Bernadette Peters Biography

Throughout her illustrious career Tony Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage and television in concert and on recordings. In 2003 she received her seventh Tony Award nomination for her electrifying portrayal of Momma Rose in Sam Mendes’ record-breaking Broadway revival of Gypsy and her brilliant performance was captured on the Grammy award-winning Gypsy cast recording. “Bernadette Peters is a revelation!” Ben Brantley of The New York Times declared of her star turn in the show. Peters’ latest Angel Records CD Sondheim Etc. Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall (The Rest of It) features never-before-released highlights from her historic 1996 highly anticipated solo debut at Carnegie Hall. The concert was a benefit for Gay Men’s Health Crisis. This performance was repeated in Bernadette Peters in Concert her London solo debut at Royal Festival Hall which later was telecast on PBS and is available on DVD.
A native of Ozone Park New York Peters began her performing career at the age of 3 with appearances on Juvenile Jury the classic TV game show Name That Tune and The Horn & Hardart Children’s Hour. She made her theatrical debut in This is Goggle starring James Daly and Kim Hunter directed by the legendary Otto Preminger. Still in her teens she appeared in The Most Happy Fella and The Penny Friend and performed in the national touring company of Gypsy.

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