Sandra Bernhard

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Sandra Bernhard
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Bernhard at the Daryl Roth Theater in New York City, 2006
Born (1955-06-06) June 6, 1955 (age 68) [1]
Education Saguaro High School
Occupations
  • Actress
  • comedian
  • singer
  • author
Years active1977–present
Known forNancy Bartlett Thomas in Roseanne and Judy Kubrak in Pose
PartnerSara Switzer (2000–present)
Children1
Website sandrabernhard.com

Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy, where she often critiqued celebrity culture and political figures.

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She is perhaps best known for portraying Nancy Bartlett Thomas on the ABC sitcom Roseanne from the fourth season (1991) to the end of the show in 1997. She played Nurse Judy Kubrak in the FX drama series Pose . She is number 96 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time.

Early life

Bernhard was born June 6, 1955, [1] in Flint, Michigan, the daughter of Jeanette (née LaZebnik) and proctologist Jerome Bernhard. [2] Her parents raised her as a Conservative Jew. [3]

In 1973 she traveled to Israel and stayed for 7 months at Kibbutz Kfar Menahem with her friend Daniel Chick. She later returned to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. [4]

She has three older brothers: Dan, David and Mark. [2] Her family moved to Arizona when she was 10. [5] She attended Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, graduating in 1973. [6]

Career

Bernhard became a staple at The Comedy Store. [7] [8] As her popularity as a comedian grew, she was cast as a supporting player on The Richard Pryor Show in 1977. [9] [10] Guest appearances on evening talk shows followed. Her big break came in 1983 when she was cast by Martin Scorsese to star as stalker/kidnapper Masha in the film The King of Comedy , for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. [11] [12] She was a frequent guest on David Letterman's NBC program Late Night with David Letterman , making 28 appearances starting in 1983. [13]

She began performing her first one-woman show, I'm Your Woman, in 1985, and an album version was released. [14] She appeared in a variety of small television roles throughout the 1980s while crafting her stand-up routine into a more performance art-oriented show.[ citation needed ] She launched an off-Broadway one-woman show called Without You, I'm Nothing, With You, I'm Not Much Better in 1988, which played at the Orpheum Theatre. In 1990, it was turned into a film and a double album of the same title. [15] [16] The film was mostly shot on location in 1989 in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel.[ citation needed ]

During the run of Without You, I'm Nothing, With You, I'm Not Much Better Bernhard appeared with her then good friend (and rumored lover) Madonna on a 1988 episode of Late Night with David Letterman. The two alluded to their romantic relationship and staged a sexy confrontation; the appearance received much publicity. They continued to be friends for several years, with Bernhard making an appearance in Madonna's film Truth or Dare . [17] [18] [19] The friendship ended in 1992. [20] [21]

In 1991, Bernhard began playing Nancy Bartlett on the hit sitcom Roseanne . She appeared in 33 episodes between 1991 and 1997, and was one of the first actresses to portray an openly bisexual recurring character on American television. [22] [23] [24] In September 1992, Bernhard did a nude pictorial for Playboy . [25] She hosted the USA Network's Reel Wild Cinema for two seasons beginning in 1995. [26] [27] She continued acting in mostly independent films, TV guest roles, and forays into mainstream films such as Hudson Hawk and Dallas Doll . In 1991, she released her first studio album, Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part One) . In 1995, she briefly appeared as a guest in the "Jerk" episode of the animated talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast . In 1996, she guest-starred on an episode of Highlander: The Series called "Dramatic License", where she played a romance novelist writing about the life of the main character.

She appeared as herself on Will & Grace , in an episode where the title characters spuriously bid on Bernhard's Manhattan apartment in an attempt to become friendly with her. When their ruse is exposed, Bernhard rants at them, with the sounds of a blender (she was having a smoothie made) blotting out supposed obscenities. She briefly returned as herself two years later.[ citation needed ]

