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 Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a lunch counter. After graduating from Detroit's Cass Technical 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 to 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). She was again nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award. In 1974, she starred in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), for which performance she won the Oscar and BAFTA awards as Best Actress. For the Golden Globe, she was nominated but lost to Marsha Mason. The same year, she made history by winning a Tony Award for the Broadway play "Same Time, Next Year". She won praise and award nominations for her performances in the film versions of Same Time, Next Year (1978) and Resurrection (1980).In "Resurrection", she played a woman with the power to heal. A succession of TV movies resulting in two Emmy nominations kept her going as did the series The Ellen Burstyn Show (1986). The TV movies continued through the 1990s. Also in the 1990s, she 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, She was the first woman president of Actor's Equity (1982-85).
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Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a lunch counter. After graduating from Detroit's Cass Technical 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 to 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). She was again nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award. In 1974, she starred in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), for which performance she won the Oscar and BAFTA awards as Best Actress. For the Golden Globe, she was nominated but lost to Marsha Mason. The same year, she made history by winning a Tony Award for the Broadway play "Same Time, Next Year". She won praise and award nominations for her performances in the film versions of Same Time, Next Year (1978) and Resurrection (1980).In "Resurrection", she played a woman with the power to heal. A succession of TV movies resulting in two Emmy nominations kept her going as did the series The Ellen Burstyn Show (1986). The TV movies continued through the 1990s. Also in the 1990s, she 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, She was the first woman president of Actor's Equity (1982-85).
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Suffered a permanent spinal injury while filming The Exorcist (1973). In the sequence where she is thrown away from her possessed daughter, a harness jerked her hard away from the bed. She fell on her coccyx and screamed in pain, which was kept in the final version of the released film.Turned down the lead role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) because she had a sick husband to care for.Her third (and last) husband, Neil Burstyn was a bright, talented upcoming actor and writer (The Monkees (1965)). According to Ellen, he eventually degenerated into mental illness and became schizophrenic and violent. He left her just before she became a star. When she refused his pleas to get back together, he stalked and terrorized her for many years. He committed suicide in 1978.Worked as an acrobat and as a model for paperback covers.In September 2009, she became the 20th person to have won the Triple Crown of Acting: Academy Award (1975: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)); Tony Award (1975: Same Time Next Year), and Emmy Award (2009: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)).An ordained minister, Burstyn does not consume alcohol or drink coffee and practices yoga.Played her Academy Award nominated character from Same Time, Next Year (1978) on Broadway first and won a Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for the role in 1975. Burstyn was quoted in the book "On Women Turning 50" that she did not attend the Academy Awards ceremony the year she won as she felt she could not handle the pressure and attention if she won. After attending several later Oscar ceremonies at which she lost, she later regretted not being there to accept her award. Martin Scorsese, the director of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), accepted on her behalf.Is one of 17 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Viola Davis and Glenda Jackson.Wore 20- and 40-pound fat suits and prosthetic necks to play Sara Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream (2000).Says she is often mistaken for fellow actress Louise Fletcher. People tell her she was great in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (for which Fletcher won an Oscar). Fletcher reports being told frequently that she did a wonderful job in one of Burstyn's roles.Along with Al Pacino and Harvey Keitel, was named co-president of The Actor's Studio in 2000.Underwent an illegal abortion at 5 months pregnant in 1950. The operation left her infertile.Became a mother in 1962, when she adopted her son, Jefferson Roberts, with her now ex-2nd husband, Paul Roberts. She has one grandchild.She wrote to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences to protest Liv Ullmann's elimination from Oscar contention in 1974 for her performance in Scenes from a Marriage (1973) (aka "Scenes from a Marriage"). AMPAS used a rule under which TV presentations must have appeared in movie theaters in the same year, to prevent Ullmann from being nominated. The result is that Burstyn won the Oscar for her performance