Acting

Bette Midler

Born December 1, 1945 · Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA] (age 80)

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…

Known For

What Women Want

What Women Want · 2000

What Women Want

MovieComedyRomance

Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.

The Addams Family

The Addams Family · 2019

The Addams Family

MovieFamilyAnimation

The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.

Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus · 1993

MovieFantasyComedy

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

The Addams Family 2

The Addams Family 2 · 2021

The Addams Family 2

MovieAnimationFamily

The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters.

Hocus Pocus 2

Hocus Pocus 2 · 2022

MovieFantasyComedy

29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.

Oliver & Company

Oliver & Company · 1988

Oliver & Company

MovieAnimationComedy

Putting its own 'twist' on the story of Oliver Twist, the orange runt of a litter of kittens must fight for survival on the rough streets on New York City, finding unlikely friends in the dogs owned by a down-on-his luck man named Fagin. Soon, Oliver and his new band of comrades must fight for survival when Fagin is unable to pay his debts.

Get Shorty

Get Shorty · 1995

MovieComedyThriller

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

The Stepford Wives

The Stepford Wives · 2004

The Stepford Wives

MovieComedyScience Fiction

What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.

Filmography

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What Women Want

What Women Want · 2000

What Women Want

MovieComedyRomance

Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.

Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)

The Addams Family

The Addams Family · 2019

The Addams Family

MovieFamilyAnimation

The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.

Grandma (voice)

Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus · 1993

MovieFantasyComedy

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

Winifred Sanderson

The Addams Family 2

The Addams Family 2 · 2021

The Addams Family 2

MovieAnimationFamily

The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters.

Grandma (voice)

Hocus Pocus 2

Hocus Pocus 2 · 2022

MovieFantasyComedy

29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.

Winifred Sanderson

Oliver & Company

Oliver & Company · 1988

Oliver & Company

MovieAnimationComedy

Putting its own 'twist' on the story of Oliver Twist, the orange runt of a litter of kittens must fight for survival on the rough streets on New York City, finding unlikely friends in the dogs owned by a down-on-his luck man named Fagin. Soon, Oliver and his new band of comrades must fight for survival when Fagin is unable to pay his debts.

Georgette (voice)

Get Shorty

Get Shorty · 1995

MovieComedyThriller

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

Doris Saphron

The Stepford Wives

The Stepford Wives · 2004

The Stepford Wives

MovieComedyScience Fiction

What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.

Bobbie Markowitz

The First Wives Club

The First Wives Club · 1996

The First Wives Club

After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!

Brenda Morelli Cushman

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore · 2010

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

MovieFamilyAdventure

The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.

Kitty Galore (voice)

Jackie's Back!

Jackie's Back! · 1999

MovieComedyMusic

A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.

Bette Midler

Sitting in Bars with Cake

Sitting in Bars with Cake · 2023

Sitting in Bars with Cake

MovieRomanceComedy

Extrovert Corinne convinces Jane, a shy, talented baker, to commit to a year of bringing cakes to bars, to help her meet people and build confidence. But when Corinne receives a life-altering diagnosis, the pair faces a challenge unlike anything they've experienced before.

Benita

Ruthless People

Ruthless People · 1986

Ruthless People

Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the kidnappers' demands in the hopes that they do him a favor and murder her for him, the two confused kidnappers have to figure out how they're going get their money, and what they're going to do with the overbearing Barbara.

Barbara Stone

The Women

The Women · 2008

MovieDramaComedy

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.

Leah Miller

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Down and Out in Beverly Hills · 1986

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

Barbara Whiteman

Beaches

Beaches · 1988

MovieComedyDrama

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Producer

Steps

MovieAnimationFantasy

Think you know Cinderella's “evil” stepsisters? Think again! When misunderstood Lilith is blamed for hijacking the Royal Ball with a stolen magic wand, she accidentally turns her sister Margot into a frog and leaves the kingdom in the hands of a prince-obsessed mean girl. Now Lilith must team up with Cinderella — and a surprisingly dreamy troll — to save the kingdom, repair the fractured fairytale, and prove that even so-called villains deserve a shot at happily-ever-after.

Fairy Godmother (voice)

Parental Guidance

Parental Guidance · 2012

Parental Guidance

Artie and Diane agree to look after their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents need to leave town for work. Problems arise when the kids' 21st-century behavior collides with Artie and Diane's old-school methods.

Diane Decker

Big Business

Big Business · 1988

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.

Sadie Ratliff / Sadie Shelton

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood · 2002

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

MovieComedyDrama

In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.

Executive Producer

Drowning Mona

Drowning Mona · 2000

MovieComedyCrime

A Sheriff investigating the murder of an upstate New York woman learns that her extremely hateful ways gave the whole town a motive to be rid of her.

Mona Dearly

Then She Found Me

Then She Found Me · 2007

Then She Found Me

MovieComedyDrama

A New York schoolteacher experiences a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies, and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.

Bernice Graves

The Glorias

The Glorias · 2020

An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement to her travels throughout the U.S. and around the world, Steinem has made an everlasting mark on modern history. A nontraditional chronicle of a trailblazing life.

Bella Abzug

For the Boys

For the Boys · 1991

MovieDramaMusic

Talented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vietnam War era to their twilight era in the 90's.

Producer

The Simpsons

The Simpsons · 1989

SeriesAnimationComedy

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

Bette Midler (voice)

Seinfeld

Seinfeld · 1989

A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.

Bette Midler

The Nanny

The Nanny · 1993

SeriesComedyFamily

That flashy girl from Flushing with the heart of an angel (and the voice of a slighty more nasal angel). The comic misadventures of the sweet and sassy Fran Fine, her sophisticated employer, Broadway producer Mr. Sheffield, his boisterous brood and his wisecracking staff.

Bette Midler

American Masters

American Masters · 1986

American Masters

SeriesDocumentary

American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.

Executive Producer

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories · 1992

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

SeriesAnimationFamily

Actress Shelley Duvall presents charming animated versions of some of the most beloved children's stories in this superb Emmy-nominated collection featuring 26 tales narrated by famous actors and musicians. The stories by Mercer Mayer, Virginia Lee Burton, Marilyn Sadler and others are voiced by Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Morgan Freeman, Candice Bergen, Ringo Starr, Michael J. Fox, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Billy Crystal, Kathy Bates and many more.

Narrator (voice)

The Politician

The Politician · 2019

Payton has known since childhood that he's going to be president. First he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.

Hadassah Gold

Laf Lafı Açıyor

Laf Lafı Açıyor · 1991

Laf Lafı Açıyor

Bette

Bette is a CBS television show which premiered on October 11, 2000, and was the debut of the entertainer Bette Midler in a lead TV series role. A "one-season wonder", 16 episodes were aired on CBS, with its final telecast on March 7, 2001. Eighteen episodes in total were produced, with the final two broadcast on HDTV simulcasting and in foreign markets. Bette was created by Jeffrey Lane, with Midler serving as one of the executive producers.

Bette

Vegetable Soup

Vegetable Soup · 1975

Vegetable Soup is an American educational children's television program produced by the New York State Education Department that originally ran on PBS from September 22, 1975 to December 14, 1978..

Woody The Spoon

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

Creator