Ellen Burstyn
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.
Born: 07 December 1932
Played In
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
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
Reflections of a Philosopher King
Self
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Self
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
Self
Main Street
Georgiana Carr
According to Greta
Katherine
Lovely, Still
Mary
PoliWood
Self
The Velveteen Rabbit
Swan (voice)
W.
Barbara Bush
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Miss Addie
Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Pauline "Posey" Benetto
The Stone Angel
Hagar
The Fountain
Dr. Lillian Guzetti
30 Days
Maura
The Wicker Man
Sister Summersisle
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Self
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Self
The Elephant King
Diana Hunt
Big Love
Nancy Davis Dutton
Mrs. Harris
Former Tarnower Steady
The Book of Daniel
Bishop Beatrice Congreve
Our Fathers
Mary Ryan
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Ruby
The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel
Tommie
Second Chances: The Making of "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
Self
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
Brush with Fate
Rika
Red Dragon
Grandma Dolarhyde (voice) (uncredited)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Vivi
Within These Walls
Joan Thomas
Memories, Dreams & Addictions
Self
The Making of Requiem for a Dream
Self
Requiem for a Dream
Sara Goldfarb
That's Life
Dolly DeLucca
Mermaid
Trish
The Yards
Val Handler
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Bernie Stabler
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
Self
Night Ride Home
Maggie
Walking Across Egypt
Mattie Rigsbee
Playing by Heart
Mildred
A Will of their Own
Veronica Steward
Marilyn in Manhattan
Self
You Can Thank Me Later
Shirley Cooperberg
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Self - Chris MacNeil
The Patron Saint of Liars
June Clatterbuck
Flash
Laura Strong
Deceiver
Mook
The View
Self
A Deadly Vision
Yvette Watson
HARDtalk
Timepiece
Maud Gannon
The Spitfire Grill
Hannah Ferguson
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
How to Make an American Quilt
Hy Dodd
The Baby-Sitters Club
Mrs. Haberman
Follow The River
Gretel
My Brother's Keeper
Helen
Roommates
Judith
Trick of the Eye
Frances Griffin
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Getting Gotti
Jo Giacalone
When a Man Loves a Woman
Emily
Getting Out
Arlie's Mother
Roots of Roe
Narrator (voice)
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
Joan Delvecchio
The Cemetery Club
Esther Moskowitz
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
When It Was a Game 2
Passage Narrator (voice)
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
Wilma
Picture This
Self
Grand Isle
Mademoiselle Reisz
Dying Young
Mrs. O'Neil
Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
Lillian "Lil" Lambert
When You Remember Me
Nurse Cooder
The Color of Evening
Kate O'Rielly
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self
Hello Actors Studio
Self
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
Hanna's War
Katalin
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Mrs. Stocks (voice)
Pack of Lies
Barbara Jackson
Something in Common
Lynn Hollander
The Ellen Burstyn Show
Ellen Brewer
Act of Vengeance
Margaret Yablonski
Into Thin Air
Joan Walker
Twice in a Lifetime
Kate MacKenzie
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Surviving
Tina Brogan
The Ambassador
Alex Hacker
I Love Liberty
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Silence of the North
Olive Frederickson
People vs. Jean Harris
Jean Harris
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Self
Resurrection
Edna
A Dream of Passion
Brenda Collins
Same Time, Next Year
Doris
Providence
Sonia Langham
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alice Hyatt
Dinah!
Self
Harry and Tonto
Shirley Mallard
Thursday's Game
Lynne Evers
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Self (archive footage)
The Exorcist
Chris MacNeil
The King of Marvin Gardens
Sally
The Last Picture Show
Lois Farrow
Alex in Wonderland
Beth Morrison
Tropic of Cancer
Mona (uncredited)
Pit Stop
Ellen McCleod
The Time Tunnel
Eve Holland
The Big Valley
Sister Sarah Jacob
Goodbye Charlie
Franny Salzman
For Those Who Think Young
Dr. Pauline Swenson
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Barbara Sherwood / Lucille Benton
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Eva Laurelton
The Greatest Show on Earth
Susan Mason
Vacation Playhouse
Ellen
Going My Way
Louise
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
Joan
The Virginian
Kate Burden
Ricochet
Rose Maxon
Ben Casey
Dr. Leslie Fraser
Ben Casey
Connie
Bus Stop
Phyllis Dunning
Dr. Kildare
Anne Garner
The Defenders
Hilda Wesley
Kraft Mystery Theatre
Greta Dryden
Surfside 6
Wandra Drake
Checkmate
Margo as Ellen McRae
The Detectives
Nora
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Donna Whittaker
The Christmas Tree
Elizabeth
77 Sunset Strip
Betty Benson
77 Sunset Strip
Sandra Keene
Perry Mason
Mona Winthrope White
Tony Awards
Self - Host
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
Self - Host/Presenter
Tony Awards
Self - Audience Member
Cheyenne
Emmy Mae
Gunsmoke
Polly
Gunsmoke
Amy Waters
Letter to Loretta
Ann Walters
The Oscars
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Elizabeth
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Barbara Jackson
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Maggie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Rika
Easy Out?
Mary
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Bathing Flo
Place to Be
Brooke