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Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli in 2008 at The Heart Truth Fashion Show
Born	Liza May Minnelli March 12, 1946 (1946-03-12) (age 64) Hollywood, California, United States
Occupation	Actress, vocalist
Years active	1949–present
Spouse(s)	Peter Allen (1967–1974) Jack Haley, Jr. (1974–1979) Mark Gero (1979–1992) David Gest (2002–2003)

Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of entertainer Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli.

Already established as a nightclub singer, and a musical theatre actress, she first attracted critical acclaim for her dramatic performances in the movies The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) and Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970). Minnelli rose to international stardom for her appearance as Sally Bowles in the 1972 film version of the Broadway musical Cabaret, a role that brought her the Academy Award for Best Actress.

While film projects such as Lucky Lady, A Matter of Time and New York, New York were poorly received, Minnelli found herself as one of the most versatile, highly regarded, and best-selling entertainers in television, beginning with Liza with a Z in 1972, and on stage in the Broadway productions The Act and The Rink. From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, headlines focused on her health problems, alcoholism, and drug abuse, but Minnelli found new prominence with international concert tours and appearances such as Liza Minnelli: At Carnegie Hall, Frank, Liza & Sammy: The Ultimate Event, and Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall.

After years of continued health problems including a serious bout with viral encephalitis, she returned with a new concert show Liza's Back in 2002, well regarded guest appearances in the sitcom Arrested Development, a small role in the movie The OH in Ohio, as well as worldwide concert tours. Having finished the Broadway show Liza's at The Palace...! in January 2009, which garnered her excellent notices, Minnelli is set to tour.

Minnelli has a total of three Tony Awards¹, an Oscar, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globes and a Grammy Legend Award for her contributions and influence in the recording field (making her one of only twelve people to have won an EGOT), along with many other honors and awards.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Theatre 2.2 Music 2.3 Film 2.4 Later career 2.5 Signature song 3 Personal life 3.1 Marriages 3.2 Philanthropy 4 Filmography 5 Television 5.1 Television movies 5.2 Specials 6 Discography 6.1 Studio albums 6.2 Live albums 6.3 Compilations 6.4 Soundtracks and cast recordings 6.5 Singles 7 Stage productions 8 Awards and honors 8.1 Film awards 8.2 Television awards 8.3 Recording awards 8.4 Stage awards 8.5 Miscellaneous Honors 9 Other appearances 10 See also 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External links

Early life

Liza Minnelli was born in Hollywood, California to father Vincente Minnelli and mother Judy Garland. Born into a family well known to film-goers, Minnelli's maternal lineage can claim entertainers going back six generations.² Her mother, Judy Garland, had legendary success in film and in music, but started in show-business as part of a vaudeville act with Minnelli's aunts as "The Gumm Sisters". Her father, an acclaimed MGM film director, was from a theatrical family which also included circus performers.

Minnelli attended New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Her first performing experience on film was at age three where she appeared in the final scene of the 1949 musical In the Good Old Summertime. The film starred Judy Garland and Van Johnson. Although Minnelli and her mother shared a warm personal relationship, during her performances with her mother at the London Palladium, Garland recognized Minnelli's talent and felt a sense of competition. Minnelli recalled, "I was onstage with my mother, but suddenly, she wasn't Mama ... she was Judy Garland."²

Minnelli's half-sister and brother from Garland's marriage to Sid Luft are Lorna and Joey Luft. She also has another half-sister, Christiane Nina Minnelli (nicknamed Tina Nina), from her father's second marriage.³

She is longtime childhood friends with actress Katy Manning.[2]

Career

Theatre

Minnelli began performing professionally 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 turned to Broadway at 19, and in 1965 she became the youngest woman ever to win a leading actress Tony Award for Flora the Red Menace.

Music

Minnelli began as a nightclub singer while in her teens and made her professional nightclub debut at the age of 19 at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.. Later, she appeared in other clubs and on stage in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and New York City. Her success as a live performer brought her a chance to record several albums at Capitol Records: Liza! Liza! (1964), It Amazes Me (1965) and There Is a Time (1966). In her early years, she recorded traditional pop standards as well as show tunes from different musicals within she also has starred from time to time. Because of this fact, William Ruhlmann named her “Barbra Streisand's little sister”.⁴ The Capitol albums Liza! Liza!, It Amazes Me, and There Is A Time have been reissued on the two-CD compilation The Capitol Years in 2001, for the first time in their entirety.

