Warren Beatty
Childhood Of Celebrities : Warren Beatty
Beatty was born in Richmond, Virginia’s Bellevue neighborhood. His father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator and real estate agent, and his mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a Nova Scotia-born drama teacher; his grandparents were also teachers. The family was Baptist. His father moved the family from Richmond to Norfolk, Virginia and then Arlington, Virginia where he became a middle school principal. Beatty’s sister, three years his elder, is the talented and multi-award winning actress and writer Shirley MacLaine.
Beatty was a star football player at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. Encouraged toward acting by the success of his sister, who had recently established herself as a Hollywood star, he decided to work as a stagehand at the National Theater in Washington, D.C., during the summer prior to his senior year. This enabled him to establish contact with a few famous actors. Upon graduation from high school, he turned down 10 football scholarships to enroll in drama school.
He studied acting and directing at the Northwestern University school of drama. While at Northwestern, he appeared in the annual Dolphin show. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He dropped out after his freshman year to enroll in Stella Adler’s Conservatory of Acting in New York City.
By the age of twenty two Beatty had appeared in about forty off-Broadway productions. He garnered a best actor Tony Award nomination in 1960 for his performance in William Inge’s drama A Loss of Roses. It was to be his only appearance on the Broadway stage, however.
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