Ellen Burstyn
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
204
Gender
Female
Birthday
1932-12-07 (93 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
Perry Mason
Saturday Night Live
Mom
House of Cards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
The View
Big Love
Cheyenne
The Virginian
The Big Valley
American Experience
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Dr. Kildare
Dinah!
The Exorcist
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Ben Casey
Ben Casey
The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel
The Defenders
The Oscars
The Time Tunnel
The Age of Adaline
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Surfside 6
Checkmate
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
The Detectives
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Unity
Draft Day
And the Oscar Goes To...
The Yards
About Scout
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Custody
Queen Bees
Pit Stop
The Exorcist: Believer
The Fountain
The Ambassador
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Requiem for a Dream
How to Make an American Quilt
Three Months
Main Street
The First Lady
Vacation Playhouse
Bus Stop
Goodbye Charlie
Love, Marilyn
Flowers in the Attic
Pieces of a Woman
Grand Isle
The Calling
Lovely, Still
Surviving
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Wiener-Dog
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Going My Way
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
The Last Picture Show
The Greatest Show on Earth
That's Life
30 Days
Timepiece
American Woman
Deceiver
Political Animals
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Wicker Man
Mermaid
Ricochet
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
Mrs. Harris
Our Fathers
Roommates
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
Dying Young
Mother, Couch
Coma
Getting Out
Breakdown: 1975
The Book of Daniel
The Christmas Tree
Flash
Getting Gotti
This Ordinary Thing
Bathing Flo
Die letzte Vorstellung: Ein Rückblick
Resurrection
The House of Tomorrow
Letter to Loretta
A Will of their Own
Twice in a Lifetime
Playing by Heart
A Decade Under the Influence
All I Wish
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
According to Greta
Two Men in Town
Petals on the Wind
Same Time, Next Year
Alex in Wonderland
Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
Brush with Fate
The Cemetery Club
River of Fundament
Lucy in the Sky
The Baby-Sitters Club
Friedkin Uncut
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
Something in Common
The Velveteen Rabbit
When a Man Loves a Woman
A Deadly Vision
Watch on the Rhine
PoliWood
Wish You Well
Hanna's War
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Pack of Lies
The Spitfire Grill
Another Happy Day
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
Place To Be
The Tale
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Tropic of Cancer
I Love Liberty
Night of 100 Stars
Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
Duse, the Greatest
Providence
The Mighty Macs
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Earth and the American Dream
The Elephant King
When It Was a Game 2
Into Thin Air
Trick of the Eye
Easy Out?
The Patron Saint of Liars
Red Dragon
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Follow The River
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
W.
E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump
When You Remember Me
Thursday's Game
The King of Marvin Gardens
Walking Across Egypt
A Dream of Passion
Harry and Tonto
Hello Actors Studio
Act of Vengeance
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
The Making of Requiem for a Dream
The Color of Evening
Silence of the North
Within These Walls
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
Mitch Albom's For One More Day
People vs. Jean Harris
You Can Thank Me Later
The Stone Angel
My Brother's Keeper
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
Night Ride Home
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
The Ellen Burstyn Show
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Nostalgia
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Second Chances
Marilyn in Manhattan
Inside the Actors Studio
Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime
Memories, Dreams & Addictions
Night of 100 Stars II
For Those Who Think Young
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
Delphine and Carole
Reflections of a Philosopher King
