Bernadette Peters

  • Name: Bernadette Peters
  • Date of Birth: February 28, 1948
  • Place of Birth: Ozone Park, New York, USA
Mini-bio: Ms. Peters' mother, Marguerite, started her off in show business by putting her on the television show Juvenile Jury at the age of three-and-a-half. She later appeared on the television shows Name Tha...( read more)t 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. The stage name was taken from her father's first name.

In her teen years she attended the Quintano School for Young Professionals. She appeared on the stage in The Most Happy Fella (1959), was an understudy for Dainty June in the touring company of Gypsy, and appeared Off-Broadway in The Penny Friend (1966) and Curley McDimple (1967) and as an understudy on Broadway in The Girl In The Freudian Slip (1967). She made her on-stage Broadway debut in Johnny No-Trump in 1967. She received the Theatre World Award for a Debut Performance for her work in the Broadway musical George M! in 1968. But it was her next role, as "Ruby" in the 1968 Off-Broadway spoof of 1930s musicals, Dames at Sea, that brought her critical notice. (She had appeared in an earlier 1966 version of Dames at Sea at the off-off-Broadway performance space, the Caffe Cino.)




In films she is remembered mainly for the 1979 comedy classic The Jerk co-starring Steve Martin, whom she briefly dated. She won the Golden Globe Award as Best Motion Picture Actress - Comedy/Musical for her performance as Eileen in the 1981 film Pennies From Heaven , again co-starring with Steve Martin. She has continued to work in films, most recently appearing with three generations of the Kirk Douglas family in It Runs in the Family.

In April 1987 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located in Hollywood, California.
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flixster.actor.pane.162677058 - flixsterBernadette Peters mini-bio: Ms. Peters' mother, Marguerite, started her off in show business by putting her on the television show Juvenile Jury at the age of three-and-a-half. She later appeared on the television shows 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. The stage name was taken from her father's first name. In her teen years she attended the Quintano School for Young Professionals. She appeared on the stage in The Most Happy Fella (1959), was an understudy for Dainty June in the touring company of Gypsy, and appeared Off-Broadway in The Penny Friend (1966) and Curley McDimple (1967) and as an understudy on Broadway in The Girl In The Freudian Slip (1967). She made her on-stage Broadway debut in Johnny No-Trump in 1967. She received the Theatre World Award for a Debut Performance for her work in the Broadway musical George M! in 1968. But it was her next role, as "Ruby" in the 1968 Off-Broadway spoof of 1930s musicals, Dames at Sea, that brought her critical notice. (She had appeared in an earlier 1966 version of Dames at Sea at the off-off-Broadway performance space, the Caffe Cino.)

In films she is remembered mainly for the 1979 comedy classic The Jerk co-starring Steve Martin, whom she briefly dated. She won the Golden Globe Award as Best Motion Picture Actress - Comedy/Musical for her performance as Eileen in the 1981 film Pennies From Heaven , again co-starring with Steve Martin. She has continued to work in films, most recently appearing with three generations of the Kirk Douglas family in It Runs in the Family. In April 1987 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located in Hollywood, California.

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Bernadette Peters Information:
Eye color: Brown
Height: 5' 2"
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Notable feature(s):her extremely curly red hair
Education: Quintano School For Young Professionals
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Resides in: New York and LA
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Charities/Causes: Broadway Barks
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  • MorpheusOne
    MorpheusOne
    She is perhaps the UGLIEST and the most talentless actress that I have ever been exposed to in my entire life!
    posted 151 days ago
  • twilight894
    twilight894
    She's awesome!!!!:)
    posted 510 days ago
  • broadwaymo
    broadwaymo
    Burt Reynold's line to Bernadette in The Longest Yard...

    Paul Crewe: "My, you have lovely hair. You ever find any spiders in it?"

    Hilarious... XD
    posted 742 days ago
  • philiciapenneykid
    philiciapenneykid
    i could have sworn she starred in Annie
    posted 816 days ago
  • dramanerds1o1
    dramanerds1o1
    shes my favorite! (my sister has her hair)
    posted 989 days ago
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