Ellen Burstyn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932) is an American actress, who has worked in film, stage and television. Her acting career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next ten years, Burstyn appeared in several films and television series before joining the Actors Studio in 1967. She achieved recognition for her roles in The Last Picture Show (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), receiving Academy Award nominations for both performances. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress the following year for her work in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1973). In 1975, she won a Tony Award for her work 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. Burstyn continued to work extensively since the 1980s, and was acclaimed for her performance in the film Requiem for a Dream, for which she received several critic's awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Burstyn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Dec 7, 1932 In Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 138
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Bathing Flo
- Latest Project:
- Movie Duse, the Greatest 2025-02-03
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Fuddy Meers | Gertie | 2026 |
| Movie | Bathing Flo | 2026 | |
| Movie | Duse, the Greatest | 2025-02-03 | |
| Movie | Mother, Couch | Mother | 2024-07-05 |
| Movie | Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain | Self | 2023-12-08 |
| Movie | The Exorcist: Believer | Chris MacNeil | 2023-10-04 |
| Movie | Three Months | Valerie | 2022-02-23 |
| Series | Reframed: Marilyn Monroe | Self | 2022-01-16 |
| Movie | Queen Bees | Helen Wilson | 2021-06-11 |
| Movie | Delphine and Carole | Self (archive footage) | 2020-01-14 |
| Movie | Pieces of a Woman | Elizabeth Weiss | 2020-12-30 |
| Movie | American Woman | Miss Dolly | 2019-09-12 |
| Movie | The House of Tomorrow | Josephine Prendergast | 2019-06-20 |
| Movie | Lucy in the Sky | Nana Holbrook | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | The Tale | Nettie | 2018-01-20 |
| Movie | Nostalgia | Helen Greer | 2018-02-16 |
| Movie | Friedkin Uncut | Self | 2018-11-05 |
| Movie | All I Wish | Celia Berges | 2018-02-01 |
| Movie | Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime | Self | 2017-04-05 |
| Movie | Custody | Beatrice Fisher | 2016-04-17 |
| Movie | Wiener-Dog | Nana | 2016-06-24 |
| Movie | Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
| Movie | The Age of Adaline | Flemming | 2015-04-16 |
| Movie | About Scout | Gram | 2015-04-25 |
| Movie | River of Fundament | Hathfertiti | 2014-02-12 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self - Interviewee | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Flowers in the Attic | Grandmother | 2014-01-18 |
| Movie | Draft Day | Barb Weaver | 2014-04-11 |
| Movie | Interstellar | Murph (older) | 2014-11-05 |
| Movie | Two Men in Town | Mère Garnett | 2014-05-07 |
| Movie | Petals on the Wind | Olivia Foxworth | 2014-05-26 |
| Movie | The Calling | Emily Micallef | 2014-08-05 |
| Movie | Wish You Well | Louisa Mae Cardinal | 2013-10-19 |
| Movie | Love, Marilyn | Self | 2013-05-30 |
| Series | Political Animals | Margaret Barrish | 2012-07-15 |
| Movie | Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You | Nanette | 2012-02-24 |
| Series | Coma | Mrs. Emerson | 2012-09-03 |
| Movie | Another Happy Day | Doris Baker | 2011-11-18 |
| Movie | The Mighty Macs | Mother St. John | 2011-10-21 |
| Movie | Main Street | Georgiana Carr | 2010-10-21 |
| Movie | Reflections of a Philosopher King | Self | 2010-11-23 |
| Movie | BBStory: An American Film Renaissance | Self | 2010-11-23 |
| Movie | The Velveteen Rabbit | Swan (voice) | 2009-02-27 |
| Movie | Lovely, Still | Mary | 2009-10-03 |
| Movie | According to Greta | Katherine | 2009-11-25 |
| Movie | W. | Barbara Bush | 2008-10-17 |
| Movie | The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond | Miss Addie | 2008-09-12 |
| Movie | Mitch Albom's For One More Day | Pauline "Posey" Benetto | 2007-12-09 |
| Movie | The Stone Angel | Hagar | 2007-09-12 |
| Movie | Mrs. Harris | Former Tarnower Steady | 2006-02-25 |
| Series | The Book of Daniel | Bishop Beatrice Congreve | 2006-01-06 |
| Movie | The Elephant King | Diana Hunt | 2006-04-26 |
| Movie | Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow | Self | 2006-06-22 |
| Movie | 30 Days | Maura | 2006-10-06 |
| Movie | The Fountain | Dr. Lillian Guzetti | 2006-11-22 |
| Movie | The Wicker Man | Sister Summersisle | 2006-08-31 |
| Movie | Stardust: The Bette Davis Story | Self | 2006-05-03 |
| Movie | Our Fathers | Mary Ryan | 2005-05-11 |
| Movie | The Five People You Meet In Heaven | Ruby | 2004-12-05 |
| Movie | The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel | Tommie | 2004-10-31 |
