Bernadette Peters (born February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and children’s book author. Over a career spanning five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, television and film, performed in solo concerts and released recordings. She is a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, having received seven nominations for Tony Awards, winning two (plus an honorary award), and nine nominations for Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards.
Regarded by many as the foremost interpreter of the works of Stephen Sondheim, Peters is particularly noted for her roles on the Broadway stage, including in the musicals Mack and Mabel (1974), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Song and Dance (1985), Into the Woods (1987), The Goodbye Girl (1993), Annie Get Your Gun (1999), Gypsy (2003), A Little Night Music (2010), Follies (2011), and Hello, Dolly! (2018).
Peters first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenaged actress in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s. She was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show and in other television work, and for her roles in films including Silent Movie, The Jerk, Pennies from Heaven and Annie. In the 1980s, she returned to the theatre, where she became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades. She also has recorded six solo albums and several singles, as well as many cast albums, and performs regularly in her own solo concert act. Peters continues to act on stage, in films and on television in such series as Smash and Mozart in the Jungle. She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, winning once.
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Bernadette Peters Biography / Wiki
| Name | Bernadette Peters |
| Also Know | Bernadette Lazzara, ΜπεÏναντÎÏ„ ΠίτεÏÏ‚ |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Queens, New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1948-02-28 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
| Deathday |
Bernadette Peters Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Into the Woods | Witch | 1991-03-15 | A collection of fairy tale characters head into the woods, and soon learn that fairy tales don’t end at “happily ever after.” This rendition of Stephe… |
| Slaves of New York | Eleanor | 1989-03-18 | Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and … |
| David | Marie Rothenberg | 1988-10-25 | David is a six-year-old boy who is caught in the middle of his two feuding (& divorced) parents. His father, Charles, kidnaps him to California, w… |
| Bobbie’s Girl | Bailey Lewis | 2002-06-09 | Two middle-aged Lesbians (Peters and Ward) find their lives complicated when one of them (Ward) takes in her ten-year-old nephew (Sangster)…. |
| Coming Up Roses | Diane | 2011-09-23 | A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money woes, failed love affairs, and … |
| Children Will Listen | Narrator | 2004-04-11 | This poignant documentary traces a production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Into the Woods,” starring more than 100 public-school students from the W… |
| Bernadette Peters in Concert | 1998-01-01 | A diva who effuses sweetness as naturally as she breathes!” – The New York Times. Live from Royal Festival Hall in London, Bernadette Peters combines … | |
| Celebrating Sondheim | Host | 2019-12-31 | The New York Philharmonic celebrates the dazzling orchestral world of Stephen Sondheim in a program hosted by Bernadette Peters, with special guest vo… |
| Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert | 2020-07-10 | A benefit stream of an exclusive evening with a Broadway Legend, leading lady and three-time Tony Award recipient Bernadette Peters. Throughout the ev… | |
| The Last Mile | The Soprano | 1992-10-09 | Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House a soprano is preparing for her debut in the opera Tosca. The stage manager gives her encouraging advice. She… |
| Pink Cadillac | Lou Ann McGuinn | 1989-05-26 | A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types…. |
| The Jerk | Marie Kimble Johnson | 1979-12-14 | After discovering he’s not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy … |
| Pennies from Heaven | Eileen | 1981-12-11 | During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school te… |
| Heartbeeps | Aqua | 1981-12-18 | Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together…. |
| Sunday in the Park with George | Dot / Marie | 1986-06-16 | A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in “Sunday in the Park with Georg… |
| Fall From Grace | Tammy Faye Bakker | 1990-04-29 | Jim Bakker establishes a large televangelical empire in the 1980s, including Heritage Village. However, they are removed from P.T.L, the ministry that… |
| The Last Best Year | 1990-11-04 | Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and … | |
| Holiday in Your Heart | Faith Shawn | 1997-12-14 | LeAnn Rimes plays herself from her childhood in Nashville to her performing around the country as a country-western singer, until she has to make a ch… |
| Tulips | 1981-10-01 | A suicidal tuba player hires a hit-man to rub him out. The next day he falls in love…. | |
| Sleeping Beauty | Sleeping Beauty / Princess Debbie | 1983-07-07 | A prince chases his destiny to an ancient castle in search of a cursed princess, thanks to the help of an informative lumberjack…. |
| George M! | Herself/ Josie Cohan | 1970-09-12 | Based on the semi-hit Broadway musical of 1968 starring Joel Grey, this TV version has been re-fashioned in significant ways. The premise here is tha… |
| Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall | Fay Apple | 1995-04-08 | Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Described by theater historian Ken Mandelba… |
| It Runs in the Family | Rebecca Gromberg | 2003-04-25 | This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile… |
| Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall | Self | 1992-06-10 | This program features the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 performance at Carnegie Hall. An American Musical Theatre writer for o… |
| Let It Snow | Elise Ellis | 1999-10-01 | Two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school…. |
| Impromptu | Marie D’Agoult | 1991-04-12 | In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand…. |
| Vigilante Force | Little Dee | 1976-09-09 | In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless oil-field workers who have infested their communit… |
| The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special | Herself | 2017-12-03 | Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking sketch comedy with appearances from Burnett, original cast members Vicki Lawrence and Lyle Waggon… |
