Ellen Burstyn
Acting
🎂 1932-12-07
Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly, December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women in dramas, she receives 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Burstyn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(204)
Self
1962
Bernie Stabler
1999
Self
1997
Anne Garner
1961
Self
1975
Shirley
2013
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Nominee
1944
Elizabeth Hale
2013
Bernadette 'Bernie' Stabler
2021
Hilda Wesley
1961
Susan Mason
1963
Mona Winthrope White
1957
Emmy Mae
1955
Dr. Leslie Fraser
1961
Connie
1961
Dolly DeLucca
2000
Sister Sarah Jacob
1965
Self - Host
1975
Wandra Drake
1960
Phyllis Dunning
1961
Self - Host/Presenter
1956
Self - Winner
1956
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Host
1956
Self - Audience Member
1956
Nora
1959
Murph (older)
2014
Donna Whittaker
1959
Self
1953
Eve Holland
1966
Nancy Davis Dutton
2006
Louise
1962
Betty Benson
1958
Sandra Keene
1958
Ellen
1963
Barbara Sherwood / Lucille Benton
1963
Narrator (voice)
1988
Ann Walters
1953
Elizabeth
1951
Barbara Jackson
1951
Maggie
1951
Rika
1951
Kate Burden
1962
Mrs. Emerson
2012
Sara Delano Roosevelt
2022
Margo as Ellen McRae
1960
Polly
1955
Amy Waters
1955
Self
2022
Self - Guest
1996
Self
1974
Chris MacNeil
1973
Ellen Brewer
1986
Chris MacNeil
2023
Flemming
2015
Veronica Steward
1998
Sara Goldfarb
2000
Self
1994
Bishop Beatrice Congreve
2006
Elizabeth Weiss
2020
Dr. Lillian Guzetti
2006
Margaret Barrish
2012
Barb Weaver
2014
Yvette Watson
1997
Sister Summersisle
2006
Val Handler
2000
Lois Farrow
1971
Mrs. O'Neil
1991
Joan
1962
Emily
1994
Barbara Bush
2008
Grandmother
2014
Alice Hyatt
1974
Hy Dodd
1995
Mildred
1998
Self - Chris MacNeil
1998
Nettie
2018
Mrs. Haberman
1995
Helen Wilson
2021
Grandma Dolarhyde (voice) (uncredited)
2002
Mook
1997
Olivia Foxworth
2014
Nana
2016
Celia Berges
2018
Self - Interviewee
2014
Nana Holbrook
2019
Valerie
2022
Emily Micallef
2014
Vivi Abbott Walker
2002
Ruby
2004
Mother
2024
Narrator (voice)
2015
Alex Hacker
1985
Hagar
2007
Self
1985
Miss Addie
2008
Self
2018
Self
2013
Helen Greer
2018
Brenda Collins
1978
Miss Dolly
2019
Doris Baker
2011
Louisa Mae Cardinal
2013
Ellen McCleod
1969
Shirley Mallard
1974
Margaret Yablonski
1986
Self
1982
Katherine
2009
Edna
1980
Mère Garnett
2014
Diana Hunt
2006
Gram
2015
Hannah Ferguson
1996
Doris
1978
Sally
1972
Nanette
2012
Judith
1995
Self
1981
Joan Walker
1985
Lynne Evers
1974
Self
2023
Self
2003
Hathfertiti
2014
Georgiana Carr
2010
Dr. Pauline Swenson
1964
Beatrice Fisher
2016
Mrs. Stocks (voice)
1987
Self
2024
Self
2003
Katalin
1988
Esther Moskowitz
1993
Jo Giacalone
1994
Self
2006
Josephine Prendergast
2019
Swan (voice)
2009
Mother St. John
2011
Lillian "Lil" Lambert
1991
Beth Morrison
1970
Self (archive footage)
2023
Self
2009
Mona (uncredited)
1970
Sonia Langham
1977
Jean Harris
1981
June Clatterbuck
1998
Mary
2009
Laura Strong
1997
Reader (voice)
1992
Passage Narrator (voice)
1992
Arlie's Mother
1994
Self
2006
Former Tarnower Steady
2006
Trish
2000
Maud Gannon
1996
Self (archive footage)
2020
2004
Franny Salzman
1964
Elizabeth
1958
Tina Brogan
1985
Self
2019
Gretel
1995
Rose Maxon
1961
Herself
2021
Lynn Hollander
1986
Self
2001
Frances Griffin
1994
Barbara Jackson
1987
Self
1982
Kate MacKenzie
1985
Self
1991
Self
1988
Helen
1995
Self (archive footage)
1974
Mademoiselle Reisz
1991
Nurse Cooder
1990
Self
2004
Self
1989
Herself
1989
Mattie Rigsbee
1999
Maggie
1999
Mary Ryan
2005
Rika
2003
Shirley Cooperberg
1998
Maura
2006
Self
2001
2025
Self
2017
Joan Delvecchio
1993
Tommie
2004
Kate O'Rielly
1990
Fanny
2021
Self
2010
Self
1998
Self
2010
Pauline "Posey" Benetto
2007
Self
1999
Joan Thomas
2001
Wilma
1992
Brooke
Olive Frederickson
1981
E. Jean Carroll
2024
Self
2010
Mary
1948