Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine

American actress, and author (born 1934)
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Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American film, television, and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author. An Oscar winner, MacLaine received the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2012, and received the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts in 2013. She is known for her New Age beliefs, and has an interest in spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a series of autobiographical works that describe these beliefs, document her world travels, and describe her Hollywood career.

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Shirley MacLaine was born on Tuesday, 24 April 1934 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Her full name at birth was Shirley MacLane Beaty. She is best known as an actress. MacLaine's country of citizenship (nationality) is American. Shirley attended high school at Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Virginia, United States (1952). She is considered to be politically left leaning and is affiliated with the Democratic Party (USA). Her religion is listed as Baptist. She is 5' 7" (170 cm) tall and weighs 121 lbs (55 kg) with a slim build. She has blue eyes and red hair (color). Her net worth is reported to be $50,000,000 US dollars. Shirley MacLaine is 90 years old and her zodiac star sign is Taurus.

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Full name at birth
Shirley MacLane Beaty
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Claim to fame
her role as the anxious and quippy widow Aurora Greenway in James L. Brooks's 1983 family comedy-drama film Terms of Endearment
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Date of birth
24 April 1934
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Place of birth
Richmond, Virginia, USA
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Actress, singer, dancer, author, activist
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5' 7" (170 cm)
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Weight
121 lbs (55 kg)
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Red Hair.
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9
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Net worth
$50,000,000 USD
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High school
Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Virginia, United States (1952)
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Talent agency
  • ICM Partners
  • Celebrity Talent International
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Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
  • Her childhood dinner for many years consisted of tabasco and saltine crackers (which often resulted in bad dreams--her missing the bus to ballet class).
  • Measurements: 34B-24-34.
  • Father was a professor, then a real estate agent. Mother was a teacher.
  • Columbia originally wanted to cast her as Fanny Brice in _Funny Girl (1968)_, however Ray Stark who produced the Broadway show and was Brice's son-in-law, insisted on `Barbra Streisand' repeating her Broadway role.
  • Turned down the role of Diane Freeling in Poltergeist (1982) to play the Oscar-winning role of Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment (1983).

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