| Once Upon a Mattress | Lady Larkin | 1972-12-12 | The second television adaptation of Once Upon a Mattress was broadcast on December 12, 1972, on CBS. This production, videotaped in color, included o… |
| George Burns and Other Sex Symbols | 1982-11-08 | George Burns celebrates his new-found status as a celebrity sex symbol with guests and collection of beautiful women of all ages. With singing, dancin… | |
| The Islander | Trudy Engles | 1978-09-16 | A retired mainland lawyer buys a small Honolulu hotel and finds himself in a murderous situation involving a runaway grand jury witness, a ruthless mo… |
| Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas | Angelique (voice) | 1997-11-11 | Astonished to find the Beast has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to change his mind on the matter…. |
| Cinderella | Cinderella’s Stepmother | 1997-11-02 | Cinderella chafes under the cruelty of her wicked stepmother and her evil stepsisters, until her Fairy Godmother steps in to change her life for one u… |
| W.C. Fields and Me | Melody | 1976-03-31 | In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields… |
| Prince Charming | Margo / ‘Titania’ | 2001-07-13 | After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a mai… |
| Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies | Allison | 1973-03-31 | The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from to… |
| Come le formiche | Mary Ann | 2007-06-22 | … |
| Annie | Lily St. Regis | 1982-05-21 | An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver “Daddy”… |
| What the Deaf Man Heard | Helen Ayers | 1997-11-23 | In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone beco… |
| Lights, Camera, Annie! | Self / Lily | 1982-03-07 | An in-depth look into the making of the film Annie (1982). It covers the adaptation changes from the original Broadway musical, the hiring of director… |
| Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20 | Self | 2022-08-23 | 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of ABC airing Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella†(1997), a revolutionary TV musical that embraced racial diver… |
| Silent Movie | Vilma Kaplan | 1976-06-17 | Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the mo… |
| Anastasia | Sophie (voice) | 1997-11-20 | This animated adventure spins a more optimistic twist on the long-mythicized story of the “lost daughter” of Russia’s last czar. A wicked sorcerer pla… |
| Animaniacs Spooky Stuff | Rita (voice) (archive footage) | 1996-08-13 | Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff is a VHS tape that contains “Draculee, Draculaa,” “Phranken-Runt,” “Meatballs or Consequences,” “Scare-Happy Slappy,” “Witch … |
| Not Yet Titled | Gloria Windsor | 2016-12-09 | After an 87 day labor dispute the New York Symphony Orchestra returned to play music. This is the story of that day…. |
| Alice | Muse | 1990-12-25 | Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults… |
| The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration | Sue (voice) | 2003-12-02 | A bedtime story leads Littlefoot and his grandparents on a journey to a new land, where Littlefoot discovers someone who vanished before he was born: … |
| Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! | herself | 1990-01-01 | Big Bird and his pals are making musical mayhem as they sing the goofiest, nuttiest, silliest songs ever. Join in with Sesame Street favorites Oscar, … |
| Musical Comedy Tonight | 1979-10-01 | First of three programs about musical theatre hosted by writer-composer-lyricist Sylvia Fine…. | |
| Animaniacs: Wakko’s Wish | Rita (voice) | 1999-12-20 | The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) go on a quest to find a fallen wishing star to help Dot with her illness. Unfortunately the rest of the to… |
| The Christmas Tree | Girl | 1958-12-14 | The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1958. It is based on the short s… |
| The Longest Yard | Miss Toot | 1974-08-21 | In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prision, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie… |
| Living Proof | Barbara Bradfield | 2008-10-18 | Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to … |
| Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return | Glinda (voice) | 2014-05-08 | Dorothy wakes up in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man and Glinda … |
| The Broken Hearts Gallery | Eva Woolf | 2020-09-11 | Lucy is a young gallery assistant who collects mementos from her relationships. She discovers that she must let go of her past to move forward, and co… |
| Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas | Deb | 2021-12-01 | On her first holiday without her father, Zoey attempts to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do…. |
| A Bing Crosby Christmas | Herself | 1998-01-01 | The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public television that was originally called «A Bing Crosby Chri… |
| Sondheim! The Birthday Concert | Herself | 2010-11-26 | Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway’s greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the master c… |
| Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh | 1998-11-07 | ‘Hey, Mr Producer!’ features selected scenes from the productions of the world’s most successful musical producer, Cameron Mackintosh – classic songs … | |
| Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz | Self | 1995-01-01 | The story of Peter Allen, Australia’s beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique star… |
| Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration | Performer (‘No One Is Alone’) | 2020-04-26 | A starry line-up of Broadway favorites are toasting Stephen Sondheim with a once-in-a-lifetime concert event live on Broadway.com. A benefit for ASTE… |
| The Making and Meaning of ‘We Are Family’ | Self | 2002-01-09 | Featuring inverviews from: Afrika Bambaataa, Ashford & Simpson, Jackson Browne, Kim Burell, Taylor Dayne, Carmen Electra, Faith Evans, Roberta Flack, … |
| Six by Sondheim | Self (archive footage) | 2013-12-09 | This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs…. |
| tick, tick… BOOM! | “SUNDAY” Legend | 2021-11-11 | On the cusp of his 30th birthday, Jonathon Larson, a promising young theater composer, navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an art… |
| Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC | Self (archive footage) | 1988-05-16 | Stars celebrate Bob Hope’s 50 years with NBC…. |
| On Broadway | Self (archive footage) | 2021-08-20 | An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inc… |
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