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Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Known for her commanding stage presence and powerful alto singing voice, Minnelli has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Tony Awards. She is one of the few performers awarded a non-competitive EGOT having received an honorary Grammy Award. Minnelli is…
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entertainment · American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1946) · film actor · singer · voice actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · choreographer · dancer · television presenter · recording artist · also Liza Minnelli, Minnelli
Born 12 March 1946 · Q14441
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2026· 12 entries
The Guardian: I saw Liza Minnelli’s performance on the Muppet Show – and was inspired to become a drag star
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The Guardian: Buyers of Liza Minnelli memoir claim it was not signed by hand
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Page Six: Liza Minnelli blasts ‘downright rude’ Gene Hackman in memoir a year after actor’s tragic death
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The Guardian: Ron Howard, Emma Rice, Neil Tennant and more on Liza Minnelli: ‘She holidayed in my Cornish bungalow’
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The Guardian: Sex with Scorsese, beef with Sondheim … and inventing the moonwalk? The wildest moments in Liza Minnelli’s memoir
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The Guardian: Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli review – a heady brew of gossip, glamour and defiance
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The Cheat Sheet: Liza Minnelli Felt ‘Sabotaged’ by Oscars Appearance With Lady Gaga
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AOL: Liza Minnelli shades Lady Gaga and the Academy over Oscars wheelchair incident: 'I was heartbroken'
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The Guardian: Liza Minnelli uses AI to release first new music in 13 years
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American Songwriter: Liza Minnelli Uses AI To Release Her First New Song in 13 Years, Returns to Electronic Dance Music
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Minnelli released the single "Kids Wait Till You Hear This"
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2025· 2 entries
Spectrum News NY1: Liza Minnelli reflects on holidays, career and upcoming memoir
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Yahoo: Liza Minnelli's Great Disappointment in Life Is 'Not Being a Mother,' Says Friend of 50 Years: 'So Much to Give'
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2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: ‘A dancer dances, even with replaced hips and scoliosis’: only one actor can play Liza Minnelli
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Newsweek: An Angry Liza Minnelli Tells Hollywood to Watch Out for Her Upcoming Tell-All Memoir
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The Guardian: Liza Minnelli announces memoir because documentaries ‘didn’t get it right’
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The Guardian: A meeting with Liza Minnelli, 1989
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2022· 5 entries
The Guardian: Cabaret review – Liza Minnelli musical still divinely decadent and chillingly relevant
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The Guardian: Liza Minnelli was ‘sabotaged’ at Oscars and ‘forced’ to appear in wheelchair
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The Guardian: Liza Minnelli’s 20 best films – ranked!
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Snopes rated the claim “Lady Gaga said “I got you,” to a frail Liza Minnelli in a wheelchair, while they were presenting an award at the 2022 Oscars. Minnelli said, “I know,” in response.” Correct Attribution.
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AOL: Liza Minnelli's Life in Photos, from Performing with Mom Judy Garland to Earning an EGOT
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “The Best of Liza Minnelli”.
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2014· 1 entry
Minnelli had a guest appearance on Cher's Dressed to Kill Tour in Brooklyn, performing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" with Cyndi Lauper and Rosie O'Donnell
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2012· 1 entry
Minnelli headlined at Hampton Court Palace Festival
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “Confessions”.
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Released album “Cabaret... And All That Jazz”.
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Minnelli released an album of a number of American standards "unplugged" with long-time collaborator Billy Stritch, showing a sultrier and softer, more interpretive side to her artistry
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “Liza's at the Palace....”.
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For Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her studio recording Liza's at the Palace
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Released album “Finest: The Capitol Years”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “The Complete A&M Recordings”.
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2007· 2 entries
It was announced that Minnelli was working on an album in tribute to Kay Thompson
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Stated in an interview with Palm Springs Life: "AmfAR is important to me because I've lost so many friends that I knew [to AIDS]"
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “The Complete Capitol Collection”.
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Which received only a limited release in theaters
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Minnelli appeared on My Chemical Romance's third studio album, The Black Parade (2006), providing backing vocals and singing a solo part with Gerard Way on the track "Mama"
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded GLAAD Vanguard Award (2005).
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Minnelli made her first film appearance in more than 15 years, in The Oh in Ohio
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2004· 1 entry
Minnelli made her first appearance in the UK after a long absence, performing as a special guest at the annual Royal Variety Performance
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Essential”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Liza's Back”.
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2001· 6 entries
Released album “The Capitol Years”.
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Liza Minnelli”.
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Released album “Ultimate Collection”.
