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Ellen Burstyn

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Ellen Burstyn

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Also known as Edna Rae Gillooly

American actress

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Ellen Burstyn, born Edna Rae Gillooly on December 7, 1932, in Detroit, is an American actor, character actor, stage actor, and television actor. She began her professional work period in 1955 and is a citizen of the United States. Burstyn was educated at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She speaks English as her native language and follows the lifestyle of veganism. Her religious worldview is Sufism.

Burstyn has received several major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and induction into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. She has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has one child.

In addition to her acting career, Burstyn is an author. Her works include "Lessons in Becoming Myself." She stands at a height of 1.70 meters.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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  • Lessons in Becoming Myself

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Acting · Detroit, Michigan, USA

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…

Known for

  • Duse, the Greatest2025
  • Breakdown: 1975 — Self2025
  • This Ordinary Thing — Self (voice)2025
  • Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist — Self2024
  • Mother, Couch — Mother2024
  • E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump — E. Jean Carroll2024
  • The Exorcist: Believer — Chris MacNeil2023
  • Three Months — Valerie2022
  • Reframed: Marilyn Monroe — Self2022
  • The First Lady — Sara Delano Roosevelt2022

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1932-12-07

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Total plays
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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,514x

  2. Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

    · 2005 · cited 15,578x

  3. Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3

    · 2024 · cited 15,161x

  4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,994x

  5. The Sequence of the Human Genome

    · 2001 · cited 10,201x

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Encyclopedic overview

Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women in dramas, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Burstyn is 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 for her role 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).

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