Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 07, 1932
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Credits
197 titles
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
Filmography
Flesh Impact
Marilyn Monroe
Breakdown: 1975
Self
This Ordinary Thing
Self (voice)
Duse, the Greatest
E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump
E. Jean Carroll
Mother, Couch
Mother
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
Self
The Exorcist: Believer
Chris MacNeil
The First Lady
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Three Months
Valerie
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
Self
Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
Herself
Queen Bees
Helen Wilson
Watch on the Rhine
Fanny
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Bernadette 'Bernie' Stabler
Pieces of a Woman
Elizabeth Weiss
Delphine and Carole
Self (archive footage)
Lucy in the Sky
Nana Holbrook
American Woman
Miss Dolly
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
Self
The House of Tomorrow
Josephine Prendergast
Friedkin Uncut
Self
Nostalgia
Helen Greer
All I Wish
Celia Berges
The Tale
Nettie
Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime
Self
Wiener-Dog
Nana
Custody
Beatrice Fisher
Unity
Narrator (voice)
About Scout
Gram
The Age of Adaline
Flemming
Interstellar
Murph (older)
The Calling
Emily Micallef
Petals on the Wind
Olivia Foxworth
Two Men in Town
Mère Garnett
Draft Day
Barb Weaver
River of Fundament
Hathfertiti
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self - Interviewee
Flowers in the Attic
Grandmother
Wish You Well
Louisa Mae Cardinal
Mom
Shirley
Love, Marilyn
Self
House of Cards
Elizabeth Hale
Coma
Mrs. Emerson
Political Animals
Margaret Barrish
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Nanette
Another Happy Day
Doris Baker
The Mighty Macs
Mother St. John
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Self