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Shirley MacLaine

American actress

  • Fame69.2
  • Momentum4.0
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Born 1934 · age 92United States
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    78 languages
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  • Age
    92
    Born 1934
  • Known for
    The Secret Life of Wal…
    2013
Summary
Updated 2026-08-31

She's outlasted the studio system that made her, racked up an Oscar and five more nominations, and spent decades writing bestsellers about past lives and metaphysics — a Golden Age survivor who never stayed in one lane.

Biography

About

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 seco…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine
said
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
— Don't Fall Off the Mountain (1970)
Shirley MacLaine
saidundated
[About George McGovern] He is a spiritually evolved political leader.
— Nina Easton, Shirley MacLaine’s Mysticism for the Masses : She’s the Super Saleswoman for a Fast-Growing New Age Movement, Los Angeles
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Filmography

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Awards

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  • AFI Life Achievement Award
  • Knight of the Legion of Honour
  • GLAAD Vanguard Award
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69.2
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Momentum4.0
Historical34.7
Now attention2.7
Source confidence85.0
Completeness90.0
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  • Wikipedia
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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