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Bette Midler


Multi Grammy Award-winning singer/comedienne/author Bette Midler has also proven herself to be a very capable actress in a string of both dramatic and comedic roles. Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945. She is the daughter of Ruth (Schindel), a seamstress, and Fred Midler, a painter. Her parents, originally from New Jersey, ... See full bio »

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Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 29 wins & 43 nominations. See more awards »

Known For

Fantasia 2000
Fantasia 2000 Herself - Host (segment "Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102")
(1999)
Beaches
Beaches CC Bloom
(1988)
Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus Winifred
(1993)

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 2015 Flowers for Algernon (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 6 episodes)
- Episode #1.6 (2015) ... (performer: "The Rose")
- Episode #1.5 (2015) ... (performer: "The Rose")
- Episode #1.4 (2015) ... (performer: "The Rose")
- Episode #1.3 (2015) ... (performer: "The Rose")
- Episode #1.2 (2015) ... (performer: "The Rose")
 2015 Todd's Pop Song Reviews (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 1991 (2015) ... (performer: "From a Distance")
 2015 12 Monkeys (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Arms of Mine (2015) ... (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings" - uncredited)
 2008-2015 Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Bette Midler/Bethenny Frankel/Jill Soloway (2015) ... (performer: "Be My Baby")
- Episode dated 24 November 2008 (2008) ... (performer: "The Glory Of Love")
 2014 Bette Midler: One Night Only (TV Movie) (performer: "Friends", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "From a Distance", "Be My Baby", "Baby It's You", "Give Him a Great Big Kiss", "Tell Him", "Pretty Legs (& Great Big Knockers)/Sophie Tucker", "Waterfalls", "Wind Beneath My Wings")
 2014 Today (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Episode dated 11 November 2014 (2014) ... (performer: "Too Many Fish In The Sea")
- Episode dated 6 November 2014 (2014) ... (performer: "Be My Baby")
 2014 Live! with Kelly (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Bette Midler/Beth Behrs (2014) ... (performer: "Baby It's You")
 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Bette Midler/Jim Gaffigan (2014) ... (performer: "Waterfalls")
 2014 The World's Greatest Movie Songs: Top 50 (TV Movie) (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings")
 2014 Retrats (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Aliments i ciència (2014) ... (performer: "I've Still Got My Health")
 2014 Pretty Little Liars (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Unbridled (2014) ... (performer: "Chapel of Love" - uncredited)
 2014 The 86th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings")
 2013 Getting On (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Make Someone Happy (2013) ... (performer: "Up The Ladder to The Roof")
 2012 American Masters (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Johnny Carson: King of Late Night (2012) ... (performer: "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" - uncredited)
 2011 I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! NOW! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #11.16 (2011) ... (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings" - uncredited)
 2011 Vito (Documentary) (performer: "Friends")
 2011 Atop the Fourth Wall (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Gameboy #1 (2011) ... (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings")
 2009-2010 Dancing on Ice (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Episode #5.22 (2010) ... (performer: "In My Life")
- Episode #4.9 (2009) ... (performer: "From a Distance")
 2009 The Royal Variety Performance 2009 (TV Movie) (performer: "In My Life", "Wind Beneath My Wings")
 2009 Strictly Come Dancing (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Quarter Final Results (2009) ... (performer: "The Rose")
 2009 The New Paul O'Grady Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 30 October 2009 (2009) ... (performer: "Everything's Coming Up Roses")
 2008-2009 So You Think You Can Dance (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Top 12 Perform (2009) ... (performer: "Stuff Like That There")
- Results Show: Two Dancers Eliminated (2008) ... (performer: "The Rose")
 2009 Loose Women (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #13.107 (2009) ... (performer: "From a Distance", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "The Glory Of Love")
 2007 Men in Trees (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- I Wood If I Could (2007) ... (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings" - uncredited)
 2007 American Idol (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Finale (2007) ... (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings")
 2006 Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #13.91 (2006) ... (performer: "Fever" - uncredited)
 2005 Martha (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 28 October 2005 (2005) ... (performer: "I'm a Woman", "The Folks Who Live on the Hill")
 2005 Saturday Night Live: The Best of David Spade (TV Special) (performer: "From a Distance")
 2005 Filthy Gorgeous: The Trannyshack Story (Documentary) (performer: "Stay With Me")
