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    Shirley MacLaine Biography, Age, Brother, Married, Daughter, Movies and Books

    Last Updated on June 17, 2025: By Robert Njora

    Shirley Maclaine Biography

    Shirley MacLaine (Shirley MacLean Beaty) is an American TV personality, actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author. She is populary known for her New Age beliefs. She also has an interest in spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a series of autobiographical works that describe these beliefs, document her world travels, and describe her Hollywood career.

    In 2012, she received the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. The following year, 2013 she received the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts. She made her first film appearance in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble With Harry in 1955.

    She has received a number of awards and nominations among them; Best Documentary Feature for The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975), and Best Actress nominations for Some Came Running (1958), The Apartment (1960), Irma la Douce (1963), and The Turning Point (1977).

    Before winning Best Actress for Terms of Endearment (1983), she twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, for Ask Any Girl (1959), and The Apartment (1960); and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Special for the 1976 TV special, Gypsy In My Soul. She has also won five competitive Golden Globe Awards, and received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 1998 ceremony.

    Shirley Maclaine Age

    Maclaine was born on 24th April, 1934. She is 85 years as of 2019.

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    Born in Richmond, Virginia, MacLein is the daughter of the late Ira Owens Beaty and Kathlyn Corinne. Ira was a professor of psychology, public school administrator, and real estate agent. Her mother was a drama teacher, originally from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. MacLaine’s younger brother, Warren Beatty, is an actor, writer, and director. He changed the spelling of his surname when he became an actor.

    Their parents raised them as Baptists. Her uncle, A. A. MacLeod, was a Communist member of the Ontario legislature in the 1940s. While MacLaine was still a child, Ira Beaty moved his family from Richmond to Norfolk, and then to Arlington and Waverly, then back to Arlington eventually taking a position at Arlington’s Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in 1945.

    MacLaine played baseball in an all-boys team, holding the record for most home runs, which earned her the nickname “Powerhouse”. During the 1950s, the family resided in the Dominion Hills section of Arlington. She had weak ankles when she was a toddler,and would fall over with the slightest misstep. Due to this, her mother decided to enroll her in ballet class at the Washington School of Ballet at the age of three. This was the beginning of her interest in performing

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    MacLaine got married to businessman Steve Parker in 1954. They had an open relationship until they divorced in 1982. She also had a long running affair with Australian politician and two-time Liberal leader Andrew Peacock. Maclaine and Parker have a daughter called Sachi.

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    Movies

    Year Title Role
    1955 The Trouble with Harry Jennifer Rogers
    1955 Artists and Models Bessie Sparrowbrush
    1956 Around the World in 80 Days Princess Aouda
    1958 Some Came Running Ginnie Moorehead
    1958 The Sheepman Dell Payton
    1958 Hot Spell Virginia Duval
    1958 The Matchmaker Irene Molloy
    1959 Ask Any Girl Meg Wheeler
    1959 Career Sharon Kensington
    1960 Ocean’s 11 Tipsy woman
    1960 Can-Can Simone Pistache
    1960 The Apartment Fran Kubelik
    1961 The Children’s Hour Martha Dobie
    1961 All in a Night’s Work Katie Robbins
    1961 Two Loves Anna Vorontosov
    1962 Two for the Seesaw Gittel Mosca
    1962 My Geisha Lucy Dell/Yoko Mori
    1963 Irma la Douce Irma la Douce
    1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce Mae Jenkins
    1964 What a Way to Go! Louisa May Foster
    1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! Jenny Erichson
    1966 Gambit Nicole Chang
    1967 Woman Times Seven Paulette/Maria Teresa/Linda/Edith/
    Eve Minou/Marie/Jeanne
    1968 The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom Harriet Blossom
    1969 Sweet Charity Charity Hope Valentine
    1970 Two Mules for Sister Sara Sara
    1971 Desperate Characters Sophie Bentwood
    1972 The Possession of Joel Delaney Norah Benson
    1975 The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir Herself
    1977 The Turning Point Deedee Rodgers
    1979 Being There Eve Rand
    1980 A Change of Seasons Karyn Evans
    1980 Loving Couples Evelyn
    1983 Terms of Endearment Aurora Greenway
    1984 Cannonball Run II Veronica
    1987 Out on a Limb Herself
    1988 Madame Sousatzka Madame Yuvline Sousatzka
    1989 Steel Magnolias Louisa “Ouiser” Boudreaux
    1990 Postcards from the Edge Doris Mann
    1990 Waiting for the Light Aunt Zena
    1991 Defending Your Life “Past Lives Pavilion” host
    1992 Used People Pearl Berman
    1993 Wrestling Ernest Hemingway Helen Cooney
    1994 Guarding Tess Tess Carlisle
    1995 The West Side Waltz Margaret Mary Elderdice
    1996 The Evening Star Aurora Greenway
    1996 Mrs. Winterbourne Grace Winterbourne
    1997 A Smile Like Yours Martha
    2000 The Dress Code Helen
    2001 These Old Broads Kate Westbourne
    2002 Salem Witch Trials Rebecca Nurse
    2002 Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay Mary Kay
    2003 Carolina Grandma Millicent Mirabeau
    2005 Rumor Has It… Katharine Richelieu
    2005 Bewitched Iris Smythson/Endora
    2005 In Her Shoes Ella Hirsch
    2007 Closing the Ring Ethel Ann
    2008 Coco Chanel Coco Chanel
    2008 Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning Amelia Thomas
    2010 Valentine’s Day Estelle Paddington
    2011 Bernie Marjorie Nugent
    2013 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Edna Mitty
    2014 Elsa & Fred Elsa Hayes
    2016 Wild Oats Eva
    2017 The Last Word Harriett Lauler
    2018 The Little Mermaid Eloise
    2019 Noelle Polly

    TV Shows

    • Shower of Stars -1955
    • Shirley’s World (1971–1972) and a 1977 one-hour special
    • Where Do We Go From Here? -1978
    • Out on a Limb -1987
    • Stories From My Childhood -1998
    • Joan of Arc -1999
    • Downton Abbey (2012–2013)
    • Glee -2014
    • A Heavenly Christmas -2016

    Shirley Maclaine Books | Books Written By Shirley Maclaine

    • 1970- Don’t Fall Off the Mountain. .
    • 1972-McGovern: The Man and His Beliefs.
    • 1975-You Can Get There from Here.
    • 1983-Out on a Limb. New York:
    • 1986- Dancing in the Light.
    • 1987- It’s All in the Playing.
    • 1990- Going Within: A Guide to Inner Transformation.
    • 1991-Dance While You Can.
    • 1995-My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir.
    • 2000-The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit.
    • 2001-The Camino: A Pilgrimage of Courage.
    • 2003-Out on a Leash: Exploring the Nature of Reality and Love.
    • 2007-Sage-ing While Age-ing.
    • 2011-I’m Over All That: And Other Confessions.
    • 2013-What If…: A lifetime of questions, speculations, reasonable guesses, and a few things I know for sure.
    • 2016-Above the Line: My Wild Oats Adventure. Simon & Schuster.

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