Bernhard returned to Broadway in 1998 with the show I'm Still Here... Damn It! , recorded for a live comedy album. She was pregnant at the time, and gave birth to daughter Cicely Yasin Bernhard on July 4, 1998. [28] [29] She returned to New York in 2006 with the off-Broadway show Everything Bad & Beautiful . The CD of the show, released by indie label Breaking Records, was lauded as one of her best. [30] That year she also hosted the first season of the reality competition show The Search for the Funniest mother in America on Nick at Nite. 2007 saw the debut of her one-woman show Plan B from Outer Space, and the inclusion of her Hanukkah-themed song "Miracle of Lights", which she co-wrote with Mitchell Kaplan, in the Breaking Records compilation album Breaking For the Holidays. She toured Plan B through 2008 and performed "Miracle of Lights" on some morning shows in New York. [31] [32]

Bernhard hosting The Queer Edge with Jack E. Jett Jack E. Jett & Co Host Sandra Bernhard.jpg
Bernhard hosting The Queer Edge with Jack E. Jett

Bernhard was a featured guest singer with children's artist Dan Zanes on the Family Dance album's "Thrift Shop". [33] In an interview with Howard Stern, she revealed that she was originally offered the role of Miranda Hobbes on the TV show Sex and the City , but opted out owing to the "terrible" original script and small paycheck. [34] In 2013, it was announced that she would join the cast of ABC Family's Switched at Birth with Glee's Max Adler, where she would play an art professor on the season 3 opener in January 2014. [35] In 2015, she began hosting a radio show, Sandyland, on Sirius XM's Radio Andy. [36]

In 2015, she made her first appearance as the recurring character of Joedth ("Joe") in season 4 of 2 Broke Girls . From 2018 until 2021, she played Nurse Judy on FX's Pose , a show based on queer and trans ball culture in Manhattan inspired by the documentary Paris Is Burning . [37]

Public controversies

In 1995, while serving as a guest panelist on the Comedy Central talk show Politically Incorrect , Bernhard became engaged in an argument with fellow panelist, conservative political commentator John Lofton. Bernhard then stood up and spat at Lofton and exclaimed, "If I had you, you’d be an abortion." [38]

In August 2006, Bernhard served as the spokesperson in a commercial for Make-up Art Cosmetics (MAC). In the commercial, promoting PlushGlass lipgloss, she referred to someone who might not approve of her outspokenness as a "little freaked out, intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped bitch." MAC edited the line from the commercial to avoid unintentionally offending some of its customers. [39]

In September 2008, she warned vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin that she would be gang-raped by her "big black brothers" if she visited Manhattan. Palin had a campaign stop planned in New York City at the time. [40] [41] [42]

In November 2020, during an interview with Mariah Carey, Naomi Campbell called out Bernhard for her comments about Carey and Black men in her 1998 comedy show I'm Still Here… Damn It! In the show, Bernhard disparaged Carey's Black ancestry, saying "She's trying to backtrack on our asses by acting real nigger-ish there at the Royalton Hotel suite with Puff Daddy and all the greasy, chain-wearing Black men." [43]

Personal life

Bernhard identifies as bisexual and is a strong supporter of LGBT rights. [44] [45] On July 4, 1998, she gave birth to a daughter, [46] whom she raised with Sara Switzer, her partner of over 20 years. [47] [48] [49] Bernhard was also in a relationship with Venezuelan actress Patricia Velasquez. [50]

Music

Bernhard performs classic pop music, jazz, and blues tunes. She has released several albums (combinations of music and comedy).[ citation needed ]

Books

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1980 Shogun Assassin Voice over in English dub
1981 Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams Girl Nut
1983 The King of Comedy Masha National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
1984 The House of God Angel Dutton
1985 Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird Grouch Diner WaitressCameo
1986 The Whoopee Boys Extra (uncredited)
1988 Casual Sex? Extra (uncredited)
Track 29 Nurse Stein
1989 Heavy Petting HerselfDocumentary
1990 Without You I'm Nothing Herself (also writer)
1991 Madonna: Truth or Dare HerselfDocumentary
Hudson Hawk Minerva Mayflower
1992 Inside Monkey Zetterland Imogene
1994 Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady Herself
Dallas Doll Dallas Adair
1995 Unzipped HerselfDocumentary
One Hundred and One Nights La première quêteuse
The Reggae MovieHerselfDocumentary
Catwalk Herself
1997Lover GirlMarci Guerra/'Angel'
The ApocalypseJ.T. Wayne
Plump Fiction Bunny Roberts
1998 An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn Ann Glover
ExposéJanet
Wrongfully Accused Dr. Fridley
Somewhere in the City Betty
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died Sandy Sands/Professional Mourner and Stripper
2000One Hell of a GuyGodVoice
Playing Mona Lisa Bibi CarlsonAudience Choice Award for Best Feature Stony Brook Film Festival
Dinner Rush Jennifer Freely
2001 Zoolander HerselfCameo appearance
2003The Grumpy BugNarratorVoice
2004 The N-Word HerselfDocumentary
The Easter Egg AdventureClaralyne CluckVoice
2005Searching for Bobby DSherri Dansen
2009 Dare Dr. Serena Mohr
2010 See You in September Charlotte
2011Looking for LennyHerselfDocumentary
2024 Babes Completed

