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

Last Updated on January 3, 2025: By Andrew

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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