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Aline MacMahon (May 3, 1899 – October 12, 1991) was an American actress.

MacMahon`s career began in theatre during the 1920s, and she worked extensively in film and television, until her retirement in the mid 1970s.

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dragon Seed (1944).

MacMahon was born Aline Laveen MacMahon to William M. and Jennie C. Simon MacMahon (1879-1984) of Irish and Russian descent in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. According to the 1910 United States Federal Census for Brooklyn, New York, her father, William, was born in 1878 in Allegheny City,Pennsylvania to an Irish born father, whose occupation was a telegraph operator, and her mother, Jennie, was born in 1879 in Russia of Jewish origin. Her parents were married on July 14, 1898 in Columbus, Ohio. She was raised in New York City and educated at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York and at Barnard College in New York City.

MacMahon began appearing on Broadway in the early 1920s. Her first film role was in 1931 in Five Star Final, but she alternated between Broadway and Hollywood throughout her career.

In 1944 MacMahon appeared in the film Dragon Seed, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other films include the film version of Sinclair Lewis`s novel Babbitt (1934), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), The Life of Jimmy Dolan, Ah, Wilderness! (1935), When You`re in Love (1937), Roseanna McCoy (1949), The Flame and the Arrow (1950), All the Way Home (1961), The Young Doctors (1963), and I Could Go On Singing (1963).

MacMahon was married to Clarence Stein, the planner and architect, and founder of the Regional Planning Association, from 1928 until his death in 1975. They had no children.

MacMahon died at the age of 92 of pneumonia in New York City.