Ellen Burstyn
Biography
Career She debuted on Broadway in 1957 and, in 1975, won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in "Same Time, Next Year." In 1990 she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. Until 1970, she was credited as "Ellen McRae" in nearly all her film and TV appearances. Burstyn won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1974 for her performance in the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. She received her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1971 for the film The Last Picture Show, and was subsequently nominated for Best Actress in 1973 for the horror movie The Exorcist, in 1978 for Same Time, Next Year, in 1980 for Resurrection, and for Requiem for a Dream in 2000. She appeared in many television shows of the 1960s, including guest appearances on Perry Mason, Maverick, Wagon Train, 77 Sunset Strip, The Big Valley and Gunsmoke. She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1980. In 1986, she had her own sitcom, The Ellen Burstyn Show with Megan Mullally as her daughter and Elaine Stritch as her mother. It was cancelled after one season. From 2000 to 2002, Burstyn appeared in the CBS television drama That's Life. In 2006, she starred as a bishop in the controversial NBC comedy-drama The Book of Daniel. Burstyn last appeared in The Fountain, directed by Darren Aronofsky, with whom she worked in Requiem for a Dream. Emmy Awards and Controversy Burstyn was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Special, for the TV movie The People vs. Jean Harris (1981) and again for another TV movie, Pack of Lies (1987). In 2006, she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special for Mrs Harris (She had played the title character in The People vs Mrs Jean Harris). She was nominated for a performance that consisted of 14 seconds of screen time, two lines of dialogue and a total of 38 words. This is the shortest nominated performance in the history of the Emmy Awards.
Interstellar
Murph
The Exorcist
Chris MacNeil
Requiem for a Dream
Sara Goldfarb
The Fountain
Dr. Lillian Guzetti
The Wicker Man
Sister SummersIsle
The Age of Adaline
Flemming
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alice Hyatt
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Ruby
When a Man Loves a Woman
Emily
Brooke
Flesh Impact
Marilyn Monroe
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Interviewee
This Ordinary Thing
Self
Duse, the Greatest
Self
E. Jean Carroll
The Exorcist: Believer
Chris MacNeil
Mother Couch
Mother
Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe
Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Three Months
Queen Bees
Helen
Pieces of a Woman
Elizabeth
Lucy in the Sky
Nana Holbrook
American Woman
Miss Dolly
Friedkin Uncut
Herself
The Tale
Nettie
The House of Tomorrow
Josephine Prendergast
Custody
Beatrice Fisher
Wiener-Dog
Nana
Unity
Narrator (voice)
About Scout
Gram
The Age of Adaline
Flemming
Interstellar
Murph
The Calling
Emily Micallef
When Marnie Was There
Nan (voice)
Petals On The Wind
Olivia Foxworth
Draft Day
Barb Weaver
River of Fundament
Hathfertiti
Two Men in Town
Garnett's mother
And the Oscar Goes To...
Herself - Actress
Flowers in the Attic
Grandmother
Wish You Well
Louisa Mae Cardinal
Love, Marilyn
Herself
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
Nanette
Another Happy Day
Doris
Main Street
Georgiana Carr
The Mighty Macs
Mother St. John
According to Greta
Katherine
PoliWood
Herself
The Velveteen Rabbit
Swan (voice)
W.
Barbara Bush
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Addie
Lovely, Still
Mary
The Stone Angel
Hagar
Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Pauline (Posey) Benetto
30 Days
Maura
The Fountain
Dr. Lillian Guzetti
The Wicker Man
Sister SummersIsle
Die Bette Davis Story
Herself
The Elephant King
Diana Hunt
The Book of Daniel - The Complete Series
Bishop Beatrice Congreve
Inside the Actors Studio: Al Pacino
Herself (uncredited)
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Self
Mrs. Harris
Former Tarnower Steady
Our Fathers
Mary Ryan
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Ruby
The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel
Tommie
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Herself
Brush with Fate
Rika
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker
Red Dragon
Grandma Dolarhyde (voice) (uncredited)
Within These Walls
Joan Thomas
Oscarverleihung 2001
Herself - Nominated: Best Actress in a Leading Role
Requiem for a Dream
Sara Goldfarb
Mermaid
Trish
The Yards
Val Handler
Walking Across Egypt
Mattie Rigsbee
Night Ride Home
Maggie
The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist'
Self / Chris MacNeil
The Patron Saint of Liars - Der lange Weg zur Wahrheit
June Clatterbuck
Playing By Heart
Mildred
Flash
Laura Strong
Deceiver
Mook
A Deadly Vision
Yvette Watson
Timepiece
Maud Gannon
The Spitfire Grill
Hannah Ferguson
Our Son, the Matchmaker
Iva Mae
How to Make an American Quilt
Hy Dodd
The Baby Sitters Club
Emily Haberman
Follow the River
Gretel
Roommates
Judith
Primal Secrets
Frances Griffin
When a Man Loves a Woman
Emily
Getting Gotti
Jo Giacalone
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
Joan Delvecchio
The Cemetery Club
Esther Moskowitz
Oscar's Greatest Moments
Herself (archive footage)
Dying Young
Mrs. O'Neil
Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
Lillian 'Lil' Lambert
When You Remember Me
Nurse Cooder
Hello Actors Studio
Self
Hanna's War
Katalin
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Mrs. Stocks (voice)
Pack of Lies
Barbara Jackson
Something in Common
Lynn Hollander
Ein Mann schlägt zurück
Margaret Yablonski
Twice in a Lifetime
Kate MacKenzie
Surviving
Tina Brogan
The Ambassador
Alex Hacker
Self
Silence of the North
Olive Frederickson
The People vs. Jean Harris
Jean Harris
Sois belle et tais-toi!
Self
Resurrection
Edna
Same Time, Next Year
Doris
Kravgi gynaikon
Brenda Collins
Providence
Sonia Langham
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alice Hyatt
Harry and Tonto
Shirley Mallard
The Exorcist
Chris MacNeil
The King of Marvin Gardens
Sally
The Last Picture Show
Lois Farrow
Tropic of Cancer
Mona Miller (Uncredited)
Pit Stop
Ellen McLeod (as Ellen McRae)
Goodbye Charlie
Franny Saltzmann (as Ellen McRae)
For Those Who Think Young
Dr. Pauline Swenson (as Ellen McRae)
The Echo Murders
Lillian 'Lil' Lambert
