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Bette Midler won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Hello, Dolly!. During her career, she has earned three Grammys, four Golden Globes, three Emmys, an honorary Tony and a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award. Midler made her Great White Way debut in the original production of Fiddler on the Roof and later appeared on the Main Stem with three concert engagements, as well as 2013's I’ll Eat You Last. Her many film credits include Ruthless People, The First Wives' Club, Beaches, For the Boys, Hocus Pocus, Gypsy, The Stepford Wives, The Rose and Scenes from a Mall.
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Bette Midler
(1945-)
Who Is Bette Midler?
Bette Midler first appeared on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof (1966–1969). After creating a popular nightclub act, she earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance in The Rose (1979). Midler also won Grammys for her songs from that film and from Beaches (1988) and garnered a second Oscar nomination with For the Boys (1991). She has since released several studio albums and starred in an array of film and stage productions, including the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, for which she received the 2017 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Early Life
Midler was born on December 1, 1945, in Honolulu, Hawaii. She grew up poor as the daughter of a house painter and a homemaker. Midler and her three siblings had "a hard-scrabble childhood," as she once explained to The New York Times.
A young Midler found refuge in her surroundings. "There was a great deal of solace from nature: the beautiful skies, the sea, the smell of flowers, all those bugs and birds," she told Good Housekeeping magazine. A shy child, Midler eventually developed in the dramatic arts. She won several talent competitions and graduated valedictorian from Radford High School before attending the University of Hawai