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Bernadette Peters is the stage name of Bernadette
Lazarra (born February 28, 1948 in Ozone Park,
Queens, New York), an actress and singer.

Her mother started her off in show business by
putting her on the television show Juvenile Jury
at the age of three and a half years. She later
appeared on 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). In her teen years she appeared in
The Most Happy Fella (1959), was an understudy for
"Dainty June" in the touring company of Gypsy, and
was in The Penny Friend (1966) and The Girl In The
Freudian Slip (1967).

She first attracted critical notice in the
Off-Broadway spoof of 1930s musicals, Dames at
Sea.

In films she is remembered mainly for the 1979
comedy classic The Jerk co-starring Steve Martin.
In theatre, she has come to be associated with
Stephen Sondheim's music, appearing in his Sunday
in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and, in
2003, returning to Gypsy: A Musical Fable|Gypsy as
"Mama Rose".

She has won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in
a Musical twice: 1985 for Song and Dance and 1999
for Annie Get Your Gun. However, she was nominated
several times: 1975 for Mack and Mabel, 1984 for
Sunday in the Park with George, 1993 for The
Goodbye Girl, and 2003 for Gypsy: A Musical
Fable|Gypsy, as well as 1972 as Best Featured
Actress in a Musical for On the Town.



In 1985 in an otherwise negative review of "Song
and Dance," critic Frank Rich remarked that "she
has no peer in the musical theater right now." 
She is frequently named one of the four greatest
living musical divas alongside Betty Buckley,
Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige. Of these, she is
the only one who has not played Norma Desmond in
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of Sunset
Boulevard.

==Off-Broadway Appearances==
* Dames at Sea (1967)

==Broadway Appearances==
*The Most Happy Fella (1959)
*The Girl in the Freudian Slip (1967)
*Johnny No-Trump (1967)
*George M! (1968)
*La Strada (1969)
*On the Town (1971) (revival)
*Mack & Mabel (1974)
*Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
*Song and Dance (1985)
*Into the Woods (1987)
*The Goodbye Girl (1993) 
*Sunday in the Park with George (1994) (revival)
*Into the Woods (1997) (revival)
*Annie Get Your Gun (1999) (revival)
*Gypsy (2003) (revival)

==Filmography==
*Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973)
*The Longest Yard (1974)
*Silent Movie (1976)
*W.C. Fields and Me (1976)
*Vigilante Force (1976)
*The Jerk (1979)
*Tulips (1981)
*Pennies from Heaven (1981)
*Heartbeeps (1981)
*Annie (1982)
*Slaves of New York (1989)
*Pink Cadillac (1989)
*Alice (1990)
*Impromptu (1991 movie)|Impromptu (1991)
*Anastasia (1997 movie)|Anastasia (1997) (voice)
*Snow Days (1999)
*The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family (2002)
(documentary)
*It Runs in the Family (2003)

==TV work==
*George M! (1972)
*Once Upon a Mattress (1972)
*Paradise Lost (1974)
*All's Fair (1976-1977)
*The Islander (1978)
*The Martian Chronicles (1980) (miniseries)
*Sunday in the Park with George (1986)
*David (1988)
*Fall from Grace (1990)
*The Last Best Year (1990)
*Into the Woods (1991)
*The Carol Burnett Show (1991) (canceled after 2
months)
*The Last Mile (1992)
*Animaniacs (1993-1998) (voice)
*The Odyssey (1997)
*Cinderella (1997)
*What the Deaf Man Heard (1997)
*Holiday in Your Heart (1997)
*The Closer (1998) (canceled after 10 episodes)
*Prince Charming (2001)
*Bobbie's Girl (2002)
*Adopted (2005) (currently filming)

== External links and references ==
* imdb name|id=0001613|name=Bernadette Peters
* ibdb name|id=68530|name=Bernadette Peters
* http://www.bernadettepeters.com/ Official site
for Bernadette Peters
*
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/arts/theater/27G
REE.html Her Stage Mother, Herself, The New York
Times, April 27, 2003 - profile by Jesse Green on
Peters, her mother, and Gypsy
* http://www.bernadette-peters.com/ Bernadette
Peters - Broadway's Best, A fan website to keep
you up to date on Bernadette Peters.