Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the
Goddess of Pop,
she has won an
Academy Award, a
Grammy Award, an
Emmy Award, three
Golden Globes and a
Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in film, music and television. She is the only person in history to have received all of these awards. Cher began her career as a backup singer and later came to prominence as one half of the
pop rock duo
Sonny & Cher with the success of their song "
I Got You Babe" in 1965. She subsequently established herself as a solo recording artist, and became a television star in 1971 with
The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, a variety show for which she won a Golden Globe. A well received performance in the film
Silkwood earned her a nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 1983. In the following years, Cher starred in a string of hit films
including
Mask,
The Witches of Eastwick, and
Moonstruck, for which she won the
Academy Award for Best Actress of 1987.
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