Biography
American actor, strikingly handsome with a style that is
self-consciously cool and opaque, the classic screen idol of his day. In
1967, he was nominated for the Oscar as Best Actor for his performance in
"Bonnie and Clyde" and he won the Oscar in 1981 for his role in
"Reds." Appearing effortless on screen, his other films include
"Splendor in the Grass," 1961 and "Heaven Can Wait,"
1978. Since 1981, he made only four films in the following 16 years, the
enjoyable "Dick Tracy" and "Bugsy," and the stinkers
"Ishtar," and "Love Affair."
Beatty was raised in Arlington, VA, by a strict, domineering high
school-principal dad and an adoring, ethereal, acting-teacher mom who had
an intense and dramatic marriage. He had one older sister, now named
Shirley MacLaine. A high school football star and class president,
he played the piano well. By the time of college, he turned down football
scholarships, deciding that he wanted to direct theater.
A notorious womanizer, his affections are righteously claimed by every
female in Hollywood and beyond, singly and in pairs. Various tallies
include Madonna, Diane Keaton, Liv Ullmann, Julie Christie, Michelle
Phillips, Joan Collins, Vanessa Redgrave, Leslie Caron, and on-and-on,
certainly the co-star of the moment. Another list adds Carly Simon, Elle
MacPherson, Goldie Hawn, Isabelle Adjani, Brigitte Bardot, Candice Bergen,
Cher, Kate Jackson, Vivien Leigh, Diana Ross, Susan Strasberg, Barbra
Streisand, Britt Ekland, Connie Chung, Jessica Savitch and Diane Sawyer.
The most appropriate list seems to be the Hollywood phone book. To his
credit, he steadfastly refuses to discuss his love-life with any one of
his ladies to any of the media. Beatty married late, at 56, to Annette
Bening, 35, who already had their 18-month old daughter, Kathlyn. As a
family man, he and Bening added two more children in the following couple
years.
Their home on a Hollywood hilltop was ravaged by the Northridge
earthquake on 1/17/1994. The floors caved in and the walls fell, causing
damage that amounted to $7 million and left the place uninhabitable.
On 5/15/1998, he directed and starred in a political farce, "Bulworth." Beatty
has been passionate about politics from youth with Bobbie Kennedy as an
early idol. In 1972 he campaigned for George McGovern, and later, for Gary
Hart. Dissatisfied with the Democratic Party candidates, vice president Al
Gore and former senator Bill Bradley, he toyed with the idea of running
for the presidential ticket himself in an interview of 8/12/1999.
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