Birth Place: Ozone Park, NY, USA
Throughout her illustrious career, Ms. Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage and television, in concert, and on recordings. Ms. Peters enjoys a career which boasts an impressive list of television credits, including co-starring in Amazon Prime's highly popular Mozart in the Jungle, which won the 2016 Golden Globe for Best TV Comedy or Musical series. She also co-starred in the CBS All-Access series, The Good Fight, a spin-off of the network's popular series, The Good Wife.
One of Broadway's most critically acclaimed performers, Peters has won numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, two Grammy Awards, three Emmy nominations and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She recently appeared in City Center's Encores! production, A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and orchestrations by Wynton Marsalis. Other Broadway credits include Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music and Follies, which also played the Kennedy Center.
Peters received both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Song and Dance. She earned her second Tony Award for her performance in Annie Get Your Gun. She also received Tony nominations for her outstanding performances in Sam Mendes' critically acclaimed revival of Gypsy (as Momma Rose), in Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl, Stephen Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, the Jerry Herman/Gower Champion Ode to the Movies, Mack and Mabel and the Leonard Bernstein/Comden and Green musical On The Town. In addition to these honors, Peters earned a Drama Desk nomination for her unforgettable portrayal of the Witch in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. Her most recent appearance on Broadway was in the revival of Hello, Dolly! in which she starred as the title character.
Other television credits include NBC-TVs Smash, ABC-TV's Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty, to name a few. In addition to starring in the Lifetime TV movie Living Proof, Peters has lit up the silver screen in 17 films throughout her distinguished career. She received a Golden Globe Award for her memorable performance in Pennies From Heaven. Other film credits include the 1997 Cinderella (recently released on Disney+), The Jerk, The Longest Yard, Silent Movie Annie, Pink Cadillac, Slaves of New York, Woody Allen's Alice, Impromptu, It Runs in the Family and Coming Up Roses.
Peters has recorded six solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall and Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein, in addition to numerous original Broadway cast recordings.
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Bernadette Peters, Gypsy
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Bernadette Peters, Annie Get Your Gun
Bernadette Peters, Annie Get Your Gun
Bernadette Peters, The Goodbye Girl
Bernadette Peters, The Goodbye Girl
Bernadette Peters, Into the Woods
Bernadette Peters, Song and Dance
Bernadette Peters, Song and Dance
Bernadette Peters, Sunday in the Park with George
Bernadette Peters, Sunday in the Park with George
Bernadette Peters, Sally and Marsha
Bernadette Peters, Mack & Mabel
Bernadette Peters, Mack and Mabel
Bernadette Peters , On The Town
Bernadette Peters, Dames at Sea
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Bernadette Peters has appeared on Broadway in 21 shows.
Bernadette Peters has appeared on London's West End in 1 shows.
Bernadette Peters has been nominated for various awards throughout her career, including Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater at the Drama League Awards, Outstanding Actress in a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards for "Follies," the Isabelle Stevenson Award at the Tony Awards, Outstanding Actress - Musical at the Drama Desk Awards for "Gypsy," Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical at the Tony Awards for "Gypsy," and many more. She has received nominations for her roles in productions such as "Annie Get Your Gun," "The Goodbye Girl," "Into the Woods," "Song and Dance," "Sunday in the Park with George," "Sally and Marsha," "Mack & Mabel," "On The Town," "Dames at Sea," and "George M!" Bernadette Peters has had a remarkable career in Broadway, earning recognition for her outstanding performances.
Bernadette Peters has won several awards, including the Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater from the Drama League Awards, the Isabelle Stevenson Award from the Tony Awards, and the Outstanding Actress in a Musical from the Drama Desk Awards for her roles in "Gypsy" and "Annie Get Your Gun." She also won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for "Annie Get Your Gun" and the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for the same show. Peters received the Distinguished Performance Award from the Drama League Awards for "Song and Dance" and another Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for the same production. Additionally, she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for "On The Town." Peters also received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance for "Dames at Sea" and a Theatre World Award for her performance in "George M!"
Bernadette Peters's next show will be Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends which opens on 9/16/2023 on West End.
Bernadette Peters's first West End show was Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends which opened in 2023
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