Acting · Richmond, Virginia, USA · Born April 24, 1934
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).
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2026
as Self (archive footage)
MovieDame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
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MovieBella!
2023
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MovieMCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
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MovieCommitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
MovieAmerican Dreamer
2022
as Astrid Fanelli
MovieRat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
TVOnly Murders in the Building
2021
as Rose Cooper
MovieBroadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
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MovieNoelle
2019
as Elf Polly
MovieMike Wallace Is Here
2019
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MovieBreslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
2018
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MovieThe Little Mermaid
2018
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MovieThe Last Word
2017
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MovieBright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2017
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MovieA Heavenly Christmas
2016
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MovieWild Oats
2016
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MovieChita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
2015
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MovieDiscovering Audrey Hepburn
2015
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Men of Granite
2015
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MovieRichard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
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MovieElsa & Fred
2014
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MovieThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013
as Edna Mitty
TVTalking Pictures
2013
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MovieWide-Awake
2012
as The Pianist
MoviePalme
2012
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MovieBernie
2012
as Marjorie Nugent
MovieVito
2011
as Self (archive)
TVDownton Abbey
2010
as Martha Levinson
MovieValentine's Day
2010
as Estelle
MovieVittorio D.
2009
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TVGlee
2009
as June Dolloway
MovieAnne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
2008
as Amelia Thomas
MovieHollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
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MovieCoco Chanel
2008
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MovieHollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008
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MovieInside 'The Apartment'
2008
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MovieClosing the Ring
2007
as Ethel Ann
MovieRumor Has It...
2005
as Katharine Richelieu
MovieCasting a Spell: Making 'Bewitched'
2005
as Self
MovieIn Her Shoes
2005
as Ella Hirsh
MovieBewitched
2005
as Iris Smythson / Endora
MovieBest Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004
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MovieJack Paar: Smart Television
2003
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Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine
2003
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MovieCarolina
2003
as Grandmother Mirabeau
MovieBroadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
TVSalem Witch Trials
2003
as Rebecca Nurse
MovieHell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
2002
as Mary Kay Ash
TVV Graham Norton
2002
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MovieAFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001
as self
MovieRescued from the Closet
2001
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MovieBarbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
2001
as Herself
MovieThese Old Broads
2001
as Kate Westbourne
MovieThe Unknown Peter Sellers
2000
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MovieBruno
2000
as Helen
TVThe Early Show
1999
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TVJoan of Arc
1999
as Madame de Beaurevoir
TVBeckmann
1999
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MovieGet Bruce!
1999
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MovieForever Hollywood
1999
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MovieLouise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
1998
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MovieBilly Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
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MovieA Smile Like Yours
1997
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TVThe View
1997
as Self
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
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MovieThe Evening Star
1996
as Aurora Greenway
MovieShirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self
MovieMrs. Winterbourne
1996
as Grace Winterbourne
MovieThe Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
MovieThe West Side Waltz
1995
as Margaret Mary Elderdice
MovieThe First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
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TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
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MovieGuarding Tess
1994
as Tess Carlisle
MovieWrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
as Helen Cooney
TVIntimate Portrait
1993
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MovieUsed People
1992
as Pearl Berman
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
MovieDefending Your Life
1991
as Shirley MacLaine
MoviePostcards from the Edge
1990
as Doris Mann
MovieYou're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990
as Self (archive footage)
MovieWaiting for the Light
1990
as Aunt Zena
MovieSammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
1990
as Self
MovieSteel Magnolias
1989
as Ouiser Boudreaux
MovieShirley MacLaine's Inner Workout
1989
as self
MovieMadame Sousatzka
1988
as Madame Yuvline Sousatzka
TVLIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
MovieIrving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
1988
as Self
TVOut on a Limb
1987
as Shirley MacLaine
MovieThe Shirley MacLaine Show
1985
as Herself
MovieThat's Dancing!
1985
MovieCannonball Run II
1984
as Veronica
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
MovieTerms of Endearment
1983
as Aurora Greenway
Harty
1983
as Self
MovieShirley MacLaine... Illusions
1982
as Self
MovieBaryshnikov in Hollywood
1982
as Self - Cameo Performance
MovieI Love Liberty
1982
as Self
TVChamps-Elysées
1982
as Self
TVEntertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
MovieBe Pretty and Shut Up!
1981
as Self (archive footage)
MovieA Change of Seasons
1980
as Karyn Evans
MovieLoving Couples
1980
as Evelyn
MovieShirley MacLaine: '...Every Little Movement'
1980
as Self
MovieThe Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
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MovieBeing There
1979
as Eve Rand
TVCBS News Sunday Morning
1979
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The Royal Variety Performance 1977
1977
MovieThe Turning Point
1977
as Deedee
Laugh-In
1977
as Guest Performer
Please Turn the Page
1977
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MovieThe Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
1977
as Self
MovieCircasia
1976
as Clown
MovieShirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul
1976
as Self
MovieThe Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
1975
as Self
Système 2
1975
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TVLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self - Guest
MovieShirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now
1974
as Self
Der große Preis
1974
as Self
MovieYear of the Woman
1973
as Self
MovieThe Possession of Joel Delaney
1972
as Norah Benson
TVShirley's World
1972
as Shirley Logan
MovieDesperate Characters
1971
as Sophie Bentwood
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
as Self
MovieTwo Mules for Sister Sara
1970
as Sara
MovieSweet Charity
1969
as Charity
MovieFrom Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma
1969
MovieThe Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968
as Harriet Blossom
TVThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
TVOmnibus
1967
MovieWoman Times Seven
1967
as Paulette / Maria Teresa / Linda / Edith / Eve Minou / Marie / Jeanne
TVThe Carol Burnett Show
1967
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MovieGambit
1966
as Nicole
MovieJohn Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
as Jenny
MovieThe Car That Became a Star
1965
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MovieThe Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
as Mae Jenkins
MovieWhat a Way to Go!
1964
as Louisa May Foster
MovieIrma la Douce
1963
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MovieTwo for the Seesaw
1962
as Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
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MovieMy Geisha
1962
as Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori
MovieThe Children's Hour
1961
as Martha Dobie
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
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MovieTwo Loves
1961
as Anna Vorontosov
MovieAll in a Night's Work
1961
as Katie Robbins
MovieOcean's Eleven
1960
as Tipsy Girl (uncredited)
MovieThe Apartment
1960
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MovieCan-Can
1960
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MovieCareer
1959
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MovieAsk Any Girl
1959
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MovieSome Came Running
1958
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MovieThe All-Star Christmas Show
1958
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MovieThe Matchmaker
1958
as Irene Molloy
MovieHot Spell
1958
as Virginia Duval
MovieThe Sheepman
1958
as Dell Payton
MovieAround the World in 80 Days
1956
as Princess Aouda
TVThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
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TVThe Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Guest
TVTony Awards
1956
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MovieArtists and Models
1955
as Bessie Sparrowbush
MovieThe Trouble with Harry
1955
as Jennifer Rogers
TVReflets de Cannes
1954
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TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVThe Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self
TVThe Emmy Awards
1949
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self
People Not Places
as Clare
Lucy Boomer
as Lucy Boomer
Margret and Stevie
as Margret Rey
