In an award-winning career that has encompassed TV, film, stage and concert work around the globe, Betty Buckley is best known as the quintessential musical theatre actress. Dubbed “The Voice of Broadway,” the multitalented artist is one of a precious few who helped change the face of musical theatre acting with her roles that run the gamut from the wife of an early U.S. President (1776) through a critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-nominated performance as deluded, silent-screen star Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Whether she’s breaking your heart with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Memory” in her Tony-winning turn as Grazable in “CATS”, bringing down the house with “The Writing on the Wall” in “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” or simultaneously frightening and moving an entire audience as religious fanatic in the cult-classic musical “Carrie”, a Betty Buckley performance is one that remains indelibly etched into one’s mind and soul. In addition to her contributions to the stage, Buckley has also released 16 solo albums having been nominated twice for a Grammies. On television, she starred in “Eight is Enough,” also had a recurring role in the gritty HBO series “Oz” and in 2012 she gained a new set of fans for her role on “Pretty Little Liars.” Buckley’s film career includes roles in “Carrie,” “Tender Mercies,” “Frantic,” “Wyatt Earp” and “The Happening.” In 2012 Buckley was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.
