
Ellen Burstyn
Born: 1932-12-07
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography
Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women in dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting". She has also received a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. Burstyn made her acting debut on Broadway in Fair Game in 1957 before winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Same Time, Next Year (1975). She earned the Academy Award for Best Actress as the widow Alice Hyatt in Martin Scorsese's romantic drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). Her other Oscar-nominated roles were in The Last Picture Show (1971), The Exorcist (1973), Same Time, Next Year (1978), Resurrection (1980), and Requiem for a Dream (2000). Her other notable films include Harry and Tonto (1974), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002), W. (2008), Interstellar (2014), The Age of Adaline (2015), and Pieces of a Woman (2020). She won Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest role in the NBC legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2009) and supporting role in the USA Network political miniseries Political Animals (2013). Her other Emmy-nominated roles include Pack of Lies (1988), Mrs. Harris (2005), Big Love (2008), Draft Day, Flowers in the Attic (both 2014), and House of Cards (2016). Since 2000, she has been co-president of the Actors Studio, a drama school in New York City. In 2013, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame for her work onstage.
Known For

Interstellar

The Exorcist

Requiem for a Dream

The Age of Adaline

Unity

The Wicker Man

The Exorcist: Believer

The Fountain

Queen Bees

Flash

Our Fathers

American Woman

Mrs. Harris

Love, Marilyn

Resurrection

Mother, Couch

Die letzte Vorstellung: Ein Rückblick

Main Street

Providence

About Scout

Custody

Mermaid

Friedkin Uncut

Lovely, Still

Breakdown: 1975

Surviving

Flowers in the Attic

Pit Stop

Deceiver

Something in Common

Pieces of a Woman

Grand Isle

Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes

Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love

30 Days

Roommates

Hello Actors Studio

The Yards

The Last Picture Show

Tropic of Cancer

Ricochet

When a Man Loves a Woman

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Playing by Heart

Red Dragon

Dying Young

The Tale

Wish You Well

Draft Day

All I Wish

W.

Petals on the Wind

Lucy in the Sky

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Pack of Lies

Two Men in Town

Brush with Fate

How to Make an American Quilt

Act of Vengeance

Harry and Tonto

Night Ride Home

And the Oscar Goes To...

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

Twice in a Lifetime

The Spitfire Grill

The King of Marvin Gardens

The Velveteen Rabbit

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

I Love Liberty

The Calling

The House of Tomorrow

Nostalgia

People vs. Jean Harris

Earth and the American Dream

The Stone Angel

The Baby-Sitters Club

Another Happy Day

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

According to Greta

Follow The River

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Wiener-Dog

Same Time, Next Year

Night of 100 Stars

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

The Cemetery Club

The Mighty Macs

A Dream of Passion

Easy Out?

This Ordinary Thing

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

A Deadly Vision

River of Fundament

PoliWood

Hanna's War

Goodbye Charlie

Night of 100 Stars II

Thursday's Game

Silence of the North

Marilyn in Manhattan

Alex in Wonderland

Within These Walls

Three Months

Picture This

Duse, the Greatest

Getting Gotti

Trick of the Eye

The Color of Evening

The Patron Saint of Liars

Getting Out

Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist

For Those Who Think Young

A Decade Under the Influence

When You Remember Me

The Elephant King

The Making of Requiem for a Dream

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Delphine and Carole

Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies

The Ambassador

Into Thin Air

Walking Across Egypt

Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story

The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel

Timepiece

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

You Can Thank Me Later

Watch on the Rhine

Memories, Dreams & Addictions

Mitch Albom's For One More Day

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime

E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump

When It Was a Game 2
