Shirley MacLaine

Acting · 3.5 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

Steel Magnolias

19897.2

Valentine's Day

20105.9

Rumor Has It...

20055.7

Ocean's Eleven

19606.4

In Her Shoes

20056.2

Bewitched

20055.1

Terms of Endearment

19837.1

Guarding Tess

19946.0

Two Mules for Sister Sara

19706.9

Being There

19797.6

Irma la Douce

19637.4

Wide-Awake

20125.8

Get Bruce!

19996.5

Cannonball Run II

19845.4

Defending Your Life

19916.9

The Children's Hour

19617.7

The Little Mermaid

20185.0

Postcards from the Edge

19906.6

The Last Word

20176.6

The Trouble with Harry

19557.0

Mrs. Winterbourne

19967.2

Closing the Ring

20076.2

Sweet Charity

19696.9

The Evening Star

19966.0

Bernie

20126.6

The Best of So Graham Norton

2004

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

19936.3

Gambit

19667.0

Waiting for the Light

19906.7

Some Came Running

19587.0

What a Way to Go!

19647.1

Woman Times Seven

19676.3

These Old Broads

20016.3

Artists and Models

19556.7

Wild Oats

20166.1

Forever Hollywood

19998.3

Commitment to Life

2023

Used People

19925.8

The Sheepman

19586.9

The Celluloid Closet

19967.2

Elsa & Fred

20145.9

American Dreamer

20226.0

My Geisha

19626.5

The Matchmaker

19587.0

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning

20086.0

The Royal Variety Performance 1977

1977

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

19646.1

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

That's Dancing!

19856.9

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

20177.5

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

19966.4

Coco Chanel

20086.6

Carolina

20035.8

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

20244.5

Rat Pack

20229.0

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

19653.8

The Possession of Joel Delaney

19725.6

A Change of Seasons

19805.7

Can-Can

19606.7

The Turning Point

19776.5

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

20144.8

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

Ask Any Girl

19596.5

All in a Night's Work

19616.0

The All-Star Christmas Show

19586.0

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

20037.0

Rescued from the Closet

20016.5

Mike Wallace Is Here

20196.5

Shirley MacLaine, comme un torrent

20268.0

Madame Sousatzka

19886.9

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

1990

Vittorio D.

20096.3

Loving Couples

19804.8

Two for the Seesaw

19626.6

Jack Paar: Smart Television

20038.0

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

19977.3

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

20088.0

A Smile Like Yours

19974.0

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

19816.1

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do

2015

Lucy Boomer

2026

A Heavenly Christmas

20166.1

Vito

20116.9

I Love Liberty

1982

Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul

1976

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

19804.0

The Car That Became a Star

19656.3

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

19686.8

Bruno

20006.5

Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu

19987.4

Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration

19908.7

Palme

20127.6

The Shirley MacLaine Show

198510.0

Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay

20026.3

Hot Spell

19585.9

The West Side Waltz

19956.2

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

20237.2

The Unknown Peter Sellers

20008.2

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

20045.8

Discovering Audrey Hepburn

20158.0

Two Loves

19615.4

Men of Granite

201510.0

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration

19888.0

Career

19596.7

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

19986.0

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

20187.1

Baryshnikov in Hollywood

1982

Desperate Characters

19715.1

Bella!

2023

Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert

20018.3

Year of the Woman

19739.0

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand

20019.0

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir

19758.0

Inside 'The Apartment'

2008

Casting a Spell: Making 'Bewitched'

20057.0

Margret and Stevie

2026

People Not Places

2026

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

1969

Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine

2003

Circasia

19765.0

Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout

1989

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

19776.5

Shirley MacLaine... Illusions

19828.0

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

2008

Shirley MacLaine: '...Every Little Movement'

1980

Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now

19748.0