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Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn

Birthday: 1932-12-07 | Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayal of complicated women in dramas, Burstyn is the recipient of various accolades, and is among the few performers to have won an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony (Triple Crown of Acting). Born in Detroit, Michigan, Burstyn left school and worked as a dancer and model. She made her stage debut on Broadway in 1957 and soon started to make appearances in television shows. Stardom followed several years later with her acclaimed role in The Last Picture Show (1971), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her next appearance in The Exorcist (1973), earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film has remained popular and several publications have regarded it as one of the greatest horror films of all time. She followed this with Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She appeared in numerous television films and gained further recognition from her performances in Same Time, Next Year (1978), which won her a Golden Globe Award, and Resurrection (1980), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), and Requiem For a Dream (2000). For playing a lonely drug-addicted woman in the last one of these, she was again nominated for an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In the 2010s, she made appearances in television series including the political dramas, Political Animals and House of Cards, which have earned her Emmy Award nominations. 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 on stage. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Burstyn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Three Months

as    Valerie

2021
Watch on the Rhine

as    Fanny

2021
Queen Bees

as    Helen Wilson

2020
Pieces of a Woman

as    Elizabeth Weiss

2019
American Woman

as    Miss Dolly

2019
Lucy in the Sky

as    Nana Holbrook

2019
2018
All I Wish

as    Celia Berges

2018
Nostalgia

as    Helen Greer

2017
The House of Tomorrow

as    Josephine Prendergast

2016
Custody

as    Beatrice Fisher

2016
Wiener-Dog

as    Nana

2015
The Age of Adaline

as    Flemming

2015
About Scout

as    Gram

2015
Two Men in Town

as    Mère Garnett

2014
Draft Day

as    Barb Weaver

2014
The Calling

as    Emily Micallef

2014
Interstellar

as    Old Murph

2014
Petals on the Wind

as    Olivia Foxworth

2014
Flowers in the Attic

as    Olivia Foxworth

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as    Self - Interviewee

2013
Wish You Well

as    Louisa Mae Cardinal

2012
Political Animals

as    Margaret Barrish

2012
Coma

as    Mrs. Emerson

2012
Coma

as    Mrs. Emerson

2011
Another Happy Day

as    Doris Baker