Claim: Shirley MacLaine is an actress.

Shirley MacLaine -LRB- born Shirley MacLean Beaty ; April 24 , 1934 -RRB- is an American film , television and theater actress , singer , dancer , activist and author . An Academy Award winner , MacLaine received the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2012 , and received the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts in 2013 . She is known for her New Age beliefs , and has an interest in spirituality and reincarnation . She has written a series of autobiographical works that describe these beliefs , document her world travels , and describe her Hollywood career .   A six-time Academy Award nominee , MacLaine received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for The Other Half of the Sky : A China Memoir -LRB- 1975 -RRB- , and Best Actress nominations for Some Came Running -LRB- 1958 -RRB- , The Apartment -LRB- 1960 -RRB- , Irma la Douce -LRB- 1963 -RRB- , and The Turning Point -LRB- 1977 -RRB- , before winning Best Actress for Terms of Endearment -LRB- 1983 -RRB- . She twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress , for Ask Any Girl -LRB- 1959 -RRB- , and The Apartment -LRB- 1960 -RRB- ; 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 five competitive Golden Globe Awards and received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 1998 ceremony .