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name: "Bette Midler"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 December 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
updated: "2026-09-17T05:16:59.146700+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bette Midler

Actor. Born 1 December 1945 in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA].

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 December 1945, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]
- **Active:** 1989–2013
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 90 (1), 1990s 82 (1), 2010s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190631, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000541/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73931

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*20 Feet from Stardom*](https://film.one/film/20-feet-from-stardom.md) (74)

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## Biography

Bette Midler is an American actress and singer. Born on 1 December 1945 in Honolulu, Hawaii, she began her career in off-off-Broadway theatre before appearing in the Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof and Salvation in the late 1960s.

She rose to prominence performing at the Continental Baths in New York in the early 1970s. Midler made her film debut in the musical drama The Rose (1979). Among her best-known screen roles are Winifred Sanderson in Hocus Pocus (1993) and its 2022 sequel, and appearances in films including The First Wives Club (1996), The Stepford Wives (2004) and The Glorias (2020). She has also voiced characters in animated features such as Oliver & Company (1988) and The Addams Family (2019).

Midler has received four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards and a Kennedy Center Honor.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, allmusic.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *20 Feet from Stardom* (2013), Fi1m 74, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/20-feet-from-stardom.md)
- *Get Shorty* (1995), Fi1m 82, as Doris Saphron — [page](https://film.one/film/get-shorty.md)
- *Seinfeld* (1989), Fi1m 90, as Bette Midler — [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)

## Also known for

- *What Women Want* (2000), Dr. J. M. Perkins (uncredited)
- *Hocus Pocus* (1993), Winifred Sanderson
- *The Addams Family* (2019), Grandma (voice)
- *Hocus Pocus 2* (2022), Winifred Sanderson
- *Oliver & Company* (1988), Georgette (voice)
- *The Stepford Wives* (2004), Bobbie Markowitz
- *The Addams Family 2* (2021), Grandma (voice)
- *Fantasia 2000* (2000), Self - Host

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