Shirley MacLaine five competitive Golden Globe Awards, and received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 1998 ceremony. Named after actress Shirley Temple (who was six years old at the time), Shirley MacLean Beaty was born on April 24, 1934, in Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator, and real estate agent, and her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a drama teacher, originally from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. MacLaine's younger brother is the actor, writer, and director Warren Beatty; he changed the spelling of his surname when he became an actor.
Shirley MacLaine first film was Alfred Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry" in 1955. A six-time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for "" (1975), and Best Actress nominations for "Some Came Running" (1958), "The Apartment" (1960), "Irma la Douce" (1963), and "The Turning Point" (1977), before winning Best Actress for "Terms of Endearment" (1983). She twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, for "Ask Any Girl" (1959), and "The Apartment" (1960); and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Special for the 1976 TV special, "Gypsy In My Soul". She has also won