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Betty Buckley

Betty Buckley, Tony award winning American theatre, Film, TV star and singer, was born on Big Spring, Texas and brought up in Fort Worth. She is the daughter of Betty Bob, a dancer and a journalist and Ernest Lynn Buckley, a retired lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force and former dean of University of Texas at Arlington and South Dakota State University. When she was a student at Texas Christian University she won the title "Miss Fort Worth" in 1966 and she was the runner up in the Miss Texas contest. After she got her degree from Texas Christian University she worked as a reporter for the Fort Worth Newspaper.

Buckley made her Broadway debut in 1776 in 1969 and has been called "The Voice of Broadway" by New York Magazine. Her rendition of "Memory" in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats established her reputation. She is perhaps best known for the 1977��"81 TV dramedy Eight is Enough. She joined the show in its second season when the original star, Diana Hyland, died after the first four episodes of season one. Hyland's character (Joan Bradford) died, and Buckley was cast as the widower's new romantic interest, Sandra Sue Abbott (nicknamed Abby), who would become stepmother of the eight children to which the series' title refers.

Buckley also appeared in the original movie version of Carrie in 1976. She played Miss Collins, Carrie's gym teacher; in 1987, she appeared as Margaret White in the musical adaptation of the film. In 1977, she recorded an uncredited solo on the song "Walking in Space," in the movie Hair.

She played the role of a country singer in Bruce Beresford's film Tender Mercies (1982), in which she sang the song "Over You."

She also appeared in the Woody Allen film Another Woman (1988) and in Roman Polanski's Frantic (1988). In 2001��"03, she played a role in seasons 4��"6 of the HBO series Oz. She also has guest-starred in a number of television series, including Without a Trace, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Monk. She guest-starred in a Christmas special of the TV series Remember WENN, in which she sang "You Make It Christmas." In 2006 she was cast as the family matriarch Iva March/Nora Walker in the unseen pilot for "Brothers and Sisters," with the role ultimately going to Sally Field.

Buckley sang "Memory" from Cats at the Kennedy Center Honors in December 2006 as part of the tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber. In 2007, Buckley appeared with Quintessence at Lincoln Center in its Great American Songbook series.

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Betty Buckley: Stars and the Moon: Live at the Donmar

Read "Stars and the Moon: Live at the Donmar" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Betty Buckley has a fabulous career going, starring in films, TV and musicals beginning with her 1969 Broadway debut in the show 1776. Along the way she picked up a prestigious Tony for her role in Cats. In her debut for the label, Concord Records has put to disk a live performance before what sounds like a large audience at the Donmar Warehouse in London, backed by her long time musical director, excellent pianist Kenny Werner. Although billed as a ...

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Betty Buckley when the Songs End, There Are Always Tales to Tell

Betty Buckley when the Songs End, There Are Always Tales to Tell

Source: Michael Ricci

Betty Buckley taught a master class in what it is like to be a Broadway diva at Feinsteins at Loews Regency on Tuesday evening. And yes, it is hard work.

This deep-dish autobiographical show, Broadway by Request, which began a one-month run at the club, portrays the job as strenuous, brutally competitive labor in which every triumph is countered with rejection, disappointment and self-doubt. Nerves of steel are recommended.

As Ms. Buckley reaches into a silver bucket, plucks out random ...

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Betty Buckley with Quintessence featuring Kenny Werner @ The Blue Note May 30-June 4

Betty Buckley with Quintessence featuring Kenny Werner @ The Blue Note May 30-June 4

Source: All About Jazz

BLUE NOTE JAZZ CLUB NEW YORK presents BETTY BUCKLEY and QUINTESSENCE featuring KENNY WERNER, piano

EXCLUSIVE ONE WEEK ENGAGEMENT MAY 30 - JUNE 4

World class singer returns to NYC to make her New York jazz club debut!

BLUE NOTE NEW YORK (131 West 3rd Street, just off 6th Avenue) will present Tony Award winner and world class singer BETTY BUCKLEY in her New York jazz club debut for a ...

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2001

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2001

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