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 | |
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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 |
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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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