Ellen Burstyn

Known for ActingBorn 1932-12-07 (age 93)Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Second Chances: The Making of "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"

Bus Stop

Picture This

When It Was a Game 2

HARDtalk

Interstellar

Reframed: Marilyn Monroe

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes

Flash

House of Cards

Law & Order: Organized Crime

Requiem for a Dream

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

A Decade Under the Influence

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

Marilyn in Manhattan

The Last Picture Show: A Look Back

Unity

Vacation Playhouse

The Age of Adaline

A Will of their Own

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

The Exorcist

Mom

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

The Ellen Burstyn Show

The Time Tunnel

The Last Picture Show

Three Months

Friedkin Uncut

Perry Mason

Follow The River

Into Thin Air

The Tale

Political Animals

Pieces of a Woman

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Breakdown: 1975

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

The Greatest Show on Earth

Red Dragon

Custody

The Book of Daniel

Memories, Dreams & Addictions

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

That's Life

The House of Tomorrow