From 1968 up to the 1970s, she also recorded more contemporary material according to classic pop songs with her albums Liza Minnelli (1968), Come Saturday Morning and New Feelin' (both 1970) from A&M Records and The Singer (1973), which seemed like a compilation of soft rock material, as well as the disco-styled Tropical Nights (1977) from Columbia Records. Her music career was more influenced by successful live performances with international concert tours than commercial success as a recording artist. Today, she is still better known for her contributions to the Great American Songbook than for her interpretations of contemporary pop songs.

In 1989 Minnelli collaborated with Pet Shop Boys on Results, an electronic dance-style album. The release hit the top 10 in the UK and also charted in the US, spawning four singles: Losing My Mind, Don't Drop Bombs, So Sorry, I Said and Love Pains. This also gave her a chance to film promotional videos for the songs and resulted in a long-overdue comeback in the music business. Initially released on VHS titled Visible Results, the clips were later issued on a bonus DVD included in the 2005 remastered and expanded edition of the album. Later that year she performed Losing My Mind live at the Grammys ceremony before receiving a Grammy Legend Award. With this award, she became one of only 12 other entertainers, in a list that includes Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand and Mel Brooks among others, to win an Emmy, Grammy, Tony Award and Academy Award, although she is sometimes discounted since her Grammy was a special award and not won in a competitive category.⁵

In April 1992 Liza Minnelli performed We Are The Champions with the surviving members of the rock band Queen at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.

In 1996, Minnelli released a new studio album titled Gently. It was a recording of jazz standards and also included some contemporary songs such as the cover of Does He Love You which she performed as a duet with Donna Summer. For the first time in her career, this album brought her a regular Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.

Film

Her first appearance on film is as the baby in the very last shot of her mother Judy Garland's film, In the Good Old Summertime (1949).

Her first credited film role was as the love-interest in Albert Finney's only film as director and star, Charlie Bubbles (1967).

In 1969 she appeared in Alan J. Pakula's first feature film, The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), as “Pookie Adams”, a needy, eccentric teenager. Her performance won her her first Academy Award nomination. She played another eccentric character the following year in Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, directed by Otto Preminger. In 1972, Minnelli appeared in perhaps her best-known film role, as “Sally Bowles” in the movie version of Cabaret. She said that one of the things she did to prepare was to study photographs of classic actresses Louise Glaum and Louise Brooks and the dark-haired ladies of that time.⁶ Minnelli won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance, along with a Golden Globe Award. She was the first person to ever grace the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines simultaneously.

Hot off the success of the movie, Bob Fosse and Minnelli teamed up for what was to become a groundbreaking show in several departments. Liza with a ‘Z’. A Concert for Television, a filmed concert later aired only two times on TV until the recovery from the vaults and first public release on DVD in 2006. In the concert, filmed in one non-stop performance, Minnelli danced and sang in several daring and censor-challenging costumes designed by famed costume designer Halston. Several awards were the reward for what is regarded by both critics and public as a piece of show business history.

In 1975 she was considered for the part of Anna in a Spanish film Un Largo Retorno. The director Pedro Lazaga saw Liza in Charlie Bubbles and though she was good for the part, but when he found out she was 29 she was considered to old for the part, the part was given to British actress Lynne Frederick instead.^{citation needed}

Following a string of less successful feature movies and ventures into television, she finally got the chance to work with her father, director Vincente Minnelli, in the 1976 fantasy-musical A Matter of Time, co-starring Ingrid Bergman. After severe editing and cutting, done by the studio, with no input from Vincente Minnelli, the film was neither a commercial nor a critical success.

Her appearance opposite Robert De Niro in the 1977 musical drama film, New York, New York however, gave Minnelli her best known signature song. Frank Sinatra released a successful cover version (for his Trilogy: Past Present Future album) two years later and used it as his signature song as well, sometimes even duetting with Liza live on stage.

After her performance as leading lady to Dudley Moore in 1981's hit film Arthur, Minnelli made fewer film appearances although she returned to the big screen in 1991 for Stepping Out, a musical dramedy.

Later career

She returned to Broadway in 1997, taking over the title role in the musical Victor/Victoria, replacing Julie Andrews. In his review, New York Times critic Ben Brantley commented, “her every stage appearance is perceived as a victory of show-business stamina over psychic frailty... She asks for love so nakedly and earnestly, it seems downright vicious not to respond.”

