
Shirley MacLaine
Known for Acting · 170 credits
- Born
- 1934-04-24 (age 92)
- Place of birth
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Also known as
- Shirley MacLean Beaty · Širlė Maklein · Shirley McLaine · Ширлі Маклейн
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

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

The View
1997
as Self

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self / Self - Presenter / Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient / Self - Nominee / Presenter / Self - Winner

Glee
2009
as June Dolloway
TV Shows (40)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

The View
1997
as Self

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self / Self - Presenter / Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient / Self - Nominee / Presenter / Self - Winner

Glee
2009
as June Dolloway

Downton Abbey
2010
as Martha Levinson

CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
as Self

Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter

Only Murders in the Building
2021
as Rose Cooper

The Carol Burnett Show
1967
as Self

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

Omnibus
1967

Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self (archive footage) / Self - Narrator (voice)

Beckmann
1999
as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self - Guest
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self

The Oscars
1953
as Self

The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self

The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Guest

V Graham Norton
2002
as Self

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self

Entertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
as Self
Système 2
1975
as Self
Please Turn the Page
1977
as Self
Der große Preis
1974
as Self

Talking Pictures
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Harty
1983
as Self

Reflets de Cannes
1954
as Self

The Emmy Awards
1949
as Self

Joan of Arc
1999
as Madame de Beaurevoir

The Early Show
1999
as Self

Shirley's World
1972
as Shirley Logan

Out on a Limb
1987
as Shirley MacLaine
Laugh-In
1977
as Guest Performer

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Salem Witch Trials
2003
as Rebecca Nurse
Movies (130)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013
as Edna Mitty

The Apartment
1960
as Fran Kubelik

Steel Magnolias
1989
as Ouiser Boudreaux

Around the World in 80 Days
1956
as Princess Aouda

Ocean's Eleven
1960
as Tipsy Girl (uncredited)

In Her Shoes
2005
as Ella Hirsh

Bewitched
2005
as Iris Smythson / Endora

Valentine's Day
2010
as Estelle Paddington

Noelle
2019
as Elf Polly

Two Mules for Sister Sara
1970
as Sara

Rumor Has It...
2005
as Katharine Richelieu

Guarding Tess
1994
as Tess Carlisle

Cannonball Run II
1984
as Veronica

Irma la Douce
1963
as Irma La Douce

Terms of Endearment
1983
as Aurora Greenway

Being There
1979
as Eve Rand

Defending Your Life
1991
as Shirley MacLaine

Gambit
1966
as Nicole

Coco Chanel
2008
as Coco Chanel

Carolina
2003
as Grandmother Mirabeau

Postcards from the Edge
1990
as Doris Mann

Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)

Get Bruce!
1999
as Self

Mrs. Winterbourne
1996
as Grace Winterbourne

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self

Bernie
2012
as Marjorie Nugent

The Last Word
2017
as Harriet Lauler

Wild Oats
2016
as Eva

The Trouble with Harry
1955
as Jennifer Rogers

The Sheepman
1958
as Dell Payton

Bruno
2000
as Helen

The Little Mermaid
2018
as Eloise

The Children's Hour
1961
as Martha Dobie

American Dreamer
2022
as Astrid Fanelli

Sweet Charity
1969
as Charity

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Some Came Running
1958
as Ginnie Moorehead

What a Way to Go!
1964
as Louisa May Foster

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self

Closing the Ring
2007
as Ethel Ann

The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self

Can-Can
1960
as Simone Pistache

Elsa & Fred
2014
as Elsa

Career
1959
as Sharon Kensington
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
as Self

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
as Jenny

These Old Broads
2001
as Kate Westbourne

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self

Woman Times Seven
1967
as Paulette / Maria Teresa / Linda / Edith / Eve Minou / Marie / Jeanne

The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
as Mae Jenkins

A Change of Seasons
1980
as Karyn Evans

Circasia
1976
as Clown

Hot Spell
1958
as Virginia Duval

A Heavenly Christmas
2016
as Pearl

Artists and Models
1955
as Bessie Sparrowbush

The Turning Point
1977
as Deedee

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
as Helen Cooney
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
1990
as Self

Forever Hollywood
1999
as Self

That's Dancing!
1985
as Self (archive footage)

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
as Self

Used People
1992
as Pearl Berman

Palme
2012
as Self

Wide-Awake
2012
as The Pianist

All in a Night's Work
1961
as Katie Robbins

The Evening Star
1996
as Aurora Greenway

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
as Self (archive footage)

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
2008
as Amelia Thomas

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968
as Harriet Blossom

Vittorio D.
2009
as Self

Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981
as Self (archive footage)

Loving Couples
1980
as Evelyn

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990
as Self (archive footage)

I Love Liberty
1982
as Self

Rescued from the Closet
2001
as Self

Vito
2011
as Self (archive)

Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
2001
as Herself

Madame Sousatzka
1988
as Madame Yuvline Sousatzka

My Geisha
1962
as Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori

The Matchmaker
1958
as Irene Molloy

Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)

A Smile Like Yours
1997
as Martha (uncredited)

Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
as Self (archive footage)

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self

Salem Witch Trials
2002
as Rebecca Nurse

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001
as self

Waiting for the Light
1990
as Aunt Zena

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
2018
as Self

Bella!
2023
as Self

Two for the Seesaw
1962
as Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz

The West Side Waltz
1995
as Margaret Mary Elderdice

The Possession of Joel Delaney
1972
as Norah Benson

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
1988
as Self

Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
2002
as Mary Kay Ash
Men of Granite
2015
as Sophia Prather

Two Loves
1961
as Anna Vorontosov

The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
as Self

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008
as Self

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
as Self

Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003
as Self

Ask Any Girl
1959
as Meg Wheeler

Desperate Characters
1971
as Sophie Bentwood

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
as Martha Levinson (archive footage)

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004
as Self
People Not Places
as Clare

Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
1998
as Narrator (voice)

The Car That Became a Star
1965
as Self

The Royal Variety Performance 1977
1977

Shirley MacLaine... Illusions
1982
as Self

Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
2015
as Self (archive footage)

Year of the Woman
1973
as Self

Discovering Audrey Hepburn
2015
as Self (archive footage)

The Shirley MacLaine Show
1985
as Herself

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
1975
as Self

Baryshnikov in Hollywood
1982
as Self - Cameo Performance

Inside 'The Apartment'
2008
as Self

The Unknown Peter Sellers
2000
as Self

The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
1977
as Self
Lucy Boomer
as Lucy Boomer
About Shirley MacLaine
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. Fo… With 170 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Shirley MacLaine has appeared in 130 films and 40 TV shows.
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Most Popular Shirley MacLaine Movies
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) — as Edna Mitty
- The Apartment (1960) — as Fran Kubelik
- Steel Magnolias (1989) — as Ouiser Boudreaux
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956) — as Princess Aouda
- Ocean's Eleven (1960) — as Tipsy Girl (uncredited)
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