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Here's a look at the life of actor, director, producer and writer Warren Beatty.
Birthdate: March 30, 1937
Place of birth: Richmond, Virginia
Birth name: Henry Warren Beaty
Father: Ira O. Beaty, school administrator
Mother: Kathlyn (MacLean) Beaty, drama teacher
Marriage: Annette Bening (March 1992-present)
Children: Stephen, Benjamin, Isabel and Ella
Education: Attended Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1956; She attended the Stella Adler Theater School, New York, New York, 1957.
He is the younger brother of actress Shirley MacLaine.
Beatty turned down several football scholarships to study theater at Northwestern University.
Beatty dated many famous women, including Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Julie Christie and Madonna, before marrying actress Annette Bening at age 54.
Nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won once. She has also received an honorary award.
Beatty is one of a small group that has been nominated for an Oscar as a writer, director, producer and actor in an individual film. Beatty did it twice, for “Heaven Can Wait” and “Reds.” Orson Welles was the first, for “Citizen Kane.”
Honorary President of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, originally founded by the much-admired acting teacher. Other notable alumni include Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Martin Sheen and Bryce Dallas Howard.
In November 2015, singer-songwriter Carly Simon admitted to People magazine that the second verse of her 1972 song, “You're So Vain,” is about Beatty, an ex-boyfriend, confirming a decades-old rumor.
1957 – He makes his television debut, in the lead role of a hitchhiker, on NBC's “The Curly Headed Kid.”
1959-1963 – He appears in five episodes of the television series “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” She changes her last name to “Beatty”.
November 28, 1959 – He made his Broadway debut with “A Loss of Roses.”
1961 – Beatty makes his film debut as Bud Stamper in “Splendor in the Grass” opposite Natalie Wood.
1967 – He makes his debut as a producer (and also stars in) the film “Bonnie and Clyde.” Initially panned, the film later receives critical recognition and is now considered a cinema classic.
1975 – He makes his writing debut with “Shampoo,” co-written with Robert Towne, who he also stars in and produces.
1978 – He debuts as a director with “Heaven Can Wait”, in which he is also the protagonist, producer and writer.
1981 – For the second time, he serves as actor, director, producer and writer of “Reds.”
March 29, 1982 – Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director for “Reds.” This is his only Academy Award win.
1987 – He produces and stars, with Dustin Hoffman, in the famous flop “Ishtar,” about two lounge singers who wander through North Africa.
1990 – He produces, directs and stars in the film “Dick Tracy,” based on the police detective hero from the comic strip.
1991 – He meets his future wife, Annette Bening, when they star in the film “Bugsy,” a biopic about mobster Bugsy Siegel.
1998 – He produces, writes, directs and stars in the political satire “Bulworth.”
August 12, 1999 – The New York Times reports that Beatty, a Democrat, is considering a run for the White House in the 2000 election.
March 26, 2000 – He receives the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which is presented to “creative producers whose work reflects a consistently high quality in film production.”
December 5, 2004 – Receives the Kennedy Center Honors.
March 25, 2011 – Wins long legal battle in federal court against Tribune Media Services for rights to Dick Tracy character.
February 26, 2017 – Beatty and Faye Dunaway, present to celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Bonnie and Clyde,” announce the wrong winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture after one of the two partners at the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) gave them the wrong envelope. “Moonlight” finally accepts the best picture award after “La La Land” was announced by mistake.
November 7, 2022 – Beatty is sued by Kristina Charlotte Hirsch for sexual assault and sexual assault. Hirsch accuses Beatty of forcing her to have sex in 1973 when Hirsch was a minor. Beatty is not directly named in the lawsuit. In December 2023, the lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice.
