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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 24, 1934
Place of Birth
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Also Known As
- Shirley MacLean Beaty
- Širlė Maklein
- Shirley McLaine
- Ширлі Маклейн
Shirley MacLaine
4.9 Popularity
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
4.5
Martha Levinson (archive footage)
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
0.0
Self
Bella!
2023
5.7
Astrid Fanelli
American Dreamer
2022
9.0
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
2022
8.5
Rose Cooper
Only Murders in the Building
2021
0.0
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
6.6
Elf Polly
Noelle
2019
6.5
Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
7.1
Self
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
2018
5.0
Eloise
The Little Mermaid
2018
Credits
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
as Martha Levinson (archive footage)
2024
4.5
Bella!
as Self
2023
0.0
American Dreamer
as Astrid Fanelli
2022
5.7
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
2022
9.0
Only Murders in the Building
as Rose Cooper
2021
8.5
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
0.0
Noelle
as Elf Polly
2019
6.6
Mike Wallace Is Here
as Self (archive footage)
2019
6.5
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
as Self
2018
7.1
The Little Mermaid
as Eloise
2018
5.0
The Last Word
as Harriet Lauler
2017
6.6
A Heavenly Christmas
as Pearl
2016
6.1
Wild Oats
as Eva
2016
6.2
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
as Self (archive footage)
2015
0.0
Discovering Audrey Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
2015
8.0
🎬
Men of Granite
as Sophia Prather
2015
10.0
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
2014
4.8
Elsa & Fred
as Elsa
2014
6.0
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Edna Mitty
2013
7.2
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
5.8
Wide-Awake
as The Pianist
2012
5.8
Palme
as Self
2012
7.6
Bernie
as Marjorie Nugent
2012
6.6
Downton Abbey
as Martha Levinson
2010
8.1
Valentine's Day
as Estelle Paddington
2010
5.9
Vittorio D.
as Self
2009
6.3
Glee
as June Dolloway
2009
6.8
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
as Amelia Thomas
2008
5.7
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
as Self
2008
8.0
Coco Chanel
as Coco Chanel
2008
6.6
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
as Self
2008
0.0
Inside 'The Apartment'
as Self
2008
0.0
Closing the Ring
as Ethel Ann
2007
6.1
Rumor Has It...
as Katharine Richelieu
2005
5.7
In Her Shoes
as Ella Hirsh
2005
6.2
Bewitched
as Iris Smythson / Endora
2005
5.1
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
as Self
2004
5.8
Jack Paar: Smart Television
as Self
2003
0.0
🎬
Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine
as Self
2003
0.0
Carolina
as Grandmother Mirabeau
2003
5.8
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
7.0
Salem Witch Trials
as Rebecca Nurse
2002
6.1
Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
as Mary Kay Ash
2002
4.5
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
5.0
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
2001
6.0
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
as Herself
2001
8.2
These Old Broads
as Kate Westbourne
2001
6.1
The Unknown Peter Sellers
as Self
2000
8.0
Bruno
as Helen
2000
6.4
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
Joan of Arc
as Madame de Beaurevoir
1999
6.6
Beckmann
as Self
1999
2.0
Get Bruce!
as Self
1999
6.2
Forever Hollywood
as Self
1999
8.0
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
as Narrator (voice)
1998
7.3
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
as Self
1998
6.0
A Smile Like Yours
as Martha (uncredited)
1997
3.7
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
🎬
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
as Self
1997
7.3
The Evening Star
as Aurora Greenway
1996
6.1
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self
1996
6.4
Mrs. Winterbourne
as Grace Winterbourne
1996
7.2
The Celluloid Closet
as Self
1996
7.1
The West Side Waltz
as Margaret Mary Elderdice
1995
5.2
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
1995
7.8
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Guarding Tess
as Tess Carlisle
1994
6.0
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Helen Cooney
1993
6.2
Intimate Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
1993
4.5
Intimate Portrait
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1993
4.5
Used People
as Pearl Berman
1992
5.7
🎬
Pebble Mill
as Self
1991
3.1
Defending Your Life
as Shirley MacLaine
1991
6.9
Postcards from the Edge
as Doris Mann
1990
6.6
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
as Self (archive footage)
1990
0.0
Waiting for the Light
as Aunt Zena
1990
6.6
🎬
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
1990
8.8
Steel Magnolias
as Ouiser Boudreaux
1989
7.2
Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout
as self
1989
0.0
Madame Sousatzka
as Madame Yuvline Sousatzka
1988
6.9
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
5.4
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
as Self
1988
0.0
Out on a Limb
as Shirley MacLaine
1987
4.3
The Shirley MacLaine Show
as Herself
1985
10.0
That's Dancing!
