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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Burstyn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(203)
Bernie Stabler
1999
Mona Winthrope White
1957
Murph (older)
2014
Self
1962
Shirley
2013
Self - Host
1975
Self - Host/Presenter
1956
Self - Winner
1956
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Host
1956
Self - Audience Member
1956
Kate Burden
1962
Narrator (voice)
1988
Elizabeth Hale
2013
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Nominee
1944
Sister Sarah Jacob
1965
Emmy Mae
1955
Self
1997
Polly
1955
Amy Waters
1955
Bernadette 'Bernie' Stabler
2021
Anne Garner
1961
Self
1975
Dr. Leslie Fraser
1961
Connie
1961
Betty Benson
1958
Sandra Keene
1958
Nancy Davis Dutton
2006
Chris MacNeil
1973
Barbara Sherwood / Lucille Benton
1963
Nora
1959
Margo as Ellen McRae
1960
Wandra Drake
1960
Hilda Wesley
1961
Self
1953
Self
1974
Flemming
2015
Donna Whittaker
1959
Eve Holland
1966
Chris MacNeil
2023
Sara Goldfarb
2000
Phyllis Dunning
1961
Louise
1962
Sister Summersisle
2006
Dr. Lillian Guzetti
2006
Sara Delano Roosevelt
2022
Lois Farrow
1971
Val Handler
2000
Susan Mason
1963
Elizabeth Weiss
2020
Self - Interviewee
2014
Emily
1994
Ann Walters
1953
Mildred
1998
Self - Guest
1996
Ellen
1963
Grandmother
2014
Nettie
2018
Mrs. O'Neil
1991
Barbara Bush
2008
Reader (voice)
1992
Mrs. Stocks (voice)
1987
Olivia Foxworth
2014
Alice Hyatt
1974
Barb Weaver
2014
Vivi Abbott Walker
2002
Bishop Beatrice Congreve
2006
Mother St. John
2011
Edna
1980
Doris Baker
2011
Self - Chris MacNeil
1998
Margaret Barrish
2012
Joan
1962
Diana Hunt
2006
Dr. Pauline Swenson
1964
Mrs. Haberman
1995
Hy Dodd
1995
Self
1982
Narrator (voice)
2015
Maud Gannon
1996
Valerie
2022
Emily Micallef
2014
Elizabeth
1951
Barbara Jackson
1951
Maggie
1951
Rika
1951
Grandma Dolarhyde (voice) (uncredited)
2002
Self (archive footage)
2020
June Clatterbuck
1998
Self
1982
Nana Holbrook
2019
Yvette Watson
1997
Self
2013
Mrs. Emerson
2012
Brenda Collins
1978
Jo Giacalone
1994
Nana
2016
Dolly DeLucca
2000
Helen Wilson
2021
Miss Addie
2008
Kate MacKenzie
1985
Celia Berges
2018
Miss Dolly
2019
Helen Greer
2018
Elizabeth
1958
Former Tarnower Steady
2006
Sonia Langham
1977
Self
2006
Rose Maxon
1961
Self
1981
Judith
1995
Franny Salzman
1964
Hathfertiti
2014
Self
2001
Shirley Mallard
1974
Hagar
2007
Nanette
2012
Self
1989
Herself
1989
Mother
2024
Joan Walker
1985
Self
2006
Georgiana Carr
2010
Lynne Evers
1974
Helen
1995
Katalin
1988
Veronica Steward
1998
Hannah Ferguson
1996
Frances Griffin
1994
Maggie
1999
Mook
1997
Self
2003
Self
2009
Mona (uncredited)
1970
Jean Harris
1981
Beth Morrison
1970
Josephine Prendergast
2019
Self
1985
Self
2023
Self
2003
Trish
2000
Self
1988
Lillian "Lil" Lambert
1991
Katherine
2009
Olive Frederickson
1981
Ellen McCleod
1969
Self
2018
Lynn Hollander
1986
Gram
2015
Barbara Jackson
1987
Mattie Rigsbee
1999
Self
1991
Sally
1972
Ruby
2004
Rika
2003
Mary
2009
Mère Garnett
2014
Nurse Cooder
1990
Tina Brogan
1985
Laura Strong
1997
Self
1999
Margaret Yablonski
1986
Passage Narrator (voice)
1992
Self
2022
Shirley Cooperberg
1998
Self (archive footage)
1974
Esther Moskowitz
1993
Self
1994
Swan (voice)
2009
Mary Ryan
2005
Tommie
2004
Beatrice Fisher
2016
Arlie's Mother
1994
Joan Thomas
2001
Alex Hacker
1985
Self
2024
Kate O'Rielly
1990
Herself
2021
Ellen Brewer
1986
2004
Doris
1978
Louisa Mae Cardinal
2013
Self
2004
Mademoiselle Reisz
1991
Maura
2006
Gretel
1995
Pauline "Posey" Benetto
2007
E. Jean Carroll
2024
Self
1998
Brooke
Joan Delvecchio
1993
Self
2019
Self
2010
Wilma
1992
2025
Fanny
2021
Self
2010
Self
2010
Mary
1948
Self
2017
Self
2001