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 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1932-12-07

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	Ricochet	Rose Maxon	0
2	1981	Be Pretty and Shut Up!	Self	63
3	1981	Silence of the North	Olive Frederickson	40
4	1985	Surviving	Tina Brogan	52
5	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
6	1985	Into Thin Air	Joan Walker	70
7	1986	Act of Vengeance	Margaret Yablonski	56
8	1988	Hanna's War	Katalin	47
9	1989	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre	Self	0
10	1990	When You Remember Me	Nurse Cooder	59
11	1991	Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love	Lillian "Lil" Lambert	45
12	1993	Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story	Joan Delvecchio	33
13	1994	Getting Gotti	Jo Giacalone	46
14	1994	Trick of the Eye	Frances Griffin	60
15	1995	Roommates	Judith	59
16	1995	Follow The River	Gretel	70
17	1997	Flash	Laura Strong	83
18	1998	You Can Thank Me Later	Shirley Cooperberg	59
19	1999	The Last Picture Show: A Look Back	Self	73
20	2001	Memories, Dreams & Addictions	Self	0
21	2006	Stardust: The Bette Davis Story	Self	70
22	2010	Main Street	Georgiana Carr	46
23	2010	Reflections of a Philosopher King	Self	0
24	2013	Wish You Well	Louisa Mae Cardinal	63
25	2014	Two Men in Town	Mère Garnett	55
26	2015	The Age of Adaline	Flemming	75
27	2015	About Scout	Gram	58
28	2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)	75
29	2016	Custody	Beatrice Fisher	70
30	2016	Wiener-Dog	Nana	56
31	2018	The Tale	Nettie	71
32	2018	All I Wish	Celia Berges	56
33	2018	Nostalgia	Helen Greer	54
34	2019	The House of Tomorrow	Josephine Prendergast	70
35	2023	Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain	Self	87
36	2024	Mother, Couch	Mother	56
37		Bathing Flo		0
38	1948	Easy Out?	Mary	0
39	1958	The Christmas Tree	Elizabeth	0
40	1964	For Those Who Think Young	Dr. Pauline Swenson	52
41	1964	Goodbye Charlie	Franny Salzman	56
42	1969	Pit Stop	Ellen McCleod	67
43	1970	Tropic of Cancer	Mona (uncredited)	47
44	1970	Alex in Wonderland	Beth Morrison	58
45	1971	The Last Picture Show	Lois Farrow	76
46	1972	The King of Marvin Gardens	Sally	58
47	1973	The Exorcist	Chris MacNeil	77
48	1974	The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute	Self (archive footage)	77
49	1974	Thursday's Game	Lynne Evers	52
50	1974	Harry and Tonto	Shirley Mallard	71
51	1974	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Alice Hyatt	70
52	1977	Providence	Sonia Langham	68
53	1978	Same Time, Next Year	Doris	66
54	1978	A Dream of Passion	Brenda Collins	55
55	1980	Resurrection	Edna	65
56	1981	People vs. Jean Harris	Jean Harris	0
57	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
58	1982	I Love Liberty	Self	0
59	1985	The Ambassador	Alex Hacker	50
60	1985	Twice in a Lifetime	Kate MacKenzie	56
61	1986	Something in Common	Lynn Hollander	60
62	1987	Pack of Lies	Barbara Jackson	66
63	1987	Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam	Mrs. Stocks (voice)	71
64	1988	Hello Actors Studio	Self	60
65	1989	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre	Herself	0
66	1990	The Color of Evening	Kate O'Rielly	20
67	1991	Dying Young	Mrs. O'Neil	67
68	1991	Grand Isle	Mademoiselle Reisz	37
69	1991	Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas	Self	90
70	1992	Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story	Wilma	73
71	1992	When It Was a Game 2	Passage Narrator (voice)	90
72	1992	Earth and the American Dream	Reader (voice)	67
73	1993	The Cemetery Club	Esther Moskowitz	53
74	1994	Getting Out	Arlie's Mother	46
75	1994	When a Man Loves a Woman	Emily	66
76	1995	My Brother's Keeper	Helen	10
77	1995	The Baby-Sitters Club	Mrs. Haberman	54
78	1995	How to Make an American Quilt	Hy Dodd	64
79	1996	The Spitfire Grill	Hannah Ferguson	65
80	1996	Timepiece	Maud Gannon	70
81	1997	A Deadly Vision	Yvette Watson	45
82	1997	Deceiver	Mook	59
83	1998	The Patron Saint of Liars	June Clatterbuck	47
84	1998	The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist	Self - Chris MacNeil	73
85	1998	Marilyn in Manhattan	Self	75
86	1998	Playing by Heart	Mildred	66
87	1999	Walking Across Egypt	Mattie Rigsbee	49
88	1999	Night Ride Home	Maggie	56
89	2000	The Yards	Val Handler	62
90	2000	Mermaid	Trish	65
91	2000	Requiem for a Dream	Sara Goldfarb	80
92	2001	The Making of Requiem for a Dream	Self	46
93	2001	Within These Walls	Joan Thomas	52
94	2002	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Vivi Abbott Walker	61
95	2002	Red Dragon	Grandma Dolarhyde (voice) (uncredited)	70
96	2003	Brush with Fate	Rika	58
97	2003	Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood	Self	71
98	2003	A Decade Under the Influence	Self	80
99	2004	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Second Chances	Self	0
100	2004	Second Chances: The Making of "Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore"		0
101	2004	The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel	Tommie	47
