Ellen Burstyn

Real name: Edna Rae Gilhooley
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Date of birth: December 7, 1932
Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Height: 5' 7''
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Sex: F
Nationality: American
Education: Detroit's Cass Technical High School
Profession: Model, Actress, Producer
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Ellen Burstyn quotes

But I was always uncomfortable in that. Physically uncomfortable. Either from the fat suit, or the neck, or my severe dieting. Or wearing the camera.

He's very inventive with his use of the camera, and innovative, so I was doing some creative things I had never done before.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

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Ellen Burstyn trivia

Ellen played her Academy Award nominated character from 1978's Same Time, Next Year on Broadway first and won a Tony Award for Best Actress in 1975.

Ellen is an ordained minister.

Ellen turned down the lead role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975 due to the fact that her husband was ill and she had to care for him.

Ellen has stated in the book "On Women Turning 50" that she did not attend the 1975 Academy Awards, where she won the Best... (more Ellen Burstyn trivia)

Ellen Burstyn filmography

The Stone Angel
Getting old isn't for sissies! The witty, irascible and fiercely proud Hagar Shipley escapes from home when her son Marvin and daughter in law Doris tell her she must move into nursing care. She sets out on a preposterous journey in search of a way to reconcile herself to her tumultuous past. Vulner...

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The Last Picture Show
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, basketball, and girls. Jacey is Duane's s...

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Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
An attorney, upon handling an incest case, learns that she was an incest victim by her father from the age of five months to five years. Through therapy, she arranges to confront her father and her mother (for physical and emotional abuse in her teens) and gets nowhere. She is further frustrated whe...

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Books about Ellen Burstyn

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Ellen Burstyn DVDs

Charlie Rose with Ken Auletta; Ellen Burstyn (February 28, 2001) dvd cover Charlie Rose with Ken Auletta; Ellen Burstyn (February 28, 2001)

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