Shirley MacLaine
Acting
- Born:
- 1934-04-24
- Place of birth:
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
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).
Known For
Filmography
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
Shirley MacLaine, comme un torrent
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Bella!
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
Commitment to Life
American Dreamer
Rat Pack
Only Murders in the Building
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Noelle
Mike Wallace Is Here
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
The Little Mermaid
The Last Word
A Heavenly Christmas
Wild Oats
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
Discovering Audrey Hepburn
Men of Granite
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Elsa & Fred
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Talking Pictures
Wide-Awake
Palme
Bernie
Vito
Downton Abbey
Valentine's Day
Vittorio D.
Glee
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Coco Chanel
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
Inside 'The Apartment'
Closing the Ring
Rumor Has It...
Casting a Spell: Making 'Bewitched'
In Her Shoes
Bewitched
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
The Best of So Graham Norton
Parkinson
Jack Paar: Smart Television
Carolina
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Salem Witch Trials
Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
V Graham Norton
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
Rescued from the Closet
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
These Old Broads
The Unknown Peter Sellers
Bruno
The Early Show
Joan of Arc
Beckmann
Get Bruce!
Forever Hollywood
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
A Smile Like Yours
The View
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
The Evening Star
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Mrs. Winterbourne
The Celluloid Closet
The West Side Waltz
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Inside the Actors Studio
Guarding Tess
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Intimate Portrait
Used People
Pebble Mill
Defending Your Life
Postcards from the Edge
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Waiting for the Light
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
Steel Magnolias
Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout
Madame Sousatzka
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
Out on a Limb
The Shirley MacLaine Show
That's Dancing!
Cannonball Run II
Goldene Kamera
Terms of Endearment
Harty
Shirley MacLaine... Illusions
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
I Love Liberty
Champs-Elysées
Entertainment Tonight
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
A Change of Seasons
Loving Couples
Shirley MacLaine: '...Every Little Movement'
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Being There
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Royal Variety Performance 1977
The Turning Point
Laugh-In
Please Turn the Page
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
Circasia
Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
Système 2
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now
Der große Preis
Year of the Woman
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Shirley's World
Film '72
Desperate Characters
V.I.P. Schaukel
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Sweet Charity
From Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
The Dick Cavett Show
Omnibus
Woman Times Seven
The Carol Burnett Show
Gambit
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
The Car That Became a Star
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
What a Way to Go!
Irma la Douce
Two for the Seesaw
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
My Geisha
The Children's Hour
The Mike Douglas Show
Two Loves
All in a Night's Work
Ocean's Eleven
The Apartment
Can-Can
Career
Ask Any Girl
Some Came Running
The All-Star Christmas Show
The Matchmaker
Hot Spell
The Sheepman
Around the World in 80 Days
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Steve Allen Show
Tony Awards
Artists and Models
The Trouble with Harry
Reflets de Cannes
The Oscars
The Bob Hope Show
The Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
People Not Places
Lucy Boomer
Margret and Stevie