Bette Midler

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1945-12-01 (80 years old)

Place of Birth

Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]

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 as a solo artist. Throughout her career, many of her songs became hits on the record charts, including her renditions of "The Rose", "Wind Beneath My ...

Acting

1993

Hocus Pocus

as Winifred Sanderson

1996

The First Wives Club

as Brenda Morelli Cushman

1987

Outrageous Fortune

as Sandy Brozinsky

1998

Motown 40: The Music is Forever

as Self (archive footage)

2000

Drowning Mona

as Mona Dearly

1991

For the Boys

as Dixie Leonard

1986

Ruthless People

as Barbara Stone

1988

Oliver & Company

as Georgette (voice)

1997

That Old Feeling

as Lilly Leonard

1986

2007

Then She Found Me

as Bernice Graves

1988

Big Business

as Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton

2004

The Stepford Wives

as Bobbie Markowitz

2008

The Women

as Leah Miller

1969

Goodbye, Columbus

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

2021

Live at Mister Kelly's

as Self (archive footage)

1988

Beaches

as CC Bloom

1968

The Detective

as Woman at Party

1979

The Rose

as Mary Rose Foster

2010

1990

Stella

as Stella Claire

1993

Gypsy

as Rose Hovick

1991

Scenes from a Mall

as Dr. Deborah Finegold-Fifer

1999

Get Bruce!

as Self

2012

Casting By

as Self

2022

2000

Fantasia 2000

as Self - Host

2000

Isn't She Great

as Jacqueline Susann

1982

Jinxed!

as Bonita Friml

2012

Parental Guidance

as Diane Decker

-

Hocus Pocus 3

as Winifred Sanderson

2021

Parkinson at 50

as Self (archive footage)

2024

2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)

2024

The Greatest Night in Pop

as Self (archive footage)

1986

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

as Self (Interviewee)

2013

Six by Sondheim

as Mama Rose (archive footage)

1976

The Bette Midler Show

as Self - Host

1990

The Earth Day Special

as Mother Earth

2020

ariana grande: excuse me, i love you

as Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)

2018

1988

Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo

as Mondo Beyondo; Eudora P Quickly

2000

What Women Want

as Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)

1985

Live Aid

as Self

2019

The Addams Family

as Grandma (voice)

2020

The Glorias

as Bella Abzug

2019

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

1989

The Lottery

as Woman

1966

Hawaii

as Passenger (uncredited)

1980

Divine Madness

as Self - The Divine Miss M

1992

1974

The Thorn

as Virgin Mary

2020

Coastal Elites

as Miriam Nessler

1995

Get Shorty

as Doris Saphron

2021

The Addams Family 2

as Grandma (voice)

2022

Hocus Pocus 2

as Winifred Sanderson

1999

Jackie's Back!

as Bette Midler

1986

Production

1988

Beaches

as Producer

1991

For the Boys

as Producer

2010

1980

2020

Mae West: Dirty Blonde

as Executive Producer

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