After a serious case of viral encephalitis in 2000, doctors predicted that she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. However, she refused to accept this and with the help of dance lessons, which she still takes daily, managed to recover and returned to the stage Liza's Back in 2002 performing to rave reviews in London and New York City. After this success, the world was again aware of Minnelli's entertainment capabilities and thus she continued to tour globally, eventually starring in the hit play, The Wizard of Oz: 3-D.

In 2004 and 2005 she appeared as a recurring character on the critically acclaimed TV sitcom Arrested Development as “Lucille Austero”, the lover of both the sexually and socially awkward “Buster Bluth” and Buster's brother “GOB”.

In September 2006, she made a guest appearance on the long-running NBC drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent, in Masquerade, a Halloween-themed episode, broadcast on Tuesday, October 31, 2006.⁷ She also completed guest vocals on My Chemical Romance's 2006 concept album The Black Parade, portraying “Mother War”, a dark conception of the main character's mother, in the song Mama.

For years, Liza had wanted to record a collection of songs that her godmother Kay Thompson had performed in her nightclub act. In 2007 Liza added some of Thompson's songs to her latest tour to introduce them to audiences. The Thompson material eventually appeared on the 2-disc set Liza's at the Palace...!, which was released in early 2009.

Minnelli returned to Broadway in a new solo concert at the Palace Theatre called Liza's at The Palace...! which ran from December 3, 2008, through January 4, 2009.⁸⁹ In her second act she performed a series of numbers created by Kay Thompson.¹⁰ The reviews noted that while her voice was ragged at times, and her movements no longer elastic, the old magic was still very much present—from first to last, Minnelli had audiences cheering and applauding and begging for more. The show was subsequently staged at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on September 30 and October 1, 2009, at which time it was filmed for broadcast on public television and a February 2010 DVD and Blu-ray release.

On January 10, 2009, Minnelli made a rare live TV appearance in a surprise cameo on NBC's Saturday Night Live, playing the best friend of “Penelope” (Kristin Wiig). On January 26, 2009, she made an appearance on The View, singing I Would Never Leave You from her new CD Liza's at The Palace...!. She was also interviewed by the cast of The View.

She was portrayed in the Australian musical The Boy From Oz starring Hugh Jackman. On Broadway, she was portrayed by star Stephanie J. Block.

In October 2009, Minnelli toured Australia, and appeared on Australian Idol as a mentor and guest judge.

In February 2010, Minnelli appeared in a Snickers commercial.

Signature song

She has made many notable public performances of her signature song, New York, New York:

• At the 1978 Studio 54 party honoring New York City's revival, at which a guest was Mayor Ed Koch;
• The reopening of the Statue of Liberty on July 4, 1986 (this performance of New York, New York is generally felt to be among the strongest of her career^{citation needed});
• As a duet with Luciano Pavarotti at the 1996 Pavarotti & Friends for War Child concert in Modena, Italy;
• At a 2001 New York Mets baseball game that was the metro area's first major sporting event after the September 11 attacks;
• For the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular televised live, and nationally on NBC on July 4, 2006, she performed the song and received an ovation.
• In February 2008, she performed the song at a televised celebration of Bruce Forsyth's 80th birthday celebration on BBC.
• In June 2008, at the Opening Night at the Hollywood Bowl where she was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame.
• On October 2, 2008, at Trevi Fountain in Rome to promote her next tour of Italy.

Personal life

Marriages

Minnelli has been married (and divorced) four times. Her first marriage was to Peter Allen (full name Peter Allen Woolnough) on March 3, 1967. Australian-born Allen was Judy Garland's protégé in the mid-1960s.¹¹ The couple divorced on July 24, 1974. Later that year, she married Jack Haley Jr., a producer and director, on September 15, 1974. His father, Jack Haley, was Garland's co-star in The Wizard of Oz. They divorced in 1979.

Minnelli was married to Mark Gero, a sculptor and stage manager, from December 4, 1979 until 1992. She was married to David Gest, a concert promoter, from March 16, 2002, until July 25, 2003.

