Actor

Shirley MacLaine

5 Movies

5 Credits

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 5

Birthday April 24, 1934 (92 years old)

Place of Birth Richmond, Virginia, USA

Also Known As Shirley MacLean Beaty, Širlė Maklein, Shirley McLaine, Ширлі Маклейн

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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).

Filmography (170)

Shirley MacLaine, comme un torrent 2026

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration 2024

Bella! 2023

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema 2023

Commitment to Life 2023

American Dreamer 2022

Rat Pack 2022

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age 2021

Only Murders in the Building 2021

Mike Wallace Is Here 2019

Noelle 2019

The Little Mermaid 2018

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists 2018

The Last Word 2017

Wild Oats 2016

A Heavenly Christmas 2016

Men of Granite 2015

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do 2015

Discovering Audrey Hepburn 2015

Elsa & Fred 2014

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film 2014

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 2013

Talking Pictures 2013

Bernie 2012

Wide-Awake 2012

Palme 2012

Vito 2011

Valentine's Day 2010

Downton Abbey 2010

Vittorio D. 2009

Glee 2009

Coco Chanel 2008

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning 2008

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History 2008

Inside 'The Apartment' 2008

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical 2008

Closing the Ring 2007

Rumor Has It... 2005

In Her Shoes 2005

Bewitched 2005

Casting a Spell: Making 'Bewitched' 2005

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove' 2004

Carolina 2003

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 2003

Jack Paar: Smart Television 2003

Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine 2003

Salem Witch Trials 2003

Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay 2002

Salem Witch Trials 2002

V Graham Norton 2002

Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert 2001

These Old Broads 2001

Rescued from the Closet 2001

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand 2001

Bruno 2000

The Unknown Peter Sellers 2000

Get Bruce! 1999

Forever Hollywood 1999

The Early Show 1999

Joan of Arc 1999

Beckmann 1999

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy 1998

Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu 1998

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life 1997

A Smile Like Yours 1997

The View 1997

The Evening Star 1996

Mrs. Winterbourne 1996

The Celluloid Closet 1996

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels 1996

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies 1995

The West Side Waltz 1995

Guarding Tess 1994

Inside the Actors Studio 1994

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway 1993

Intimate Portrait 1993

Used People 1992

Defending Your Life 1991

Pebble Mill 1991

Postcards from the Edge 1990

Waiting for the Light 1990

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story 1990

Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration 1990

Steel Magnolias 1989

Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout 1989

Madame Sousatzka 1988

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration 1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark 1988

Out on a Limb 1987

The Shirley MacLaine Show 1985

That's Dancing! 1985

Cannonball Run II 1984

Goldene Kamera 1984

Terms of Endearment 1983

Baryshnikov: The Dancer and the Dance 1983

Harty 1983

I Love Liberty 1982

Baryshnikov in Hollywood 1982

Shirley MacLaine... Illusions 1982

Champs-Elysées 1982

Be Pretty and Shut Up! 1981

Entertainment Tonight 1981

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's 1980

A Change of Seasons 1980

Loving Couples 1980

Shirley MacLaine: '...Every Little Movement' 1980

Being There 1979

CBS News Sunday Morning 1979

The Turning Point 1977

The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here? 1977

The Royal Variety Performance 1977 1977

Please Turn the Page 1977

Laugh-In 1977

Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul 1976

Circasia 1976

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir 1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche 1975

Système 2 1975

Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now 1974

Der große Preis 1974

Year of the Woman 1973

The Possession of Joel Delaney 1972

Shirley's World 1972

Desperate Characters 1971

V.I.P. Schaukel 1971

Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970

Sweet Charity 1969

From Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma 1969

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom 1968

The Dick Cavett Show 1968

Woman Times Seven 1967

The Carol Burnett Show 1967

Omnibus 1967

Gambit 1966

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! 1965

The Car That Became a Star 1965

What a Way to Go! 1964

The Yellow Rolls-Royce 1964

Irma la Douce 1963

My Geisha 1962

Two for the Seesaw 1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962

The Children's Hour 1961

All in a Night's Work 1961

Two Loves 1961

The Mike Douglas Show 1961

The Apartment 1960

Can-Can 1960

Ocean's Eleven 1960

Ask Any Girl 1959

Career 1959

The Matchmaker 1958

Some Came Running 1958

The Sheepman 1958

Hot Spell 1958

The All-Star Christmas Show 1958

Around the World in 80 Days 1956

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show 1956

The Steve Allen Show 1956

Tony Awards 1956

The Trouble with Harry 1955

Artists and Models 1955

Reflets de Cannes 1954

The Oscars 1953

The Bob Hope Show 1950

The Emmy Awards 1949

Golden Globe Awards 1944

People Not Places

Lucy Boomer

Margret and Stevie

Movies

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty