Bernadette Peters (born February 28, 1948) is an American actress and singer.

She’s 60!

Over the course of an enduring career starting at an early age, she has performed in musical theatre, films and television, as well as in solo concerts and recordings.

Peters first performed on the stage in the 1960s and in the 1970s in film and television. In the 1980s she returned to the theatre, where she has been, for over two decades, one of the most critically acclaimed Broadway stars, being nominated for seven Tony Awards and winning two. Peters also continues to act in films and on television, where she has been nominated for Emmy Awards for three of her appearances. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards.

Peters is particularly noted for her starring roles in the stage musicals Song and Dance, Annie Get Your Gun, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods, becoming closely associated with the composers Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, and in films including The Jerk and Pennies from Heaven.

She was born Bernadette Lazzara to an Italian-American family in Queens, New York, the youngest of three children. Her mother Marguerite started her 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. In her teen years, she attended the Quintano School for Young Professionals.

Peters has appeared in 31 feature films or television movies, including the musical Annie and Pink Cadillac, in which she co-starred with Clint Eastwood. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award (Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role) for her work in the 1976 Mel Brooks film Silent Movie.

She appeared opposite Steve Martin, whom she dated for a period of time, in the The Jerk (1979) and Pennies From Heaven (1981), for which she won the Golden Globe Award as Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy or Musical. In 1981 she also appeared on the cover and inside spread of the December issue of Playboy Magazine, in which she posed in lingerie designed by Bob Mackie.

Peters appeared with three generations of the Kirk Douglas family in the 2003 film It Runs in the Family. In May 2006 she filmed a movie Come le formiche (Wine and Kisses) with F. Murray Abraham in Italy; the DVD was released on June 22, 2007 in Italy.

Personal Life:

Peters is a co-founder with long-time friend, Mary Tyler Moore, of Broadway Barks, an annual animal adopt-a-thon held in New York City. The goal is to promote adopting animals from shelters and to make New York City a no-kill city.

The actress married Michael Wittenberg (investment adviser with Wachovia Securities) on July 20, 1996 at the upstate New York home of Mary Tyler Moore. Wittenberg died at age 43 on September 26, 2005 in a helicopter crash in Montenegro while on a business trip. Three other people were killed in the crash, which occurred when the aircraft struck a high-voltage cable according to the police in Montenegro’s capital.

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