Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty was born Henry Warren Beaty  on March 30, 1937, in Richmond, Virginia to Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean) and Ira Owens Beaty,

Warren Beatty received ten offers of football scholarships after graduating from high school. He turned them all down.

Warren Beatty 1961

His mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a Canadian drama teacher, and his father, Ira Owens Beaty, an American professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. 

Warren Beatty and the actress Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

In his prime, Beatty was almost as famous for his love life as he was for his movie-making, The second verse of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" ("You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive...") is about Warren Beatty.  

Another song that may be about a failed romances with Warren Beatty is Madonna's "Take a Bow."

He married actress Annette Bening in March 1992. They live in Los Angeles and have four children.

Beatty once worked as a rat-catcher.

Beatty is credited with founding the "political concert" when he and his then girlfriend, Julie Christie, funded the "Together with McGovern" concert in 1972 featuring Joni Mitchell, Carole King, James Taylor, and even reuniting Simon and Garfunkel. He was also an advisor on George McGovern's presidential campaign of that year. 

Beatty started his career making appearances on television shows such as Studio One (1957), Kraft Television Theatre (1957), and Playhouse 90 (1959). 

Beatty made his movie debut in Elia Kazan's Splendor in the Grass (1961), opposite Natalie Wood.

He played Clyde Barrow in the 1967 American neo-noir biographical crime movie Bonnie and Clyde. 

When Beatty made his deal with Warner Bros. for the movie, the studio had such little faith in the future box-office results from the $2.5-million production that it agreed to give the film's star and first-time producer 40% of the box-office gross. The deal worked out quite well for Beatty. Between 1967-73 when the motion picture played in theaters, it generated over $70 million worldwide at the box office, netting Beatty an estimated $28 million.

Beatty has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay. The only Oscar he's won was for Best Director for Reds (1981). 

Warren Beatty was Quentin Tarantino's first choice for Bill in Kill Bill. (Stories differ as to why it didn't happen.)

Beatty has a photographic memory for telephone numbers. He can dial a touch tone phone using the same hand technique as telephone operators.

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