| Movie | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | 2003-03-09 |
| Movie | Brush with Fate | Rika | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | A Decade Under the Influence | Self | 2003-04-25 |
| Movie | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Vivi Abbott Walker | 2002-06-07 |
| Movie | Red Dragon | Grandma Dolarhyde (voice) (uncredited) | 2002-10-02 |
| Movie | Within These Walls | Joan Thomas | 2001-08-20 |
| Movie | Memories, Dreams & Addictions | Self | 2001-05-22 |
| Movie | The Yards | Val Handler | 2000-04-27 |
| Movie | Mermaid | Trish | 2000-05-21 |
| Movie | Requiem for a Dream | Sara Goldfarb | 2000-10-06 |
| Series | That's Life | Dolly DeLucca | 2000-10-01 |
| Movie | Walking Across Egypt | Mattie Rigsbee | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | The Last Picture Show: A Look Back | Self | 1999-04-25 |
| Movie | Night Ride Home | Maggie | 1999-02-07 |
| Movie | The Patron Saint of Liars | June Clatterbuck | 1998-04-05 |
| Movie | The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist | Self - Chris MacNeil | 1998-06-13 |
| Series | A Will of their Own | Veronica Steward | 1998-10-18 |
| Movie | Playing by Heart | Mildred | 1998-12-30 |
| Movie | You Can Thank Me Later | Shirley Cooperberg | 1998-09-03 |
| Movie | Marilyn in Manhattan | Self | 1998-09-05 |
| Movie | A Deadly Vision | Yvette Watson | 1997-04-21 |
| Movie | Flash | Laura Strong | 1997-12-21 |
| Movie | Deceiver | Mook | 1997-08-31 |
| Movie | The Spitfire Grill | Hannah Ferguson | 1996-08-23 |
| Movie | Timepiece | Maud Gannon | 1996-12-22 |
| Movie | Roommates | Judith | 1995-03-03 |
| Movie | Follow The River | Gretel | 1995-04-22 |
| Movie | How to Make an American Quilt | Hy Dodd | 1995-10-06 |
| Movie | My Brother's Keeper | Helen | 1995-03-19 |
| Movie | The Baby-Sitters Club | Mrs. Haberman | 1995-08-18 |
| Movie | Getting Out | Arlie's Mother | 1994-04-25 |
| Movie | When a Man Loves a Woman | Emily | 1994-04-29 |
| Movie | Trick of the Eye | Frances Griffin | 1994-10-22 |
| Movie | Getting Gotti | Jo Giacalone | 1994-05-10 |
| Movie | The Cemetery Club | Esther Moskowitz | 1993-02-03 |
| Movie | Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story | Joan Delvecchio | 1993-09-27 |
| Movie | When It Was a Game 2 | Passage Narrator (voice) | 1992-07-13 |
| Movie | Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story | Wilma | 1992-03-15 |
| Movie | Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | 1992-10-01 |
| Movie | Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas | Self | 1991-09-06 |
| Movie | Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love | Lillian "Lil" Lambert | 1991-05-12 |
| Movie | Grand Isle | Mademoiselle Reisz | 1991-08-23 |
| Movie | Dying Young | Mrs. O'Neil | 1991-06-20 |
| Movie | When You Remember Me | Nurse Cooder | 1990-10-07 |
| Movie | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Herself | 1989-06-26 |
| Movie | Hello Actors Studio | Self | 1988-11-09 |
| Movie | Hanna's War | Katalin | 1988-04-14 |
| Movie | Pack of Lies | Barbara Jackson | 1987-04-26 |
| Movie | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | Mrs. Stocks (voice) | 1987-10-01 |
| Series | The Ellen Burstyn Show | Ellen Brewer | 1986-09-20 |
| Movie | Act of Vengeance | Margaret Yablonski | 1986-09-04 |
| Movie | Something in Common | Lynn Hollander | 1986-11-02 |
| Movie | The Ambassador | Alex Hacker | 1985-01-11 |
| Movie | Surviving | Tina Brogan | 1985-02-10 |
| Movie | Twice in a Lifetime | Kate MacKenzie | 1985-10-23 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
| Movie | Into Thin Air | Joan Walker | 1985-10-29 |
| Movie | Terror in the Aisles | 1984-10-26 | |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
| Movie | People vs. Jean Harris | Jean Harris | 1981-05-07 |
| Movie | Silence of the North | Olive Frederickson | 1981-10-23 |
| Movie | Be Pretty and Shut Up! | Self | 1981-03-04 |
| Movie | Resurrection | Edna | 1980-09-26 |
| Movie | A Dream of Passion | Brenda Collins | 1978-05-21 |
| Movie | Same Time, Next Year | Doris | 1978-04-23 |
| Movie | Providence | Sonia Langham | 1977-01-25 |
| Movie | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Alice Hyatt | 1974-12-09 |
| Movie | The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | Self (archive footage) | 1974-02-20 |
| Movie | Harry and Tonto | Shirley Mallard | 1974-08-12 |
| Movie | Thursday's Game | Lynne Evers | 1974-04-14 |
| Movie | The Exorcist | Chris MacNeil | 1973-12-26 |
| Movie | The King of Marvin Gardens | Sally | 1972-10-13 |
| Movie | The Last Picture Show | Lois Farrow | 1971-10-03 |
| Movie | Tropic of Cancer | Mona (uncredited) | 1970-02-27 |
| Movie | Alex in Wonderland | Beth Morrison | 1970-12-22 |
| Movie | Pit Stop | Ellen McCleod | 1969-05-14 |
| Movie | For Those Who Think Young | Dr. Pauline Swenson | 1964-06-01 |
| Movie | Goodbye Charlie | Franny Salzman | 1964-11-18 |