Liza Minnelli

The much-loved actor, dancer, and singer, whose life really has been a cabaret old chum, turns 75 tomorrow, March 12 2021. The daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, Minnelli has had an award-laden, dramatic life in and away from show business. She won the best actress Oscar in 1973 for playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret (1972), and an Emmy the same year for Liza With a “Z”: A Concert for Television. She has also won four Tony Awards, and has been nominated twice for Grammy Awards (a win would accord her EGOT status). Like her mother Judy Garland, Minnelli has battled drug and alcohol addiction, has been much married (like her mother, to a gay man), and—like her mother—is a cherished gay icon. She has battled many physical ailments, such as double pneumonia, viral encephalitis, two hip replacements, three miscarriages and a knee operation.