · Self (archive footage)
La vida es un pastel
2023 · Benita
Commitment to Life
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Abracadabra 2
2022 · Winifred Sanderson
Lucy and Desi
2022 · Self
Los Locos Addams 2
2021 · Grandma (voice)
Parkinson at 50
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Las Glorias
2020 · Bella Abzug
Mariah Carey: Una Navidad mágica
2020 · Self
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020 · Winifred Sanderson
Las élites de la costa
2020 · Miriam Nessler
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
2020 · Executive Producer
Los Locos Addams
2019 · Grandma (voice)
Camp! The Movie
2019 · Self
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
2019 · Host
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
2018 · Self
Freak Show
2018 · Muv
Bette Midler: One Night Only
2014 · Self
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014 · Self
Sondheim En Seis Canciones
2013 · Mama Rose (archive footage)
A 20 pasos de la fama
2013 · Self
S.O.S. - Familia en apuros
2012 · Diane Decker
Casting By
2012 · Self
Vito
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
2010 · Self, Director, Executive Producer
Como perros y gatos 2: La venganza de Kitty Galore
2010 · Kitty Galore (voice)
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
2010 · Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2010 · Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
The Divine Miss M in Performance
2010 · Self
Todo sobre las mujeres
2008 · Leah Miller
Reencuentro
2007 · Bernice Graves
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007 · Self
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
2007 · Self - Narrator
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
2006 · Self
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
2005 · Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005 · Self (archive footage)
The Divine Bette Midler
2005 · Self
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
2004 · Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004 · Self
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
2004 · Self
Las mujeres perfectas
2004 · Bobbie Markowitz
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
2003 · Self
Divinos secretos del clan Yaya
2002 · Executive Producer
50 Years of NBC Late Night
2001 · Self (archive footage)
Lo que Ellas Quieren
2000 · Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
2000 · Self
Drowning Mona
2000 · Mona Dearly
Isn't She Great
2000 · Jacqueline Susann
Fantasía 2000
2000 · Self - Host
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
1999 · Self
Jackie's Back!
1999 · Bette Midler
Get Bruce!
1999 · Self
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
1998 · Self (archive footage)
That Old Feeling
1997 · Lilly Leonard
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
1997 · Self
The First Wives Club
1996 · Brenda Morelli Cushman
Get Shorty
1995 · Doris Saphron
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995 · Self
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995 · Self
Gypsy
1994 · Rose Hovick
Hocus Pocus
1993 · Winifred Sanderson
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
1993 · Self
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Reader (voice)
For the Boys
1991 · Dixie Leonard, Producer
Scenes from a Mall
1991 · Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
1990 · Self
The Earth Day Special
1990 · Mother Earth
Stella
1990 · Stella Claire
The Lottery
1989 · Woman
Beaches
1988 · CC Bloom, Producer
Oliver & Company
1988 · Georgette (voice)
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988 · Self
Big Business
1988 · Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
1988 · Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
Outrageous Fortune
1987 · Sandy Brozinsky
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986 · Self (Interviewee)
Ruthless People
1986 · Barbara Stone
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986 · Barbara Whiteman
Women in Rock
1986 · Self
Live Aid
1985 · Self
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
1985 · Self
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
1984 · Songs
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
1984 · Self, Writer
Bette Midler: No Frills
1983 · Herself
Jinxed!
1982 · Bonita Friml
Divine Madness
1980 · Self - The Divine Miss M, Writer
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980 · Self (archive footage)
The Rose
1979 · Mary Rose Foster
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
1977 · Self - Host, Writer
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977 · Self
The Bette Midler Show
1976 · Self - Host
The Thorn
1974 · Virgin Mary
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
1971 · Self
Goodbye, Columbus
1969 · Wedding Guest (uncredited)
The Detective
1968 · Woman at Party
Hawaii
1966 · Passenger (uncredited)
Hocus Pocus 3
· Winifred Sanderson
A Childhood History Plan
Cut Off
TV shows (56)
George Carlin: El sueño americano
2022 · Self
When Ruby Wax Met...
2021 · Self (archive footage)
The Circuit
2021 · Self - Singer/Actor
El Político
2019 · Hadassah Gold
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Guest
Inside Comedy
2012 · Self
The Marriage Ref
2010 · Self - Panelist
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
RuPaul: Carrera de drags
2009 · Self (archive footage)
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · Self - Guest
El show de Graham Norton
2007 · Self
The One Show
2006 · Self - Guest
Dancing on Ice
2006 · Self - Guest
The Reichen Show
2005 · Self - Guest
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
2005 · Self
Project Runway
2004 · Self - Guest Judge
Parkinson
2004 · Self - Guest / Performer (archive footage), Self - Guest (archive footage), Self - Guest / Performer
Strictly Come Dancing
2004 · Self
Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self
American Idol
2002 · Self
Good Day Live
2001 · Self
Bette
2000 · Bette
The View
1997 · Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Self - Guest
Ruby Wax Meets
1996 · Self - Guest
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Self (archive footage)
The Nanny
1993 · Bette Midler
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Self - Guest
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992 · Narrator (voice)
Laf Lafı Açıyor
1991
Los Simpson
1989 · Bette Midler (voice)
Seinfeld
1989 · Bette Midler
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self - Guest
American Masters
1986 · Self, Executive Producer
MTV Video Music Awards
1984 · Self - Host
Wogan
1982 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self (archive footage), Self
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · Self
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Musical Guest
Vegetable Soup
1975 · Woody The Spoon
Numéro un
1975 · Self (archive footage), Self
Cher
1975 · Self - Guest
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self - Guest
Musikladen
1972 · Self
Film '72
1971 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Performer
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Today
1952 · Self
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
· Creator