Bette Midler

Her television work includes a production of Gypsy and her sitcom Bette. She received a "Woman of the Year" award in 1989 for her psychological work. 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. In 1986, she earned a master's degree in Clinical Psychology and began a second career as a psychological counselor for abused women and children and women in prison. Her rendition of 1990's "From a Distance" also earned her a Grammy and is another of her most popular songs. She then went on to appear in Television( aforementioned Star Trek ) and film including Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) and The Joy Luck Club (1993). 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. She was about to portray Suzie Wong in the film production but was replaced by Nancy Kwan.

In 1988 she starred in the film Beaches. She became a stage actress and portrayed Suzie Wong in theatrical production of The World of Suzie Wong in 1958 opposite William Shatner whom she later worked with again in an episode of Star Trek. She appeared in such other popular comedies as Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune and Big Business. Born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France to a French mother and a Vietnamese father, she was raised in Marseille by a cousin. In 1986, director Paul Mazursky cast her in Down and Out in Beverly Hills, beginning a successful comedic acting career. France Nuyen (born July 31, 1939 as France Nguyen Vannga) is a Eurasian actress. In her first film role, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

She was tapped for the pseudobiographical role of the drug-addled rock music star in The Rose, modeled after Janis Joplin. Midler appeared in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, but it was her singing that made her a star. He produced her first major album, The Divine Miss M (also the name by which she is known to her fans.). 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.