Minnelli has no children; one pregnancy left her with a hiatal hernia as a result of the medical steps taken to try to save the baby.³

Philanthropy

Minnelli has, throughout her lifetime, served various charities and causes which she considers very important. She served on the board of directors of the The Institutes for The Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP) for 20 years, a nonprofit educational organization that introduces parents to the field of child brain development. She also dedicated much time to amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. In 2007, Minnelli stated in an interview with Palm Springs Life magazine, “AmfAR is important to me because I’ve lost so many friends that I knew [to AIDS”.¹² In 1994, Minnelli recorded the Kander & Ebb tune "The Day After That" and donated the proceeds to AIDS research. That same year she performed the song in front of thousands in Central Park at the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1949	In the Good Old Summertime	Baby	uncredited
1954	The Long, Long Trailer	Wedding Guest	scenes deleted
1967	Charlie Bubbles	Eliza
1969	The Sterile Cuckoo	'Pookie' (Mary Ann) Adams	David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Mar del Plata Film Festival Award for Best Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1970	Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon	Junie Moon
1972	Cabaret	Sally Bowles	Academy Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Sant Jordi Award for Best Performance in a Foreign Film
1974	Just One More Time	Herself	uncredited (short subject)
	That's Entertainment!	Herself (narrator)
	Journey Back to Oz	Dorothy	voice
1975	Lucky Lady	Claire	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1976	Silent Movie	Herself
	A Matter of Time	Nina
1977	New York, New York	Francine Evans	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1981	Arthur	Linda Marolla	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1983	The King of Comedy	Herself	appears in gag cardboard cutout
1984	The Muppets Take Manhattan	Herself
1985	That's Dancing!	Herself - Host
1987	Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night		voice
	Rent-A-Cop	Della Roberts
1988	Arthur 2: On the Rocks	Linda Marolla Bach
1991	Stepping Out	Mavis Turner
1994	A Century of Cinema	Herself	documentary
1995	Unzipped	Herself - uncredited	documentary
2006	The OH in Ohio	Alyssa Donahue
2010	Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age	Herself	documentary
2010	Sex and the City 2	cameo appearance

Television

During the early days of Television in the 1950s Liza appeared as a child guest on Art Linkletter's show and in 1959 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 shows hosted by Jack Paar, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Joe Franklin, Dinah Shore and Johnny Carson. During the 1960s she made several guest appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh In as well as other variety shows including The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace, as well as The Judy Garland Show. In 1964 she appeared as Minnie in her first television dramatic role in the episode "Nightingale for Sale" on Craig Stevens's short-lived CBS series, Mr. Broadway.

Recently, Minnelli has made guest appearances on such shows as Arrested Development and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In the UK she has appeared on the Ruby Wax, Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross shows and in October 2006 participated in a comedy skit on the Charlotte Church Show and was featured on the Michael Parkinson Show. Set to be a guest judge on Australian Idol 2009 on the 18th of October 2009.

In November 2009, American Public Television aired "Liza's at the Palace", taped from September 30-October 1, 2009 in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand's Hollywood Theatre. It is scheduled to be distributed on DVD in early 2010.¹³. The executive producers of the taping, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, previously were involved with the 2005 re-release of 1972's Emmy and Peabody Award winning "Liza with a 'Z'".¹⁴

Television movies

• The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood (1965)
• The Princess and the Pea (1984, episode of the television anthology Faerie Tale Theatre)
• A Time to Live (1985)
• Sam Found Out: A Triple Play (1988)
• Parallel Lives (1994)
• The West Side Waltz (1995)

Specials

• Judy and Liza at the Palladium (1964, with Judy Garland)
• Liza (1970)
• Liza with a ‘Z’. A Concert for Television (1972)
• Love from A to Z (1974, with Charles Aznavour)
• Goldie and Liza Together (1980, with Goldie Hawn)
• An Evening with Liza Minnelli (1980)
• Liza in London (1986)
• Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente (1987, documentary)
• Frank, Liza & Sammy: The Ultimate Event (1989, with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr.)
• Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall (1992)
• Liza & Friends: A Tribute to Sammy Davis, Jr. (1993, with Charles Aznavour, Tom Jones, Jerry Lewis, Cliff Richard)

Discography

Studio albums

• Liza! Liza! (1964) US #115
• It Amazes Me (1965)
• There Is a Time (1966)
• Liza Minnelli (1968)
• Come Saturday Morning (1969)
• New Feelin' (1970) US #158
• The Singer (1973) US #38 UK #45
• Tropical Nights (1977)
• Results (1989) US #128 UK #6, France #49, Sweden #23, mainly written and produced by Pet Shop Boys
• Gently (1996) US #156 UK #58
• Liza's at The Palace...! (2009)¹⁵

