Ellen Burstyn
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
203
Gender
Female
Birthday
1932-12-07 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Ellen Burstyn
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
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Interstellar
Saturday Night Live
Perry Mason
Mom
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
The Virginian
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Law & Order: Organized Crime
American Experience
The View
Cheyenne
House of Cards
The Big Valley
Dr. Kildare
Ben Casey
Ben Casey
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
The Defenders
Dinah!
The Time Tunnel
Big Love
The Exorcist
77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Surfside 6
The Detectives
The Oscars
Checkmate
How to Make an American Quilt
A Deadly Vision
The Age of Adaline
Vacation Playhouse
Bus Stop
Dying Young
Going My Way
River of Fundament
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Pieces of a Woman
The Exorcist: Believer
The First Lady
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
The Yards
Political Animals
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Into Thin Air
Draft Day
Requiem for a Dream
Playing by Heart
That's Life
Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
According to Greta
Pack of Lies
Love, Marilyn
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Flowers in the Attic
Something in Common
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
A Decade Under the Influence
Hanna's War
Unity
The Patron Saint of Liars
The Fountain
And the Oscar Goes To...
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Letter to Loretta
Timepiece
Goodbye Charlie
Lucy in the Sky
The Elephant King
E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump
Follow The River
The Book of Daniel
The Ambassador
The Wicker Man
Another Happy Day
I Love Liberty
Mrs. Harris
Custody
When a Man Loves a Woman
Trick of the Eye
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
Alex in Wonderland
The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel
The Cemetery Club
Brush with Fate
The Calling
The Christmas Tree
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Twice in a Lifetime
Three Months
Within These Walls
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
Resurrection
W.
The Spitfire Grill
A Dream of Passion
Getting Out
Red Dragon
Ricochet
Earth and the American Dream
About Scout
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
My Brother's Keeper
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
The Mighty Macs
Our Fathers
Deceiver
Mother, Couch
Flash
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
A Will of their Own
The Last Picture Show
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
Queen Bees
PoliWood
The Velveteen Rabbit
American Woman
Duse, the Greatest
Coma
The Ellen Burstyn Show
Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
The Baby-Sitters Club
The Color of Evening
Night of 100 Stars
Petals on the Wind
Mermaid
Grand Isle
Watch on the Rhine
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
You Can Thank Me Later
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Surviving
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
People vs. Jean Harris
Main Street
The King of Marvin Gardens
Roommates
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Wiener-Dog
Pit Stop
When You Remember Me
Same Time, Next Year
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
All I Wish
Hello Actors Studio
Friedkin Uncut
Silence of the North
When It Was a Game 2
Lovely, Still
The House of Tomorrow
Bathing Flo
Thursday's Game
The Making of Requiem for a Dream
Inside the Actors Studio
30 Days
The Tale
Place To Be
Getting Gotti
Wish You Well
The Stone Angel
Harry and Tonto
Night of 100 Stars II
Act of Vengeance
Walking Across Egypt
For Those Who Think Young
Two Men in Town
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Nostalgia
Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Second Chances
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
Providence
Tropic of Cancer
Marilyn in Manhattan
Second Chances: The Making of "Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore"
Reflections of a Philosopher King
Night Ride Home
Memories, Dreams & Addictions
Easy Out?
Delphine and Carole
Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime
