Ellen Burstyn

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Bernie Stabler

Perry Mason

Mona Winthrope White

Interstellar

Murph (older)

Mom

Shirley

House of Cards

Elizabeth Hale

The Virginian

Kate Burden

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Presenter

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee

Tony Awards

Self - Host/Presenter

Tony Awards

Self - Winner

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter

Tony Awards

Self - Host

Tony Awards

Self - Audience Member

American Experience

Narrator (voice)

Cheyenne

Emmy Mae

Dr. Kildare

Anne Garner

Law & Order: Organized Crime

Bernadette 'Bernie' Stabler

The Big Valley

Sister Sarah Jacob

Gunsmoke

Polly

Gunsmoke

Amy Waters

Ben Casey

Dr. Leslie Fraser

Ben Casey

Connie

Big Love

Nancy Davis Dutton

The Exorcist

Chris MacNeil

Friedkin Uncut

Self

The Defenders

Hilda Wesley

Dinah!

Self

77 Sunset Strip

Betty Benson

77 Sunset Strip

Sandra Keene

The Age of Adaline

Flemming

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Donna Whittaker

Lovely, Still

Mary

Checkmate

Margo as Ellen McRae

Deceiver

Mook

The Time Tunnel

Eve Holland

The Oscars

Self

The Detectives

Nora

The Calling

Emily Micallef

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Barbara Sherwood / Lucille Benton

PoliWood

Self

The Fountain

Dr. Lillian Guzetti

Surfside 6

Wandra Drake

Getting Gotti

Jo Giacalone

The Exorcist: Believer

Chris MacNeil

Love, Marilyn

Self

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

Self - Chris MacNeil

Dying Young

Mrs. O'Neil

Surviving

Tina Brogan

Roommates

Judith

About Scout

Gram

Goodbye Charlie

Franny Salzman

The Mighty Macs

Mother St. John

The King of Marvin Gardens

Sally

The Yards

Val Handler

The Spitfire Grill

Hannah Ferguson

Resurrection

Edna

The House of Tomorrow

Josephine Prendergast

American Woman

Miss Dolly

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

Miss Addie

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Alice Hyatt

Grand Isle

Mademoiselle Reisz

Vacation Playhouse

Ellen

Queen Bees

Helen Wilson

W.

Barbara Bush

The Wicker Man

Sister Summersisle

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Self

Pit Stop

Ellen McCleod

Getting Out

Arlie's Mother

Another Happy Day

Doris Baker

Bus Stop

Phyllis Dunning

According to Greta

Katherine

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Nanette

When a Man Loves a Woman

Emily

The Greatest Show on Earth

Susan Mason

Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story

Joan Delvecchio

Mother, Couch

Mother

Flowers in the Attic

Grandmother

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

Self

Pieces of a Woman

Elizabeth Weiss

Mrs. Harris

Former Tarnower Steady

The Cemetery Club

Esther Moskowitz

Alex in Wonderland

Beth Morrison

Requiem for a Dream

Sara Goldfarb

Night of 100 Stars

Self

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self - Interviewee

The First Lady

Sara Delano Roosevelt

Draft Day

Barb Weaver

The Last Picture Show

Lois Farrow

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

Tommie

The Velveteen Rabbit

Swan (voice)

Two Men in Town

Mère Garnett

Night Ride Home

Maggie

Wish You Well

Louisa Mae Cardinal

Silence of the North

Olive Frederickson

How to Make an American Quilt

Hy Dodd

Flash

Laura Strong

You Can Thank Me Later

Shirley Cooperberg

Harry and Tonto

Shirley Mallard

Going My Way

Louise

Ricochet

Rose Maxon

Into Thin Air

Joan Walker

Pack of Lies

Barbara Jackson

Timepiece

Maud Gannon

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

Self (archive footage)

Mermaid

Trish

Something in Common

Lynn Hollander

Brush with Fate

Rika

Place To Be

Brooke

That's Life

Dolly DeLucca

Earth and the American Dream

Reader (voice)

A Deadly Vision

Yvette Watson

Lucy in the Sky

Nana Holbrook

Hanna's War

Katalin

Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love

Lillian "Lil" Lambert

The Christmas Tree

Elizabeth

Political Animals

Margaret Barrish

Same Time, Next Year

Doris

Wiener-Dog

Nana

Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist

Self

River of Fundament

Hathfertiti

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

Self

Easy Out?

Mary

Mitch Albom's For One More Day

Pauline "Posey" Benetto

A Will of their Own

Veronica Steward

Letter to Loretta

Ann Walters

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Ruby

The Color of Evening

Kate O'Rielly

When It Was a Game 2

Passage Narrator (voice)

All I Wish

Celia Berges

Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes

Herself

Twice in a Lifetime

Kate MacKenzie

When You Remember Me

Nurse Cooder

Main Street

Georgiana Carr

The Patron Saint of Liars

June Clatterbuck

Custody

Beatrice Fisher

Watch on the Rhine

Fanny

The Stone Angel

Hagar

Playing by Heart

Mildred

Coma

Mrs. Emerson

The Ambassador

Alex Hacker

The Baby-Sitters Club

Mrs. Haberman

Unity

Narrator (voice)

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

Wilma

The Book of Daniel

Bishop Beatrice Congreve

Tropic of Cancer

Mona (uncredited)

Trick of the Eye

Frances Griffin

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

Self

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Mrs. Stocks (voice)

Our Fathers

Mary Ryan

Self

Bathing Flo

Breakdown: 1975