102	2004	The Five People You Meet In Heaven	Ruby	70
103	2005	Our Fathers	Mary Ryan	64
104	2006	Mrs. Harris	Former Tarnower Steady	59
105	2006	The Elephant King	Diana Hunt	59
106	2006	Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow	Self	64
107	2006	The Wicker Man	Sister Summersisle	43
108	2006	30 Days	Maura	10
109	2006	The Fountain	Dr. Lillian Guzetti	69
110	2007	The Stone Angel	Hagar	53
111	2007	Mitch Albom's For One More Day	Pauline "Posey" Benetto	30
112	2008	The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond	Miss Addie	52
113	2008	W.	Barbara Bush	62
114	2009	The Velveteen Rabbit	Swan (voice)	66
115	2009	PoliWood	Self	65
116	2009	Lovely, Still	Mary	66
117	2009	According to Greta	Katherine	61
118	2010	BBStory: An American Film Renaissance	Self	0
119	2010	America Lost and Found: The BBS Story	Self	0
120	2011	The Mighty Macs	Mother St. John	52
121	2011	Another Happy Day	Doris Baker	56
122	2012	Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You	Nanette	56
123	2013	Love, Marilyn	Self	66
124	2014	Flowers in the Attic	Grandmother	67
125	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self - Interviewee	70
126	2014	River of Fundament	Hathfertiti	62
127	2014	Draft Day	Barb Weaver	67
128	2014	Petals on the Wind	Olivia Foxworth	66
129	2014	The Calling	Emily Micallef	58
130	2014	Interstellar	Murph (older)	85
131	2017	Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime	Self	40
132	2018	Friedkin Uncut	Self	70
133	2019	Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies	Self	0
134	2019	American Woman	Miss Dolly	50
135	2019	Lucy in the Sky	Nana Holbrook	50
136	2020	Delphine and Carole	Self (archive footage)	69
137	2020	Pieces of a Woman	Elizabeth Weiss	70
138	2021	Watch on the Rhine	Fanny	0
139	2021	Queen Bees	Helen Wilson	59
140	2021	Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes	Herself	80
141	2022	Three Months	Valerie	70
142	2023	The Exorcist: Believer	Chris MacNeil	59
143	2023	Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist	Self (archive footage)	73
144	2024	Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist	Self	0
145	2024	E. Jean Carroll V. Donald J. Trump	E. Jean Carroll	80
146	2025	Duse, the Greatest		0
147		Place To Be	Brooke	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Elizabeth	86
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Barbara Jackson	86
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Maggie	86
6	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Rika	86
7	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
8	1953	Letter to Loretta	Ann Walters	65
9	1955	Gunsmoke	Polly	66
10	1955	Gunsmoke	Amy Waters	66
11	1955	Cheyenne	Emmy Mae	58
12	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Host/Presenter	51
13	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	51
14	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
15	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Host	51
16	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Audience Member	51
17	1957	Perry Mason	Mona Winthrope White	77
18	1958	77 Sunset Strip	Betty Benson	67
19	1958	77 Sunset Strip	Sandra Keene	67
20	1959	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis	Donna Whittaker	58
21	1959	The Detectives	Nora	56
22	1960	Checkmate	Margo as Ellen McRae	41
23	1960	Surfside 6	Wandra Drake	50
24	1961	The Defenders	Hilda Wesley	62
25	1961	Dr. Kildare	Anne Garner	55
26	1961	Bus Stop	Phyllis Dunning	0
27	1961	Ben Casey	Dr. Leslie Fraser	56
28	1961	Ben Casey	Connie	56
29	1962	The Virginian	Kate Burden	65
30	1962	I'm Dickens, He's Fenster	Joan	67
31	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
32	1962	Going My Way	Louise	57
33	1963	Vacation Playhouse	Ellen	70
34	1963	The Greatest Show on Earth	Susan Mason	50
35	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Barbara Sherwood / Lucille Benton	53
36	1965	The Big Valley	Sister Sarah Jacob	61
37	1966	The Time Tunnel	Eve Holland	76
38	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
39	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
40	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
41	1986	The Ellen Burstyn Show	Ellen Brewer	50
42	1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)	74
43	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	75
44	1996	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Self - Guest	35
45	1997	The View	Self	45
46	1998	A Will of their Own	Veronica Steward	70
47	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Bernie Stabler	79
48	2000	That's Life	Dolly DeLucca	70
49	2006	The Book of Daniel	Bishop Beatrice Congreve	71
50	2006	Big Love	Nancy Davis Dutton	69
51	2012	Political Animals	Margaret Barrish	73
52	2012	Coma	Mrs. Emerson	64
53	2013	House of Cards	Elizabeth Hale	80
54	2013	Mom	Shirley	73
55	2021	Law & Order: Organized Crime	Bernadette 'Bernie' Stabler	79
56	2022	Reframed: Marilyn Monroe	Self	78
57	2022	The First Lady	Sara Delano Roosevelt	64

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