Cast
Bette Midler
Acting
Cast
Bette Midler
Known for
Acting
Born
1945-12-01
From
Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]
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.
★6.5
MOVIE2000
What Women Want
as Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE2019
The Addams Family
as Grandma (voice)
★7.1
MOVIE2022
Hocus Pocus 2
as Winifred Sanderson
★7.0
MOVIE1993
Hocus Pocus
as Winifred Sanderson
★7.0
MOVIE2000
Fantasia 2000
as Self - Host
★6.7
MOVIE1988
Oliver & Company
as Georgette (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2020
Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2021
The Addams Family 2
as Grandma (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1996
The First Wives Club
as Brenda Morelli Cushman
★5.7
MOVIE2004
The Stepford Wives
as Bobbie Markowitz
★5.2
MOVIE2010
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
as Kitty Galore (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1988
Beaches
as CC Bloom
★6.0
MOVIE2012
Parental Guidance
as Diane Decker
★6.5
MOVIE1999
Get Bruce!
as Self
★5.1
MOVIE2008
The Women
as Leah Miller
★6.6
MOVIE1986
Ruthless People
as Barbara Stone
MOVIE2026
Steps
as Fairy Godmother (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1995
Get Shorty
as Doris Saphron
★6.1
MOVIE1990
The Earth Day Special
as Mother Earth
★7.9
MOVIE2024
The Greatest Night in Pop
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIETBA
Cut Off
★7.2
MOVIE2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
★5.6
MOVIE2007
Then She Found Me
as Bernice Graves
★5.0
MOVIE2000
Isn't She Great
as Jacqueline Susann
★5.9
MOVIE1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Barbara Whiteman
★5.5
MOVIE2000
Drowning Mona
as Mona Dearly
★6.2
MOVIE1997
That Old Feeling
as Lilly Leonard
★7.0
MOVIE2023
Sitting in Bars with Cake
as Benita
★6.8
MOVIE1988
Mickey's 60th Birthday
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE2018
Freak Show
as Muv
★6.3
MOVIE1966
Hawaii
as Passenger (uncredited)
★7.9
MOVIE1985
Live Aid
as Self
★6.4
MOVIE1988
Big Business
as Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
★10.0
MOVIE2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
★6.4
MOVIE2020
The Glorias
as Bella Abzug
★6.0
MOVIE1987
Outrageous Fortune
as Sandy Brozinsky
★6.7
MOVIE1979
The Rose
as Mary Rose Foster
★6.0
MOVIE2024
The Fabulous Four
as Marilyn
MOVIE2001
50 Years of NBC Late Night
as Self (archive footage)
★7.2
MOVIE2013
20 Feet from Stardom
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2012
Casting By
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE2013
Six by Sondheim
as Mama Rose (archive footage)
★5.9
MOVIE1968
The Detective
as Woman at Party
MOVIE2023
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1986
Women in Rock
as Self
★5.3
MOVIE1969
Goodbye, Columbus
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1991
For the Boys
as Dixie Leonard
★7.6
MOVIE1986
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self (Interviewee)
★8.3
MOVIE1994
A Century of Cinema
as Self
★7.7
MOVIE2007
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1994
Gypsy
as Rose Hovick
★6.7
MOVIE1992
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
★5.8
MOVIE1990
Stella
as Stella Claire
★7.1
MOVIE2022
Lucy and Desi
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE1999
Jackie's Back!
as Bette Midler
★7.0
MOVIE2018
Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2011
Vito
as Self (archive)
★4.6
MOVIE2019
Camp! The Movie
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE1991
Scenes from a Mall
as Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer
★10.0
MOVIE2021
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
★6.2
MOVIE1989
The Lottery
as Woman
★4.6
MOVIE1982
Jinxed!
as Bonita Friml
MOVIETBA
Hocus Pocus 3
as Winifred Sanderson
★8.0
MOVIE2010
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1988
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
as Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
★4.0
MOVIE1980
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
as Self (archive footage)
★8.5
MOVIE1985
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1984
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
as Self
★6.4
MOVIE1980
Divine Madness
as Self - The Divine Miss M
MOVIE2005
The Divine Bette Midler
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE2020
Coastal Elites
as Miriam Nessler
★7.0
MOVIE2025
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE2020
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
as Winifred Sanderson
MOVIE1995
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
as Self
MOVIE1993
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
as Self
★7.8
MOVIE1997
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
as Self
MOVIETBA
A Childhood History Plan
★9.5
MOVIE1976
The Bette Midler Show
as Self - Host
★7.0
MOVIE2007
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
as Self - Narrator
MOVIE1998
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
as Self (archive footage)
★10.0
MOVIE2003
A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request
as Self
MOVIE1983
Bette Midler: No Frills
as Herself
★8.0
MOVIE1974
The Thorn
as Virgin Mary
★8.0
MOVIE1977
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
as Self
MOVIE2006
From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans
as Self
MOVIE2004
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
as Self
MOVIE2014
Bette Midler: One Night Only
as Self
★8.3
MOVIE2004
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
as Self
MOVIE2014
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE1995
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
as Self
★4.7
MOVIE2010
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
as Self
MOVIE1990
AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2010
The Divine Miss M in Performance
as Self
MOVIE2019
What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David
as Host
★9.0
MOVIE2000
Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some
as Self
MOVIE1999
Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium
as Self
★8.5
MOVIE1977
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
as Self - Host
MOVIE2004
Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden
as Self
MOVIE1971
Bette Midler at the Continental Baths
as Self
MOVIE2005
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
as Self