Cast
Ellen Burstyn
Acting
Cast
Ellen Burstyn
Known for
Acting
Born
1932-12-07
From
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also known as Ellen McRae, Edna Rae Gilhooley
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.
★8.5
MOVIE2014
Interstellar
as Murph (older)
★7.7
MOVIE1973
The Exorcist
as Chris MacNeil
★7.5
MOVIE2015
The Age of Adaline
as Flemming
★5.8
MOVIE2023
The Exorcist: Believer
as Chris MacNeil
★8.0
MOVIE2000
Requiem for a Dream
as Sara Goldfarb
★6.9
MOVIE2006
The Fountain
as Dr. Lillian Guzetti
★6.7
MOVIE2014
Flowers in the Attic
as Grandmother
★4.3
MOVIE2006
The Wicker Man
as Sister Summersisle
★6.3
MOVIE2013
Wish You Well
as Louisa Mae Cardinal
★6.7
MOVIE2014
Draft Day
as Barb Weaver
★7.0
MOVIE2020
Pieces of a Woman
as Elizabeth Weiss
★6.8
MOVIE2025
Breakdown: 1975
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE2000
The Yards
as Val Handler
★6.6
MOVIE1994
When a Man Loves a Woman
as Emily
★7.6
MOVIE1971
The Last Picture Show
as Lois Farrow
★6.8
MOVIE2019
The House of Tomorrow
as Josephine Prendergast
★7.0
MOVIE1974
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
as Alice Hyatt
★6.6
MOVIE2014
Petals on the Wind
as Olivia Foxworth
★4.6
MOVIE2010
Main Street
as Georgiana Carr
★6.8
MOVIE2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self - Interviewee
★7.1
MOVIE2018
The Tale
as Nettie
★6.7
MOVIE1991
Dying Young
as Mrs. O'Neil
★2.8
MOVIE2006
30 Days
as Maura
★6.9
MOVIE2016
Custody
as Beatrice Fisher
★5.4
MOVIE1995
The Baby-Sitters Club
as Mrs. Haberman
★5.5
MOVIE2011
Another Happy Day
as Doris Baker
★6.4
MOVIE1995
How to Make an American Quilt
as Hy Dodd
★5.0
MOVIE2019
Lucy in the Sky
as Nana Holbrook
★6.6
MOVIE2013
Love, Marilyn
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE2024
Mother, Couch
as Mother
★6.6
MOVIE2009
Lovely, Still
as Mary
★6.8
MOVIE1985
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
MOVIE2025
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE2014
The Calling
as Emily Micallef
★6.1
MOVIE2008
W.
as Barbara Bush
★5.8
MOVIE1982
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE2016
Wiener-Dog
as Nana
★6.6
MOVIE1998
Playing by Heart
as Mildred
★5.5
MOVIE2018
All I Wish
as Celia Berges
★6.0
MOVIE2009
According to Greta
as Katherine
★6.1
MOVIE1990
When You Remember Me
as Nurse Cooder
★5.4
MOVIE2018
Nostalgia
as Helen Greer
★5.3
MOVIE2008
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
as Miss Addie
★5.5
MOVIE2014
Two Men in Town
as Mère Garnett
★6.0
MOVIE2021
Queen Bees
as Helen Wilson
MOVIE1981
People vs. Jean Harris
as Jean Harris
★6.5
MOVIE1996
The Spitfire Grill
as Hannah Ferguson
★6.5
MOVIE1974
Thursday's Game
as Lynne Evers
★6.1
MOVIE2002
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
as Vivi
★5.3
MOVIE1998
The Patron Saint of Liars
as June Clatterbuck
★7.0
MOVIE2002
Red Dragon
as Grandma Dolarhyde (voice) (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1985
Twice in a Lifetime
as Kate MacKenzie
★5.9
MOVIE2014
River of Fundament
as Hathfertiti
★5.7
MOVIE1986
Act of Vengeance
as Margaret Yablonski
★6.7
MOVIE1992
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1977
Providence
as Sonia Langham
★9.5
MOVIE1991
Picture This
as Self
★7.9
MOVIE1998
Marilyn in Manhattan
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1992
When It Was a Game 2
as Passage Narrator (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE1995
Roommates
as Judith
★5.8
MOVIE1998
You Can Thank Me Later
as Shirley Cooperberg
★7.6
MOVIE2015
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1982
I Love Liberty
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2005
Our Fathers
as Mary Ryan
★5.7
MOVIE1964
For Those Who Think Young
as Dr. Pauline Swenson
★6.0
MOVIE1997
Deceiver
as Mook
★6.8
MOVIE1969
Pit Stop
as Ellen McCleod
★7.1
MOVIE1974
Harry and Tonto
as Shirley Mallard
★1.0
MOVIE1995
My Brother's Keeper
as Helen
★5.5
MOVIE1993
The Cemetery Club
as Esther Moskowitz
★7.9
MOVIE2003
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1972
The King of Marvin Gardens
as Sally
★7.1
MOVIE1987
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
