Bette Midler Biography

26Oct/070

Bette Midler is a multi-facet personality. She is not just a number one acting personality, she is well-known as a singer and comedienne as well. She was nominated for two Academy Awards and has also won four Grammy Awards. She is also an Emmy Award and Tony Award winner.

Coming from a Jewish ancestry Better Midler decided that she wanted to work in the entertainment industry at a very young age. She joined the University of Hawaii, and majored in drama. It was during this time she got a chance to play as extra in the film Hawaii. Using the money she earned her, she moved to New York City. Her first role came with Tom Eyen's Off-Off-Broadway plays in 1965. After this she went on to play the role of Tzeitel in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on Broadway and this made her acting abilities to come out to the audiences.

Bette Midler has an amazing voice. As much as she is know for her acting, her songs and albums are equally popular. Between 1975 and 1978, she lent the voice for the character Woody the Spoon, in the educational television series Vegetable Soup. She also contributed her voice for Disney’s Oliver & Company. Her singing career came to the forefront when Atlantic Records’s legendary director Ahmet Ertugun noticed her. This gave her the opportunity to bring out her first album The Divine Miss M, which went platinum.

In 1984 Bette Midler married Martin von Haselberg. They have one daughter Sophie Frederica Alohilani von Haselberg.

It was in the latter part of the 1980’s that she became more popular largely through her comic roles as seen in films ‘Down and Out in Beverly Hills’, ‘Ruthless People’, ‘Outrageous Fortune’, and ‘Big Business’. Other notable films that she made include ‘Scenes from a Mall’, ‘For the Boys’, ‘Hocus Pocus’, ‘The First Wives Club’, and ‘The Stepford Wives’.

Currently, Bette Midler is expected to top Celion Dion in as the headliner at Caesars Palace.

Bette Midler