Live albums

• Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli Live at the London Palladium (1965) US #41
• Liza Minnelli: Live at the Olympia in Paris (1972, recorded in December 1969)
• Live at the Winter Garden (1974) US #150
• Live at Carnegie Hall (1981)
• Liza Minnelli at Carnegie Hall (1987) US #156
• Liza: Live from Radio City Music Hall (1992)
• Aznavour Minnelli: Paris, Palais des Congrès (1995)
• Minnelli on Minnelli: Live at the Palace (1999)
• Liza's Back (2002)

Compilations

• Liza Minnelli: The Liza Minnelli Foursider (1990)
• Liza Minnelli: The Collection (1997)
• Liza Minnelli: A Touch Of Class (1997)
• Liza Minnelli: It Was a Good Time: The Best of Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli (1998)
• Liza Minnelli: 16 Biggest Hits
• Liza Minnelli: Ultimate Collection (2001)
• Liza Minnelli: The Capitol Collection (2001)
• Liza Minnelli: Essential (2003)
• Liza Minnelli: The Best Of Liza Minnelli (2004)
• Liza Minnelli: When It Comes Down to It: 1968-1977 (2004)
• Liza Minnelli: All That Jazz (2005)
• Liza Minnelli: Say Liza (2005)
• Liza Minnelli: The Complete Capitol Collection (2006)
• Liza Minnelli: The Complete A&M Recordings (2008)

Soundtracks and cast recordings

• Best Foot Forward (1963) (Original Cast Recording)
• Flora the Red Menace (1965) (Original Cast Recording) US #115
• The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood (1966) (soundtrack)
• Cabaret (1972) (soundtrack) US #25 UK #13
• Liza with a ‘Z’ (1972) (soundtrack) US #19 UK #9
• Lucky Lady (1975) (soundtrack)
• A Matter of Time (1976) (soundtrack)
• New York, New York (1977) (soundtrack) US #50
• The Act (1978) (Original Cast Recording)
• The Rink (1984) (Original Cast Recording)
• Stepping Out (1991) (soundtrack)
• Music from The Life: A New Musical (1995) (concept cast album, is featured on "Use What You Got", "We Had a Dream", and "People Magazine")

Singles

• "The Travelin' Life"/"It's Just a Matter of Time" (1961)
• "You Are For Loving"/"What Do You Think I Am" (1963)
• "One Summer Love"/"How Much Do I Love You" (1963)
• "Day Dreaming"/"His Woman" (1963)
• "Hello Dolly"/"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" (1964, with Judy Garland)
• "A Quiet Thing"/"All I Need" (1965)
• "Sing Happy"/"Dear Love" (1965)
• "Imprevu"/"Did I Hurt Your Feelings" (1965)
• "I'm Not Laughing" (1965)
• "I (Who Have Nothing)"/"In the Middle of the Street" (1966)
• "The Singer"/"Mr. Emory" (1972)
• "More Than I Like You"/"Harbour" (1974)
• "All That Jazz"/"I Am My Own Best Friend" (1975)
• "Theme from New York, New York" (1977, US #104)
• "For You, Armenia" (1988, with Irene Cara, Dionne Warwick)
• "Losing My Mind" (1989, UK #6, Austria #19, France #42, Holland #36, New Zealand #23, US Dance chart #11)
• "Don't Drop Bombs" (1989, UK #46)
• "So Sorry, I Said" (1989, UK #62)
• "Love Pains" (1990, UK #41, US dance chart #40)
• "The Day After That" (1993)
• "Let's Make a Date" (2008, with Johnny Rodgers)

Stage productions

• Wish You Were Here (1961) (Manchester)
• Take Me Along (1962) (Hyannis, Massachusetts)
• Flower Drum Song (1962) (Hyannis, Massachusetts)
• Best Foot Forward (1963) (Off-Broadway)
• The Diary of Anne Frank (1963) (Tour)
• Carnival! (1964) (Paper Mill Playhouse)
• The Pajama Game (1964) (Westbury Music Fair)
• Time Out For Ginger (1964) (Bucks County Playhouse)
• The Fantasticks (1964) (Tour)
• Flora the Red Menace (1965) (Broadway)
• Liza (1974) (one woman show, Broadway)
• Chicago (1975) (replacement for Gwen Verdon from Aug-Sep. 1975, Broadway)
• The Act (1977) (Broadway)
• Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? (1978) (Off Broadway)
• The Owl and the Pussycat (1979) (Martha Graham Ballet, London & Lincoln Center, New York City)
• By Myself (1983) one woman show, Los Angeles and London
• The Rink (1984) (Broadway)
• Victor/Victoria (1997) (vacation replacement for Julie Andrews) (Broadway)
• Minnelli on Minnelli (1999) (Broadway - Palace Theater)
• Liza's Back! (2002) (New York and London)
• Liza's at the Palace...! (2008 - 2009) (Broadway - Palace Theater)

