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Shirley MacLaine

Highest Rated: 100% Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2017)

Lowest Rated: Wild Oats (2016)

Birthday: Apr 24, 1934

Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia, USA

Broadway hoofer, dramatic talent, spiritual eccentric, activist, Oscar winner... Over the course of a varied and distinguished career, actress Shirley MacLaine earned these titles many times over. A former ballerina hopeful-turned-chorus girl, she rose to fame in the early 1950s after Hollywood producers noticed her in Broadway's "Pajama Game." She made the transition to features in a series of roles that emphasized her quirkiness and heartbreaking vulnerability, most notably in "Some Came Running" (1960), "The Apartment" (1960) and "Irma La Douce" (1963). The redheaded pixie dropped out of features in the late 1960s - watching her brother Warren Beatty rise to fame at that time -but reemerged in the late 1970s with several acclaimed performances in such films as "The Turning Point" (1977), "Being There" (1979) and "Terms of Endearment" (1983), the latter of which brought her a long-overdue Oscar for Best Actress. She remained a vital presence in efforts like "Steel Magnolias" (1989), "Postcards from the Edge" (1990) and "Guarding Tess" (1994), while extolling alternative beliefs in reincarnation and extraterrestrials that occasionally earned derision from pundits. Well into her seventies, the actress continued to command attention in acclaimed projects, ranging from the biopic "Coco Chanel" (Lifetime, 2008) to the black comedy "Bernie" (2012). Not that the validation was necessary, but an AFI Life Achievement Award merely punctuated the fact that MacLaine remained among the most gifted of Hollywood and stage performers for over 40 years - a distinction that she continued to earn well into the new millennium.

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Highest rated movies

100% 83% Bella!
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100% 100% Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
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100% 80% Gambit Watchlist
98% 83% Defending Your Life
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95% 92% Being There
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93% 94% The Apartment
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88% 73% The Trouble With Harry Watchlist 88% 73% Bernie Watchlist
85% 76% Artists and Models
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83% 67% Postcards From the Edge
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% 83% Bella! Self - 2023
50% 82% American Dreamer Astrid Fanelli (Character) - 2022
56% 58% Noelle Elf Polly (Character) - 2019
20% 25% The Little Mermaid Eloise (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver Mrs. Grindtooth (Character) - 2018
100% 100% Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me Self - 2017
41% 64% The Last Word Harriet (Character),
Executive Producer
$1.8M 2017
No Score Yet 43% A Heavenly Christmas Pearl (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 37% Wild Oats Eva (Character) $21.6K 2016
33% 50% Elsa & Fred Elsa (Character) - 2014
52% 71% The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Edna (Character) $58.2M 2013
88% 73% Bernie Marjorie Nugent (Character) $9.2M 2011
18% 47% Valentine's Day Estelle (Character) $110.5M 2010
No Score Yet 67% Coco Chanel Unknown (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 40% Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning Amelia Thomas (Character) - 2008
32% 59% Closing the Ring Ethel Ann (Character) - 2007
21% 41% Rumor Has It ... Katharine Richelieu (Character) $43.0M 2005
74% 66% In Her Shoes Ella Hirsh (Character) $32.9M 2005
23% 28% Bewitched Iris Smythson/Endora (Character) $62.3M 2005
No Score Yet 57% Carolina Grandma Millicent Mirabeau (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 46% Salem Witch Trials Unknown (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 33% Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay Mary Kay (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 46% These Old Broads Kate Westbourne (Character) - 2001
20% 68% Bruno Helen (Character),
Director
- 2000
10% 57% Joan of Arc Madame de Beaurevoir (Character) - 1999
72% 45% Get Bruce! Self $43.2K 1999
No Score Yet 50% Forever Hollywood Self - 1999
No Score Yet 88% Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu Unknown (Character) - 1998
6% 19% A Smile Like Yours Martha (Character) $3.3M 1997
15% 63% Mrs. Winterbourne Grace Winterbourne (Character) $8.8M 1996
20% 61% The Evening Star Aurora Greenway (Character) $12.7M 1996
No Score Yet 67% The West Side Waltz Margaret Mary Elderdice (Character) - 1995
57% 48% Guarding Tess Tess Carlisle (Character) $26.2M 1994
59% 69% Wrestling Ernest Hemingway Helen Cooney (Character) $62.6K 1993
44% 38% Used People Pearl Berman (Character) $17.1M 1992
98% 83% Defending Your Life Self $16.2M 1991
83% 67% Postcards From the Edge Doris Mann (Character) $36.9M 1990
No Score Yet 92% Waiting for the Light Aunt Zena (Character) $334.7K 1990
73% 89% Steel Magnolias Ouiser Boudreaux (Character) $79.4M 1989
78% 65% Madame Sousatzka Madame Yuvline Sousatzka (Character) $2.9M 1988
No Score Yet 75% Out on a Limb Self,
Writer
- 1987
12% 45% Cannonball Run II Veronica (Character) - 1984
81% 83% Terms of Endearment Aurora Greenway (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Baryshnikov in Hollywood Self - 1982
No Score Yet 59% A Change of Seasons Karyn Evans (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 21% Loving Couples Dr. Evelyn Lucas Kirby (Character) - 1980
95% 92% Being There Eve Rand (Character) - 1979
63% 66% The Turning Point Deedee (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet LIFE Goes to the Movies Unknown (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 35% The Possession of Joel Delaney Norah Benson (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 40% Desperate Characters Sophie Bentwood (Character) - 1971
71% 73% Two Mules for Sister Sara Sara (Character) - 1970
82% 73% Sweet Charity Charity Hope Valentine (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 45% The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom Harriet Blossom (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 34% Woman Times Seven Paulette/Maria Teresa/Linda/Edith/Eve Minou/Marie/Jeanne (Character) - 1967
100% 80% Gambit Nicole (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 17% John Goldfarb, Please Come Home Jenny Ericson (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet 58% The Yellow Rolls-Royce Mae Jenkins (Character) - 1964
18% 67% What a Way to Go! Louisa May Foster (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Car That Became a Star Self - 1964
76% 78% Irma La Douce Irma La Douce (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 62% My Geisha Lucy Dell/Yoko Mori (Character) - 1962
33% 57% Two for the Seesaw Gittel "Mosca" Moscawitz (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet 43% All in a Night's Work Katie Robbins (Character) - 1961
80% 84% The Children's Hour Martha Dobie (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Loves Anna Vorontosov (Character) - 1961
93% 94% The Apartment Fran Kubelik (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 47% Can-Can Simone Pistache (Character) - 1960
45% 81% Ocean's Eleven Tipsy Girl (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 63% Ask Any Girl Meg Wheeler (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 60% Career Sharon Kensington (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 64% The Sheepman Dell Payton (Character) - 1958
78% 76% Some Came Running Ginny Moorhead (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet 59% The Matchmaker Irene Molloy (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hot Spell Virginia Duval (Character) - 1958
74% 57% Around the World in 80 Days Princess Aouda (Character) - 1956
88% 73% The Trouble With Harry Jennifer Rogers (Character) - 1955
85% 76% Artists and Models Bessie Sparrowbrush (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir Director -

TV

Credit
88% 93% Downton Abbey Martha Levinson (Character) 2012-2013 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2017
No Score Yet 18% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2017
No Score Yet 50% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Larry King Now Guest 2014
70% 72% Glee June Dolloway (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Talking Pictures Self 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning Unknown (Character) 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inside the Actors Studio Guest 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Carol Burnett Show Guest 1975