Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer . She is known for her portrayal of Sally Bowles in the 1972 musical film Cabaret which won her an Academy Award for Best Actress. The daughter of film actress and singer Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli , she began her career while in her teens as a musical theatre actress and nightclub performer in New York City. In 1965, she made her Broadway debut in the musical Flora the Red Menace and was awarded the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Critically lauded for her dramatic performance in the film The Sterile Cuckoo , she rose to international stardom with Cabaret and the Emmy Awardwinning TV special Liza with a Z . Many of her following film projects got mixed reviews and failed commercially, until the 1981 comedy Arthur. She successfully returned to Broadway stage starring in the musical The Act in 1977. Known today as a pop standard singer, she recorded contemporary singersongwriter material through the la

Minnelli was born on March 12, 1946 in Hollywood, California, to Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland. She attended New York Citys High School of Performing Arts and Chadwick School. Her first performing experience on film was at age three where she appeared in the final scene of the musical In the Good Old Summertime . The film stars Garland and Van Johnson.

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