Shirley MacLaine

Acting · 3.4 popularity

Age

Movies

130

Born: April 24, 1934
From: Richmond, Virginia, USA
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Biography

Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress, singer, author, activist, and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, headstrong, and eccentric women, MacLaine has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning seven decades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards. Born in Richmond, Virginia, MacLaine made her acting debut as a teenager with minor roles in the Broadway musicals Oklahoma! and The Pajama Game. Following minor appearances as an understudy in various other productions, MacLaine made her film debut with Alfred Hitchcock's black comedy The Trouble with Harry (1955), winning the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. She rose to prominence with starring roles in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Some Came Running (1958), Ask Any Girl (1959), The Apartment (1960), The Children's Hour (1961), Two for the Seesaw (1962), Irma la Douce (1963), and Sweet Charity (1969). A six time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment (1983). Her other prominent films include The Turning Point (1977), Being There (1979), Madame Sousatzka (1988), Steel Magnolias (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Evening Star (1996), Bewitched (2005), In Her Shoes (2005), Valentine's Day (2010), and The Little Mermaid (2018). MacLaine has been the recipient of many honorary awards. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1995, and Kennedy Center Honor in 2013 for her contribution to American culture, through performing arts. In 1998, she was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Apart from acting, MacLaine has written numerous books regarding the subjects of metaphysics, spirituality, and reincarnation, as well as a best-selling memoir, Out on a Limb (1983).

Works

130 films

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

20137.2

The Apartment

19608.2

Noelle

20196.6

Around the World in 80 Days

19566.7

Ocean's Eleven

19606.4

Valentine's Day

20105.9

Rumor Has It...

20055.7

Steel Magnolias

19897.2

In Her Shoes

20056.2

Terms of Endearment

19837.1

Bewitched

20055.1

Defending Your Life

19916.9

Irma la Douce

19637.4

Guarding Tess

19946.0

Two Mules for Sister Sara

19706.9

Cannonball Run II

19845.4

Wide-Awake

20125.8

Being There

19797.6

The Trouble with Harry

19557.0

The Last Word

20176.6

The Children's Hour

19617.7

Get Bruce!

19996.5

Postcards from the Edge

19906.6

The Little Mermaid

20185.0

The Best of So Graham Norton

2004

Sweet Charity

19696.9

Bernie

20126.6

Closing the Ring

20076.2

Mrs. Winterbourne

19967.2

Forever Hollywood

19998.3

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

19936.3

Waiting for the Light

19906.7

Gambit

19667.0

Woman Times Seven

19676.3

The Evening Star

19966.0

What a Way to Go!

19647.1

These Old Broads

20016.3

Artists and Models

19556.7

Wild Oats

20166.1

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

My Geisha

19626.5

Used People

19925.8

Commitment to Life

2023

Some Came Running

19587.0

The Sheepman

19586.9

The Celluloid Closet

19967.2

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

20177.5

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

19646.1

That's Dancing!

19856.9

Elsa & Fred

20145.9

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

20086.0

Vittorio D.

20096.3

American Dreamer

20226.0

Can-Can

19606.7

Carolina

20035.8

Ask Any Girl

19596.5

Coco Chanel

20086.6

All in a Night's Work

19616.0

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

19653.8

The Matchmaker

19587.0

The Turning Point

19776.5

Rat Pack

20229.0

Lucy Boomer

2026

Madame Sousatzka

19886.9

Loving Couples

19804.8

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

20244.5

A Heavenly Christmas

20166.1

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

19686.8

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

20037.0

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

19816.1

A Change of Seasons

19805.7

The Royal Variety Performance 1977

1977

Jack Paar: Smart Television

20038.0

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

19966.4

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

2015

Rescued from the Closet

20016.5

The Possession of Joel Delaney

19725.6

Two for the Seesaw

19626.6

Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul

1976

Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration

19908.7

The All-Star Christmas Show

19586.0

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

19986.0

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

1990

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

20144.8

Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu

19987.4

Mike Wallace Is Here

20196.5

The Car That Became a Star

19656.3

Palme

20127.6

A Smile Like Yours

19974.0

Bruno

20006.5

Hot Spell

19585.9

I Love Liberty

1982

The Unknown Peter Sellers

20008.2

Casting a Spell: Making 'Bewitched'

20057.0

The Shirley MacLaine Show

198510.0

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

19804.0

Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay

20026.3

Vito

20116.9

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

20088.0

Desperate Characters

19715.1

Career

19596.7

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

20187.1

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

20237.2

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir

19758.0

Men of Granite

201510.0

Year of the Woman

19739.0

Shirley MacLaine, comme un torrent

20268.0

The West Side Waltz

19956.2

Inside 'The Apartment'

2008

Two Loves

19615.4

Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert

20018.3

People Not Places

2026

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'

20045.8

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand

20019.0

Discovering Audrey Hepburn

20158.0

Baryshnikov in Hollywood

1982

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

19977.3

Bella!

2023

Circasia

19765.0

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration

19888.0

The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?

19776.5

Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine

2003

Shirley MacLaine... Illusions

19828.0

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical

2008

Margret and Stevie

2026

Shirley MacLaine: '...Every Little Movement'

1980

From Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma

1969

Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now

19748.0

Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout

1989