Bette Midler

Her television work includes a production of Gypsy and her sitcom Bette. Muti was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a world wide poll of readers of the magazine Class. Other films include Scenes From a Mall, For the Boys (for which she was again nominated for an Academy Award), Hocus Pocus, The First Wives Club, and The Stepford Wives. Muti has three children: an oldest daughter, Naike Rivelli, who is also an actress; and a son, Andrea, and daughter, Carolina, from her marriage to Facchinetti. Her rendition of 1990's "From a Distance" also earned her a Grammy and is another of her most popular songs. She is separated from Facchinetti and has been living with Stefano Piccolo since 1998. Midler sang several of the film's songs including "Wind Beneath My Wings," which became one of Midler's most popular hits, receiving multiple Grammy Awards. Muti has been married twice; to Alessio Orano (1975-1981) and Federico Facchinetti (1988-?).

In 1988 she starred in the film Beaches. She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV ad of Giovanni Panzani pasta. She appeared in such other popular comedies as Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune and Big Business. Other American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime... (1992). In 1986, director Paul Mazursky cast her in Down and Out in Beverly Hills, beginning a successful comedic acting career. She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her American film debut in 1980 in Flash Gordon. In her first film role, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La Moglie pił bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife).

She was tapped for the pseudobiographical role of the drug-addled rock music star in The Rose, modeled after Janis Joplin. She has a twin sister Claudia. Midler appeared in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, but it was her singing that made her a star. She was born as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neopolitan father and Estonian mother, on March 9, 1955 in Rome, Italy. He produced her first major album, The Divine Miss M (also the name by which she is known to her fans.). Ornella Muti is an Italian actress. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, she majored in drama at the University of Hawaii, but got her start singing in gay bathhouses in New York City where, among others, she became friends with Barry Manilow, who was her piano accompanist.

Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is a singer, actress and comedienne.