🎬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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	The Greatest Night in Pop (2024)	Self (archive footage)		9.2
2	Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023)	Benita	-	-
3	Lucy and Desi (2022)	Self	-	-
4	Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)	Winifred Sanderson		6
5	The Addams Family 2 (2021)	Grandma (voice)		6.3
6	Coastal Elites (2020)	Miriam Nessler		7
7	In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover (2020)	Winifred Sanderson	-	-
8	Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special (2020)	Self		5
9	The Glorias (2020)	Bella Abzug		2
10	Camp! The Movie (2019)	Self		3
11	The Addams Family (2019)	Grandma (voice)		6.1
12	Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash (2018)	Self		8
13	Freak Show (2018)	Muv		8
14	20 Feet from Stardom (2013) Oscars 2014	Self		7.7
15	Parental Guidance (2012)	Diane Decker		6.8
16	Casting By (2012)	Self	-	-
17	Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On (2010)	Director / Writer	-	-
18	Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)	Kitty Galore (voice)		5.5
19	Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)	Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)		7.8
20	The Women (2008)	Leah Miller		5.1
21	Then She Found Me (2007)	Bernice Graves		5
22	Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (2007)	Self	-	-
23	The Stepford Wives (2004)	Bobbie Markowitz		5.8
24	Drowning Mona (2000)	Mona Dearly		10
25	Fantasia 2000 (2000)	Self - Host		7
26	What Women Want (2000)	Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)		6.3
27	Isn't She Great (2000)	Jacqueline Susann		7
28	Jackie's Back! (1999)	Bette Midler	-	-
29	That Old Feeling (1997)	Lilly Leonard	-	-
30	Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas (1997)	Self	-	-
31	The First Wives Club (1996)	Brenda Morelli Cushman		7.5
32	Get Shorty (1995)	Doris Saphron		6.9
33	Hocus Pocus (1993)	Winifred Sanderson		7.4
34	Scenes from a Mall (1991)	Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer	-	-
35	For the Boys (1991)	Dixie Leonard		7
36	Stella (1990)	Stella Claire	-	-
37	Big Business (1988)	Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton		8.4
38	Oliver & Company (1988)	Georgette (voice)		7.1
39	Beaches (1988)	CC Bloom		8.5
40	Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)	Barbara Whiteman		4.7
41	Ruthless People (1986)	Barbara Stone		7.5
42	The Rose (1979)	Mary Rose Foster		1
43	The Detective (1968)	Woman at Party		4
44	Hawaii (1966)	Passenger (uncredited)		3