Latest Update: Shirley MacLaine's Total Wealth in Net Worth 2026: Career Earnings & Assets

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What is Shirley MacLaine's net worth and Salary?

Shirley MacLaine is an American film and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author who has a net worth of $50 million. Shirley MacLaine has enjoyed an impressive professional career that has lasted longer than six decades. After her hugely successful film debut inAlfred Hitchcock's"The Trouble with Harry" in 1955, which brought her a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress, she would go on to establish herself as a prominent leading actress, landing roles in classics like "Can-Can", "The Apartment", "Sweet Charity", "Irma La Douce" and "Terms of Endearment". She has appeared in more than fifty films, has been nominated for an Academy Award six times, has received three Emmys and ten Golden Globes. Shirley won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1984 for her work in "Terms of Endearment".

Outside of her acting career, Shirley is  an outspoken advocate for civil rights and liberties and spiritual understanding. While as a writer, she has sold more than 20 million copies of her nine international bestsellers, most of which are autobiographical works dealing with her spiritual beliefs and her Hollywood career.

In 2012, MacLaine received the highest honor for a career in film, the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award, by the American Film Institute. Appreciating freedom, Shirley was in an open marriage with businessman Steve Parker until their divorce in 1982. They had one daughter together and both had affairs with other people.

Early Life

Shirley MacLean Beaty was born on April 24, 1934, in Richmond, Virginia. She was named after actressShirley Temple, who was six years old at the time of her birth. Shirley's father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a psychology professor, public school administrator, and real estate agent. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne was a drama teacher. Shirley's younger brother is actor/writer/directWarren Beatty. Note that both Beaty children ended up slightly changing the spelling of their respective professional last names. Warren is now known by the last name "Beatty" – with an extra "t". Frustrated by directors who would mispronounce her last name as "Mah-cleen", early in her career she changed the spelling of her surname to "MaClaine", pronounced "Mah-klain".

Shirley's mother enrolled her in ballet class when she was three years old. The initial goal was simply to correct weak ankles, but Shirley fell in love with with performing. She practiced ballet throughout her school years. Due to her higher-than-normal height and a lack of boys in ballet class, Shirley was often chosen to perform the boys' roles in performances. Also thanks to her height, she played on the boys' baseball team in elementary school, even earning the nickname "powerhouse" after setting the school's single-season home run record.

While attending Washington-Lee High School she was a cheerleader and active in the theater department.

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