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Ellen Burstyn (Female, 77)Born: 7th December 1932 (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Filmogs Rating:   (78.28%)
Links: IMDb Profile
Ellen Burstyn Biography: Born in Detroit, Ellen worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a lunch counter. After dropping out of high school, she went to Texas to model and then to New York as a showgirl on "The Jackie Gleason Show" (1952). From there, it was Montreal as a nightclub dancer and then Broadway with her debut in "Fair Game (1957)." By 1963, she appeared on the TV series "The Doctors" (1963), but she gained notice for her role in "Goodbye Charlie (1964)." Ellen then took time off to study acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.Her big break came when she was cast as the female lead in The Last Picture Show (1971). For this role, she received nominations for the Golden Globe and Academy Award. Next, she co-starred with Jack Nicholson in The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), giving a chilling performance. Then came The Exorcist (1973). Ellen was again nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award. In 1974, she starred in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), playing a waitress, which is a job that she well knows. For this performance, she won the Oscar as Best Actress as well as the British award for the same category. For the Golden Globe, she was nominated but lost to Marsha Mason. The same year, Ellen made history by winning a Tony Award for the Broadway play "Same Time, Next Year." She won praise and award nominations for the movie version of Same Time, Next Year (1978) and Resurrection (1980). "Resurrection" was a another great film in which she played a woman with the power to heal.Even with all these sucessful movies and all the awards, Ellen found that she could barely get a job in the 80s. A succession of TV movies resulting in two Emmy nominations kept Ellen going as did the series "The Ellen Burstyn Show" (1986). The TV movies continued through the 90s. Also in the 90s, Ellen was cast in the supporting role in such movies as The Cemetery Club (1993), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), The Baby-Sitters Club (1995) and The Spitfire Grill (1996). In addition to her acting, Burstyn was the first woman president of Actor's Equity, the actors' union, from 1982 to 1985.
Ellen Burstyn Movies... | A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement,... |
 | Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Pills and heroin offer fulfillment of the dreams of four residents of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach in the shadow of a crumbling Coney Island amusement park. Sara dreams of appearing on television wear... |
| The Yards (2000)
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds hi... |
 | Playing by Heart (1998)
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show, and they must move beyond gentle barbs when she wants to know about an affair of his years... |
 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
When Alice's husband dies, she has no money but must support her 11 year old son. She decides she wants to move to Monterey, California to be a singer. They start from New Mexico and begin travelin... |
| The Exorcist (1973)
Blatty's novelization of a real case of possession that happened in a Washington Suburb (Mt. Ranier, MD) puts Regan, an adolescent girl, Living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington, into a m... |
 | The Last Picture Show (1971)
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass t... |
| The Winner (1969)
Grant Willard (Brian Donlevy) sponsors drivers in a "new" form of race car driving called The Figure Eight. The rise and fall of one such driver is the whole story behind PIT STOP. |
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