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Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters is the stage name of Bernadette Lazarra (born February
28, 1948 in Ozone Park, Queens, New York), an actress and singer. Her
outstanding characteristics are her flawless complexion, bee-stung lips,
kewpie-doll voice, and gift for light comedy. Her mother started her off
in show business by putting her on the television show Juvenile Jury at
the age of three and a half years. She later appeared on Name That Tune
and The Horn And Hardart Children's Hour. She took tap lessons, and at
the age of nine got her Equity Card (under the name of Bernadette Peters,
to avoid ethnic stereotyping). In her teen years she appeared in The Most
Happy Fella (1959), was an understudy for "Dainty June" in the
touring company of Gypsy (1961), and was in The Penny Friend (1966) and
The Girl In The Freudian Slip (1967). She first attracted critical notice
in the Off-Broadway spoof of 1930s musicals, Dames at Sea.
In the movies she is remembered primarily for the movies she made with
Steve Martin; in theatre, she has come to be associated with Stephen Sondheim's
music, appearing in his Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods,
and, in 2003, returning to Gypsy as "Mama Rose".
She has won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical twice: 1985
for Song and Dance and 1999 for Annie Get your Gun. However she was nominated
several times: 1975 for Mack and Mabel, 1984 for Sunday in the Park with
George, 1993 for The Goodbye Girl, and 2003 for Gypsy, as well as 1972
as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for On the Town.
She is frequently named one of the four greatest living musical divas
alongside Betty Buckley, Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige. Of these, she
is the only one who has not played Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's
musical version of Sunset Boulevard.
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