Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn

Birthday: 1932-12-07

Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also known as: Ellen McRae, 엘렌 버스틴, Эллен Бёрстин, Edna Rae Gilhooley, الن برستین

imdb_id: nm0000995

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.

Played in movies:

When It Was a Game 2

Score: 9.0

Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas

Score: 9.0

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain

Score: 8.7

Interstellar

Score: 8.5

Flash

Score: 8.1

Requiem for a Dream

Score: 8.0

Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes

Score: 8.0

A Decade Under the Influence

Score: 8.0

Night of 100 Stars II

Score: 8.0

The Exorcist

Score: 7.7

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

Score: 7.7

The Last Picture Show

Score: 7.6

Unity

Score: 7.5

Marilyn in Manhattan

Score: 7.5

The Age of Adaline

Score: 7.5

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

Score: 7.3

The Last Picture Show: A Look Back

Score: 7.3

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

Score: 7.3

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

Score: 7.1

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Score: 7.1

Harry and Tonto

Score: 7.1

The Tale

Score: 7.1

Red Dragon

Score: 7.0

Pieces of a Woman

Score: 7.0

Friedkin Uncut

Score: 7.0

Into Thin Air

Score: 7.0

Follow The River

Score: 7.0

Three Months

Score: 7.0

Timepiece

Score: 7.0

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Score: 7.0

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Score: 6.9

And the Oscar Goes To...

Score: 6.9

The Fountain

Score: 6.9

Custody

Score: 6.9

The House of Tomorrow

Score: 6.8

Providence

Score: 6.8

Night of 100 Stars

Score: 6.7

Earth and the American Dream

Score: 6.7

Flowers in the Attic

Score: 6.7

Draft Day

Score: 6.7

Pit Stop

Score: 6.7

Dying Young

Score: 6.7

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Score: 6.7

Pack of Lies

Score: 6.6

Love, Marilyn

Score: 6.6

Lovely, Still

Score: 6.6

The Velveteen Rabbit

Score: 6.6

When a Man Loves a Woman

Score: 6.6

Playing by Heart

Score: 6.6

Petals on the Wind

Score: 6.5

Delphine and Carole

Score: 6.5

PoliWood

Score: 6.5

Hello Actors Studio

Score: 6.5

Mermaid

Score: 6.5

Same Time, Next Year

Score: 6.5

Our Fathers

Score: 6.4

The Spitfire Grill

Score: 6.4

Resurrection

Score: 6.4

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow

Score: 6.4

How to Make an American Quilt

Score: 6.4

Wish You Well

Score: 6.3

The Yards

Score: 6.2

W.

Score: 6.2

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Score: 6.1

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

Score: 6.1

Something in Common

Score: 6.0

Queen Bees

Score: 6.0

Trick of the Eye

Score: 6.0

According to Greta

Score: 6.0

Deceiver

Score: 6.0

When You Remember Me

Score: 5.9

River of Fundament

Score: 5.9

The Calling

Score: 5.9

The Exorcist: Believer

Score: 5.8

About Scout

Score: 5.8

Thursday's Game

Score: 5.8

Brush with Fate

Score: 5.8

The King of Marvin Gardens

Score: 5.8

Goodbye Charlie

Score: 5.8

Mrs. Harris

Score: 5.7

Roommates

Score: 5.7

Wiener-Dog

Score: 5.7

Act of Vengeance

Score: 5.6

Twice in a Lifetime

Score: 5.6

A Deadly Vision

Score: 5.6

Night Ride Home

Score: 5.6

The Elephant King

Score: 5.6

Mother, Couch

Score: 5.5

Another Happy Day

Score: 5.5

All I Wish

Score: 5.5

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Score: 5.5

Two Men in Town

Score: 5.5

A Dream of Passion

Score: 5.5

Alex in Wonderland

Score: 5.5

The Stone Angel

Score: 5.4

The Baby-Sitters Club

Score: 5.4

Nostalgia

Score: 5.4

The Cemetery Club

Score: 5.3

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

Score: 5.3

Within These Walls

Score: 5.2

For Those Who Think Young

Score: 5.2

The Mighty Macs

Score: 5.2

You Can Thank Me Later

Score: 5.1

Lucy in the Sky

Score: 5.0

The Ambassador

Score: 5.0

American Woman

Score: 4.9

The Making of Requiem for a Dream

Score: 4.8

Walking Across Egypt

Score: 4.7

Hanna's War

Score: 4.7

The Patron Saint of Liars

Score: 4.7

Getting Out

Score: 4.6

Getting Gotti

Score: 4.6

Main Street

Score: 4.6

Tropic of Cancer

Score: 4.5

E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump

Score: 4.5

Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love

Score: 4.5

Surviving

Score: 4.4

The Wicker Man

Score: 4.3

Silence of the North

Score: 4.0

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

Score: 3.8

Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime

Score: 3.5

Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story

Score: 3.3

Grand Isle

Score: 3.3

Mitch Albom's For One More Day

Score: 3.0

The Color of Evening

Score: 2.0

30 Days

Score: 1.0

My Brother's Keeper

Score: 1.0

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Score: 0.0

This Ordinary Thing

Score: 0.0

Breakdown: 1975

Score: 0.0

Place To Be

Score: 0.0

Duse, the Greatest

Score: 0.0

Watch on the Rhine

Score: 0.0

Easy Out?

Score: 0.0

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Second Chances

Score: 0.0

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

Score: 0.0

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

Score: 0.0

The Christmas Tree

Score: 0.0

Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies

Score: 0.0

Reflections of a Philosopher King

Score: 0.0

Memories, Dreams & Addictions

Score: 0.0

Bathing Flo

Score: 0.0

Ricochet

Score: 0.0

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Score: 0.0

People vs. Jean Harris

Score: 0.0

Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist

Score: 0.0

I Love Liberty

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

House of Cards

Score: 8.0

Law & Order: Organized Crime

Score: 7.9

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Score: 7.9

Reframed: Marilyn Monroe

Score: 7.8

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

The Time Tunnel

Score: 7.6

Inside the Actors Studio

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Mom

Score: 7.3

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Political Animals

Score: 7.1

A Will of their Own

Score: 7.0

Vacation Playhouse

Score: 7.0

That's Life

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 7.0

American Experience

Score: 6.9

Big Love

Score: 6.9

Dinah!

Score: 6.7

I'm Dickens, He's Fenster

Score: 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

The Book of Daniel

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

Coma

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Detectives

Score: 6.1

Cheyenne

Score: 6.0

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Score: 6.0

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

The Defenders

Score: 5.9

The First Lady

Score: 5.8

Going My Way

Score: 5.7

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Score: 5.3

The Ellen Burstyn Show

Score: 5.0

The Greatest Show on Earth

Score: 5.0

Surfside 6

Score: 5.0

The View

Score: 4.3

Checkmate

Score: 4.1

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Score: 3.9

Bus Stop

Score: 0.0