 2005 Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live (TV Special documentary) (performer: "Martha")
 2004 Drawn Together (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Other Cousin (2004) ... ("Wind Beneath My Wings", uncredited)
  Biography (TV Series documentary) (lyrics - 1 episode, 2004) (performer - 1 episode, 2004)
- Bette Midler (2004) ... (lyrics: "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)") / (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings", "From a Distance", "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Bed of Roses", "Do You Want to Dance", "The Rose")
 2003 Pepper Chocolate (TV Series) (performer: "Hey There")
 2001 A Prayer for America: Yankee Stadium Memorial (TV Special) (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings")
 2000 Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "The Rose")
  Bette (TV Series) (performer - 7 episodes, 2000) (writer - 1 episode, 2000)
- In My Life (2000) ... (performer: "Nobody Else But You") / (writer: "Nobody Else But You")
- Color of Roses (2000) ... (performer: "Color of Roses")
- Two Days at a Time (2000) ... (performer: "The Rose")
- Silent But Deadly (2000) ... (performer: "Happy Talk")
- Halloween (2000) ... (performer: "Islands In The Stream", "Moses", "Shining Star")
 2000 Isn't She Great (performer: "This Could Be the Start of Something Big")
 1995-1999 The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Episode dated 17 September 1999 (1999) ... (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings", "That's How Love Moves")
- Episode dated 8 December 1995 (1995) ... (performer: "I Believe In You", "The Rose")
 1999 Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 15 February 1999 (1999) ... (performer: "Lullaby in Blue")
 1999 Behind the Music (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Bette Midler (1999) ... (performer: "Night And Day")
 1998 The View (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.60 (1998) ... (performer: "Laughing Matters")
 1998 Wetten, dass..? (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Wetten, dass..? aus Linz (1998) ... (performer: "That's How Love Moves")
 1998 The Roseanne Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.35 (1998) ... (performer: "My One True Friend", "Friends")
 1998 One True Thing (performer: "My One True Friend", "Do You Want To Dance", "Friends")
 1997 Bette Midler in Concert: Diva Las Vegas (TV Special documentary) (performer: "Friends", "I Look Good", "Miss Otis Regrets", "Spring Can Really Hung You Up the Most", "Bed of Roses", "You Don't Own Me", "The Rose", "Burlesque - Pretty Legs (& Great Big Knockers)", "Burlesque - Rose's Turn", "Drinking Again", "MacArthur Park", "Infomercial", "Call Me", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Bigotry", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "In the Navy", "The Greatest Love of All", "New York, New York", "Ukelele Lady", "From a Distance", "Do Yoy Wanna Dance", "To Comfort You", "Stay with Me", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "The Story of Us")
 1997 The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 31 October 1997 (1997) ... (performer: "If I Only Had a Brain")
 1997 That Old Feeling (performer: "Somewhere Along The Way")
 1996 The First Wives Club (performer: "You Don't Own Me")
 1996 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #4.231 (1996) ... (performer: "In This Life", "I Believe in You")
 1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (performer: "God Help the Outcasts")
 1996 Ruby Wax Meets... (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Bette Midler and Liza Minnelli (1996) ... (performer: "To Deserve You")
 1995 1995 VH1 Honors (TV Movie) (performer: "To Deserve You", "Let It Be Me")
 1995 Seinfeld (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The Understudy (1995) ... (performer: "Wind beneath My Wings" - uncredited)
 1994 The 46th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Rose's Turn")
 1993 Gypsy (TV Movie) (performer: "Some People", "Small World", "Mr. Goldstone", "You'll Never Get Away from Me", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Together, Wherever We Go", "Rose's Turn")
 1993 Hocus Pocus (performer: "I Put a Spell on You")
 1993 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.4 (1993) ... (performer: "Am I Blue")
 1993 The Simpsons (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Krusty Gets Kancelled (1993) ... (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings" - uncredited)
 1992 Shake Rattle & Roll IV (performer: "The Rose")
 1992 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (performer: "Somewhere In My Memory")
  The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) (performer - 11 episodes, 1970 - 1992) (writer - 2 episodes, 1985 - 1991) (lyrics - 1 episode, 1992)
- Episode dated 22 May 1992 (1992) ... (performer: "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (1941) - uncredited)
- Episode dated 21 May 1992 (1992) ... (lyrics: "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)") / (performer: "Here Comes That Rainy Day", "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)")
- Episode dated 22 November 1991 (1991) ... (performer: "Otto Titsling", "In My Life") / (writer: "Otto Titsling")
- Episode dated 16 December 1988 (1988) ... (performer: "Under The Boardwalk", "I Think It's Going To Rain Today")
- Episode dated 17 December 1985 (1985) ... (performer: "Skylark", "Fit or Fat") / (writer: "Fit or Fat")
