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Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cups, and two Silver Bears. She has been honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute in 1995, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2…
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Born 24 April 1934 · Q95026
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo: What '60s Icon Shirley MacLaine Looks Like Today
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2025· 2 entries
AOL: See Vintage Photos of Shirley MacLaine Throughout Her Career — from Her “Hot Spell ”Days to Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
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collider: Shirley Maclaine Is a Cursed Woman Whose Husbands Keep Dropping Like Flies in This Wild Star-Studded Comedy
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2024· 8 entries
WBUR: Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine looks back at her 'Wall of Life'
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New York Post: Shirley MacLaine explains why she and Jack Nicholson never had an affair
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AOL: Shirley MacLaine Doesn't Know 'How Much Longer' She Has Left — But She's Still Got Stories to Tell (Exclusive)
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SheKnows: Shirley MacLaine’s Ultra-Rare Outing Shows How She’s Embracing Her Gorgeous Gray Hair at 90
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Deadline.com: Shirley MacLaine’s Career In Photos: From ‘The Apartment’ And ‘Terms of Endearment’ To ‘Sweet Charity’
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The Guardian: Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films – ranked!
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New York Post: Shirley MacLaine says ‘the glamours gone out’ of Hollywood: ‘100 percent different’
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MacLaine's film American Dreamer opened in theaters two years after its initial premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival
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2022· 1 entry
Returned to television starring with Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez in the hit Hulu series Only Murders in the Building
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2019· 1 entry
Played Elf Polly in the film "Noelle"
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: Shirley MacLaine: ‘The best kiss of my life? A director I worked with. I can’t say who’
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The Guardian: Enter Shirley MacLaine – the words we’ve been longing to write since Oscar-chaos night
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2016· 1 entry
MacLaine starred in Wild Oats with Jessica Lange
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2015· 2 entries
The Guardian: Shirley MacLaine: five best moments
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The Guardian: Elsa & Fred review – dispiriting Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer romcom
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2013· 1 entry
Penguin Group USA published Sachi Parker's autobiography Lucky Me: My Life With – and Without – My Mom, Shirley MacLaine
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (2012).
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2011).
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MacLaine starred in Richard Linklater's dark comedy film Bernie alongside Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey
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2009· 1 entry
Starred in Coco Before Chanel, a Lifetime production based on the life of French fashion designer, Coco Chanel, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award, and Golden Globe Award nominations
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded GLAAD Vanguard Award (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Appeared in These Old Broads written by Carrie Fisher and co-starring Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, and Joan Collins
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2000· 1 entry
Made her first (and only) feature-film directorial debut, and starred in Bruno (with Alex D
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1999· 1 entry
Won Honorary Golden Bear (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
The AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014
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1989· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for Madame Sousatzka (1989).
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Released her VHS, Shirley MacLaine's Inner Workout: A Program for Relaxation and Stress Reduction through Meditation, a companion to her 1989 book, Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation
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1988· 2 entries
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Madame Sousatzka (1988).
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Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1988).
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1984· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for Terms of Endearment (1984).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment (1984).
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1980· 1 entry
MacLaine starred in two other films about adultery, A Change of Seasons alongside Anthony Hopkins and Bo Derek, and Loving Couples with James Coburn and Susan Sarandon
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1979· 1 entry
Starred alongside Peter Sellers in Hal Ashby's satirical film Being There
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1978).
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For outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special (1976).
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Appeared in a series of concerts at the London Palladium and New York's Palace Theatre
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1974· 2 entries
“Nova York é a cidade perfeita para superar uma decepção, uma perda ou um coração partido.”
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“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”
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1973· 2 entries
Was released theatrically and on PBS, and was nominated for the year's Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
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Her friend, writer and director William Peter Blatty wanted to cast her for the role as the mother in The Exorcist
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1972· 1 entry
That her talent agent threatened to quit; she turned down film projects and spent $250,000 of her own money on political activism, equivalent to $1
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1971· 1 entry
Earned Silver Bear for Best Actress for Desperate Characters (1971).
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1970· 1 entry
MacLaine published a memoir titled Don't Fall off the Mountain, the first of her numerous books
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1969· 1 entry
MacLaine starred in the film version of the musical Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse, and based on the script for Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria which was released a decade earlier
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1966· 1 entry
MacLaine sued Twentieth Century-Fox for breach of contract when the studio reneged on its agreement to star MacLaine in a film version of the Broadway musical Bloomer Girl based on the life of Amelia Bloomer, a mid-ninet
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1964· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Irma la Douce (1964).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1963).
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Apartment (1961).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for The Apartment (1961).
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1960· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Ask Any Girl (1960).
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Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress for The Apartment (1960).
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MacLaine starred in Billy Wilder's romantic drama The Apartment (1960)
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1959· 2 entries
Earned Silver Bear for Best Actress for Ask Any Girl (1959).
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MacLaine sued Hal Wallis over a contractual dispute
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1955· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for The Trouble with Harry (1955).
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1954· 1 entry
And whom she eventually sued successfully for violating the terms of their contract
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-04-24.
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