Academy Award-winning American actress, dancer, and author who has been one of the most prominent celebrity voices on metaphysical and paranormal subjects since the early 1980s. Her bestselling memoir Out on a Limb (1983) detailed her experiences with channeling, past-life regression, and encounters with non-human intelligence.
Shirley MacLean Beaty was born on April 24, 1934, in Richmond, Virginia, and rose to Hollywood stardom in films including The Apartment (1960) and Terms of Endearment (1983), for which she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. Beginning with Out on a Limb (1983), she wrote a series of autobiographical books detailing her investigations of reincarnation, spirituality, extraterrestrial contact, and psychic phenomena.