Biography
Bernadette Peters (born February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and children's 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 sta...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion
2024
as Self
“Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion” traces the life of the fashion icon on screen and off, highlighting Mackie’s global impact on TV, film, Broadway and conc...

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023
as Self - Guest
Paying tribute to a beloved national icon for her birthday, NBC celebrates Carol Burnett’s illustrious career with a star-studded event featuring an A...

Being Mary Tyler Moore
2023
as Self (voice)
With unprecedented access to the Mary Tyler Moore Estate, friends, family, and colleagues, Being Mary Tyler Moore constructs an intimate mosaic of Mar...

Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20
2022
as Self
2022 marks the 25th anniversary of ABC airing Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” (1997), a revolutionary TV musical that embraced racial diversity i...

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
as Self
On 3 May 2022, Cameron Mackintosh invited many of Stephen Sondheim’s old friends to join him in London’s West End for a thrilling, joyously staged pro...

Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021
as Deb
On her first holiday without her father, Zoey attempts to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do.

tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
as "Sunday" Legend #11
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

The Broken Hearts Gallery
2020
as Eva Woolf
Lucy is a young gallery assistant who collects mementos from her relationships. She discovers that she must let go of her past to move forward, and co...

Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert
2020
as Self - Performer
A benefit stream of an exclusive evening with a Broadway Legend, leading lady and three-time Tony Award recipient Bernadette Peters. Throughout the ev...

Celebrating Sondheim
2019
as Host
The New York Philharmonic celebrates the dazzling orchestral world of Stephen Sondheim in a program hosted by Bernadette Peters, with special guest vo...

On Broadway
2019
as Self (archive footage)
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inc...

The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special
2017
as Herself
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking sketch comedy with appearances from Burnett, original cast members Vicki Lawrence and Lyle Waggon...

Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
2014
as Glinda (voice)
Dorothy wakes in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man, and Glinda, ...

Six by Sondheim
2013
as Self (archive footage)
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.

Coming Up Roses
2011
as Diane
A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money woes, failed love affairs, and ...

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
2010
as Self
Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the master com...

Bernadette Peters: Live in Australia
2009
as Self
Broadway star Bernadette Peters headlines the 2009 Adelaide Cabaret Festival and has the crowd on their feet for three standing ovations. From her ope...

Living Proof
2008
as Barbara Bradfield
Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to ...

Come le formiche
2007
as Mary Ann

Children Will Listen
2004
as Narrator
The District of Columbia Public School system faces many challenges, including insufficient resources and large class sizes. Although DC students live...

The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration
2003
as Sue (voice)
A bedtime story leads Littlefoot and his grandparents on a journey to a new land, where Littlefoot discovers someone who vanished before he was born: ...

It Runs in the Family
2003
as Rebecca Gromberg
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

Ladies Night - Most Famous Hits
2003
Video collection of songs by female performers.

Bobbie's Girl
2002
as Bailey Lewis
Two middle-aged lesbians find their lives complicated when one of them takes in her ten-year-old nephew.

The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002
as Self
Featuring inverviews from: Afrika Bambaataa, Ashford & Simpson, Jackson Browne, Kim Burell, Taylor Dayne, Carmen Electra, Faith Evans, Roberta Flack, ...

Prince Charming
2001
as Margo / 'Titania'
After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a mai...

Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish
1999
as Rita (voice)
The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) go on a quest to find a fallen wishing star to help Dot with her illness. Unfortunately the rest of the to...

Let It Snow
1999
as Elise Ellis
Two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school.

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998
'Hey, Mr Producer!' features selected scenes from the productions of the world's most successful musical producer, Cameron Mackintosh - classic songs ...
Quincy Jones...The First 50 Years
1998
as Self
The composer-arranger-producer is honored in a tribute taped in 1997.

Bernadette Peters in Concert
1998
A diva who effuses sweetness as naturally as she breathes!" - The New York Times. Live from Royal Festival Hall in London, Bernadette Peters combines ...

A Bing Crosby Christmas
1998
as Self (archive footage)
The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public television that was originally called «A Bing Crosby Chris...

Holiday in Your Heart
1997
as Faith Shawn
LeAnn Rimes plays herself from her childhood in Nashville to her performing around the country as a country-western singer, until she has to make a ch...

What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
as Helen Ayers
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone beco...

Anastasia
1997
as Sophie (voice)
Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting...

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997
as Angelique (voice)
Astonished to find the Beast has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to change his mind on the matter.

Cinderella
1997
as Cinderella's Stepmother
Cinderella chafes under the cruelty of her wicked stepmother and her evil stepsisters, until her Fairy Godmother steps in to change her life for one u...

The Odyssey
1997
as Circe
In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King of the mythical island of Ithaca, who must endure a de...

Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff
1996
as Rita (voice)
Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff is a VHS tape that contains "Draculee, Draculaa," "Phranken-Runt," "Meatballs or Consequences," "Scare-Happy Slappy," "Witch ...

Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1995
An urgent plea to protect creatures from man's insensitivity and greed. The program offers clear explanations of why the survival of sea turtles, hump...

Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
1995
as Self
In commemoration of the 100th birthday of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, performers present classic Hammerstein songs.

A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995
This special is a recording of the presentation of the Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts presented by Southern Methodist University in...

Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995
as Self
The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique star...

The Last Mile
1992
as The Soprano
Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House a soprano is preparing for her debut in the opera Tosca. The stage manager gives her encouraging advice. She...

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
as Self
This program features the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 performance at Carnegie Hall. An American Musical Theatre writer for o...

Impromptu
1991
as Marie D'Agoult
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Into the Woods
1991
as Witch
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

Alice
1990
as Muse
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults h...

The Last Best Year
1990
as Jane Murray
Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and ...

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
1990
as Self
Big Bird and his pals are making musical mayhem as they sing the goofiest, nuttiest, silliest songs ever. Join in with Sesame Street favorites Oscar, ...

Fall From Grace
1990
as Tammy Faye Bakker
Jim Bakker establishes a large televangelical empire in the 1980s, including Heritage Village. However, they are removed from P.T.L, the ministry that...

Pink Cadillac
1989
as Lou Ann McGuinn
A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.

Slaves of New York
1989
as Eleanor
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion while hoping for love and...

David
1988
as Marie Rothenberg
The true story of David Rothenberg whose disturbed father set him on fire.

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

Sunday in the Park with George
1986
as Dot / Marie
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in "Sunday in the Park with Georg...

Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...

George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business
1983
as Self
An all-star celebrity tribute to celebrate George Burns 80th Anniversary in show business.

Sleeping Beauty
1983
as Sleeping Beauty / Princess Debbie
A prince chases his destiny to an ancient castle in search of a cursed princess, thanks to the help of an informative lumberjack.

George Burns and Other Sex Symbols
1982
George Burns celebrates his new-found status as a celebrity sex symbol with guests and collection of beautiful women of all ages. With singing, dancin...

Annie
1982
as Lily St. Regis
An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy"...

Baryshnikov in Hollywood
1982
as The Girl in 'The Sheik'
The famed dancer encounters various characters in a busy day at work on a movie studio lot.

Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
1982
as Self / Lily
An in-depth look into the making of the film Annie (1982). It covers the adaptation changes from the original Broadway musical, the hiring of director...

Heartbeeps
1981
as Aqua
Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.

Pennies from Heaven
1981
as Eileen
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school te...

Tulips
1981
as Rutanya Wallace
A suicidal tuba player hires a hit-man to rub him out. The next day he falls in love.

The Jerk
1979
as Marie Kimble Johnson
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him ...

Musical Comedy Tonight
1979
First of three programs about musical theatre hosted by writer-composer-lyricist Sylvia Fine.

The Islander
1978
as Trudy Engles
A retired mainland lawyer buys a small Honolulu hotel and finds himself in a murderous situation involving a runaway grand jury witness, a ruthless mo...

The Beatles Forever
1977
as Self
A musical salute to The Beatles.

The People's Command Performance: '77
1977
as Self - Host
A celebrity lineup selected by a “specially conducted nationwide survey” entertains.

Vigilante Force
1976
as Little Dee
In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless oil-field workers who have infested their communit...

Silent Movie
1976
as Vilma Kaplan
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the mo...

W.C. Fields and Me
1976
as Melody
In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields...

The Longest Yard
1974
as Miss Toot
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw...

Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
1973
as Allison
The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from to...

Once Upon a Mattress
1972
as Lady Larkin
The second television adaptation of Once Upon a Mattress was broadcast on December 12, 1972, on CBS. This production, videotaped in color, included o...

Paradise Lost
1971
as Libby Michaels
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them a...

George M!
1970
as Josie Cohan
Based on the semi-hit Broadway musical of 1968 and starring original stage star Joel Grey, this TV version has been re-fashioned in significant ways. ...

Bing Crosby: Cooling It
1970
as Self
Entertainment variety special with Bing and special guests Dean Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Flip Wilson.
The Christmas Tree
1958
as Girl
The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1958. It is based on the short s...
Last Train to Fortune
N/A
When schoolteacher Cecil Peachtree misses the last train to Fortune, he strikes a deal with outlaw Dooley to secure safe and timely travel. On the jo...
Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical Comedy
N/A
A shy woman is unexpectedly cast in a local production of an original musical. Under the spell of the strong-willed and enigmatic director, she loses ...