Bette Midler
Acting • Born 1945-12-01
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.
Filmography
150 credits
Hocus Pocus
Movie • 1993
Winifred Sanderson
The First Wives Club
Movie • 1996
Brenda Morelli Cushman
Outrageous Fortune
Movie • 1987
Sandy Brozinsky
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage)
Drowning Mona
Movie • 2000
Mona Dearly
For the Boys
Movie • 1991
Dixie Leonard
Ruthless People
Movie • 1986
Barbara Stone
Oliver & Company
Movie • 1988
Georgette (voice)
That Old Feeling
Movie • 1997
Lilly Leonard
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Movie • 1986
Barbara Whiteman
Then She Found Me
Movie • 2007
Bernice Graves
Big Business
Movie • 1988
Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
The Stepford Wives
Movie • 2004
Bobbie Markowitz
The Women
Movie • 2008
Leah Miller
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Movie • 1980
Self (archive footage)
Goodbye, Columbus
Movie • 1969
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Beaches
Movie • 1988
CC Bloom
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Movie • 1995
Self
The Detective
Movie • 1968
Woman at Party
The Rose
Movie • 1979
Mary Rose Foster
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Movie • 2010
Kitty Galore (voice)
Stella
Movie • 1990
Stella Claire
Gypsy
Movie • 1993
Rose Hovick
Scenes from a Mall
Movie • 1991
Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer
Get Bruce!
Movie • 1999
Self
Casting By
Movie • 2012
Self
Lucy and Desi
Movie • 2022
Self
Fantasia 2000
Movie • 2000
Self - Host
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
Movie • 2010
Self
Isn't She Great
Movie • 2000
Jacqueline Susann
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Movie • 1997
Self
Jinxed!
Movie • 1982
Bonita Friml
Parental Guidance
Movie • 2012
Diane Decker
Hocus Pocus 3
Movie
Winifred Sanderson
20 Feet from Stardom
Movie • 2013
Self
Parkinson at 50
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The Fabulous Four
Movie • 2024
Marilyn
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
Movie • 2010
Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie • 2009
Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
Movie • 1995
Self
Bette Midler: No Frills
Movie • 1983
Herself
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Movie • 1977
Self
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Movie • 2023
Benita
The Greatest Night in Pop
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Movie • 1986
Self (Interviewee)
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
Movie • 1977
Self - Host
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Movie • 2007
Self
Six by Sondheim
Movie • 2013
Mama Rose (archive footage)
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
Movie • 2004
Self
Bette Midler: One Night Only
Movie • 2014
Self
The Bette Midler Show
Movie • 1976
Self - Host
The Earth Day Special
Movie • 1990
Mother Earth
Mickey's 60th Birthday
Movie • 1988
Self
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
Movie • 1984
Self
Freak Show
Movie • 2018
Muv
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
Movie • 1988
Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
Movie • 2004
Self
What Women Want
Movie • 2000
Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
Movie • 2006
Self
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
Movie • 1971
Self
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
Movie • 2007
Self - Narrator
The Divine Miss M in Performance
Movie • 2010
Self
Live Aid
Movie • 1985
Self
The Addams Family
Movie • 2019
Grandma (voice)
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
Movie • 2000
Self
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
Movie • 2005
Self
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
Movie • 2018
Self
The Glorias
Movie • 2020
Bella Abzug
Camp! The Movie
Movie • 2019
Self
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
Movie • 2014
Self
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
Movie • 1999
Self
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
Movie • 2019
Host
The Lottery
Movie • 1989
Woman
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
Movie • 2003
Self
Hawaii
Movie • 1966
Passenger (uncredited)
Divine Madness
Movie • 1980
Self - The Divine Miss M
A Childhood History Plan
Movie
Earth and the American Dream
Movie • 1992
Reader (voice)
The Divine Bette Midler
Movie • 2005
Self
The Thorn
Movie • 1974
Virgin Mary
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Movie • 1985
Self
A Century of Cinema
Movie • 1994
Self
Coastal Elites
Movie • 2020
Miriam Nessler
Get Shorty
Movie • 1995
Doris Saphron
The Addams Family 2
Movie • 2021
Grandma (voice)
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Movie • 2020
Winifred Sanderson
Hocus Pocus 2
Movie • 2022
Winifred Sanderson
Jackie's Back!
Movie • 1999
Bette Midler
Women in Rock
Movie • 1986
Self
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Movie • 1990
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Movie • 2004
Self
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
Movie • 2020
Self
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
Movie • 2025
Self
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
Movie • 1993
Self
Cut Off
Movie • 2026
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Bette Midler (voice)
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
Seinfeld
TV • 1989
Bette Midler
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
TV • 2005
Self
Strictly Come Dancing
TV • 2004
Self
Today
TV • 1952
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Self - Guest
Dancing on Ice
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Inside Comedy
TV • 2012
Self
American Idol
TV • 2002
Self
Bette
TV • 2000
Bette
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self (archive footage)
Vegetable Soup
TV • 1975
Woody The Spoon
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
TV • 2007
Self - Guest
The Marriage Ref
TV • 2010
Self - Panelist
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Good Day Live
TV • 2001
Self
Cher
TV • 1975
Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Musical Guest
The Circuit
TV • 2021
Self - Singer/Actor
When Ruby Wax Met...
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
RuPaul's Drag Race
TV • 2009
Self (archive footage)
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Project Runway
TV • 2004
Self - Guest Judge
MTV Video Music Awards
TV • 1984
Self - Host
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
George Carlin's American Dream
TV • 2022
Self
The Reichen Show
TV • 2005
Self - Guest
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Musikladen
TV • 1972
Self
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
TV • 1992
Narrator (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Entertainment Tonight
TV • 1981
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self - Guest
Numéro un
TV • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Numéro un
TV • 1975
Self
The Politician
TV • 2019
Hadassah Gold
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Ruby Wax Meets
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
American Masters
TV • 1986
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Nanny
TV • 1993
Bette Midler
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Laf Lafı Açıyor
TV • 1991