Ellen Burstyn

Acting · 3.2 popularity

Age

Movies

147

Born: December 7, 1932
From: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Biography

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.

Works

147 films

Interstellar

20148.5

The Exorcist

19737.7

The Age of Adaline

20157.5

The Fountain

20066.9

Requiem for a Dream

20008.0

The Exorcist: Believer

20235.8

The Wicker Man

20064.3

The Yards

20006.2

Draft Day

20146.7

Dying Young

19916.7

Flowers in the Attic

20146.7

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

19747.0

The Tale

20187.1

When a Man Loves a Woman

19946.6

The Last Picture Show

19717.6

Red Dragon

20027.0

Pieces of a Woman

20207.0

The Calling

20145.9

How to Make an American Quilt

19956.4

20086.1

All I Wish

20185.5

Playing by Heart

19986.6

Petals on the Wind

20146.6

Wiener-Dog

20165.6

Breakdown: 1975

20256.8

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

20026.1

Custody

20166.9

Mother, Couch

20245.6

Main Street

20104.6

Queen Bees

20216.0

Lovely, Still

20096.6

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

20085.3

A Decade Under the Influence

20037.9

Lucy in the Sky

20195.0

Unity

20157.5

According to Greta

20096.0

30 Days

20062.8

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

The Baby-Sitters Club

19955.4

Same Time, Next Year

19786.5

The Spitfire Grill

19966.5

Another Happy Day

20115.5

Three Months

20227.1

Flash

19978.2

Deceiver

19976.0

Earth and the American Dream

19926.7

The House of Tomorrow

20196.8

Mrs. Harris

20055.8

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

20047.0

Harry and Tonto

19747.1

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

2010

The Last Picture Show: A Look Back

19997.7

Roommates

19955.7

Our Fathers

20056.5

Love, Marilyn

20136.6

And the Oscar Goes To...

20146.8

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

19747.7

The Velveteen Rabbit

20096.6

The Making of Requiem for a Dream

20015.0

For Those Who Think Young

19645.7

Two Men in Town

20145.5

Friedkin Uncut

20187.1

People vs. Jean Harris

1981

Night of 100 Stars

19825.8

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

20125.5

Nostalgia

20185.4

Flesh Impact

2026

The King of Marvin Gardens

19725.9

The Mighty Macs

20115.2

Picture This

19919.5

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

20037.1

The Stone Angel

20075.4

The Patron Saint of Liars

19985.3

Act of Vengeance

19865.7

Thursday's Game

19746.5

Providence

19776.6

PoliWood

20096.5

Wish You Well

20136.3

Hanna's War

19885.2

Walking Across Egypt

19994.9

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

19877.1

This Ordinary Thing

2025

Hello Actors Studio

19886.7

Second Chances: The Making of "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"

200410.0

Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love

19915.1

The Elephant King

20065.9

Goodbye Charlie

19645.8

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

20066.6

Alex in Wonderland

19705.5

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

19816.1

Resurrection

19806.5

I Love Liberty

1982

Tropic of Cancer

19704.8

Getting Gotti

19945.0

You Can Thank Me Later

19985.8

Follow The River

19957.3

Twice in a Lifetime

19855.8

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

19928.0

American Woman

20194.9

About Scout

20155.9

Delphine and Carole

20206.5

The Ambassador

19855.2

Into Thin Air

19857.4

Pit Stop

19696.8

The Cemetery Club

19935.5

River of Fundament

20145.9

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

Mitch Albom's For One More Day

20073.0

Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes

20218.0

Within These Walls

20015.6

Pack of Lies

19876.8

Ricochet

1961

Something in Common

19866.0

Marilyn in Manhattan

19987.9

Getting Out

19945.2

Brush with Fate

20036.0

The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel

20044.7

E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump

20244.5

Surviving

19855.0

My Brother's Keeper

19951.0

Reflections of a Philosopher King

2010

Bathing Flo

2026

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow

20066.9

Timepiece

19967.0

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

2010

When It Was a Game 2

19929.0

Place to Be

2026

Memories, Dreams & Addictions

20017.0

Duse, the Greatest

2025

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

19987.4

Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies

2019

A Deadly Vision

19975.6

Mermaid

20006.7

When You Remember Me

19906.1

Silence of the North

19817.0

Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist

2024

Watch on the Rhine

2021

Grand Isle

19914.6

The Christmas Tree

19582.0

The Color of Evening

19906.0

Trick of the Eye

19946.4

Easy Out?

1948

Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime

20173.5

Night Ride Home

19995.8

A Dream of Passion

19786.2

Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story

19934.3

Roots of Roe

19937.0