Soloist · Sydney 2016
Betty
Buckley
Betty Buckley, who has been called “The Voice of Broadway,” is one of theatre’s most respected and legendary leading ladies. She is an actress/singer whose career spans theatre, film, television and concert halls around the world. She was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame for 2012.
Betty Buckley won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS. She received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in TRIUMPH OF LOVE, and an Olivier Award nomination for her critically acclaimed interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s SUNSET BOULEVARD, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.
Her other Broadway credits include 1776, PIPPIN, SONG AND DANCE, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD and CARRIE. Off-Broadway credits include the world premiere of Horton Foote’s THE OLD FRIENDS for which she received a Drama Desk Nomination in 2014, WHITE’S LIES, Lincoln Center’s ELEGIES, the original NYSF production of EDWIN DROOD, THE EROS TRILOGY, JUNO’S SWAN and GETTING MY ACT TOGETHER AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD. Regional credits include THE PERFECTIONIST, GYPSY, THE THREEPENNY OPERA, CAMINO REAL, BUFFALO GAL, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, THE OLD FRIENDS at Houston’s Alley Theatre and GREY GARDENS at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY. In London she starred in PROMISES, PROMISES for which she was nominated for An Evening Standard Award and in 2013 the British premiere of DEAR WORLD.
Her films include her debut in Brian de Palma’s screen version of Stephen King’s CARRIE, Bruce Beresford’s TENDER MERCIES, Roman Polanski’s FRANTIC, Woody Allen’s ANOTHER WOMAN, Lawrence Kasden’s WYATT EARP and M. Night Shyamalan’s THE HAPPENING.
On television, Buckley appeared in THE PACIFIC for HBO and twice on the Kennedy Center Honors. She also starred for three seasons in the HBO series OZ and as Abby Bradford in the hit series EIGHT IS ENOUGH. She has appeared as a guest star in numerous television series, miniseries and films for television including EVERGREEN, ROSES FOR THE RICH, the CBS series WITHOUT A TRACE, LAW & ORDER: SVU for NBC, ABC Family’s PRETTY LITTLE LIARS and HBO’s GETTING ON.
Buckley tours in concert worldwide with her ensemble of musicians and recently was featured in the Royal Albert Hall concert of FOLLIES in celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s 85th birthday. She has recorded 16 CD’s, among them BOOTLEG: BOARDMIXES FROM THE ROAD, QUINTESSENCE and BETTY BUCKLEY 1967 and the Grammy Nominated STARS AND THE MOON, BETTY BUCKLEY LIVE AT THE DONMAR. Her CD “Ah, Men! The Boys of Broadway” was released by Palmetto Records in August 2012.
Her most recent recording GHOSTLIGHT produced by T Bone Burnett was released in September, 2014 also on Palmetto Records.
She received her second Grammy Nomination for the audio book THE DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE.
For over forty years Ms. Buckley has been a teacher of scene study and song interpretation, giving workshops in Manhattan and various universities and performing arts conservatories around the country. She has been a faculty member in the theatre department of the University of Texas at Arlington and currently teaches at the T. Schreiber Studio in New York City at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX.
In April of 2009, Ms. Buckley received the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Theatre and was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in 2007.