Liza Minnelli

Her personal life was eventful; she married Australian singer and entertainer to Peter Allen in 1967. This marriage lasted seven years and the couple divorced in 1974.

She married Jack Haley, Jr., a producer and director, in 1974. His father, Jack Haley, was Garland's co-star in ‘The Wizard of Oz’. This marriage ended in a divorce in April 1979.

She married Mark Geo, a sculptor and stage manager, in 1979. She suffered three miscarriages during this marriage. The couple divorced in 1992.

Liza Minnelli was born on March 12, 1946, in Hollywood, California, to famous parents, singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli.

She attended New York City's High School of Performing Arts and Chadwick School. She attended Scarsdale High School for one year before starring in the production ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’.

She grew up visiting studios, sound stages and observing the film-making process. At the age of three, she made her first film appearance along with her mother in the 1949 musical ‘In the Good Old Summertime’.

She was an apprentice at the Cape Cod Melody Tent., Massachusetts in 1961. She appeared in the chorus of ‘Flower Drum Song’ and played the part of Muriel in ‘Take Me Along’.

In 1963, she began professionally performing at the age of seventeen in an off- Broadway revival of the musical ‘Best Foot Forward’. For this performance she received the Theatre World award.

Her career as a live performer took off in the following three years and she recorded several albums. Notable among them were ‘Capitol Records: Liza’, ‘It Amazes Me’ and ‘There is a Time’.

Her first credited film role was in the 1967 movie ‘Charlie Bubbles’; the film was nterest’ in Albert Finney’s only film as director and star.

For a decade from 1968 she again went on a successful recording spree. Her popular numbers like ‘Liza Minnelli’, ‘Come Saturday Morning’ and ‘New Feelin' were released by A&M Records.

Her role as Sally Bowles, the floundering nightclub singer, in the musical ‘Cabaret’ in 1972 was highly acclaimed. For her role, she won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for the Best Actress in a Leading Role.