in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).Acting mentor of Megan Mullally.Following her birth parent's divorce, she was sent to St. Mary's Academy in neighboring Windsor, Ontario. She returned home to Detroit after her mother's remarriage.Chosen by People Magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World." (May 2001)Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners to have not accepted their Academy Award in person, Burstyn's being for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith and Glenda Jackson.Part of remarkable Strasberg alumni: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, James Dean, Steve McQueen, Christopher Walken, Marilyn Monroe,Paul Newman, Martin Landau, Angelina Jolie, Ray Liotta, Dennis Hopper, Matt Zemlin, Anne Bancroft etc.Served as co-artistic director for The Actor's Studio.Release of her book, "Lessons in Becoming Myself". (2006)Godmother of her The Spitfire Grill (1996) co-star (Marcia Gay Harden)'s children.In 2005, she was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Acting of the Savannah Film Festival.Member of the Official Competition Jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival (1977). Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival (1981). Co-head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival (1988).Burstyn plays two unusual roles where she becomes older than her parents. First, as Murph in Interstellar (2014), in which she was older than her father. The second, as Flemming in The Age of Adaline (2015), in which she was older than her mother.Made a special Academy Awards appearance in 1998, at the The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998), and participated in the "Oscar Family Album" sequence, along with many other former Academy Award winners.The character of Jean Harris seems to be a favorite for Burstyn. She was Emmy-nominated for the lead role as Jean Harris in the 1981 TV-movie, The People vs. Jean Harris (1981) and, in 2006, she was nominated as a supporting character (as an ex-lover of Jean Harris's lover) in the cable-movie based on the Harris case in Mrs. Harris (2005). Burstyn is perhaps the first actress to be nominated for a performance that is less than 1-minute long (in fact, it is approximately 15 seconds). She vied for the Emmy with fellow "Mrs. Harris" (and The Last Picture Show (1971)) co-star and Oscar-winner Cloris Leachman. Neither won.Was the 75th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) at 47th Annual Academy Awards (1975) on April 8, 1975.She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Last Picture Show (1971) and The Exorcist (1973).Has two brothers.Received the National Board of Review's Career Achievement Award in December 2000 at Tavern on the Green.Recipient of the 2006 Career Achievement in Acting Award from the Hamptons Film Festival.Daughter of Austin (1903-1988), born in the state of New Jersey, and Correine (n��e Hamel) Gillooly (1907-1985) , born in the state of North Dakota. They married in the state of Ohio on September 1, 1928.Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2007 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her performance in the film The Wicker Man (2006), however, she failed to receive a nomination.In 1975, Ellen won the Oscar for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and the Tony for "Same Time, Next Year", making her one of five actresses to win the Tony and the Oscar in the same year. The others are Shirley Booth, Audrey Hepburn, Mercedes Ruehl, and Judi Dench.Is one of 3 actresses who have won the Best Actress Oscar for playing a character called Alice. The others are Simone Signoret for Room at the Top (1958) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).The runaway story of her character Alice Hyatt in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) inspired the character of Dolors (Montse Caminal) in the Short film Silenci (2007).Is one of 19 actresses to have received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for a performance where they acted out a labor and/or birth; hers being for Same Time, Next Year (1978). The others in chronological order are Luise Rainer for The Good Earth (1937), Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948), Eleanor Parker for Caged (1950), Elizabeth Taylor for Raintree County (1957), Leslie Caron for The L-Shaped Room (1962), Shirley MacLaine for Irma la Douce (1963), Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora (1968), Genevi��ve Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Marsha Mason for Cinderella Liberty (1973), Ann-Margret for Tommy (1975), Jessica Lange for Sweet Dreams (1985), Meryl Streep for A Cry in the Dark (1988), Samantha Morton for In America (2002), Elliot Page for Juno (2007), Gabourey Sidibe for Precious (2009), Ruth Negga for Loving (2016), Yalitza Aparicio for Roma (2018) and Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman (2020).Born at 4:00 AM EST.The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on her 9th birthday, & the following movies/TV shows were released/aired on her birthday: u003culu003cliLog 111: The Boa Constrictor (1968)(#1.11)u003c/liu003cliThe New Improved Mel (1980)(#5.7) (an episode of Alice (1976) which is based on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)) ,where she played the title role.u003c/liu003cli2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).u003c/liu003c/ulThe Yards (2000) was hers, Mark Wahlberg's, & Joaquin Phoenix' first movie of the 21st century/third millennium. |
