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.
96 movies · 54 shows
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
2025·7.0
The Fabulous Four
2024·6.0
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024·7.9
Sitting in Bars with Cake
2023·7.0
Commitment to Life
2023·0.0
Hocus Pocus 2
2022·7.1
Lucy and Desi
2022·7.1
The Addams Family 2
2021·6.9
Parkinson at 50
2021·10.0
The Glorias
2020·6.5
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
2020·6.2
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020·7.1
Coastal Elites
2020·5.8
The Addams Family
2019·6.6
Camp! The Movie
2019·4.6
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
2019·0.0
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
2018·7.0
Freak Show
2018·6.7
Bette Midler: One Night Only
2014·0.0
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014·0.0
Six by Sondheim
2013·7.1
20 Feet from Stardom
2013·7.2
Parental Guidance
2012·6.0
Casting By
2012·6.9
Vito
2011·6.9
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
2010·8.0
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010·5.2
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
2010·4.7
The Divine Miss M in Performance
2010·10.0
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009·7.2
The Women
2008·5.1
Then She Found Me
2007·5.6
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007·7.7
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
2007·7.0
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
2006·0.0
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
2005·0.0
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005·10.0
The Divine Bette Midler
2005·0.0
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
2004·0.0
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004·8.3
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
2004·0.0
The Stepford Wives
2004·5.7
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
2003·10.0
50 Years of NBC Late Night
2001·0.0
What Women Want
2000·6.5
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
2000·9.0
Drowning Mona
2000·5.5
Isn't She Great
2000·5.0
Fantasia 2000
2000·7.0
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
1999·0.0
Jackie's Back!
1999·6.9
Get Bruce!
1999·6.5
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
1998·0.0
That Old Feeling
1997·6.2
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
1997·7.8
The First Wives Club
1996·6.7
Get Shorty
1995·6.5
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1995·7.0
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995·0.0
Gypsy
1994·6.3
A Century of Cinema
1994·8.3
Hocus Pocus
1993·7.0
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
1993·0.0
Earth and the American Dream
1992·6.7
For the Boys
1991·6.4
Scenes from a Mall
1991·5.2
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
1990·0.0
The Earth Day Special
1990·6.1
Stella
1990·5.8
The Lottery
1989·6.2
Beaches
1988·6.7
Oliver & Company
1988·6.7
Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988·6.8
Big Business
1988·6.4
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
1988·10.0
Outrageous Fortune
1987·6.0
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986·7.6
Ruthless People
1986·6.6
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986·5.9
Women in Rock
1986·7.0
Live Aid
1985·7.9
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
1985·8.5
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
1984·7.0
Bette Midler: No Frills
1983·0.0
Jinxed!
1982·4.6
Divine Madness
1980·6.4
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980·4.0
The Rose
1979·6.7
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
1977·8.5
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977·8.0
The Bette Midler Show
1976·9.5
The Thorn
1974·8.0
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
1971·0.0
Goodbye, Columbus
1969·5.3
The Detective
1968·5.9
Hawaii
1966·6.3