Betty Lynn Buckley was born on July 3,1947 and is an American actress and singer.
40 Facts About Betty Buckley
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Betty Buckley won the 1983 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of Cats.
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Betty Buckley went on to play Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard in both London and New York, receiving a 1995 Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and was nominated for the 1997 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Triumph of Love.
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Betty Buckley starred in the TV series Eight Is Enough from 1977 to 1981 and played gym teacher Miss Collins in the 1976 film Carrie, before going on to star in the short-lived Broadway musical version of Carrie in 1988, playing Carrie White's mother, Margaret.
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Betty Buckley received a Saturn Award nomination for her role as Dr Karen Fletcher in the 2016 film Split.
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Betty Buckley was crowned "Miss Fort Worth" in 1966 and was runner-up in the Miss Texas competition.
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Betty Buckley was then invited to perform at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, where she was spotted by a talent scout.
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Betty Buckley joined the show in its second season when the original star, Diana Hyland, died after the first four episodes of season one, and her character Joan Bradford died as well.
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Betty Buckley was cast as the widower's new romantic interest, Sandra Sue "Abby" Abbott, who became stepmother of the eight children to which the series' title refers.
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Betty Buckley appeared in the original movie version of Carrie in 1976, playing Miss Collins, Carrie's gym teacher.
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Betty Buckley appeared in the Woody Allen film Another Woman, Roman Polanski's Frantic, Lawrence's Kasden's Wyatt Earp.
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Betty Buckley guest-starred in a Christmas special of the TV series Remember WENN, in which she sang "You Make It Christmas".
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Betty Buckley appeared as Marion Leckie, mother of Robert Leckie in the HBO series The Pacific, which aired in 2010.
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Also in 2010, she appeared in the 18th episode of Melrose Place as a food critic cast by her brother Norman Betty Buckley, who directed the episode.
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Betty Buckley guest-starred in an episode of the Fox series The Chicago Code.
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Betty Buckley was a recurring guest star on Pretty Little Liars as Regina Marin, directed by her brother Norman.
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In 2008, Buckley played Mrs Jones in M Night Shyamalan's The Happening.
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In 2017, Buckley was one of the stars of M Night Shyamalan's Split, the number-one film at the box office for three weeks.
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Betty Buckley is cast in season three of the series Preacher in 2018.
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Betty Buckley made her Broadway debut in 1969 in the original production of the musical 1776; she has been called "The Voice of Broadway" by New York magazine.
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In 1982, Betty Buckley starred as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of the musical Cats, which features the song "Memory".
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Betty Buckley starred in both London and New York as Norma Desmond in the musical Sunset Boulevard.
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Betty Buckley sang "Memory" from Cats at the Kennedy Center Honors in December 2006 as part of the tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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In 2007, Betty Buckley appeared with Quintessence at Lincoln Center in its Great American Songbook series.
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In 2011, Betty Buckley starred in the Dallas Theater Center production of Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring with Tovah Feldshuh.
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In 1988, Betty Buckley starred as Margaret White in Carrie: The Musical.
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The musical was directed and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, with whom Betty Buckley had previously worked on Cats.
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Betty Buckley repeated her performance in 2014 at Houston's famed Alley Theatre.
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In May 2015, it was announced that Betty Buckley would appear as Big Edie in the musical, Grey Gardens at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY.
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Betty Buckley reprised the role from July 13, to August 14,2016, at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles.
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Betty Buckley finished her leg of the tour in September 2019 and is preparing concerts scheduled in early 2020 at the Cafe Carlyle in NYC and other venues.
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Betty Buckley is a composer; her first recording contains mostly songs she wrote.
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Betty Buckley is featured on many Broadway compilation recordings, and on the original cast recording of 1776; the original Broadway recording of Cats; the London recording of Promises, Promises; Triumph of Love and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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In 2002, Betty Buckley was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Category, for her album Stars and the Moon: Live at the Donmar, which was recorded at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre in London.
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Quintessence features jazz arrangements of standards by her former collaborator, jazz pianist Kenny Werner; while 1967 is a recording produced by T-Bone Burnett, and made when Betty Buckley was just 19.
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Betty Buckley was married to Peter Flood in 1972, divorced in 1979, and has no children.
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Betty Buckley has taught song interpretation and scene study for over 40 years.
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Betty Buckley conducts master classes in Fort Worth, New York City, Los Angeles, Denver and other cities around the country.
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Betty Buckley has a large following on social media and posts regularly.
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Betty Buckley has received two Honorary Doctorates for her contribution to the Musical Theater from The Boston Conservatory and Marymount Manhattan College.