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Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an act |
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Suffered a permanent spinal injury while filming The Exorcist (1973). In the sequence where she is thrown away from her possessed daughter, a harness jerked her hard away from the bed. She fell on her coccyx and screamed in pain, which was kept in the final version of the released film.Turned down the lead role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) because she had a sick husband to care for.Her third (and last) husband, Neil Burstyn was a bright, talented upcoming actor and writer (The Monkees (1965)). According to Ellen, he eventually degenerated into mental illness and became schizophrenic and violent. He left her just before she became a star. When she refused his pleas to get back together, he stalked and terrorized her for many years. He committed suicide in 1978.Worked as an acrobat and as a model for paperback covers.In September 2009, she became the 20th person to have won the Triple Crown of Acting: Academy Award (1975: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)); Tony Award (1975: Same Time Next Year), and Emmy Award (2009: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)).An ordained minister, Burstyn does not consume alcohol or drink coffee and practices yoga.Played her Academy Award nominated character from Same Time, Next Year (1978) on Broadway first and won a Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for the role in 1975. Burstyn was quoted in the book "On Women Turning 50" that she did not attend the Academy Awards ceremony the year she won as she felt she could not handle the pressure and attention if she won. After attending several later Oscar ceremonies at which she lost, she later regretted not being there to accept her award. Martin Scorsese, the director of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), accepted on her behalf.Is one of 17 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Viola Davis and Glenda Jackson.Wore 20- and 40-pound fat suits and prosthetic necks to play Sara Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream (2000).Says she is often mistaken for fellow actress Louise Fletcher. People tell her she was great in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (for which Fletcher won an Oscar). Fletcher reports being told frequently that she did a wonderful job in one of Burstyn's roles.Along with Al Pacino and Harvey Keitel, was named co-president of The Actor's Studio in 2000.Underwent an illegal abortion at 5 months pregnant in 1950. The operation left her infertile.Became a mother in 1962, when she adopted her son, Jefferson Roberts, with her now ex-2nd husband, Paul Roberts. She has one grandchild.She wrote to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences to protest Liv Ullmann's elimination from Oscar contention in 1974 for her performance in Scenes from a Marriage (1973) (aka "Scenes from a Marriage"). AMPAS used a rule under which TV presentations must have appeared in movie theaters in the same year, to prevent Ullmann from being nominated. The result is that Burstyn won the Oscar for her performance in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).Acting mentor of Megan Mullally.Following her birth parent's divorce, she was sent to St. Mary's Academy in neighboring Windsor, Ontario. She returned home to Detroit after her mother's remarriage.Chosen by People Magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World." (May 2001)Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners to have not accepted their Academy Award in person, Burstyn's being for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith and Glenda Jackson.Part of remarkable Strasberg alumni: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, James Dean, Steve McQueen, Christopher Walken, Marilyn Monroe,Paul Newman, Martin Landau, Angelina Jolie, Ray Liotta, Dennis Hopper, Matt Zemlin, Anne Bancroft etc.Served as co-artistic director for The Actor's Studio.Release of her book, "Lessons in Becoming Myself". (2006)Godmother of her The Spitfire Grill (1996) co-star (Marcia Gay Harden)'s children.In 2005, she was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Acting of the Savannah Film Festival.Member of the Official Competition Jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival (1977). Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival (1981). Co-head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival (1988).Burstyn plays two unusual roles where she becomes older than her parents. First, as Murph in Interstellar (2014), in which she was older than her father. The second, as Flemming in The Age of Adaline (2015), in which she was older than her mother.Made a special Academy Awards appearance in 1998, at the The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998), and participated in the "Oscar Family Album" sequence, along with many other former Academy Award winners.The character of Jean Harris seems to be a favorite for Burstyn. She was Emmy-nominated for the lead role as Jean Harris in the 1981 TV-movie, The People vs. Jean Harris (1981) and, in 2006, she was nominated as a supporting character (as an ex-lover of Jean Harris's lover) in the cable-movie based on the Harris case in Mrs. Harris (2005). Burstyn