Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayal of complicated women in dramas, Burstyn was the recipient of various accolades, and was among the few performers to have won an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony (Triple Crown of Acting). Born in Detroit, Michigan, Burstyn left school and worked as a dancer and model. She made her stage debut on Broadway in 1957 and soon started to make appearances in television shows. Stardom followed several years later with her acclaimed role in The Last Picture Show (1971), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her next appearance in The Exorcist (1973), earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film has remained popular and several publications have regarded it as one of the greatest horror films of all time. She followed this with Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She appeared in numerous television films and gained further recognition from her performances in Same Time, Next Year (1978), which won her a Golden Globe Award, and Resurrection (1980), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), and Requiem For a Dream (2000). For playing a lonely drug-addicted woman in the last one of these, she was again nominated for an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In the 2010s, she made appearances in television series including the political dramas, Political Animals and House of Cards, which have earned her Emmy Award nominations. From 2000 till her death, she had 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 on stage. 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

Film

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	53
5	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
6	1986	Act of Vengeance	Margaret Yablonski	59
7	1988	Hanna's War	Katalin	47
8	1989	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre	Self	0
9	1990	When You Remember Me	Nurse Cooder	56
10	1991	Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love	Lillian "Lil" Lambert	45
11	1993	Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story	Joan Delvecchio	45
12	1994	Getting Gotti	Jo Giacalone	46
13	1994	Trick of the Eye	Frances Griffin	60
14	1995	Roommates	Judith	62
15	1995	Follow The River	Gretel	70
16	1997	Flash	Laura Strong	83
17	1998	You Can Thank Me Later	Shirley Cooperberg	59
18	1999	The Last Picture Show: A Look Back	Self	73
19	2001	Memories, Dreams & Addictions	Self	0
20	2006	Stardust: The Bette Davis Story	Self	70
21	2006	30 Days	Maura	10
22	2010	Main Street	Georgiana Carr	45
23	2013	Wish You Well	Louisa Mae Cardinal	64
24	2014	Two Men in Town	Mère Garnett	55
25	2015	The Age of Adaline	Flemming	75
26	2016	Custody	Beatrice Fisher	70
27	2016	Wiener-Dog	Nana	56
28	2018	All I Wish	Celia Berges	57
29	2018	Nostalgia	Helen Greer	55
30	2024	Mother, Couch	Mother	52
31		Fuddy Meers	Gertie	0
32	2015	About Scout	Gram	60
33	2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)	75
34	2018	The Tale	Nettie	71
35	2019	The House of Tomorrow	Josephine Prendergast	71
36	2023	Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain	Self	86
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)	46
44	1970	Alex in Wonderland	Beth Morrison	56
45	1971	The Last Picture Show	Lois Farrow	77
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	65
58	1982	I Love Liberty	Self	0
59	1985	The Ambassador	Alex Hacker	50
60	1985	Twice in a Lifetime	Kate MacKenzie	56
61	1985	Into Thin Air	Joan Walker	70
62	1986	Something in Common	Lynn Hollander	60
63	1987	Pack of Lies	Barbara Jackson	66
64	1987	Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam	Mrs. Stocks (voice)	71
65	1988	Hello Actors Studio	Self	60
66	1989	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre	Herself	0
67	1990	The Color of Evening	Kate O'Rielly	20
68	1991	Dying Young	Mrs. O'Neil	67
69	1991	Grand Isle	Mademoiselle Reisz	37
70	1991	Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas	Self	90
71	1992	Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story	Wilma	60
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	47
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	74
81	1997	A Deadly Vision	Yvette Watson	45
82	1997	Deceiver	Mook	60
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	57
89	2000	The Yards	Val Handler	62
90	2000	Mermaid	Trish	73
91	2000	Requiem for a Dream	Sara Goldfarb	80
92	2001	The Making of Requiem for a Dream	Self	50
93	2001	Within These Walls	Joan Thomas	53
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	The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel	Tommie	47
101	2004	The Five People You Meet In Heaven	Ruby	70
102	2005	Our Fathers	Mary Ryan	64
103	2006	Mrs. Harris	Former Tarnower Steady	60
