On December 1, 2018, Bette Midler will celebrate her 73rd birthday. Midler has had one of the most varied and successful careers in show business encompassing success on stage, screen and in the recording industry. She shows no signs of slowing down either since she has just completed one of her most successful ventures ever, starring for a year on Broadway in the revival of the musical “Hello Dolly!” That performance earned her a Tony Award as Best Actress in Musical. She has also won three Emmys, three Grammys, and three Golden Globes over the course of her career. One of the Emmys came for her much loved classic television moment when she sang on the second to last episode of Johnny Carson’s tenure as host of “The Tonight Show.”

Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but left during her sophomore year of college to pursue a career in New York on the stage.