 1991 The Arsenio Hall Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 6 December 1991 (1991) ... (performer: "Pretty Legs (& Great Big Knockers)", "Every Road Leads Back to You", "From a Distance")
 1991 For the Boys (performer: "Billy-A-Dick", "Dixie's Dream", "I Remember You", "For All We Know", "Every Road Leads Back to You", "P.S. I Love You", "In My Life", "Stuff Like That There", "Baby, It's Cold Outside")
 1991 Scenes from a Mall (performer: "You Do Something to Me")
 1991 The 33rd Annual Grammy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "From a Distance")
 1991 Ganti ng api (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings")
 1990 The 32nd Annual Grammy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings")
 1990 Stella (performer: "One More Cheer")
 1989 Abandonada (performer: "Wind Beneath My Wings")
 1988 Beaches (lyrics: "Otto Titsling", "Oh Industry") / (music: "Otto Titsling", "Oh Industry") / (performer: "Under The Boardwalk", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "I've Still Got My Health", "I Think It's Going To Rain Today", "Otto Titsling", "I Know You By Heart", "The Glory Of Love", "Baby Mine", "Oh Industry", "Ballin' the Jack")
 1988 Oliver & Company (performer: "Perfect Isn't Easy")
 1987 In the Mood (lyrics: "IN THE MOOD")
 1986 Women in Rock (Video documentary) (performer: "Beast of Burden")
 1985 Seven Minutes in Heaven (writer: "Inner Logic")
 1985 We Are The World: The Story Behind The Song (TV Movie documentary) ("We Are the World", uncredited)
 1983 Bette Midler No Frills (TV Movie) (performer: "Beast Of Burden", "All I Need To Know", "Is It Love", "Favorite Waste Of Time", "The Rose")
 1982 The Mondo Beyondo Show (TV Movie) (performer: "Mondo's Theme") / (writer: "Mondo's Theme")
 1982 Jinxed! (performer: "No Jinx")
 1980 Divine Madness (Documentary) (performer: "Big Noise from Winnetka", "Paradise", "Shiver Me Timbers", "Fire Down Below", "Stay with Me", "My Mother's Eyes", "Chapel of Love", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "E Street Shuffle", "Summer (The First Time)", "Leader of the Pack", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "I Shall Be Released", "Rainbow Sleeves", "Ready to Begin Again" / "Do You Want to Dance", "The Rose")
 1979 The Rose (performer: "The Rose", "Stay With Me", "Sold My Soul to Rock 'N' Roll", "Keep On Rockin'", "Fire Down Below", "When a Man Loves a Woman", "Midnight in Memphis", "Whose Side Are You On", "Love Me with A Feeling" (uncredited), "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" (uncredited))
 1979 Chilly Scenes of Winter (performer: "Skylark")
 1979 Saturday Night Live (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Buck Henry/Bette Midler (1979) ... (performer: "Married Men", "Martha")
 1977 Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (TV Movie) (performer: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On")
 1977 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (writer - 3 episodes)
- Episode dated 23 June 1977 (1977) ... (writer: "You're Moving Out Today")
- Episode dated 2 June 1977 (1977) ... (writer: "You're Moving Out Today")
- Episode dated 19 May 1977 (1977) ... (writer: "You're Moving Out Today")
 1976 Neil Sedaka Steppin' Out (TV Special) (performer: "Love Will Keep Us Together")
 1976 The Bette Midler Show (TV Special) (performer: "Friends", "Oh My My", "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman", "Birds", "In the Mood", "Hurry on Down", "Shiver Me Timbers", "Around the World", "Istanbul", "Fiesta in Rio", "South Seas Scene", "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes", "Lullaby of Broadway", "You're Moving Out Today", "Delta Dawn", "Long John Blues", "Hello in There", "Up the Ladder to the Roof", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" - uncredited) / (writer: "Fiesta in Rio", "You're Moving Out Today" - uncredited)
 1975 Cher (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.1 (1975) ... (performer: "Trashy Ladies Medley")
 1973 The Last of Sheila (performer: "Friends")
 1973 Burt Bacharach: Opus No. 3 (TV Movie) (performer: "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy")
 1972 Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (performer: "Get It On", "Nothing Goin' Down at All", "Love Theme", "Strawberry, Lilac and Lime")
 1971 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 25 March 1971 (1971) ... (performer: "Ten Cents a Dance", "Great Balls of Fire")
 1970 The David Frost Show (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)
- Episode #2.200 (1970) ... (performer: "Remember My Forgotten Man")
- Episode #2.157 (1970) ... (performer: "Am I Blue", "Come Up and See Me Sometime")
 1968 The 22nd Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Matchmaker, Matchmaker")
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Album: "Broken Blossom" See more »

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2 Biographical Movies | 3 Print Biographies | 1 Portrayal | 12 Interviews | 13 Articles | 9 Pictorials | 17 Magazine Cover Photos | See more »

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5' 1" (1.55 m)
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[2005, during a concert in Brisbane, Australia] It's been 26 years since I was last here. Before my fans were all taking drugs; this time they're all taking medication! See more »

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Performed her cabaret act at the famed gay men's club, The Continental Baths, in the 1970s with Barry Manilow as her accompanist. See more »

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