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Shirley MacLaine is a Actor, Director, Writer, Executive Producer and Songs American born on 24 april 1934 at Richmond (USA)

Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine
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Birth name Shirley MacLean Beaty
Nationality USA
Birth 24 april 1934 (90 years) at Richmond (USA)
Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Academy Award for Best Actress, Primetime Emmy Award

Shirley MacLean Beaty (born April 24, 1934), known professionally as Shirley MacLaine, is an American film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author. She has won an Academy Award, five Golden Globe Awards, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an Emmy Award and two BAFTA Awards.

In 2012, she received the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, and in 2013 received the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts. She is known for her New Age beliefs and interest in spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a series of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career.

Biography

MacLaine was married to businessman Steve Parker from 1954 until their divorce in 1982; they have a daughter, Sachi. In April 2011, while promoting her new book, I'm Over All That, she revealed to Oprah Winfrey that she had an open relationship with her husband. MacLaine also told Winfrey that she often fell for the leading men she worked with, with the exceptions of Jack Lemmon (The Apartment) and Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment). Peter Sellers (Being There) even found MacLaine attractive.

MacLaine has also gotten into feuds with such notable co-stars as Anthony Hopkins (A Change of Seasons), who said that "she was the most obnoxious actress I have ever worked with," and Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment).

MacLaine has claimed that, in a previous life in Atlantis, she was the brother to a 35,000 year old spirit named Ramtha channeled by American mystic teacher and author J. Z. Knight.

She has a strong interest in spirituality and metaphysics, the central theme of some of her best-selling books including Out on a Limb and Dancing in the Light. She has undertaken such forms of spiritual exploration as walking the Way of St. James, working with Chris Griscom, and practicing Transcendental Meditation.

Her well-known interest in New Age spirituality has also made its way into several of her films. In Albert Brooks's romantic comedy Defending Your Life (1991), the recently deceased lead characters, played by Brooks and Meryl Streep, are astonished to find MacLaine introducing their past lives in the "Past Lives Pavilion". In Postcards from the Edge (1990), MacLaine sings a version of "I'm Still Here", with customized lyrics created for her by composer Stephen Sondheim. One of the lyrics was changed to "I'm feeling transcendental – am I here?" In the television movie These Old Broads, MacLaine's character is a devotee of New Age spirituality.

She has an interest in UFOs, and gave numerous interviews on CNN, NBC and Fox news channels on the subject during 2007–2008. In her book Sage-ing While Age-ing (2007), she described alien encounters and witnessing of Washington, D.C. UFO incidents in the 1950s. In the April 2011 edition of the Oprah show MacLaine stated that she and her neighbor observed numerous UFO incidents at her New Mexico ranch for extended periods of time.

MacLaine is godmother to the daughter of former Democratic U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich.

Along with her brother, Warren Beatty, MacLaine used her celebrity status in instrumental roles as a fundraiser and organizer for George McGovern's campaign for president in 1972. That year, she authored the book McGovern: The Man and His Beliefs.

On February 7, 2013, Penguin Group USA published Sachi Parker's autobiography Lucky Me: My Life With – and Without – My Mom, Shirley MacLaine. MacLaine has called the book "virtually all fiction".

In 2015, she sparked criticism for her comments on Jews, Christians, and Stephen Hawking. In particular she claimed that victims of the Nazi Holocaust were experiencing the results of their own karma, and suggests that Hawking subconsciously caused himself to develop A.L.S. as a means to focus better on physics.

Best films

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
(Actress)
Bewitched (2005)
(Actress)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
(Actress)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
(Actress)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
(Actress)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
(Actress)

Usually with

Edith Head
Edith Head
(11 films)
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
(5 films)
Hal Pereira
Hal Pereira
(7 films)
Dean Martin
Dean Martin
(7 films)
Leon Shamroy
Leon Shamroy
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Shirley MacLaine (74 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
2020NoelleActressElf Polly
2018The Little MermaidActressEloise
2017The Last WordActress, Executive ProducerHarriet Lauler
2016Wild OatsActressEva
2014Elsa & FredActressElsa
2013The Secret Life of Walter MittyActressEdna Mitty
2012BernieActressMarjorie Nugent
2012PalmeActress
2010Valentine's DayActressEstelle Paddington
2008Coco ChanelActressCoco Chanel
2008Anne of Green Gables: A New BeginningActressAmelia Thomas
2007Closing the RingActressEthel Ann
2005In Her ShoesActressElla Hirsh
2005BewitchedActressIris Smythson / Endora
2005Rumor Has It...ActressKatharine Richelieu
2003CarolinaActressGrandmother Mirabeau
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereActressSelf
2002Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary KayActressMary Kay Ash
2001These Old BroadsActressKate Westbourne
2000BrunoActress, DirectorHelen
2000If These Walls Could Talk 2ActressSelf (archive footage)
1999Get Bruce!ActressSelf
1999Joan of Arc (miniseries)ActressMadame de Beaurevoir
1997A Smile Like YoursActressMartha (uncredited)
1996The Evening StarActressAurora Greenway
1996Mrs. WinterbourneActressGrace Winterbourne
1996The Celluloid ClosetActressSelf
1994Guarding TessActressTess Carlisle
1994A Century of CinemaActress
1993Wrestling Ernest HemingwayActressHelen Cooney
1993Used PeopleActressPearl Berman
1991Defending Your LifeActressShirley MacLaine
1990Postcards from the EdgeActressDoris Mann
1990Waiting for the LightActressAunt Zena
1989Steel MagnoliasActressOuiser Boudreaux
1988Madame SousatzkaActressMadame Yuvline Sousatzka
1985That's Dancing!Actress
1984Cannonball Run IIActressVeronica
1983Terms of EndearmentActressAurora Greenway
1981Be Pretty and Shut Up!ActressSelf (archive footage)
1980Loving CouplesActressEvelyn
1980A Change of SeasonsActressKaryn Evans
1979Being ThereActressEve Rand
1977The Turning PointActressDeedee
1975The Other Half of the Sky: A China MemoirActress, Director, Writer, Producer
1973NutcrackerActressNarrator (voice)
1972The Possession of Joel DelaneyActressNorah Benson
1971Desperate CharactersActressSophie Bentwood
1970Two Mules for Sister SaraActressSara
1969Sweet CharityActressCharity
1968The Bliss of Mrs. BlossomActress, SongsHarriet Blossom
1967Woman Times SevenActressPaulette / Maria Teresa / Linda / Edith / Eve Minou / Marie / Jeanne
1966GambitActressNicole
1965John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!Actress, SongsJenny
1964What a Way to Go!ActressLouisa May Foster
1964The Yellow Rolls-RoyceActressMae Jenkins
1963Irma la DouceActressIrma La Douce
1962Two for the SeesawActressGittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz
1962My GeishaActress, SongsLucy Dell / Yoko Mori
1961Two LovesActressAnna Vorontosov
1961All in a Night's WorkActressKatie Robbins
1961The Children's HourActressMartha Dobie
1960Can-CanActress, SongsSimone Pistache
1960The ApartmentActressFran Kubelik
1960Ocean's ElevenActressTipsy Girl (uncredited)
1959CareerActressSharon Kensington
1959Ask Any GirlActressMeg Wheeler
1958Some Came RunningActressGinnie Moorehead
1958The MatchmakerActressIrene Molloy
1958Hot SpellActressVirginia Duval
1958The SheepmanActressDell Payton
1956Around the World in Eighty DaysActressPrincess Aouda
1955Artists and ModelsActressBessie Sparrowbush
1955The Trouble with HarryActressJennifer Rogers