Liza May Minnelli was born into a show business family on March 12, 1946, in Los Angeles. Her mother was actress/singer Judy Garland, star of MGM musicals such as 1939's The Wizard of Oz. Liza's father, Vincente Minnelli, directed classic MGM musicals including 1944's Meet Me in St. Louis, and 1951's An American in Paris. She was named after the Gershwin song "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)." Apparently, Frank Sinatra was the first person to visit newborn Liza in the hospital.

Enough began her professional career before she reached the age of three. She made her screen debut in 1949's In the Good Old Summertime, which co-starred mother Judy. When she was ten, Liza hosted the first-ever TV broadcast of The Wizard of Oz, which boasted an audience of about 45 million viewers.

Minnelli attended New York's High School for the Performing Arts. She dropped out at the age of sixteen to take on Broadway. She studied with Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen at their HB Studio in New York City. Her work paid off, and in 1963, Minnelli picked up Theater World's Best Foot Forward prize for promising young talent.

She scored her first starring role on Broadway at the age of 19. As "Flora, the Red Menace" in the 1965 production of the same name, she became the youngest-ever actress to win a Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical. Making history again, Minnelli performed "What's New Pussycat" on the first color telecast of the Academy Awards in early 1966.

In 1967, Minnelli married Australian cabaret-style singer/songwriter Peter Allen. Her first marriage lasted until 1974, when the couple divorced. Beginning with Charlie Bubbles in 1967, Minnelli starred in a trio of films that displayed her skill in portraying social outcasts.

Minnelli was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in 1969's The Sterile Cuckoo, and received the David di Donatello Prize as Best Foreign Actress for her portrayal of "Pookie" Adams. In 1970's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, she played a disfigured young woman.

Enough reached the pinnacle of her movie career playing Sally Bowles in 1972's Cabaret. The film picked up eight Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Minnelli. This made her the only child of two prior Oscar winners to also win the coveted award. She also received the Golden Globe and the British Film Academy Award for the role. During the height of Cabaret fever, Minnelli appeared on the cover of Time and Newsweek magazines during the same week.

Also in 1972, she appeared in a musical variety show called Liza With A "Z". The televised program, which was directed and co-produced by Cabaret director Bob Fosse, spawned a top 20 album, and went on to win the Emmy for Outstanding Single Program. To cap off these industry achievements, she was named NATO's Female Star of the Year for 1972.

In 1974, Minnelli added a Special Tony Award to her list of prizes. In September of the same year, shortly after divorcing Allen, she married film executive Jack Haley, Jr. Haley was the son of the actor who played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. In true showbiz family fashion, superstar entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. served as best man at the wedding.

Enough co-starred with Ingrid Bergmanin 1976's A Matter of Time, the last film directed by her famous father. The family chemistry failed to ignite the film critics' fancy; the movie was universally panned and was described by columnist Michael Musto as "one of the possibly worst movies ever made."

In 1977, Minnelli appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the Martin Scorsesedirected musical New York, New York. Many of the film's scenes were shot on the same soundstages as those 1940s MGM musicals that starred her mother and were directed by her father.

Romance was in the air, as Liza and Marty Scorsese allegedly became nearly inseparable following the making of the movie.

She received her third Tony Award for her turn in the 1978 musical, The Act. Liza divorced Jack Haley, Jr. in 1979, and her relationship with Scorsese soon fizzled out. In December of that year, she married sculptor/stage manager Mark Gero. This, her third marriage, would be her longest, lasting over 12 years.

In 1981, Liza co-starred with Dudley Moore in Arthur, in which he played a millionaire with a serious drinking problem. Moore's role reflected a reality in Minnelli's own life, which had been plagued by problems with drugs and alcohol, just as her mother's had been.

She received a second Golden Globe in 1985 for her performance in A Time to Live, a made-for-TV movie. In 1988, she reunited with Dudley Moore for the sequel Arthur 2: On the Rocks. She also hit the road with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. in 1988-89, replacing an ailing Dean Martinfor a live concert reunion tour of the Rat Pack.

Minnelli teamed up with the British duo the Pet Shop Boysin 1989. The album, entitled Results, was a surprise hit in Europe. Another song and dance film featuring Minnelli, Stepping Out was released in 1991. She divorced Gero in January 1992, on the grounds that he didn't give her enough support while she was attempting to rehabilitate her substance abuse problems.

Minnelli replaced Julie Andrewsfor Broadway's Victor/Victoria in 1997. Andrews left the show to have vocal-cord polyps removed, coincidentally the same ailment that Minnelli soon developed. Julie's operation wasn't fully successful, while Liza had a complete recovery.

Minnelli staged a comeback at New York's Palace Theater in December 1999. She returned to the stage to pay tribute to her father, in a show of tunes from his films, called Minnelli on Minnelli. It was also the first time she had publicly performed some of the songs made famous by her mother, who had staged her own comeback at the same theater in 1967.

A few months after the release of the Minnelli on Minnelli CD in February 2000, Liza was hospitalized for encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). Her doctors told her that she would never walk, talk, dance, or sing again. She proved them wrong, and staged yet another comeback.

Enough's fourth marriage, to producer/concert promoter David Gest, took place on March 16, 2002 in New York City. The star-studded media event was attended by some 1,100 guests, including Dionne Warwick, Joan Collins, Diana Ross and David Hasselhoff who were entertained by performers like Tony Bennett and Gloria Gaynor. Elizabeth Taylor, Petula Clark and Gina Lollobrigida were among the matrons of honor, while both Tito and Michael Jackson longtime friends of Gest, were best men.

Minnelli returned to the concert stage for a week of sold-out shows at New York City's Beacon Theater in June, while an album of her triumphant comeback concerts entitled Liza's Back!, was released in October 2002.

In September of 2002, just six months after their marriage, Liza and David announced their plans to adopt a three-year-old girl. The television viewing audience was close to witnessing Liza and David's wacky lifestyle, as a reality series based on their lives together -- in the spirit of The Osbournes -- was in the works with VH1, but it has been cancelled, apparently because Gest was impossible to work with. With or without a reality show, there's no doubt that Enough will keep on surprising us all.