She turned to Broadway at 19, and won her first Tony Award as a leading actress for Flora the Red Menace. She attended Scarsdale High School for one year, starring in a production of The Diary of Anne Frank which then went to Israel on tour. Both concerts were recorded and released as an album. The next year, her mother invited her to perform with her in concert at the London Palladium. She began performing professionally at age 17 in 1963 in an Off-Broadway revival of the musical Best Foot Forward, for which she received the Theatre World Award. She appeared in the chorus of Flower Drum Song and played the part of Muriel in Take Me Along. In 1961 she moved to New York City, attending High School of Performing Arts and later, Chadwick School.ĭuring 1961, Minnelli was an apprentice at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Her first performing experience on film was at age three appearing in the final scene of the musical In the Good Old Summertime (1949) the film stars Garland and Van Johnson In 1956 she landing the lead role of Sally Gold in Little New Orleans Girl. Minnelli's godparents were Kay Thompson and her husband William Spier. She has another half-sister, Christiane Nina Minnelli (nicknamed Tina Nina), from her father's second marriage.
Minnelli has a half-sister, Lorna, and half-brother, Joey, from Garland's marriage to Sid Luft. Her parents named her after Ira Gershwin's song "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)". Minnelli was born on Main Hollywood, California, to Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli. Since the 2010s, she has avoided huge concert tours in favor of small retrospective performances. After a hiatus due to serious health problems, Minnelli returned to the concert stage in 2002 with Liza's Back and was an acclaimed guest star in the sitcom Arrested Development between 20.
In 1989, she ventured into the contemporary pop scene by collaborating with the Pet Shop Boys on the album Results. From 1988 to 1990, she toured with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. in Frank, Liza & Sammy: The Ultimate Event.īest known for her renditions of pop standards, Minnelli's early 1960s pop singles were produced to attract a young audience, and her albums from 1968 to 1977 contained much of the contemporary singer-songwriter material. Her concert performances at Carnegie Hall in 19, and at Radio City Music Hall in 19 are recognized among her most successful. She returned to Broadway on a number of occasions, including The Act (1977), The Rink (1984) and Liza's at The Palace. (2008), worked on various television formats and has predominantly focused on music hall and nightclub performances since the late 1970s.
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Most of her following films-including Lucky Lady (1975), New York, New York (1977), Rent-a-Cop (1988) and Stepping Out (1991)-were panned by the critics and bombed at the box office, and she had no more major movie hits except Arthur (1981).
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Ĭritically lauded for her early non-musical screen performances-especially The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)-Minnelli rose to international stardom, starring in Cabaret and the Emmy Award-winning TV special Liza with a Z (1972). Along with her roles on stage and screen, this persona and her style of performance added to Minnelli's status as an enduring gay icon. They wrote, produced or directed many of Minnelli's future stage acts and TV shows and helped create her stage persona of a stylized survivor, including her career-defining performances of anthems of survival ("New York, New York", "Cabaret" and "Maybe This Time").
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She made her professional stage debut in the 1963 Off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward and won a Tony Award for starring in Flora the Red Menace in 1965, which marked the start of her lifelong collaboration with John Kander and Fred Ebb. Seeking theatrical work, Minnelli moved to New York City in 1961, where she began her career as a musical theatre actress, nightclub performer and traditional pop music artist. In 1972, she became the only Oscar recipient whose parents also won Oscar awards. She is the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli. Best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Cabaret (1972), she is famous for her energetic stage presence and her powerful mezzo-soprano singing voice. Judy Garland Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer.
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