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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley MacLaine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Apartment
(Fran Kubelik)
Being There
(Eve Rand)
Irma la Douce
(Irma La Douce)
Rumor Has It...
(Katharine Richelieu)
Around the World in Eighty Days
(Princess Aouda)
Carolina
(Grandmother Mirabeau)
Steel Magnolias
(Ouiser Boudreaux)
The Children's Hour
(Martha Dobie)
Terms of Endearment
(Aurora Greenway)
The Evening Star
(Aurora Greenway)
The Trouble with Harry
(Jennifer Rogers)
Guarding Tess
(Tess Carlisle)
Postcards from the Edge
(Doris Mann)
Two Mules for Sister Sara
(Sara)
What a Way to Go!
(Louisa May Foster)
In Her Shoes
(Ella Hirsh)
Cannonball Run II
(Veronica)
Coco Chanel
(Coco Chanel)
Defending Your Life
(Shirley MacLaine)
Bewitched
(Iris Smythson / Endora)
Valentine's Day
(Estelle Paddington)
Can-Can
(Simone Pistache)
Mrs. Winterbourne
(Grace Winterbourne)
Gambit
(Nicole)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
(Helen Cooney)
Closing the Ring
(Ethel Ann)
I Love Liberty
(Self)
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
(Self (archive footage))
Used People
(Pearl Berman)
The Possession of Joel Delaney
(Norah Benson)
Sweet Charity
(Charity)
A Change of Seasons
(Karyn Evans)
My Geisha
(Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori)
Artists and Models
(Bessie Sparrowbush)
Woman Times Seven
(Paulette / Maria Teresa / Linda / Edith / Eve Minou / Marie / Jeanne)
The Matchmaker
(Irene Molloy)
The Turning Point
(Deedee)
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
(Amelia Thomas)
Hollywood and the Stars
(Self)
Some Came Running
(Ginnie Moorehead)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
(Mae Jenkins)
Get Bruce!
(Self)
American Dreamer
(Astrid Fanelli)
Bernie
(Marjorie Nugent)
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
(Herself)
The Sheepman
(Dell Payton)
Ask Any Girl
(Meg Wheeler)
Two for the Seesaw
(Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz)
Bruno
(Helen)
These Old Broads
(Kate Westbourne)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
(Self)
All in a Night's Work
(Katie Robbins)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
(Jenny)
Waiting for the Light
(Aunt Zena)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(Edna Mitty)
Bella!
(Self)
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
(Self)
Madame Sousatzka
(Madame Yuvline Sousatzka)
Hot Spell
(Virginia Duval)
Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
(Mary Kay Ash)
Career
(Sharon Kensington)
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
Loving Couples
(Evelyn)
Two Loves
(Anna Vorontosov)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
(Self)
Elsa & Fred
(Elsa)
Men of Granite
(Sophia Prather)
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
(Self)
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
(Harriet Blossom)
Ocean's Eleven
(Tipsy Girl (uncredited))
Rat Pack
(Self (archive footage))
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
(Self (archive footage))
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
(Self (archive footage))
Baryshnikov: The Dancer and the Dance
(Self)
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
(Self - Cameo Performance)
Desperate Characters
(Sophie Bentwood)
Mike Wallace Is Here
(Self (archive footage))
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
(Self)
Salem Witch Trials
(Rebecca Nurse)
The Last Word
(Harriet Lauler)
People Not Places
(Clare)
Wild Oats
(Eva)
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
(Self)
A Heavenly Christmas
(Pearl)
Year of the Woman
The Little Mermaid
(Eloise)
The West Side Waltz
(Margaret Mary Elderdice)
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
(Self)
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
(Self)
The Celluloid Closet
(Self)
Vittorio D.
(Self)
A Smile Like Yours
(Martha (uncredited))
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
(Self)
Wide-Awake
(The Pianist)
Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul
(Self)
The Shirley MacLaine Show
(Herself)
Noelle
(Elf Polly)
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
(Self)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
(Self)
The Unknown Peter Sellers
(Herself)
Forever Hollywood
(Self)
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
(Self (archive footage))
Jack Paar: Smart Television
(Self)
Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood
(Self - Warren's sister (archive footage))
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
(Narrator (voice))
That's Dancing!
Palme
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
(Self)
Circasia
(Clown)
Inside 'The Apartment'
(Self)
The Car That Became a Star
(Self)
From Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma
Shirley MacLaine: '...Every Little Movement'
(Self)
Shirley MacLaine... Illusions
(Self)
Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine
(Self)
Rescued from the Closet
(Self)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
(Self)
Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout
(self)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
(Self)
Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now
Nutcracker
(Narrator (English version) (voice))
Inside the Actors Studio
(Self)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The View
(Self)
The Early Show
(Self)
Intimate Portrait
(Self (archive footage))
Shirley's World
(Shirley Logan)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(Self)
Harty
(Self)
The Steve Allen Show
(Self - Guest)
V Graham Norton
(Self)
Pebble Mill
(Self)
The Oscars
(Self)
The Emmy Awards
(Self)
Downton Abbey
(Martha Levinson)
Talking Pictures
(Self (archive footage))
Intimate Portrait
(Self - Narrator (voice))
Tony Awards
(Self - Presenter)
Anne of Green Gables
(Amelia Thomas)
Joan of Arc
(Madame de Beaurevoir)
The Bob Hope Show
(Self)
Out on a Limb
(Shirley MacLaine)
V.I.P. Schaukel
(Self)
Only Murders in the Building
(Rose Cooper)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
(Self)
The Carol Burnett Show
(Self)
Tony Awards
(Self - Host)
Entertainment Tonight
(Self)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self - Guest)
Glee
(June Dolloway)
Système 2
(Self)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
The Dick Cavett Show
(Self - Guest)
Beckmann
(Self)
Bitte umblättern
(Self)
Der große Preis
(Self)
Laugh-In
(Guest Performer)
Reflets de Cannes
(Self)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Presenter)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Nominee/Presenter)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Winner)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
(Songs)
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
(Songs)
Bruno
(Director)
My Geisha
(Songs)
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
(Director)
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
(Executive Producer)
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
(Writer)
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
(Producer)
The Shirley MacLaine Show
(Writer)
The Last Word
(Executive Producer)
Out on a Limb
(Book)
Out on a Limb
(Teleplay)