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Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. She is the daughter of legendary actress and singer Judy Garland and her second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli.
BiographyChildhood & early career
Minnelli started performing at age 17, in 1963, in an Off-Broadway revival of the musical Best Foot Forward, for which she received good notices, and her first award -- The Theatre World Award. The next year, her mother invited Minnelli to perform with her at the London Palladium. The audience loved her, launching her future concert career. She returned to Broadway at 19, and won a 1965 Tony Award for Flora the Red Menace. Although Minnelli and her mother shared a warm personal relationship, during the London Palladium performances Garland recognized Minnelli's talent and felt a sense of competition. Minnelli recalled a time where she was singing on stage: "I was onstage with my mother, but suddenly, she wasn't Mamma ... she was Judy Garland."[2] As a teenager with two younger siblings, Minnelli bore the brunt of Garland's substance abuse issues and instability, and often had to take responsibility for her mother and siblings. Film appearancesImage:Liza Minnelli 1988.jpg Liza Minnelli arriving at the original Spago on Sunset Boulevard, 1988 Her first film role was as the love-interest in Albert Finney's only film as director and star, 'Charlie Bubbles (1967).
In 1972, Minnelli appeared in perhaps her best-known film role, as Sally Bowles in the movie version of Cabaret. Minnelli's belting vocal style was featured in the song "Cabaret" from the film. Minnelli won a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance, along with a Golden Globe Award, and many other honors. She finally got the chance to work with her father, legendary director Vincente Minnelli, in the 1976 fantasy-musical A Matter of Time, co-starring Ingrid Bergman. The film was neither a commercial nor a critical success. Her appearance opposite Robert DeNiro in the 1977 film, New York, New York, gave Minnelli her signature song, "Theme from New York, New York". Frank Sinatra released a successful cover version (for his Trilogy: Past Present Future album) two years later. Signature songMinnelli had several notable public performances of her signature song, "New York, New York":
Awards and other recognitionMinnelli's appearance in The Sterile Cuckoo garnered the young actress her first Academy Award nomination. In 1973, Minnelli won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the movie released in 1972, Cabaret. Minnelli also won an Emmy Award for the 1972 TV special Liza with a 'Z', a 1989 Grammy Legend Award, and Golden Globe Awards for both Cabaret and the 1985 TV movie A Time to Live. Minnelli has received three Tony Awards to date: a Tony for Best Actress in a Musical in 1965 for "Flora the Red Menace" (and for it still holds the record as the youngest person to receive a Tony for lead in a musical), a special Tony in 1974 for her concert engagement at NY's Winter Garden, and a second Tony, for The Act in 1978. She was nominated in 1984 for The Rink but lost to her costar, Chita Rivera. Minnelli has one Oscar and Emmy, three Tony Awards, along with a special Grammy. She has the distinction of being one of the few Academy Award winners whose parents were both Academy Award nominees, and she is the only winner of that award whose parents were both winners of it as well. Later careerAfter her performance as leading lady to Dudley Moore in 1981's Arthur, Minnelli made fewer film appearances.
Marriages and personal lifeImage:Liza Minnelli 2005.jpg Liza Minnelli at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival premiere of Elizabethtown, photo by Tony Shek Minnelli has two half-siblings through her mother, sister Lorna Luft and brother Joe "Joey" Luft. Her half-siblings are a result of Garland's marriage to producer Sid Luft. She also has a half-sibling Tina Nina Minnelli through her father's second marriage. Minnelli has been married (and divorced) four times; her husbands have been:
Minelli has no children. According to Lorna Luft's 1998 book, Me and My Shadows: Living with the Legacy of Judy Garland [4], and The Diaries of Andy Warhol, she had a miscarriage while five months pregnant during her marriage to Jack Haley, Jr. Rumors circulated after her marriage to Gest that she had adopted a child; the rumors stemmed in part from interviews in print, and on the Larry King Live television program, where she was quoted as saying she'd like to adopt a child and that she and Gest were "looking into it". However, no child was ever adopted. [5] Legal challenges with David GestMinnelli and Gest signed an agreement in January 2007 to end all pending lawsuits against each other, and to proceed with a no-fault divorce. The divorce papers were filed in February 2007. Separation and subsequent divorce from Gest in 2003 has been fraught with controversy; the two had legal disputes, which were all settled in January 2007. Prior legal matters were either resolved or dismissed.
In September 2006, a judge dismissed Gest's claims against Minnelli. [7] ImageMinnelli's work in Cabaret molded her popular image, from the black helmet of hair and extravagant eyelashes that have remained her visual trademark to the perception among many that she shares Sally Bowles's combination of fragility and toughness, her hunger for affection, and her heedless detachment from the ordinary. Her well-publicized struggles with substance abuse have made inevitable parallels and comparisons to her mother's personal and career challenges. Minnelli has been in rehab for her substance abuse challenges numerous times. She nearly died from a bout of encephalitis in 2000 after one rehab visit. She entered rehab shortly before her marriage to Gest. [8] Another visit occurred at their first anniversary; she recently visited rehab and a psychiatric center to deal with issues stemming from her contentious divorce from Gest. [9] Minnelli's performance style, fashion style, and connection with her mother's tragic legacy has brought her a large number of gay fans; she is often referred to as a gay icon. Trivia
Filmography
Upcoming:
MusicAlbums
Hit Singles
Television workDuring the early days of Television in the 1950s Liza appeared as a child guest on the Art Linkletter Show and in 1958 sang and danced with Gene Kelly on his first television special. She was a guest star in one episode of the popular Ben Casey television series starring Vince Edwards and was a frequent guest on chat shows of the day including numerous appearances on : Jack Parr, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Joe Franklin and Johnny Carson shows. During the mid-60s she made several guest appearances on the popular comedy show Laugh In as well as other variety shows including Ed Sullivan.
Stage productions
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