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Released album “Grand Collection”.
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When asked by long-time friend Michael Jackson to perform at Madison Square Garden in New York City where she sang "Never Never Land" and the televised "You Are Not Alone" at the Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special
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Released album “Simply the Best”.
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2000· 4 entries
Released album “Minnelli on Minnelli: Live at the Palace”.
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Released album “16 Biggest Hits”.
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Released album “MTV Music History”.
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Doctors predicted that Minnelli would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair and perhaps not be able to speak again
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Millennium Edition”.
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Released album “All That Jazz”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “It Was a Good Time: The Best of Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “A Touch of Class”.
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Taking over the title role in the musical Victor/Victoria, replacing Julie Andrews
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1996· 3 entries
Minnelli released a studio album titled Gently
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Released album “Gently”.
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"I married Peter, and he didn't tell me he was gay
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1995· 4 entries
Released album “Cabaret”.
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Released album “Paris - Palais des Congrès”.
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Released album “Cabaret: The Very Best Of”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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1994· 1 entry
Recorded the Kander & Ebb tune "The Day After That" and donated the proceeds to AIDS research
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Live From Radio City Music Hall”.
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Released album “The Act”.
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1991· 3 entries
Released album “A&M Gold Series”.
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Released album “Stepping Out”.
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For her contribution to live performance, Minnelli was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard
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1990· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Legend Award (1990).
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To Minnelli, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Smokey Robinson, and Willie Nelson)
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Minnelli charged Gero with abandonment in her November 1990 divorce filing, and the divorce was finalized in January 1992.
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “Results”.
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Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for Rent-a-Cop (1989).
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Minnelli collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys on Results, an electronic dance-style album
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “Maybe This Time”.
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About Arthur 2: On the Rocks from Texas Archive of the Moving Image
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Highlights From the Carnegie Hall Concerts”.
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Released album “At Carnegie Hall”.
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1986· 1 entry
“Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.”
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1985· 1 entry
Starred in a made-for-TV movie, A Time to Live, and in 1988, she appeared in Sam Found Out: A Triple Play
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1984· 1 entry
Made a guest appearance as Princess Alecia in "The Princess and the Pea" episode of Faerie Tale Theatre
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “The Liza Minnelli Collection”.
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Released album “Live at Carnegie Hall”.
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1980· 1 entry
Made two television specials, Goldie and Liza Together, with Goldie Hawn, and An Evening with Liza Minnelli
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1979· 1 entry
And 1987 and at Radio City Music Hall in 1991 and 1992 are recognized among her most successful
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1978).
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Remarked that "Studio 54 brought a glamor back to New York that we haven't seen since the 60's
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1977· 2 entries
Released album “Tropical Nights”.
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Released album “New York, New York: Original Motion Picture Score”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Live at The Winter Garden”.
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1973· 6 entries
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1973).
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Won Golden Globe Awards (1973).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Cabaret (1973).
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Released album “The Singer”.
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Released album “Live at the London Palladium”.
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Minnelli sang back up with Ronnie Spector for Alice Cooper's song "Teenage Lament '74" from the album Muscle of Love (1973)
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1972· 2 entries
Released album “Liza With a “Z”: A Concert for Television”.
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Starred in the Bob Fosse-directed Liza with a Z
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1970· 4 entries
Headlined her first television special, entitled Liza, with guest stars Anthony Newley, and Randy Newman
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“I married Peter, and he didn”
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Released album “New Feelin’”.
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Released album “The Liza Minnelli Foursider”.
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “Come Saturday Morning”.
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Liza Minnelli”.
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “There Is a Time”.
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1965· 4 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1965).
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Released album “The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood”.
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Released album “It Amazes Me”.
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Starred in the television special, The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood
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1964· 4 entries
As planned—the Filmation production was delayed, eventually being released in the UK during 1972
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Released album “Liza! Liza!”.
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Minnelli appeared as Minnie in her first television dramatic role in the episode "Nightingale for Sale" on Craig Stevens's short-lived series Mr
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Minnelli and Allen, who was then her boyfriend, were invited to the opening of the Compass Centre in Bankstown, Sydney
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1963· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1963).
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In an Off-Broadway revival of the musical Best Foot Forward, for which she received the Theatre World Award, and also toured in The Fantasticks, opposite Elliott Gould
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1961· 2 entries
Began her career as a musical theater actress, nightclub performer, and traditional pop artist
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Moved to New York City, attending High School of Performing Arts and later, Chadwick School
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1946· 2 entries
At the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood
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Born 1946-03-12.
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