# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shirley-maclaine
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:35.632Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1934, MacLaine broke in as a Broadway teenager before Hitchcock cast her in The Trouble with Harry in 1955, earning a New Star Golden Globe. She became a fixture of late-era Hollywood with The Apartment, Irma la Douce, and Sweet Charity, collecting six Oscar nominations before finally winning Best Actress for Terms of Endearment in 1983. Steel Magnolias, Postcards from the Edge, and a string of later films kept her working into her eighties, along with television stops on Downton Abbey and Only Murders in the Building. Parallel to the screen work, she built a second career as an author, publishing a bestselling memoir and multiple books on reincarnation and spirituality. She remains one of the last stars standing from Hollywood's golden era.