ICONIC Hollywood actress Shirley MacLaine has been spotted drinking a martini at lunch in Malibu days before her milestone birthday.
The lunch date was the 89-year-old Irma la Dolce star’s first public sighting in three years.
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Shirley, who will celebrate her 90th birthday on April 24, patronized Kristy’s Village Cafe in Malibu, California for her mid-afternoon meal.
The Apartment actress was seated at a reserved table on the outside patio as she ate lunch and enjoyed a classic martini.
Shirley donned a striped red and blue sweater for the rare outing with her friend.
She paired the sweater with a light blue sun visor hat and brown-tinted sunglasses while taking in the Los Angeles springtime weather.
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The actress is considered Hollywood royalty and has starred in several critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, such as The Turning Point, Being There, Steel Magnolias, and Postcards from the Edge.
In 1955, Shirley made her acting debut in Troubles with Harry and would later rise to prominence in starring roles in Around the World in 80 Days in 1956 and Some Came Running in 1958.
She would gain her first Oscar nomination for the latter, in which she portrayed Ginny Moorehead in the Frank Sinatra-led picture.
The six-time Academy Award nominee won her Oscar for playing the role of Aurora Greenway in 1983’s Terms of Endearment.
Shirley has also won two BAFTAs, seven Golden Globes, one Emmy, and was nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award.
The Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree was married to businessman Steve Parker from 1954 to 1982.
The pair famously had an open marriage at a time when the Free Love moment was blossoming and non-conformal relationships were becoming more in vogue.
The couple had one child, actress Sachi Parker, 67.
Recently, Shirley made guest appearances on several television shows, including Downton Abby, Glee, and the Hulu Original, Only Murders in the Building.
Born Shirley MacLean Beaty, the AFI Life Achievement Award recipient is the older sister of fellow Hollywood legend, Warren Beatty, 87.
SHIRLEY’S OSCAR NODS
Shirley MacLaine was nominated for an Academy Award five times before finally nabbing the Oscar with her sixth and final nominataion
Shirley was nominated for Best Actress for the first time for her portrayal of Ginny Moorehead in the Vincente Minnelli-helmed 1958 drama, Some Came Running.
She was again nominated for Best Actress for playing Fran Kubelik in the 1960 romantic-comedy, The Apartment.
Her role in 1963’s Irma la Dolce garnered the actress her third nomination.
In 1976, The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, directed by Shirley was nominated for Best Documentary Feature but failed to bring home the gold statuette.
Shirley’s portrayal of DeeDee Rodgers in The Turning Point got her a fifth Oscar nod.
The character, a former ballerina, hit close to home for Shirley, who had once considered a career as a ballet dancer before breaking ankle as a teenager.
Shirley finally brought home the Oscar for Best Actress for her part in 1984’s Terms of Endearment.
In the film, she plays Aurora Greenway, a widower who is overly protective of her daughter Emma, played by Debra Winger.
Whether it’s for his career in front of the camera or his life behind the scenes, Warren has consistently remained the subject of several headlines.
Warren rose to prominence about a decade after his sister, in the 1960s.
He made his cinematic debut starring alongside Natalie Wood and Pat Hingle in the 1961 film, Splendor in the Grass.
Throughout the decade, he appeared in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Lilith, All Fall Down, and the New Hollywood shepherding, Bonnie & Clyde.
Pop culture fans recognize Warren and Shirley as two of the key actors of the New Hollywood movement that swept the media business from the 1960s through the early 1980s.
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