Texas-born actress Betty Buckley decided upon a theatrical career when, at a very early age, she was taken by her mother to a Fort Worth production of The Pajama Game. A trained singer and dancer, Ms. Buckley made her professional bow on the musical stage, reaching Broadway at age 22 as Mrs. Thomas Jefferson in the original production of 1776. Additional Broadway credits include two seasons' worth of Pippin (73-75), three years in Cats (82-85) (for which she won a Tony Award), and a healthy run in 1985's The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Betty's first film was Carrie (76), in which she played the tough girl's gym coach whose punishment of Carrie's tormentors set the plot in motion. One year after Carrie, she replaced the late Diana Hyland on the popular TV "dramedy" Eight is Enough, playing the stepmother of a eight-kid brood (at the time, she was two years younger than the oldest kid!) Always on the lookout for an opportunity to sing, Betty took a fraction of her salary to play a Tammy Wynette-style country western star in 1983's Tender Mercies. In 1995, amidst a flurry of press attention, Betty Buckley successfully took over for Glenn Close as "Norma Desmond" in the Broadway production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard (Betty had already scored a hit in the London production).
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Five Time Champion
Actor |
2010 | |||
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The Happening
Actor |
2008 | |||
| 2004 | ||||
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Wishbone: Hunchdog of Notre Dame
Producer |
2004 | |||
| 2003 | ||||
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Noon Blue Apples
Actor |
2002 | |||
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Magnificent Lovemaking: Seven Dimensions of Sexual Connection
Executive Producer |
2001 | |||
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The Operator
Producer |
2000 | |||
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Simply Irresistible
Actor |
1999 | |||
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Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley
Participant |
1998 | |||
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Critical Choices
Actor |
1996 | |||
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Betrayal of Trust
Actor |
1994 | |||
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Last Time Out
Actor |
1994 | |||
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Wyatt Earp
Actor |
1994 | |||
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Rain Without Thunder
Actor |
1993 | |||
| 1992 | ||||
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Babycakes
Actor |
1989 | |||
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Another Woman
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Frantic
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Roses Are for the Rich
Actor |
1987 | |||
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Wild Thing
Actor |
1987 | |||
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Evergreen
Actor |
1985 | |||
| 1984 | ||||
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Tender Mercies
Actor |
1983 | |||
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Carrie
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Wishbone: The Impawssible Dream
Producer |
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