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Bernadette Peters
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Actor Born: February 28, 1948 in Queens, New York City, NY Biography:American actress "Bernadette Peters" was a five-year-old performer on Horn and Hardart's kiddie-talent radio program, and by age 11 was appearing on Broadway in Most Happy Fella. Peters achieved national fame in 1968 with her campy performance as Ruby, the 1930s-style chorus girl protagonist of the off-Broadway musical pastiche Dames at Sea. The role demonstrated only one aspect of her talents, but nonetheless threatened to typecast her as a squeaky-voiced dumb blonde. Bernadette scuttled that stereotype herself as leading lady in the 1969 "Joel Grey" musical George M. The following year she played Mabel Normand opposite "Robert Preston"'s "Mack Sennett" in the musical comedy Mack and Mabel, which, though a failure, has become a staple of community theatres. (The amateur Mabels have an ongoing tendency to imitate "Bernadette Peters"). In 1976, Peters costarred with "Richard Crenna" on "All's Fair",... Full Biography
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