Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters (b. 1948) is an award winning actress and singer of stage and screen.
Peters has worked with the Muppets twice, guest starring on Episode 212 of The Muppet Show, and as a guest star when Kermit guest hosted The Tonight Show in 1979; Animal overtakes part of the interview. During her appearance on The Tonight Show with the Muppets, she spoke about how she and Vincent Price often meet each other in the supermarket, and that she'd had a Muppet-themed birthday party with an orangutan.
In a Broadway.com "Ask a Star" video,Broadway.com "Ask a Star". 11:36. October 27, 2009. Peters responded to a user-submitted question about who her favorite Muppet to work with was. She cites Kermit and said the Muppets were so real, "like animals or puppies," she had to refrain from kissing them so as not to leave lipstick on them, saying "You try being near a Muppet and not kiss it!" (Kermit was extremely cautious about allowing Peters to kiss him on The Tonight Show.)
She is one of only two celebrities to actually sing one of their songs ("Just One Person") from The Muppet Show on a Muppet Show album. The other was Peter Sellers ("A Gypsy's Violin"), with both songs appearing on "The Muppet Show 2" album.
She has won two Tony awards as Best Actress in a musical: in 1986 for Song and Dance and in 1999 for a revival of Annie Get Your Gun. Her other stage credits include On the Town, Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George, and The Goodbye Girl (with Martin Short).
Film credits include Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, The Jerk and Pennies From Heaven (both with Steve Martin), Annie, Heartbeeps (with Andy Kaufman), and Mel Brooks' Slient Movie.
Peters' animation credits include voicing Rita on Animaniacs, as well as Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas. Television credits include Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Shelley Duvall's Fairie Tale Theatre, The Carol Burnett Show, and hosting Saturday Night Live.
In the late 1990s, Peters and Mary Tyler Moore co-created "Broadway Barks," a charity organization for the adoption of shelter animals.
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==External links==
*Official Site
*Internet Broadway Database
*IMDb
*Broadway Barks website
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