
Shirley MacLaine
Known for Acting · 169 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

Glee
2009
as June Dolloway

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

Glee
2009
as June Dolloway

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

CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
as Self

Downton Abbey
2010
as Martha Levinson

Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self

Only Murders in the Building
2021
as Rose Cooper

The Carol Burnett Show
1967
as Self

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter

Omnibus
1967

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

Beckmann
1999
as Self
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self - Guest

The Oscars
1953
as Self

The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self

The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Guest

V Graham Norton
2002
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
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
Der große Preis
1974
as Self
Harty
1983
as Self
Please Turn the Page
1977
as Self

Talking Pictures
2013
as Self (archive footage)

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

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Laugh-In
1977
as Guest Performer

Salem Witch Trials
2003
as Rebecca Nurse
Movies (129)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013
as Edna Mitty

The Apartment
1960
as Fran Kubelik

Steel Magnolias
1989
as Ouiser Boudreaux

In Her Shoes
2005
as Ella Hirsh

Ocean's Eleven
1960
as Tipsy Girl (uncredited)

Around the World in 80 Days
1956
as Princess Aouda

Valentine's Day
2010
as Estelle Paddington

Bewitched
2005
as Iris Smythson / Endora

Noelle
2019
as Elf Polly

Guarding Tess
1994
as Tess Carlisle

Terms of Endearment
1983
as Aurora Greenway

Rumor Has It...
2005
as Katharine Richelieu

Two Mules for Sister Sara
1970
as Sara

Cannonball Run II
1984
as Veronica

Being There
1979
as Eve Rand

Irma la Douce
1963
as Irma La Douce

Carolina
2003
as Grandmother Mirabeau

Defending Your Life
1991
as Shirley MacLaine

Postcards from the Edge
1990
as Doris Mann

Gambit
1966
as Nicole

Wild Oats
2016
as Eva

The Last Word
2017
as Harriet Lauler

American Dreamer
2022
as Astrid Fanelli

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self

Coco Chanel
2008
as Coco Chanel

Sweet Charity
1969
as Charity

The Children's Hour
1961
as Martha Dobie

The Little Mermaid
2018
as Eloise

Elsa & Fred
2014
as Elsa

Mrs. Winterbourne
1996
as Grace Winterbourne

Bruno
2000
as Helen

Closing the Ring
2007
as Ethel Ann

Get Bruce!
1999
as Self

The Trouble with Harry
1955
as Jennifer Rogers

Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)

Bernie
2012
as Marjorie Nugent

The Sheepman
1958
as Dell Payton

Some Came Running
1958
as Ginnie Moorehead

What a Way to Go!
1964
as Louisa May Foster

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

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
as Self

The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
as Mae Jenkins

The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self

Can-Can
1960
as Simone Pistache

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

Used People
1992
as Pearl Berman

Artists and Models
1955
as Bessie Sparrowbush

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self

A Change of Seasons
1980
as Karyn Evans

These Old Broads
2001
as Kate Westbourne

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

Hot Spell
1958
as Virginia Duval

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
as Self

The Turning Point
1977
as Deedee

A Heavenly Christmas
2016
as Pearl

Wide-Awake
2012
as The Pianist

The Evening Star
1996
as Aurora Greenway

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

Forever Hollywood
1999
as Self

All in a Night's Work
1961
as Katie Robbins

Palme
2012
as Self

Circasia
1976
as Clown

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
as Helen Cooney

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
as Jenny
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
1990
as Self

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

Salem Witch Trials
2002
as Rebecca Nurse

Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
2001
as Herself

My Geisha
1962
as Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori

Career
1959
as Sharon Kensington

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

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

A Smile Like Yours
1997
as Martha (uncredited)

Madame Sousatzka
1988
as Madame Yuvline Sousatzka

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

Rescued from the Closet
2001
as Self

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self

Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968
as Harriet Blossom

Loving Couples
1980
as Evelyn

Vittorio D.
2009
as Self

The Matchmaker
1958
as Irene Molloy

I Love Liberty
1982
as Self

Two for the Seesaw
1962
as Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz

Waiting for the Light
1990
as Aunt Zena

Bella!
2023
as Self

The Possession of Joel Delaney
1972
as Norah Benson

Vito
2011
as Self (archive)

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
2018
as Self

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

Two Loves
1961
as Anna Vorontosov

Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
2002
as Mary Kay Ash

Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
as Self (archive footage)

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
1988
as Self

The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
as Self

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
as Self

Ask Any Girl
1959
as Meg Wheeler

The West Side Waltz
1995
as Margaret Mary Elderdice

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

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

The Car That Became a Star
1965
as Self

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

Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003
as Self

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004
as Self

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

Desperate Characters
1971
as Sophie Bentwood

Discovering Audrey Hepburn
2015
as Self (archive footage)

The Unknown Peter Sellers
2000
as Self
Men of Granite
2015
as Sophia Prather

Inside 'The Apartment'
2008
as Self

Shirley MacLaine... Illusions
1982
as Self

Year of the Woman
1973
as Self
People Not Places
as Clare

The Shirley MacLaine Show
1985
as Herself

From Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma
1969

Baryshnikov in Hollywood
1982
as Self - Cameo Performance
Lucy Boomer
as Lucy Boomer

The Royal Variety Performance 1977
1977

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
1975
as Self
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 169 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Shirley MacLaine has appeared in 129 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
- In Her Shoes (2005) — as Ella Hirsh
- Ocean's Eleven (1960) — as Tipsy Girl (uncredited)
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