liza minelli

Liza Minnelli was born in Hollywod (California) on March 12, 1946. Art is in her blood since her father was the film director Vincente Minnelli and her mother was the actress and singer Judy Garland. She is therefore of Italian and French-Canadian ancestry on her father’s side and Scottish and Irish on her maternal side. She attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia School of Music and Art and Performing Arts in New York City, as well as the Chadwick School. Her first contact with the world of cinema was at the young age of three, in the final scene of a musical starring her mother.

He made his debut in New York theaters at the age of 17, on Off Broadway stages, where he already won his first award for a role in the play “Best Foot Forward.” The following year, in 1964, she made it big in London by collaborating in a musical by her mother. Her success on Broadway was immediate. A year later she was already dazzling the public with the play ” Flora the Red Menace” . For this same show she won her first Tony Award at just 19 years old. She thus became the youngest actress to do so. Throughout her career, she would win three more: for her role in “The Act” (1978), a Special Award in 1974, and another for her recital “Liza’s at the Palace!”

His figure began to dazzle on the big screen in the cinema during the 1960s with films like The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), where he obtained his first Oscar nomination, or Charlie Bubbles (1967), one of his first accredited works. Also highlighting one of her most remembered roles is that of the protagonist of the drama Tell me you love me, Junie Moon (1970) by the great director Otto Preminger , where she plays a young woman with a disfigured face. But it was in 1972 when she got the role of her life: playing the tender and sensual Sally Bowles in Cabaret .The Academy decided to award her the Oscar for best actress for her radiant role in this famous musical, directed by Bob Fosse . She became the only Oscar winner whose parents had also won it. In 1976 her father asked her to star in her last film, Nina (A Matter of Time) .

In subsequent years, he participated in minor but high-quality films such as New York, New York (1977), directed by Martin Scorsese and co-starring Robert de Niro, or The King of Comedy (1983). He also starred in the comedy Arthur, the Golden Bachelor in 1981. This last role helped him regain popularity. As the 1990s arrived, Minnelli decided to focus on the small screen. He made several films for television such as Parallel lives , Let’s play a waltz or Jackie returns. In 2003 he made a guest appearance on the television series Arrested Development .

Forced by her weak health and by her emotional and physical ups and downs, Liza has undergone detoxification treatments and different operations on several occasions, even entering the Betty Ford Center sanatorium in 1985 due to alcohol and drug addiction problems. Despite everything, the charisma of the actress has allowed her to always be an optimistic and motivated person. She has been married four times. Together with her last husband, David Gest, she decided to adopt Serena, her only daughter.

His last appearance in the cinema was in 2010 with a brief cameo in the second film of the successful Sex and the City 2 series , where, at 64 years of age, he carried out a choreography and was able to boast of a stupendous physical condition.