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1977 The Richard Pryor Show Featured Performer4 episodes
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents KarenEpisode: "Night Caller"
1990 Pee-Wee's Playhouse RhondaEpisode: "Camping Out"
1991–1997, & 2018 Roseanne Nancy Bartlett Recurring role
1992Sandra After Dark, with Your Hostess, Sandra BernhardHerself (also co-executive producer)TV movie
1992–1993The A-ListHerself/host1 episode
1994–1996Reel Wild CinemaHerself/host22 episodes
1995 Space Ghost Coast to Coast Herself1 episode
Freaky Friday Frieda DebnyTV movie
The Larry Sanders Show Herself2 episodes
1996 Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Voice, episode: "A Journey for the Betterment of People"
The Late Shift TV movie
Highlander: The Series Carolyn MarshEpisode: "Dramatic License"
1997 Superman: The Animated Series Ms. Gsptlsnz Voice, episode: "Mxyzpixilated"
Ally McBeal Caroline Poop2 episodes
Spider-Man Sarah BakerVoice, episode: "Partners"
1998–1999 Hercules CassandraVoice, main role
1999 Sandra Bernhard - I'm Still Here..Damn It! Herself (also writer)TV movie
2000 The Sopranos HerselfEpisode: "D-Girl"
2001–2002 Will & Grace 2 episodes
2001Sandra Bernhard: Giving Them LipTV movie
2001–2003The Sandra Bernhard ExperienceHerself/hostUnknown episodes
2003 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Priscilla ChaneyEpisode: "Desperate"
Girlfriends MarciaEpisode: "And Baby Makes Four"
2004Silver LakeSheila FontanaUnsold pilot
The Grumpy BugNarratorVoice
Whoopi's Littleburg The Macaroni Lady1 episode
2005 Crossing Jordan Roz Framus2 episodes
The L Word Charlotte Birch5 episodes
2005–2006 The Queer Edge Herself/co-host26 episodes
2007 Las Vegas Margo PoonEpisode: "The Burning Bedouin"
The New Adventures of Old Christine AudreyEpisode: "Strange Bedfellows"
2009 Head Case Herself1 episode
2011 Roseanne's Nuts Herself1 episode
Hot in Cleveland NanEpisode: "Beards"
2012 Family Guy HerselfVoice, episode: "Ratings Guy"
GCB Debby Horowitz1 episode
DTLA Carla3 episodes
2013 The Neighbors Ms. Porsche1 episode
2014 Switched at Birth Prof. Teresa Ledarsky4 episodes
You're the Worst Herself1 episode
2014–2015 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Darlene Linetti3 episodes
2015 2 Broke Girls Joedth5 episodes
2016 Difficult People Lilith Feigenbaum1 episode
2017 Broad City Brenda2 episodes
2018–2021 Pose Judy Kubrak13 episodes
2018 American Horror Story: Apocalypse HannahEpisode: "Sojourn"
2019 Sweetbitter Maddie Glover1 episode
2022 American Horror Story: NYC Fran6 episodes
2024 So Help Me Todd Attorney Belinda TuttleEpisode: "The Queen of Courts"

Short subjects

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996Museum of LoveKitty
2003The Third DateOla
2006Twenty Dollar DrinksStar

Awards

YearNominated workAwardCategoryResult
1983 The King of Comedy NSFC Awards Won
1991 Hudson Hawk Golden Raspberry Awards Nominated
1997 Highlander: The Series OFTA Awards
  • Best Guest Actress in a Syndicated Series
2002Herself GLAAD Media Awards Won
2006 Philadelphia QFest Awards
  • Artistic Achievement Award

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