Awards and honors

Film awards

Academy Awards¹⁶

• 1970 nominated: Best Actress (The Sterile Cuckoo)
• 1973 won: Best Actress (Cabaret)

Minnelli has the distinction of being one of the few Academy Award winners whose parents were both Academy Award nominees.

British Academy of Film and Television Arts¹⁷

• 1971 nominated: Film Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles (The Sterile Cuckoo)
• 1973 won: Best Actress (Cabaret)

Golden Globe Awards¹⁸

• 1970 nominated: Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (The Sterile Cuckoo)
• 1973 won: Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Cabaret)
• 1976 nominated: Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Lucky Lady)
• 1982 nominated: Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Arthur)

Television awards

Emmy Awards¹⁹

• 1973 won: Outstanding Single Program – Variety and Popular Music (Liza with a 'Z'. A Concert for Television)
• 1973 nominated: Outstanding Achievement by a Supporting Performer in a Variety Show or a Special (A Royal Gala Variety Performance)
• 1980 nominated: Outstanding Variety or Music Program (Goldie and Liza Together)
• 1987 nominated: Outstanding Informational Special (Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente)
• 1993 nominated: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall)

Golden Globe Awards²⁰

• 1986 won: Best Actress in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television (A Time to Live)

Recording awards

Grammy Awards

• 1997 nominated: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance (Gently)
• 2010 nominated: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Liza's at The Palace...!)

Grammy Hall of Fame Award

• 2008 inducted (Cabaret. Original Soundtrack Recording)

Grammy Legend Award

• 1990 won: Grammy Legend Award for Contributions and Influence in the Recording Field²¹

Stage awards

Drama Desk Awards

• 1984 nominated: Outstanding Actress in a Musical (The Rink)
• 2009 won: Drama Desk Special Award for “her role as a beloved American musical theater icon, for her enduring career of sustained excellence, and her glorious performance in Liza's at The Palace...!”²²

Independent Theatre Reviewers Association

• 2009 won: Best Female Theatrical Performance (Liza's at The Palace...!)

Theatre World Award

• 1963 won: Outstanding Off-Broadway Debut (Best Foot Forward)

Tony Awards²³

• 1965 won: Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Flora the Red Menace)
• 1974 won: Special Tony Award for “adding lustre to the Broadway season”
• 1978 won: Best Leading Actress in a Musical (The Act)²⁴
• 1984 nominated: Best Leading Actress in a Musical (The Rink)

The show Liza's at The Palace...! itself won the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event in 2009.²⁵

Miscellaneous Honors

Hasty Pudding Theatricals²⁶

• 1973: Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation²⁷

• 2005: Vanguard Award, for “her contributions to increased visibility and understanding of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community”

Mercy College (New York)²⁸

• 2007: Honorary Doctorate, “for her charitable activities and a career that has spanned five decades and multiple genres”²⁹

Other appearances

Minnelli also appears on "The Black Parade" CD by My Chemical Romance. During the song "Mama" she is the woman who sings "and if you would call me your sweetheart, I'd maybe then sing you a song".

See also

• List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards

References

Further reading

• Leigh, Wendy (1993), Liza: Born a Star. E. P. Dutton
• Mair, George (1996), Under the Rainbow: The Real Liza Minnelli. Carol Publishing
• Schechter, Scott (2004), The Liza Minnelli Scrapbook. Kensington Books/Citadel Press * See Free Preview at Amazon.com
• Spada, James (1983), Judy and Liza. Doubleday

