Shirley MacLaine
Known for: Acting
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).
Filmography
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Host
1956
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
Series
The View
Self
1997
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
1944
Series
Glee
June Dolloway
2009
Series
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
1979
Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Series
Only Murders in the Building
Rose Cooper
2021
Series
Downton Abbey
Martha Levinson
2010
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
Omnibus
1967
Series
The Carol Burnett Show
Self
1967
Series
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
1993
Series
Intimate Portrait
Self - Narrator (voice)
1993
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
Pebble Mill
Self
1991
Series
Beckmann
Self
1999
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Guest
1956
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self - Guest
1975
Series
V Graham Norton
Self
2002
Film
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Edna Mitty
2013
Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Series
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
Der große Preis
Self
1974
Film
The Apartment
Fran Kubelik
1960
Series
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Système 2
Self
1975
Film
Valentine's Day
Estelle
2010
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
1971
Film
Noelle
Elf Polly
2019
Series
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
Terms of Endearment
Aurora Greenway
1983
Film
Around the World in 80 Days
Princess Aouda
1956
Film
Steel Magnolias
Ouiser Boudreaux
1989
Film
Ocean's Eleven
Tipsy Girl (uncredited)
1960
Please Turn the Page
Self
1977
Series
Reflets de Cannes
Self
1954
Film
Bewitched
Iris Smythson / Endora
2005
Film
Cannonball Run II
Veronica
1984
Film
The Children's Hour
Martha Dobie
1961
Series
The Early Show
Self
1999
Film
In Her Shoes
Ella Hirsh
2005
Harty
Self
1983
Series
Shirley's World
Shirley Logan
1972
Series
Joan of Arc
Madame de Beaurevoir
1999
Series
The Emmy Awards
Self
1949
Film
Defending Your Life
Shirley MacLaine
1991
Film
Rumor Has It...
Katharine Richelieu
2005
Film
Irma la Douce
Irma La Douce
1963
Film
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Sara
1970
Film
The Last Word
Harriet Lauler
2017
Film
Forever Hollywood
Self
1999
Series
Out on a Limb
Shirley MacLaine
1987
Film
The Little Mermaid
Eloise
2018
Film
Guarding Tess
Tess Carlisle
1994
Film
Being There
Eve Rand
1979
Film
The Trouble with Harry
Jennifer Rogers
1955
Film
American Dreamer
Astrid Fanelli
2022
Film
Postcards from the Edge
Doris Mann
1990
Film
Closing the Ring
Ethel Ann
2007
Film
Some Came Running
Ginnie Moorehead
1958
Film
Woman Times Seven
Paulette / Maria Teresa / Linda / Edith / Eve Minou / Marie / Jeanne
1967
Film
Mrs. Winterbourne
Grace Winterbourne
1996
Film
Gambit
Nicole
1966
Series
Salem Witch Trials
Rebecca Nurse
2003
Film
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Mae Jenkins
1964
Film
Wide-Awake
The Pianist
2012
Film
Artists and Models
Bessie Sparrowbush
1955
Film
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
2021
Film
What a Way to Go!
Louisa May Foster
1964
Film
Bernie
Marjorie Nugent
2012
Laugh-In
Guest Performer
1977
Film
The Celluloid Closet
Self
1996
Film
Sweet Charity
Charity
1969
Film
The Evening Star
Aurora Greenway
1996
Film
Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Get Bruce!
Self
1999
Film
Madame Sousatzka
Madame Yuvline Sousatzka
1988
Film
Wild Oats
Eva
2016
Series
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Film
The Turning Point
Deedee
1977
Film
Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel
2008
Film
My Geisha
Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori
1962
Film
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
Self
1990
Film
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
1995
Film
Elsa & Fred
Elsa
2014
Film
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self
1996
Film
The Sheepman
Dell Payton
1958
Film
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Helen Cooney
1993
Film
These Old Broads
Kate Westbourne
2001
Film
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
2003
Film
Shirley MacLaine, comme un torrent
Self (archive footage)
2026
Film
That's Dancing!
1985
Film
That's Dancing!
Self (archive footage)
1985
Film
All in a Night's Work
Katie Robbins
1961
Film
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Jenny
1965
Film
Used People
Pearl Berman
1992
Film
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Two for the Seesaw
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz
1962
Film
Loving Couples
Evelyn
1980
Film
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
Amelia Thomas
2008
The Royal Variety Performance 1977
1977
Film
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
Self
2008
Film
Bruno
Helen
2000
Film
The Matchmaker
Irene Molloy
1958
Lucy Boomer
Lucy Boomer
Film
Carolina
Grandmother Mirabeau
2003
Film
A Change of Seasons
Karyn Evans
1980
Film
Waiting for the Light
Aunt Zena
1990
Film
Can-Can
Simone Pistache
1960
Film
The Best of So Graham Norton
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
A Smile Like Yours
Martha (uncredited)
1997
Film
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
Self
1988
Film
Shirley MacLaine: Gypsy in My Soul
Self
1976
Film
Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
Mary Kay Ash
2002
Film
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
2017
Film
Rescued from the Closet
Self
2001
Film
A Heavenly Christmas
Pearl
2016
Film
I Love Liberty
Self
1982
Film
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Self (archive footage)
1981
Film
Vittorio D.
Self
2009
Film
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Self (archive footage)
1990
Film
Hot Spell
Virginia Duval
1958
Film
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
2014
Film
Ask Any Girl
Meg Wheeler
1959
Film
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Self (archive footage)
1980
Film
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
Self
2018
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
Self
1997
Film
Casting a Spell: Making 'Bewitched'
Self
2005
Film
Desperate Characters
Sophie Bentwood
1971
Film
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2023
Film
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
Herself
2001
Film
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Norah Benson
1972
Film
Mike Wallace Is Here
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
1958
Film
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
Narrator (voice)
1998
Film
The West Side Waltz
Margaret Mary Elderdice
1995
Film
Vito
Self (archive)
2011
Film
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
Self
1998
Film
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Self - Cameo Performance
1982
Film
Palme
Self
2012
Film
Two Loves
Anna Vorontosov
1961
Film
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Martha Levinson (archive footage)
2024
Film
Shirley MacLaine: '...Every Little Movement'
Self
1980
Film
The Car That Became a Star
Self
1965
Film
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
Self
1975
Men of Granite
Sophia Prather
2015
Film
Bella!
Self
2023
Film
The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
Self
1977
Film
The Unknown Peter Sellers
Self
2000
Film
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Harriet Blossom
1968
Film
Jack Paar: Smart Television
Self
2003
Film
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
self
2001
Film
Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now
Self
1974
Film
Year of the Woman
Self
1973
Film
The Shirley MacLaine Show
Herself
1985
Film
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Self
2004
People Not Places
Clare
Film
Career
Sharon Kensington
1959
Film
Circasia
Clown
1976
Film
From Stage to Screen---A Director's Dilemma
1969
Film
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Discovering Audrey Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
Self
2008
Film
Inside 'The Apartment'
Self
2008
Private Screenings: Shirley MacLaine
Self
2003
Film
Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout
self
1989
Film
Shirley MacLaine... Illusions
Self
1982
Margret and Stevie
Margret Rey