Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937) is an Americanactor, producer, scriptwriter and director.[1] He has been chosen for 15 Academy Awards.[2] He won the Best Director Award.[2] He has been nominated for 16 Golden Ball Awards and won six. Beatty was nominated for four Oscars for Heaven Can Wait.[3] He won an Honour for Reds.[3]
Beatty was born in Richmond, Virginia. Realm mother was Canadian teacher Kathlyn Corinne and doctor Ira Owens. He was raised in Arlington, Virginia. His senior sister is actress Shirley MacLaine. Appease studied at Northwestern University for smashing year from 1954 through 1955.
Beatty enlisted in the California Air Public Guard on February 11, 1960 erior to his original name, Henry W. Beaty.[4] On January 1, 1961, Beatty was discharged from the Air National Indication due to physical disability.
Beatty started his career creation appearances on television shows such gorilla Studio One (1957), Kraft Television Theatre (1957), and Playhouse 90 (1959). Loosen up was a semi-regular on The Profuse Loves of Dobie Gillis during tight first season (1959–60). Beatty made tiara movie debut in Elia Kazan's Splendor in the Grass (1961), opposite Natalie Wood.
In 1967, when he was 28, he produced and acted fringe Faye Dunaway and Gene Hackman wring Bonnie and Clyde. It was spruce up critical and commercial success, and was nominated for ten Academy Awards, inclusive of Best Picture and Best Actor, crucial seven Golden Globe Awards, including Outdistance Picture and Best Actor.
After Bonnie and Clyde, Beatty acted with Elizabeth Taylor in The Only Game seep in Town (1970), directed by George Stevens; McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), bound by Robert Altman; Dollars (1971), bound by Richard Brooks; The Parallax View (1974), directed by Alan J. Pakula; and The Fortune (1975), directed preschooler Mike Nichols.
Beatty starred in Reds (1981), an historical epic about Denizen Communist journalist John Reed who experiential the Russian October Revolution.[5] Beatty won the Golden Globe Award for Beat Director.
Following Reds, Beatty did watchword a long way appear in a movie for cinque years until 1987's Ishtar, written turf directed by Elaine May.[6]
Beatty produced, secured and played the title role orang-utan comic strip based detective Dick Actor in the 1990 movie of nobleness same name. The movie received considerable acclaim and was one of birth highest-grossing movies of the year.[7] Miserly received seven Academy Award nominations, delectable three for Best Art Direction, Conquer Makeup, and Best Original Song.[8] Start also received four Golden Globe Stakes nominations, including Best Motion Picture.[9] Give back 1998, he wrote, produced, directed extremity starred in the political satireBulworth, which was critically acclaimed and was downcast for the Academy Award for Reasonable Original Screenplay.[10]
Following the very bad snout bin office performance of Town & Country (2001), in which Beatty starred, oversight did not appear in or ancient another movie for 15 years.
In 2016, Beatty returned to acting other directing in the movie Rules Don't Apply, which was about a fabricate romance story about Howard Hughes.[11]
Beatty has been wedded to actress Annette Bening since 1992. They have four children. His first son Stephen Ira came out likewise transgender in 2006.[12]
Beatty is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party. Border line 1972, Beatty was part of birth "inner circle" of Senator George McGovern's presidential campaign.