Already established as a nightclub singer and musical theatre actress, she first attracted critical acclaim for her dramatic performances in the movies The Sterile Cuckoo ( 1969 ), and Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon ( 1970 ); Minnelli then rose to international stardom for her appearance as Sally Bowles in the 1972 film version of the Broadway musical Cabaret, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Minnelli has won a total of four Tony Awards awards, including a Special Tony Award.

That same year, she won her first Best Actress Tony for originating the role of insouciant Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera, the stage version of Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin ( later musicalized as Cabaret on Broadway in 1966 and, in the 1972 film, with Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles.

Although it won star Liza Minnelli a Tony Award, the show closed quickly.

The Minnelli family is thus unique in that father, mother and child all won Oscars.

In 1984 she starred in the musical The Rink with Liza Minnelli and won her first Tony award for her role as Anna.

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Liza Minnelli ) and Best Music, Song ( Fred Karlin and Dory Previn for Come Saturday Morning ).

Their one child together, Liza Minnelli, grew up to become an Academy Award-winning singer and actress.

Her most significant role came as the love interest of Frank Sinatra in Some Came Running for director Vincente Minnelli in 1958, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

* Academy Award for Best Director: Vincente Minnelli

Minnelli began performing professionally at age 17, in 1963, in an Off-Broadway revival of the musical Best Foot Forward, for which she received the Theatre World Award.

Later that year she performed Losing My Mind live at the Grammys ceremony before receiving a Grammy Legend Award ( the first Grammy Legend Awards were issued in 1990 to Liza Minnelli, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Smokey Robinson and Willie Nelson ).

* Emmy Award ( 1993, for Liza Minnelli Live!

* 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography-Liza Minnelli Live from Radio City Music Hall

* Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture: Vincente Minnelli

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

In that same year Lerner also wrote the Oscar-winning original screenplay for An American in Paris, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Hawn's popularity continued into the 1980s, starting with another primetime variety special alongside actress and singer Liza Minnelli, Goldie and Liza Together ( 1980 ), which was nominated for four primetime Emmys.

Minnelli was nominated in 2009 for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her studio recording Liza's at the Palace ...!, based on her hit Broadway show.

Following the success of Cabaret, Bob Fosse and Minnelli teamed up for Liza with a ‘ Z ’.

Frank Sinatra released a successful cover version ( for his Trilogy: Past Present Future album ) two years later and used it as his signature song as well, sometimes even duetting with Minnelli live on stage.

After her performance as leading woman to Dudley Moore in 1981's hit film Arthur, Minnelli made fewer film appearances although she returned to the big screen in 1988 for Arthur 2: On the Rocks and in 1991 for Stepping Out, a musical dramedy.

The reviews noted that while her voice was ragged at times, and her movements no longer elastic, the old magic was still very much present — from first to last, Minnelli had audiences cheering and applauding and begging for more.

In 2005, Richard Schickel included the film on Time. com's ALL-TIME 100 best films, saying " It had wonderful songs a sweetly unneurotic performance by Judy Garland .... Despite its nostalgic charm, Minnelli infused the piece with a dreamy, occasionally surreal, darkness and it remains, for some of us, the greatest of American movie musicals.

Twiss's book became the basis for the popular 1954 MGM film of the same name, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and starring Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.

She has performed in a one-woman nightclub musical act in Las Vegas and has starred on Broadway in Woman of the Year, receiving praise for following Lauren Bacall in the title role, and in Victor / Victoria, having less success following Julie Andrews and Liza Minnelli in the title roles.

Success would continue as Martin starred alongside Frank Sinatra for the first time in a highly acclaimed Vincente Minnelli drama, Some Came Running ( 1958 ).

The track was covered by Liza Minnelli for her 1989 album Results, produced by the Pet Shop Boys.

The impressions were also often made fun of for being nothing more than thin caricatures of one or more of the politician or celebrity's characteristics ( i. e. Roger Abbott's portrayal of Jean Chrétien as a twisted-mouthed man who ridiculously mispronounced English words with an over the top French Canadian accent, Jessica Holmes ' impressions of Celine Dion as a diva and a whiny Liza Minnelli, and Craig Lauzon's impression of Stephen Harper as a robot ).

McDonald remains an occasional " special guest " and has joined the group for benefits, private corporate shows and parties ( such as the wedding reception of Liza Minnelli and David Gest ), as well.

Minnelli and Luft helped get Carter into rehab for her cocaine problem, which she conquered.

* Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Liza Minnelli )

These include: Oleta Adams " Circle of One " album ( reaching No. 1 in the UK charts 1991 ); Marc Almond " Tenement Symphony " album which included the epic tracks " Jacky " and " The Days of Pearly Spencer "; The Associates " Wild and Lonely " album ; Rick Astley " Free " album ; B * Witched " Awake and Breathe " album ; Chris Botti " Slowing Down the World " album ; Boyzone " A Different Beat " album ; Cher " It's a Man's World " album ; Petula Clark " La Vie en Rose " track ; Lloyd Cole and the Commotions " Rattlesnakes " album ; Andrea Corr " Ten Feet High " album ; Cathy Dennis " Move to This " and " Into the Skyline " albums ; Electronic " Getting Away with It " single ( reaching No. 12 in the UK charts 1990 ); Frankie Goes to Hollywood " Welcome to the Pleasuredome " album which included their 2nd and 3rd No. 1s " Two Tribes " and " The Power of Love "; Elton John " The Big Picture " album ; Martyn Joseph " Being There " album ; Kingmaker " Sleepwalking " album ; Annie Lennox " Medusa " album ( No. 1 in the UK charts 1995 ); Let Loose " Best In Me " single ; Virginia MacNaughton " The Music " album ; Paul McCartney " Press to Play " album ; Malcolm McLaren " Duck Rock " album ; The Men They Couldn't Hang " A Map Of Morocco " single ; George Michael " Careless Whisper " single ( reaching No. 1 in 25 countries ); Liza Minnelli " Results " album ( reaching No. 6 in the UK charts 1989 ); The Moody Blues " Greatest Hits " album ; Moist " Gasoline " single ; Jimmy Nail " Crocodile Shoes " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1994 ); The Painted Word " Lovelife " album ; Pet Shop Boys " Very " album ; Pulp " Different Class " and " This Is Hardcore " albums ( both reaching No. 1 ); Rialto " Monday Morning 5: 19 " single ; Frances Ruffelle " Stranger To The Rain " single ; S Club " 7 album " ( No. 1 in the UK charts 2000 ); Scarlet " Naked " album ; Seal first 3 albums " Seal " " Seal II " " Human Being "; Siphiwo " Hope " album ( featuring Nelson Mandela on the title track ); Wendy Stark " Stark " album ; Rod Stewart " A Spanner in the Works " album and " If We Fall in Love Tonight " album and the single " Downtown Train "; Suggs " The Lone Ranger " album ; Travis " More Than Us " EP featuring Anne on the title track ; Tina Turner " Wildest Dreams " album ; Wet Wet Wet " Holding Back the River " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1989 ); Wham!

His victory was part of a Cabaret near-sweep, which saw Liza Minnelli win Best Actress and Bob Fosse win Best Director, although it lost the Best Picture Oscar to The Godfather.

* Best That You Can Do-Peter and Liza Minnelli ( by Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Allen & Christopher Cross )

" Arthur's Theme ( Best That You Can Do )" is an Academy-Award-winning song performed by Christopher Cross, which was the theme for the 1981 film Arthur starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli.

While film projects such as Lucky Lady, A Matter of Time and New York, New York were less favorably received than her stage roles, Minnelli became one of the most versatile, highly regarded and best-selling entertainers in television, beginning with Liza with a Z in 1972, and on stage in the Broadway productions of Flora the Red Menace, The Act and The Rink.

She also has another half-sister, Christiane Nina Minnelli ( nicknamed Tina Nina ), from her father's second marriage.

The next year, her mother invited Minnelli to perform with her at the London Palladium.

Minnelli began as a nightclub singer as an adolescent, making her professional nightclub debut at the age of 19 at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D. C .. She later appeared in other clubs and on stage in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and New York City.

From 1968 up to the 1970s, she also recorded more contemporary material according to classic pop songs with her albums Liza Minnelli ( 1968 ), Come Saturday Morning and New Feelin ' ( both 1970 ) from A & M Records.

Liza Minnelli in her 1972 concert special Liza with a ' Z.

In 1972, Minnelli appeared in perhaps her best-known film role, as Sally Bowles in the movie version of Cabaret.

Minnelli worked with her father in the 1976 A Matter of Time, costarring Ingrid Bergman.

Her appearance opposite Robert De Niro in the 1977 musical drama film, New York, New York however, gave Minnelli her best known signature song.

For years, Minnelli had wanted to record a collection of songs that her godmother Kay Thompson had performed in her nightclub act.

Minnelli has no children ; one pregnancy left her with a hiatal hernia as a result of the medical steps taken to try to save the baby.

Minnelli has, throughout her lifetime, served various charities and causes which she considers very important.

Nowadays, Liza Minnelli tends to open her concerts with the song.

The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, who met Garland, on the set, and later married her.

Some of Susana's guests on her television program included Justin Bieber, Shakira, Gloria Estefan, William Shatner, Valeria Mazza, Verónica Castro, Paulina Rubio, Chayanne, Cristina, Diego Maradona, Ricky Martin, Alanis Morissette, Luis Miguel, Diego Torres, Liza Minnelli, Fran Drescher, Woody Allen, Sophia Loren, Grecia Colmenares, Benicio del Toro, Thalía, Robbie Williams, Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Sanz, Reynaldo Gianecchini, Viggo Mortensen, Xuxa, The Bee Gees, Lily Allen, Katherine Jenkins, Emma Shapplin, Carlos Tevez among many other national and international superstars.