104	2006	The Elephant King	Diana Hunt	59
105	2006	Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow	Self	64
106	2006	The Wicker Man	Sister Summersisle	43
107	2006	The Fountain	Dr. Lillian Guzetti	69
108	2007	The Stone Angel	Hagar	54
109	2007	Mitch Albom's For One More Day	Pauline "Posey" Benetto	35
110	2008	The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond	Miss Addie	52
111	2008	W.	Barbara Bush	62
112	2009	The Velveteen Rabbit	Swan (voice)	66
113	2009	PoliWood	Self	65
114	2009	According to Greta	Katherine	61
115	2010	Reflections of a Philosopher King	Self	0
116	2010	BBStory: An American Film Renaissance	Self	0
117	2010	America Lost and Found: The BBS Story	Self	0
118	2011	The Mighty Macs	Mother St. John	53
119	2011	Another Happy Day	Doris Baker	56
120	2012	Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You	Nanette	56
121	2012	Lovely, Still	Mary	65
122	2013	Love, Marilyn	Self	66
123	2014	Flowers in the Attic	Olivia Foxworth	67
124	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self - Interviewee	70
125	2014	River of Fundament	Hathfertiti	66
126	2014	Draft Day	Barb Weaver	67
127	2014	Petals on the Wind	Olivia Foxworth	66
128	2014	The Calling	Emily Micallef	58
129	2014	Interstellar	Murph (older)	85
130	2017	Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime	Self	40
131	2018	Friedkin Uncut	Self	70
132	2019	Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies	Self	0
133	2019	American Woman	Miss Dolly	50
134	2019	Lucy in the Sky	Nana Holbrook	50
135	2020	Delphine and Carole	Self (archive footage)	70
136	2020	Pieces of a Woman	Elizabeth Weiss	70
137	2021	Watch on the Rhine	Fanny	0
138	2021	Queen Bees	Helen Wilson	61
139	2021	Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes	Herself	80
140	2022	Three Months	Valerie	71
141	2023	The Exorcist: Believer	Chris MacNeil	59
142	2023	Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist	Self (archive footage)	73
143	2024	Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist	Herself	0
144	2024	E. Jean Carroll V. Donald J. Trump	E. Jean Carroll	80
145	2024	Duse, the Greatest		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	68
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	68
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Elizabeth	87
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Barbara Jackson	87
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Maggie	87
6	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Rika	87
7	1953	The Oscars	Self	70
8	1953	Letter to Loretta	Ann Walters	62
9	1955	Gunsmoke	Polly	66
10	1955	Gunsmoke	Amy Waters	66
11	1955	Cheyenne	Emmy Mae	58
12	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Host/Presenter	46
13	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	46
14	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	46
15	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Host	46
16	1957	Perry Mason	Mona Winthrope White	77
17	1958	77 Sunset Strip	Betty Benson	67
18	1958	77 Sunset Strip	Sandra Keene	67
19	1959	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis	Donna Whittaker	59
20	1959	The Detectives	Nora	56
21	1960	Checkmate	Margo as Ellen McRae	41
22	1960	Surfside 6	Wandra Drake	50
23	1961	The Defenders	Hilda Wesley	62
24	1961	Dr. Kildare	Anne Garner	54
25	1961	Bus Stop	Phyllis Dunning	0
26	1961	Ben Casey	Dr. Leslie Fraser	57
27	1961	Ben Casey	Connie	57
28	1962	I'm Dickens, He's Fenster	Joan	67
29	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
30	1962	Going My Way	Louise	57
31	1963	Vacation Playhouse	Ellen	0
32	1963	The Greatest Show on Earth	Susan Mason	50
33	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Barbara Sherwood / Lucille Benton	53
34	1965	The Big Valley	Sister Sarah Jacob	61
35	1966	The Time Tunnel	Eve Holland	76
36	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
37	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
38	1986	The Ellen Burstyn Show	Ellen Brewer	50
39	1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)	75
40	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	74
41	1996	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Self - Guest	35
42	1997	The View	Self	45
43	1998	A Will of their Own	Veronica Steward	70
44	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Bernie Stabler	79
45	2000	That's Life	Dolly DeLucca	70
46	2006	The Book of Daniel	Bishop Beatrice Congreve	71
47	2006	Big Love	Nancy Davis Dutton	69
48	2012	Political Animals	Margaret Barrish	72
49	2012	Coma	Mrs. Emerson	64
50	2013	House of Cards	Elizabeth Hale	80
51	2013	Mom	Shirley	73
52	2021	Law & Order: Organized Crime	Bernadette 'Bernie' Stabler	79
53	2022	Reframed: Marilyn Monroe	Self	74
54	2022	The First Lady	Sara Delano Roosevelt	64