Ellen Burstyn
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1932-12-07
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 receives 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Burstyn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
The Fountain
Nov 22, 2006
Requiem for a Dream
Oct 06, 2000
W.
Oct 17, 2008
Playing by Heart
Dec 30, 1998
When a Man Loves a Woman
Apr 29, 1994
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Dec 05, 2004
How to Make an American Quilt
Oct 06, 1995
Walking Across Egypt
Jan 01, 1999
The Last Picture Show
Oct 03, 1971
Dying Young
Jun 20, 1991
The Wicker Man
Aug 31, 2006
Alex in Wonderland
Dec 22, 1970
The Elephant King
Apr 26, 2006
The Exorcist
Dec 26, 1973
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Jun 07, 2002
According to Greta
Nov 25, 2009
Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Dec 09, 2007
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Sep 12, 2008
I Love Liberty
Mar 21, 1982
The Velveteen Rabbit
Feb 27, 2009
Harry and Tonto
Aug 12, 1974
The Stone Angel
Sep 12, 2007
Our Fathers
May 11, 2005
Same Time, Next Year
Apr 23, 1978
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Oct 01, 1987
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Feb 20, 1974
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Dec 09, 1974
The Spitfire Grill
Aug 23, 1996
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Mar 09, 2003
The Baby-Sitters Club
Aug 18, 1995
A Dream of Passion
May 21, 1978
The Mighty Macs
Oct 21, 2011
The Yards
Apr 27, 2000
Grand Isle
Aug 23, 1991
Timepiece
Dec 22, 1996
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
Sep 06, 1991
Lovely, Still
Oct 03, 2009
The King of Marvin Gardens
Oct 13, 1972
Goodbye Charlie
Nov 18, 1964
Providence
Jan 25, 1977
The Patron Saint of Liars
Apr 05, 1998
Three Months
Feb 23, 2022
Brush with Fate
Jan 01, 2003
Pit Stop
May 14, 1969
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Feb 24, 2012
The Cemetery Club
Feb 03, 1993
Tropic of Cancer
Feb 27, 1970
Resurrection
Sep 26, 1980
For Those Who Think Young
Jun 01, 1964
Love, Marilyn
May 30, 2013
Twice in a Lifetime
Oct 23, 1985
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Jun 13, 1998
Marilyn in Manhattan
Sep 05, 1998
Mermaid
May 21, 2000
Within These Walls
Aug 20, 2001
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Jun 22, 2006
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
Mar 26, 2024
Interstellar
Nov 05, 2014
The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel
Oct 31, 2004
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Oct 05, 2023
Draft Day
Apr 11, 2014
The Ambassador
Jan 11, 1985
Thursday's Game
Apr 14, 1974
Flowers in the Attic
Jan 18, 2014
Night Ride Home
Feb 07, 1999
River of Fundament
Feb 12, 2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
Feb 01, 2014
Hello Actors Studio
Nov 09, 1988
Pack of Lies
Apr 26, 1987
People vs. Jean Harris
May 07, 1981
My Brother's Keeper
Mar 19, 1995
The Calling
Aug 05, 2014
Deceiver
Aug 31, 1997
30 Days
Oct 06, 2006
Two Men in Town
May 07, 2014
Silence of the North
Oct 23, 1981
Roommates
Mar 03, 1995
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Jun 26, 1989
The Age of Adaline
Apr 16, 2015
Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
May 12, 1991
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
May 03, 2006
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Mar 04, 1981
Mother, Couch
Jul 05, 2024
Main Street
Oct 21, 2010
Ricochet
Oct 03, 1961
Act of Vengeance
Sep 04, 1986
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
Dec 08, 2023
About Scout
Apr 25, 2015
Surviving
Feb 10, 1985
Wish You Well
Oct 19, 2013
Follow The River
Apr 22, 1995
Unity
Aug 12, 2015
Wiener-Dog
Jun 24, 2016
Flash
Dec 21, 1997
Night of 100 Stars II