is perhaps the first actress to be nominated for a performance that is less than 1-minute long (in fact, it is approximately 15 seconds). She vied for the Emmy with fellow "Mrs. Harris" (and The Last Picture Show (1971)) co-star and Oscar-winner Cloris Leachman. Neither won.Was the 75th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) at 47th Annual Academy Awards (1975) on April 8, 1975.She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Last Picture Show (1971) and The Exorcist (1973).Has two brothers.Received the National Board of Review's Career Achievement Award in December 2000 at Tavern on the Green.Recipient of the 2006 Career Achievement in Acting Award from the Hamptons Film Festival.Daughter of Austin (1903-1988), born in the state of New Jersey, and Correine (n��e Hamel) Gillooly (1907-1985) , born in the state of North Dakota. They married in the state of Ohio on September 1, 1928.Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2007 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her performance in the film The Wicker Man (2006), however, she failed to receive a nomination.In 1975, Ellen won the Oscar for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and the Tony for "Same Time, Next Year", making her one of five actresses to win the Tony and the Oscar in the same year. The others are Shirley Booth, Audrey Hepburn, Mercedes Ruehl, and Judi Dench.Is one of 3 actresses who have won the Best Actress Oscar for playing a character called Alice. The others are Simone Signoret for Room at the Top (1958) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).The runaway story of her character Alice Hyatt in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) inspired the character of Dolors (Montse Caminal) in the Short film Silenci (2007).Is one of 19 actresses to have received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for a performance where they acted out a labor and/or birth; hers being for Same Time, Next Year (1978). The others in chronological order are Luise Rainer for The Good Earth (1937), Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948), Eleanor Parker for Caged (1950), Elizabeth Taylor for Raintree County (1957), Leslie Caron for The L-Shaped Room (1962), Shirley MacLaine for Irma la Douce (1963), Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora (1968), Genevi��ve Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Marsha Mason for Cinderella Liberty (1973), Ann-Margret for Tommy (1975), Jessica Lange for Sweet Dreams (1985), Meryl Streep for A Cry in the Dark (1988), Samantha Morton for In America (2002), Elliot Page for Juno (2007), Gabourey Sidibe for Precious (2009), Ruth Negga for Loving (2016), Yalitza Aparicio for Roma (2018) and Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman (2020).Born at 4:00 AM EST.The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on her 9th birthday, & the following movies/TV shows were released/aired on her birthday: u003culu003cliLog 111: The Boa Constrictor (1968)(#1.11)u003c/liu003cliThe New Improved Mel (1980)(#5.7) (an episode of Alice (1976) which is based on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)) ,where she played the title role.u003c/liu003cli2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).u003c/liu003c/ulThe Yards (2000) was hers, Mark Wahlberg's, & Joaquin Phoenix' first movie of the 21st century/third millennium. |
| Trademarks: |
Her smile
Her soft, frail voice |
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Acting feels like a congenital condition to me - it's in my genes.
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It's unfortunate but our society is such that, for women in Hollywood, you get to a certain age and just fall off a cliff. But in my case, I refuse to die. I will hang on, by a little finger if necessary.
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The main way you grow is in deepening compassion. Somehow when you go through painful experiences you're more sympathetic to other people's experiences. After you've been working for awhile and discover how much material you have to call on, you end up saying, 'Oh, thank god I had an unhappy childhood!' I suppose there are some actors somewhere who have had a happy childhood. I just haven't met them yet.
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[on preparing to undertake a complex role] You have hold of a string that you're following, and you're following where this question leads to that question, and it keeps on going until you come to some specific understanding of this human being - as opposed to every other human being in the world.
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I'm a deep-water swimmer. Everything on the surface is usually a mask. I always know what's behind the mask. |
| Salaries: |
Thursday's Game (1974) - $10,000 |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
(2/03) Stage: Appeared (as "Lucy Marsden") in "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" by Martin Tahse, adapted from the novel by 'Allan Gurganus' (Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA).
(3/3/75) Appeared on "A.M. Americ |
| Spouse: |
Neil Burstyn (November 12, 1964 - April 1972) (divorced)Paul Roberts (September 14, 1958 - April 23, 1962) (divorced, 1 child)William Alexander (December 1951 - September 1957) (divorced) |
| Parents: |
Correine Marie Hamel
John Austin Gillooly |
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