Ellen Burstyn
Gender: Female
Born: 7th December 1932 (currently 79 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: That's Life, The Book of Daniel, The Ellen Burstyn Show, The Iron Horse, The People vs. Jean Harris, Possible Side Effects, Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Movies: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, How to Make an American Quilt, Providence, Requiem for a Dream, The Exorcist, The Fountain, The King of Marvin Gardens, The Last Picture Show, The Wicker Man, Same Time, Next Year, When You Remember Me, Resurrection, Playing by Heart, Our Son, the Matchmaker, Dying Young, You Can Thank Me Later, Silence of the North, Walking Across Egypt, The Yards, Harry and Tonto, The Stone Angel, The Mighty Macs, According to Greta, The Ambassador, W., The Spitfire Grill, Deceiver, A Dream of Passion, Brush with Fate, Primal Secrets, The Patron Saint of Liars, Pack of Lies, My Brother's Keeper, Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love, Follow the River, Dodson's Journey, Lovely, Still, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Main Street, Terror in the Aisles, The Exorcist series, The Cemetery Club, When a Man Loves a Woman, Our Fathers, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, Goodbye Charlie, Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day, The Baby-Sitters Club, Roommates, The Elephant King, 30 Days, Mrs. Harris, The Velveteen Rabbit, Mermaid, Getting Gotti, Act of Vengeance, Twice in a Lifetime, Down in the Valley, Tropic of Cancer, Within These Walls, Into Thin Air, Getting Out, For Those Who Think Young, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Another Happy Day, Surviving: A Family in Crisis, Pit Stop, Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story, A Will of their Own, Hanna's War, Picture This, Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Lovely, Still, Dancehall, Chickadee, Alex in Wonderland, Another Happy Day
Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1931) is an American actress. Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next decade included several films and television series.
Burstyn's performance in the acclaimed 1971 ensemble drama The Last Picture Show brought her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, after which she moved from supporting to leading film and stage roles. Burstyn received a second Academy Award nomination for her lead performance in The Exorcist (1973), and won the Academy Award for Best Actress the following year for her work in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. In 1975, she won the Tony Award for her lead performance in the Broadway production of Same Time, Next Year, and received a Golden Globe Award and a fourth Academy Award nomination for her performance in the 1978 film version of the play. Burstyn has worked consistently in film, television and theatre since, receiving multiple awards and nominations along the way, including an Emmy Award and two more Academy Award nominations for her performances in the films Resurrection (1980) and Requiem for a Dream (2000).
Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit,
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