Mar 10, 1985
The Tale
Jan 20, 2018
When You Remember Me
Oct 07, 1990
Hanna's War
Apr 14, 1988
Custody
Apr 17, 2016
Getting Gotti
May 10, 1994
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
Apr 25, 1999
The House of Tomorrow
Jun 20, 2019
Bathing Flo
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
Sep 27, 1993
Nostalgia
Feb 16, 2018
Trick of the Eye
Oct 22, 1994
You Can Thank Me Later
Sep 03, 1998
All I Wish
Feb 01, 2018
Memories, Dreams & Addictions
May 22, 2001
Reflections of a Philosopher King
Nov 23, 2010
Into Thin Air
Oct 29, 1985
Mrs. Harris
Feb 25, 2006
Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime
Apr 05, 2017
Lucy in the Sky
Sep 20, 2019
A Deadly Vision
Apr 21, 1997
Friedkin Uncut
Nov 05, 2018
Queen Bees
Jun 11, 2021
American Woman
Sep 12, 2019
PoliWood
Jul 03, 2009
The Color of Evening
Sep 01, 1990
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
Jul 21, 2019
Red Dragon
Oct 02, 2002
The Christmas Tree
Dec 14, 1958
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Nov 23, 2010
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
Nov 23, 2010
Getting Out
Apr 25, 1994
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
Mar 15, 1992
Pieces of a Woman
Dec 30, 2020
Earth and the American Dream
Oct 01, 1992
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Second Chances
Jan 01, 2004
Easy Out?
Jan 01, 1948
Another Happy Day
Nov 18, 2011
Something in Common
Nov 02, 1986
The Making of Requiem for a Dream
May 22, 2001
Watch on the Rhine
May 13, 2021
The Exorcist: Believer
Oct 04, 2023
Night of 100 Stars
Mar 08, 1982
Delphine and Carole
Jan 14, 2020
A Decade Under the Influence
Apr 25, 2003
Duse, the Greatest
Feb 03, 2025
E. Jean Carroll V. Donald J. Trump
Oct 03, 2024
Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
Dec 04, 2021
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Jun 26, 1989
Petals on the Wind
May 26, 2014
When It Was a Game 2
Jul 13, 1992
Place To Be
Second Chances: The Making of "Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore"
Aug 17, 2004
The Time Tunnel
Sep 09, 1966
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
77 Sunset Strip
Oct 10, 1958
Cheyenne
Sep 20, 1955
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Oct 10, 1963
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Sep 20, 1999
The Book of Daniel
Jan 06, 2006
Surfside 6
Oct 06, 1960
Gunsmoke
Sep 10, 1955
Perry Mason
Sep 21, 1957
Big Love
Mar 12, 2006
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
That's Life
Oct 01, 2000
The Greatest Show on Earth
Sep 17, 1963
Going My Way
Oct 03, 1962
Bus Stop
Oct 01, 1961
Ben Casey
Oct 02, 1961
The Detectives
Oct 16, 1959
The Ellen Burstyn Show
Sep 20, 1986
Vacation Playhouse
Jul 22, 1963
Dr. Kildare
Sep 27, 1961
The Defenders
Sep 16, 1961
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Letter to Loretta
Sep 20, 1953
Political Animals
Jul 15, 2012
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Sep 29, 1959
Ben Casey
Oct 02, 1961
77 Sunset Strip
Oct 10, 1958
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Apr 01, 2021
Coma
Sep 03, 2012
Mom
Sep 23, 2013
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Gunsmoke
Sep 10, 1955
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
Jan 16, 2022
American Experience
Oct 04, 1988
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
Sep 28, 1962
Checkmate
Sep 17, 1960
A Will of their Own
Oct 18, 1998
The First Lady
Apr 17, 2022
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Jun 10, 1996
The Big Valley
Sep 15, 1965
House of Cards
Feb 01, 2013
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Jan 12, 1975
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Oct 01, 1962
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Dinah!
Oct 21, 1974