External links

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Awards for Liza Minnelli v • d • e Academy Award for Best Actress Sophia Loren (1961) · Anne Bancroft (1962) · Patricia Neal (1963) · Julie Andrews (1964) · Julie Christie (1965) · Elizabeth Taylor (1966) · Katharine Hepburn (1967) · Katharine Hepburn / Barbra Streisand (1968) · Maggie Smith (1969) · Glenda Jackson (1970) · Jane Fonda (1971)  · Liza Minnelli (1972) · Glenda Jackson (1973) · Ellen Burstyn (1974) · Louise Fletcher (1975) · Faye Dunaway (1976) · Diane Keaton (1977) · Jane Fonda (1978) · Sally Field (1979) · Sissy Spacek (1980) Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present) v • d • e Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Rosalind Russell (1961) · Rosalind Russell (1962) · Shirley MacLaine (1963) · Julie Andrews (1964) · Julie Andrews (1965) · Lynn Redgrave (1966) · Anne Bancroft (1967) · Barbra Streisand (1968) · Patty Duke (1969) · Carrie Snodgress (1970) · Twiggy (1971) · Liza Minnelli (1972) · Glenda Jackson (1973) · Raquel Welch (1974) · Ann-Margret (1975) · Barbra Streisand (1976) · Diane Keaton/Marsha Mason (1977) · Ellen Burstyn/Maggie Smith (1978) · Bette Midler (1979) · Sissy Spacek (1980) Complete List · (1950–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–present) v • d • e Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Jane Seymour (1981) · Ingrid Bergman (1982) · Ann-Margret (1983) · Ann-Margret (1984) · Liza Minnelli (1985) · Loretta Young (1986) · Gena Rowlands (1987) · Ann Jillian (1988) · Christine Lahti (1989) · Barbara Hershey (1990) · Judy Davis (1991) · Laura Dern (1992) · Bette Midler (1993) · Joanne Woodward (1994) · Jessica Lange (1995) · Helen Mirren (1996) · Alfre Woodard (1997) · Angelina Jolie (1998) · Halle Berry (1999) Complete List · (1981-1999) · (1990–2009) v • d • e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical Grace Hartman (1948) · Nanette Fabray (1949) · Mary Martin (1950) · Ethel Merman (1951) · Gertrude Lawrence (1952) · Rosalind Russell (1953) · Dolores Gray (1954) · Mary Martin (1955) · Gwen Verdon (1956) · Judy Holliday (1957) · Thelma Ritter/ Gwen Verdon (1958) · Gwen Verdon (1959) · Mary Martin (1960) · Elizabeth Seal (1961) · Anna Maria Alberghetti/ Diahann Carroll (1962) · Vivien Leigh (1963) · Carol Channing (1964) · Liza Minnelli (1965) · Angela Lansbury (1966) · Barbara Harris (1967) · Patricia Routledge/ Leslie Uggams (1968) · Angela Lansbury (1969) · Lauren Bacall (1970) · Helen Gallagher (1971) · Alexis Smith (1972) · Glynis Johns (1973) · Virginia Capers (1974) · Angela Lansbury (1975) Complete list · (1948-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present) v • d • e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical Donna McKechnie (1976) · Dorothy Loudon (1977) · Liza Minnelli (1978) · Angela Lansbury (1979) · Patti LuPone (1980) · Lauren Bacall (1981) · Jennifer Holliday (1982) · Natalia Makarova (1983) · Chita Rivera (1984) · Bernadette Peters (1986) · Maryann Plunkett (1987) · Joanna Gleason (1988) · Ruth Brown (1989) · Tyne Daly (1990) · Lea Salonga (1991) · Faith Prince (1992) · Chita Rivera (1993) · Donna Murphy (1994) · Glenn Close (1995) · Donna Murphy (1996) · Bebe Neuwirth (1997) · Natasha Richardson (1998) · Bernadette Peters (1999) · Heather Headley (2000) Complete list · (1948-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Hosts of the Academy Awards ceremonies Johnny Carson (1981) · Johnny Carson (1982) · Liza Minnelli / Dudley Moore / Richard Pryor / Walter Matthau (1983) · Johnny Carson (1984) · Jack Lemmon (1985) · Alan Alda / Jane Fonda / Robin Williams (1986) · Chevy Chase / Goldie Hawn / Paul Hogan (1987) · Chevy Chase (1988) · None (1989) · Billy Crystal (1990) · Billy Crystal (1991) · Billy Crystal (1992) · Billy Crystal (1993) · Whoopi Goldberg (1994) · David Letterman (1995) · Whoopi Goldberg (1996) · Billy Crystal (1997) · Billy Crystal (1998) · Whoopi Goldberg (1999) · Billy Crystal (2000) Complete List · (1929–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)

Persondata
NAME	Minnelli, Liza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Singer, actress
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Los Angeles, California, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH