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Liza May Minnelli (born March 12 , 1946 in Los Angeles, California ) is an Academy Award -winning American actress and singer. She is the daughter of legendary entertainer Judy Garland and her second husband, acclaimed film director Vincente Minnelli (who was of Italian and French descent). EARLY CAREER Minnelli's first film appearance was at the age of three in the final scene of the 1949 musical '' In The Good Old Summertime '', starring her mother and Van Johnson . Audiences adored her as the "chunky little ball of energy". Minnelli started performing at age 16, in 1963, in an Off-Broadway revival of the musical ''Best Foot Forward'', for which she received good notices. The next year, her mother invited Minnelli to perform with her at the London Palladium . The audience loved her, launching her musical career. She returned to Broadway at 19, and won a 1965 Tony Award for '' Flora The Red Menace ''. Minnelli would also receive Tony Awards for ''The Act'' in 1978 and a special Tony in 1974. She was nominated in 1984 for '' The Rink '' but lost to her costar, Chita Rivera . FILM AND TELEVISION The Film '' The Sterile Cuckoo '' (1969), in which Minnelli starred as a love-seeking teenage misfit, garnered the young actress her first Academy Award nomination. In 1972, Minnelli won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sally Bowles in the movie version of '' Cabaret '', along with Joel Grey who won an Oscar reprising his role from the original Broadway production (that of the Emcee). Minnelli has the distinction of being one of the few Academy Award winners whose Parent s are both Academy Award nominees. She has also won an Emmy Award for the 1972 TV special ''Liza with a Z''. Minnelli received a 1990 Grammy Legend Award. She received Golden Globe Awards for '' Cabaret '' and for the TV movie ''A Time to Live.'' 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 version of the latter, for the film in which she was a co-star with Robert DeNiro , preceded Frank Sinatra 's successful cover version (for his ''Trilogy'' album), by two years. LATER CAREER Following her 2002 wedding to David Gest , Minnelli and Gest signed with the American cable network VH1 to star in their own Reality Series , but production of the series was cancelled at the last minute. In 2004 and 2005 she appeared as a recurring guest star on the critically acclaimed TV Sitcom '' Arrested Development '' as the lover of sexually and socially awkward Buster Bluth. On January 1, 2006, she sang " New York, New York " at the second inauguration of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg . Other famous performances were at the 1978 Studio 54 party honoring New York City's revival, at which a guest was Mayor Ed Koch ; the reopening of the Statue Of Liberty on July 4, 1986; and at a 2001 New York Mets baseball game that was the metro area's first major sporting event after the September 11 Attacks . MARRIAGES Like her mother, Minnelli has had several marriages. She also has been linked romantically to director Martin Scorsese , actor Peter Sellers , pianist Billy Stritch, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov , and actor Desi Arnaz Jr . Her husbands have been:
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