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Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and her second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli.
Minnelli's first film appearance was in the 1949-released film In the Good Old Summertime, starring her mother and herself at age 14 months. Liza started performing aged of sixteen, in 1963, on Broadway, in the play Best Foot Forward, for which she received good notices. The next year, her mother invited her to perform with her in London at the London Palladium. The audience loved her, and her musical career was born. She returned to Broadway at nineteen, and won a Tony Award for The Sterile Cuckoo. The movie version garnered her her first Academy Award nomination. In 1972, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Cabaret. Minnelli has the distinction of being the only Academy Award winner whose parents are both Academy Award winners. Most recently she has appeared as a recurring character on the television program Arrested Development. She has also won an Emmy Award.
Minnelli, like her mother, is known for her powerful vocal style, as in her trademark songs, "Cabaret" and "Theme from New York, New York." (Minnelli's original preceded Frank Sinatra's successful cover version, for his "Trilogy" album, by two years.)
Like her mother, Minnelli has had several failed marriages, and has also been linked romantically to director Martin Scorsese, actor Peter Sellers, pianist Billy Stritch, and actor Desi Arnaz Jr. Her husbands have have been:
Peter Allen (real name Peter Allen Woolnough) (March 3, 1967 – 1972). Allen, who died of complications from AIDS in 1992, was Judy Garland's protegé in the mid 1960s.
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