as Mrs. Stocks (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE1985
Into Thin Air
as Joan Walker
★4.9
MOVIE2019
American Woman
as Miss Dolly
★5.4
MOVIE2007
The Stone Angel
as Hagar
★6.6
MOVIE2009
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Swan (voice)
MOVIE2025
Duse, the Greatest
★6.5
MOVIE1978
Same Time, Next Year
as Doris
★7.1
MOVIE2022
Three Months
as Valerie
★5.2
MOVIE1985
The Ambassador
as Alex Hacker
★6.7
MOVIE1988
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE2011
The Mighty Macs
as Mother St. John
★6.1
MOVIE1981
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1980
Resurrection
as Edna
★5.8
MOVIE1964
Goodbye Charlie
as Franny Salzman
★5.5
MOVIE2012
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
as Nanette
★7.4
MOVIE1998
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
as Self - Chris MacNeil
★7.3
MOVIE1995
Follow The River
as Gretel
★10.0
MOVIE2004
Second Chances: The Making of "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
as Self
★4.8
MOVIE1970
Tropic of Cancer
as Mona (uncredited)
★8.2
MOVIE1997
Flash
as Laura Strong
★7.0
MOVIE1981
Silence of the North
as Olive Frederickson
★5.0
MOVIE1994
Getting Gotti
as Jo Giacalone
★6.0
MOVIE2003
Brush with Fate
as Rika
★7.0
MOVIE2004
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
as Ruby
★5.9
MOVIE2006
The Elephant King
as Diana Hunt
★6.5
MOVIE2009
PoliWood
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE2018
Friedkin Uncut
as Self
★4.6
MOVIE1991
Grand Isle
as Mademoiselle Reisz
★5.2
MOVIE1988
Hanna's War
as Katalin
★6.7
MOVIE2006
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE1994
Getting Out
as Arlie's Mother
★5.0
MOVIE2001
The Making of Requiem for a Dream
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE2001
Within These Walls
as Joan Thomas
★7.7
MOVIE1999
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
as Self
MOVIE2021
Watch on the Rhine
as Fanny
★6.0
MOVIE1990
The Color of Evening
as Kate O'Rielly
★4.9
MOVIE1999
Walking Across Egypt
as Mattie Rigsbee
★6.8
MOVIE1987
Pack of Lies
as Barbara Jackson
★5.8
MOVIE2006
Mrs. Harris
as Former Tarnower Steady
★6.7
MOVIE2000
Mermaid
as Trish
★5.0
MOVIE1985
Surviving
as Tina Brogan
★5.8
MOVIE1999
Night Ride Home
as Maggie
MOVIETBA
Bathing Flo
★7.7
MOVIE1974
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIETBA
Flesh Impact
as Marilyn Monroe
★5.9
MOVIE2015
About Scout
as Gram
★5.5
MOVIE1970
Alex in Wonderland
as Beth Morrison
MOVIETBA
Place to Be
as Brooke
★6.0
MOVIE1986
Something in Common
as Lynn Hollander
★3.0
MOVIE2007
Mitch Albom's For One More Day
as Pauline "Posey" Benetto
★6.5
MOVIE2020
Delphine and Carole
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self
★5.1
MOVIE1991
Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
as Lillian "Lil" Lambert
★8.0
MOVIE2021
Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
as Herself
★5.6
MOVIE1997
A Deadly Vision
as Yvette Watson
★7.0
MOVIE1996
Timepiece
as Maud Gannon
★6.4
MOVIE1994
Trick of the Eye
as Frances Griffin
★7.1
MOVIE2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self
★2.0
MOVIE1958
The Christmas Tree
as Elizabeth
★4.5
MOVIE2024
E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump
as E. Jean Carroll
★7.0
MOVIE2001
Memories, Dreams & Addictions
as Self
MOVIE2010
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
as Self
★4.3
MOVIE1993
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
as Joan Delvecchio
★6.9
MOVIE2006
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1992
Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
as Wilma
★7.0
MOVIE1993
Roots of Roe
as Narrator (voice)
★3.5
MOVIE2017
Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime
as Self
MOVIE2024
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
as Self
★4.7
MOVIE2004
The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel
as Tommie
MOVIE1948
Easy Out?
as Mary
MOVIE1961
Ricochet
as Rose Maxon
★6.2
MOVIE1978
A Dream of Passion
as Brenda Collins
MOVIE2019
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
as Self
MOVIE2010
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
as Self
MOVIE2010
Reflections of a Philosopher King
as Self