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Liza Minnelli - Biography
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Liza Minnelli Biography
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| Name : | Liza Minnelli |
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Profession :
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Actress/Singer
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Birth Details :
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born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California
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Birth name :
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Liza May Minnelli
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Height :
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5' 4" (1.63 m)
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Personal quotes :
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(December 1999) "I've got a good life, and I don't think anything can rock that anymore."
"Thank God for film, it can capture a moment
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Spouse :
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David Gest (16 March 2002 - July 2003) (divorced) Mark Gero (4 December 1979 - 1992) (divorced) Jack Haley Jr. (15 September 1974 - 1979) (divorced
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Liza Minnelli Trivia
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- Cancelled 14 concert appearances after being hospitalized for additional surgery on her hips. [May 2000]
- Singer/actress/dancer. Daughter of Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland.
- Less than 3 years old when she debuted on screen, in In the Good Old Summertime (1949), in which her mother just happened to star.
- Half-sister of singer Lorna Luft.
- Frequently attended legendary New York disco Studio 54
- Half-sister of Joey Luft.
- Has had 2 hip replacement surgeries and 3 knee surgeries.
- Says her mother gave her a sense of humor.
- Sees a psychiatrist and attends AA (as of December 1999).
- Sought treatment at the Betty Ford Center when she was 35.
- Had vocal surgery in 1997, after which she began watching her father's movies. This led to the Broadway show which she starred in, Minnelli on Minnelli.
- Daughter-in-law of Jack Haley.
- Niece of Mary Jane Gumm and Virginia Gumm.
- Is the only child of two Oscar winners (Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli) to win an Oscar herself.
- Winner of the 1999 Board of Directors MAC Award.
- Half-sister, Christiana Nina Minnelli, born 1955.
- At her marriage to David Gest, Elizabeth Taylor and Marisa Berenson were co-matrons of honor, while Michael Jackson and Tito Jackson were co-best men.
- Her husband, Gest, is an event planner.
- Her parents named her after Ira Gershwin's song "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)"
- In 1990, Liza Minnelli received the Grammy Legend Award, making her one of the few artists who have won entertainment's top four awards - the Oscar, the Tony, The Emmy and the Grammy.
- Hit #104 on the Billboard Singles Charts in 1977 with "Theme from New York, New York" (United Art. 1014)
- Was briefly managed by Kiss bass guitarist 'Gene Simmons in the 1980s
- 25 May 2003 - Broke her knee while preparing for a concert with Luciano Pavarotti in Bologna, Italy.
- Admitted to a Fort Lauderdale hospital where she was treated for viral encephalitis. [19 October 2000]
- Her father, Vincente Minnelli, later married Georgette Magnani, mother of her step-sister Christiana Nina Minnelli.
- Half-sister Christiane Minelli Magnani moved to Mexico a long time ago. There she got married and has children. She writes books and has TV programs.
- Portrayed (spoofed) on both "The Holmes Show (2001)" and "Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993)" by Jessica Holmes
- 2004 - Made up with half-sister Lorna Luft.
- When she was young she befriended Marilyn Monroe.
- In 1973 she became the seventh person to win the Triple Crown of Acting: Tony for Flora, the Red Menace (1965) and the Act (1977); Oscar, Best Actress for Cabaret (1972); and Emmy in 1973 for Liza with a Z!
- Her mother, Judy Garland, and former father-in-law, Jack Haley, starred together in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
- On September 30, 1991, she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was honored for her career in the Live Theatre. Her star is located at 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
- Has won three Tony Awards, two as Best Actress (Musical), for 1965's "Flora, the Red Menace" and 1978's "The Act," and, in 1974, a Special Tony Award "for adding lustre to the Broadway theatre season." She was also nominated as Best Actress (Musical) in 1984 for "The Rink," but lost that award to her co-star, Chita Rivera.
- One of only three actresses, along with Faye Dunaway and Halle Berry, to win both the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Razzie Award for Worst Actress (Dunaway shared her award with Bo Derek).
- Is portrayed by Jane Krakowski in Simply Halston (2005) and by several actresses in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) (TV).
- In 1980, she (co-presenter) accepted the Oscar for "Best Actor in a Supporting Role" on behalf of Melvyn Douglas, who wasn't present at the awards ceremony.
- She and her mother, Judy Garland, were the first Oscar-winning mother-daughter couple.
- Is mentioned in The School of Rock (2003) as a musical inspiration.
- Her mother Judy Garland was pregnant with her while filming her minor role in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946). In order to hide her pregnant stomach she was hidden behind stacks of dishes while singing "Look For The Silver Lining".
- God-daughter of Kay Thompson.
- Liza Minnelli was a fan of the TV show La Femme Nikita, so much so that in 1997, before Peta Wilson's first TV interview ever on Rosie O'Donnell, Liza secretly called for Peta's Limo to go to her home so she could meet her and give her advice on what to say. Peta Wilson later confirmed this rumor during the interview.
- Godparents were Ira Gershwin and Kay Thompson
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Liza Minnelli Detailed Biography
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Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of legendary entertainer Judy Garland and her second husband, acclaimed film director Vincente Minnelli (who was of Italian and French descent).
Minnelli's first film appearance was at the age of three in the final scene of the 1949 musical In the Good Old Summertime, starring her mother and Van Johnson.
Liza started performing at age of 16, in 1963, in an Off-Broadway revival of the musical Best Foot Forward, for which she received good notices. The next year, her mother invited her to perform with her at the London Palladium.
The audience loved her, and her musical career was born. She returned to Broadway at 19, and won a 1965 Tony Award for Flora the Red Menace. She also received Tony Awards for The Act in 1978 and a special Tony in 1974. She was nominated in 1984 for The Rink but lost to her costar Chita Rivera.
The film The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) garnered her her first Academy Award nomination. In 1972, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as "Sally Bowles" in Cabaret, along with Joel Grey who won an Oscar reprising his role in the movie that he had played in the Broadway musical (that of the creepy "Emcee").
Minnelli has the distinction of being the only Academy Award winner whose parents are both Academy Award winners.
Most recently she has appeared as a recurring guest star on the critically acclaimed TV sitcom Arrested Development as sexually and socially awkward Buster Bluth's lover. She has also won an Emmy Award for the 1972 TV special Liza with a Z.
Minnelli received a 1990 Grammy Legend Award. She received Golden Globe Awards for Cabaret and for the TV movie A Time to Live.
Minnelli, like her mother, is known for her powerful vocal style, as in her trademark songs, "Cabaret" and "Theme from New York, New York." Minnelli's original, for the film in which she was a co-star with Robert DeNiro, preceded Frank Sinatra's successful cover version (for his "Trilogy" album), by two years.
Following her 2002 wedding to David Gest, Minnelli and Gest signed with the American cable network VH1 to star in their own reality series, but production of the series was cancelled at the last minute.
On January 1, 2006, she sang "New York, New York" at the second inauguration of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Other famous performances were 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; and at a 2001 New York Mets baseball game that was the metro area's first major sporting event after the September 11 attacks.
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