Ellen Burstyn

Biography

Born 12/07/1932

One of the most popular actresses in film and television during the 1970s and 1980s, Ellen Burstyn wowed critics and audiences alike with her enormously skilled and sympathetic performances as strong and complex women who struggle against what seem like insurmountable challenges in such films as...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 2009, received Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
In 2001, received Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
In 2000, received Chicago Film Critics Award for Best Actress

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Highlights

In 2008, Portrayed former first lady Barbara Bush in Oliver Stone's controversial biopic "W."
In 2008, Cast in Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Little Flower of East Orange" directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman in a joint production of LAByrinth Theater Company and the Public Theater
In 2008, Earned an Emmy nomination for her guest starring role on NBC's "Law & Order: SVU" as the bipolar estranged mother of Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni)

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Family & Companions

William Friedkin: worked together on "The Exorcist" (1973); Burstyn claims they had an affair after filming was completed which Freidkin has denied
Correine Gillooly: mother (Divorced Ellen's father when Ellen was still young; raised Ellen as a single parent)
John Austin Gillooly: father (Divorced Ellen's mother when Ellen was still young; has had little contact with daughter)

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