1985
7.0
That's Dancing!
as Self (archive footage)
1985
7.0
Cannonball Run II
as Veronica
1984
5.4
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self
1984
5.7
Terms of Endearment
as Aurora Greenway
1983
7.1
🎬
Harty
as Self
1983
6.0
🎬
Baryshnikov: The Dancer and the Dance
as Self
1983
0.0
Shirley MacLaine... Illusions
as Self
1982
7.0
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
as Self - Cameo Performance
1982
0.0
I Love Liberty
as Self
1982
0.0
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
4.1
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self (archive footage)
1981
6.1
A Change of Seasons
as Karyn Evans
1980
5.5
Loving Couples
as Evelyn
1980
4.5
Shirley MacLaine: '...Every Little Movement'
as Self
1980
0.0
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
as Self (archive footage)
1980
4.0
Being There
as Eve Rand
1979
7.6
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self
1979
6.9
The Turning Point
as Deedee
1977
6.5
🎬
Laugh-In
as Guest Performer
1977
5.8
🎬
Please Turn the Page
as Self
1977
6.0
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
as Self
1977
6.0
Circasia
as Clown
1976
5.0
Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul
as Self
1976
0.0
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
as Self
1975
0.0
🎬
Système 2
as Self
1975
0.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self - Guest
1975
6.0
Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now
as Self
1974
8.0
🎬
Der große Preis
as Self
1974
6.0
Year of the Woman
1973
0.0
Nutcracker
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
1973
6.9
The Possession of Joel Delaney
as Norah Benson
1972
5.6
Shirley's World
as Shirley Logan
1972
5.0
Desperate Characters
as Sophie Bentwood
1971
4.9
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
Two Mules for Sister Sara
as Sara
1970
6.9
Sweet Charity
as Charity
1969
6.9
From Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma
1969
0.0
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
as Harriet Blossom
1968
6.5
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Woman Times Seven
as Paulette / Maria Teresa / Linda / Edith / Eve Minou / Marie / Jeanne
1967
6.2
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self
1967
7.7
Gambit
as Nicole
1966
7.0
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as Jenny
1965
3.1
The Car That Became a Star
as Self
1965
6.0
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Mae Jenkins
1964
6.0
What a Way to Go!
as Louisa May Foster
1964
7.1
Irma la Douce
as Irma La Douce
1963
7.4
Two for the Seesaw
as Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz
1962
6.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
My Geisha
as Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori
1962
6.7
The Children's Hour
as Martha Dobie
1961
7.7
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Two Loves
as Anna Vorontosov
1961
4.9
All in a Night's Work
as Katie Robbins
1961
5.9
Ocean's Eleven
as Tipsy Girl (uncredited)
1960
6.4
The Apartment
as Fran Kubelik
1960
8.2
Can-Can
as Simone Pistache
1960
6.6
Career
as Sharon Kensington
1959
6.5
Ask Any Girl
as Meg Wheeler
1959
6.2
Some Came Running
as Ginnie Moorehead
1958
6.9
The All-Star Christmas Show
as Self
1958
6.0
The Matchmaker
as Irene Molloy
1958
7.0
Hot Spell
as Virginia Duval
1958
5.4
The Sheepman
as Dell Payton
1958
6.9
Around the World in 80 Days
as Princess Aouda
1956
6.6
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Guest
1956
5.6
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
1956
5.9
Artists and Models
as Bessie Sparrowbush
1955
6.6
The Trouble with Harry
as Jennifer Rogers
1955
7.0
Reflets de Cannes
as Self
1954
2.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949
7.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
1944
7.2
🎬
Shirley MacLaine, comme un torrent
as Self (archive footage)
N/A
0.0
🎬
Lucy Boomer
as Lucy Boomer
N/A
0.0
🎬
People Not Places
as Clare
N/A
0.0