Actor
Bette Midler
Biography

Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays, prior to 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 in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse where she managed to build up a core following. Since 1970, Midler has released 14 studio albums ...

Known For
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The Fabulous Four

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The Greatest Night in Pop

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Sitting in Bars with Cake

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Hocus Pocus 2

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Lucy and Desi

Acting
2024 -- The Fabulous Four | Marilyn
2024 -- The Greatest Night in Pop | Self (archive footage)
2023 -- Sitting in Bars with Cake | Benita
2022 -- Hocus Pocus 2 | Winifred Sanderson
2022 -- Lucy and Desi | Self
2021 -- The Addams Family 2 | Grandma (voice)
2021 -- Live at Mister Kelly's | Self (archive footage)
2021 -- Parkinson at 50 | Self (archive footage)
2020 -- ariana grande: excuse me, i love you | Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
2020 -- The Glorias | Bella Abzug
2020 -- In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover | Winifred Sanderson
2020 -- Coastal Elites | Miriam Nessler
2019 -- The Addams Family | Grandma (voice)
2019 -- Camp! The Movie | Self
2019 -- What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David | Host
2018 -- Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash | Self
2018 -- Freak Show | Muv
2014 -- Bette Midler: One Night Only | Self
2014 -- BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M | Self
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- Six by Sondheim | Mama Rose (archive footage)
2013 -- 20 Feet from Stardom | Self
2012 -- Parental Guidance | Diane Decker
2012 -- Casting By | Self
2010 -- Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On | Self
2010 -- Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore | Kitty Galore (voice)
2010 -- The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story | Self
2010 -- The Divine Miss M in Performance | Self
2009 -- Waking Sleeping Beauty | Self / Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
2008 -- The Women | Leah Miller
2007 -- Then She Found Me | Bernice Graves
2007 -- Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens | Self
2007 -- Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built | Self - Narrator
2006 -- From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans | Self
2005 -- Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook | Self
2005 -- Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self
2005 -- The Divine Bette Midler | Self
2004 -- 'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration | Self
2004 -- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies | Self
2004 -- Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass Live at Madison Square Garden | Self
2004 -- The Stepford Wives | Bobbie Markowitz
2003 -- A Barry Manilow Christmas: Live by Request | Self
2000 -- What Women Want | Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
2000 -- Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits & Then Some | Self
2000 -- Drowning Mona | Mona Dearly
2000 -- Isn't She Great | Jacqueline Susann
2000 -- Fantasia 2000 | Self - Host
1999 -- Bette Midler: Divine Miss Millennium | Self
1999 -- Jackie's Back! | Bette Midler
1999 -- Get Bruce! | Self
1998 -- Motown 40: The Music is Forever | Self (archive footage)
1997 -- That Old Feeling | Lilly Leonard
1997 -- Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas | Self
1996 -- The First Wives Club | Brenda Morelli Cushman
1995 -- Get Shorty | Doris Saphron
1995 -- How to Be Absolutely Fabulous | Self
1995 -- Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz | Self
1994 -- A Century of Cinema | Self
1993 -- Gypsy | Rose Hovick
1993 -- Hocus Pocus | Winifred Sanderson
1992 -- Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice)
1991 -- For the Boys | Dixie Leonard
1991 -- Scenes from a Mall | Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer
1990 -- AN EVENING WITH: FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT | Self
1990 -- The Earth Day Special | Mother Earth
1990 -- Stella | Stella Claire
1989 -- The Lottery | Woman
1988 -- Beaches | CC Bloom
1988 -- Oliver & Company | Georgette (voice)
1988 -- Mickey's 60th Birthday | Self
1988 -- Big Business | Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton
1988 -- Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo | Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly
1987 -- Outrageous Fortune | Sandy Brozinsky
1986 -- Barbra Streisand: One Voice | Self (Interviewee)
1986 -- Ruthless People | Barbara Stone
1986 -- Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Barbara Whiteman
1986 -- Women in Rock | Self
1985 -- Live Aid | Self
1985 -- We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song | Self
1984 -- Bette Midler: Art or Bust | Self
1983 -- Bette Midler: No Frills | Herself
1982 -- Jinxed! | Bonita Friml
1980 -- Divine Madness | Self - The Divine Miss M
1980 -- The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's | Self (archive footage)
1979 -- The Rose | Mary Rose Foster
1977 -- Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back | Self - Host
1977 -- Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary | Self
1976 -- The Bette Midler Show | Self - Host
1974 -- The Thorn | Virgin Mary
1972 -- Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers | Lullaby Singer (voice)
1971 -- Bette Midler at the Continental Baths | Self
1969 -- Goodbye, Columbus | Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1968 -- The Detective | Woman at Party
1966 -- Hawaii | Passenger (uncredited)
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