Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters born February 28 1948 is an American actress singer and childrens book author Over a career spanning five decades she has starred in musical theatre television and film performed in solo concerts and released recordings She is a critically acclaimed Broadway performer 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 1974 Sunday in the Park with George 1984 Song and Dance 1985 Into the Woods 1987 The Goodbye Girl 1993 Annie Get Your Gun 1999 Gypsy 2003 A Little Night Music 2010 Follies 2011 and Hello Dolly 2018 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 bestknown 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 Peters continues to act on stage in films and on 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernadette Peters licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia