Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters was born in Queens, New York, United States on February 28th, 1948 and is the Stage Actress. At the age of 76, Bernadette Peters biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara; February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and children's book author.
Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, television and film, performed in solo concerts and released recordings.
She is one of the most critically acclaimed Broadway performers, 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, Sunday in the Park with George, Song and Dance, Into the Woods, The Goodbye Girl, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, Follies and Hello, Dolly!.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.
In the 2010s, Peters continues to act on stage, in films and 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.
Personal life
Peters and Steve Martin began a romantic relationship in 1977 that lasted approximately four years. By 1981, her popularity led to her appearing on the cover and in a spread in the December 1981 issue of Playboy Magazine, in which she posed in lingerie designed by Bob Mackie.
Peters married investment adviser Michael Wittenberg on July 20, 1996, at the Millbrook, New York, home of long-time friend Mary Tyler Moore. Wittenberg died at age 43 on September 26, 2005, in a helicopter crash in Montenegro while on a business trip.
Peters has a mixed-breed dog named Charlie. She has adopted all of her dogs from shelters.
Early life and career
Peters was born in Ozone Park, Sicilia, New York City's borough of Queens, and was the youngest of three children. Marguerite (née Maltese), her mother, began working in show business by introducing her on the television show Juvenile Jury at the age of three and a half. Peter Lazzara, her father, drove a bread delivery vehicle. Donna DeSeta and Joseph Lazzara, both of her siblings, are casting directors. Name That Tune on television and several times on The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour at age five, she appeared on television shows Name That Tune and many times on The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour.
Bernadette Peters, a ninth name, was used onstage in January 1958 to prevent ethnic typecasting, despite the stage name being taken from her father's first name. She made her professional debut in This Is Goggle, a comedy directed by Otto Preminger that closed during out-of-town tryouts before heading to New York. Anna Stieman, a Kraft Mystery Theatre production in May 1958, appeared on NBC television as Anna Stieman, as part of "The Christmas Tree" a Hallmark Hall of Fame production in December 1958 with fellow child actor Richard Thomas and veteran actress Jessica Tandy and Margaret Hamilton. Tessie was first on the New York City Center stage at age ten as Tessie in the New York City Center revival of The Most Happy Fella (1959). She attended the Quintano's School for Young Professionals, a now-defunct private school attended by many singers, including Steven Tyler.
In the second national tour of Gypsy, Peters appeared as one of the "Hollywood Blondes" and an understudy for "Dainty June." Peters met her long-serving accompanist, conductor, and arranger Marvin Laird, who was the tour's assistant conductor, on this tour. "I heard her sing a strange word or two and thought, 'God, there's a big voice out of that little girl,'" Laird said next season. She appeared in Liesl in The Sound of Music and Jenny in Riverwind, 1965, and was in summer stock at the Mt. In 1966, Gretna Playhouse (Pennsylvania) and Riverwind met again at the Bucks County Playhouse. She began working steadily after high school, appearing Off-Broadway in The Penny Friend (1966) and Curley McDimple (1967) and as a standby in The Girl in the Freudian Slip (1967). Josie Grey, George M. Cohan's sister, appeared in Johnny No-Trump in 1967 and then appeared as George M. Cohan's sister Josie opposite Joel Grey in George M! The Theatre World Award, 1968, was a winner.
Peters' appearance in "Ruby" in 1968 Off-Broadway's Dames at Sea, a parody of 1930s musicals, earned her critical acclaim and her first Drama Desk Award. At the Off-Broadway performance club Caffe Cino, she appeared in an earlier 1966 version of Dames at Sea. Peters appeared in her forthcoming Broadway films, including Gasomina (1969) and On the Town (1971), for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. Mabel Normand appeared in Mack and Mabel (1974), winning another Tony Award. "With the splashy Mack & Mabel... diminutive and contralto Bernadette Peters discovered herself as a leading Broadway actress," Clive Barnes said. Musical theatre enthusiasts are also fond of the Mack and Mabel cast album. In the early 1970s, she moved to Los Angeles to concentrate on television and film work.
