Warren Beatty

The younger brother of actress Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty grew up in a family headed by a psychology professor and school administrator and a drama teacher. He attended Northwestern University before leaving for New York, where he trained with Stella Adler and began working in television. His early ambition was evident not only in his acting but in the control he sought over his material.

Beatty made his film debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961), playing opposite Natalie Wood for director Elia Kazan. He soon became a producer as well as a star. Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which he produced and headlined with Faye Dunaway, turned a Depression-era crime story into a stylized meditation on violence and celebrity; its reception helped make Beatty a symbol of the emerging New Hollywood. He followed it with Shampoo (1975), a satire of sex and politics in Los Angeles, and Heaven Can Wait (1978), a romantic fantasy that he co-directed, co-wrote, and starred in.

His most ambitious film was Reds (1981), a large-scale historical drama about the American journalist John Reed and the Russian Revolution. Beatty produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in it, and he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He went on to direct and star in Dick Tracy (1990), a comic-strip adaptation that won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, and to star in and produce Bugsy (1991), earning a Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of mobster Bugsy Siegel. In 1998 he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in Bulworth, a political satire.

After a long absence from directing, Beatty wrote, directed, produced, and starred in Rules Don't Apply (2016), playing Howard Hughes. He has also been active in Democratic politics and received the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2008. In 1992 he married actress Annette Bening, and they have four children. His filmography is small compared with that of many contemporaries, but his insistence on writing, directing, producing, and acting in his major projects gave him a distinctive place in American film.

Warren Beatty was born on March 30, 1937 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), March 30, 1937 corresponds to the Six of Clubs, making the Six of Clubs his Birth Card.

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