Ellen Burstyn

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Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932 as Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.

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She debuted on Broadway in 1957 and, in 1975, won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in "Same Time, Next Year." In 1990 she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. Until 1970, she was credited as "Ellen McRae" in nearly all her film and TV appearances.

Burstyn won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1974 for her performance in the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. She received her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1971 for the film The Last Picture Show, and was subsequently nominated for Best Actress in 1973 for the horror movie The Exorcist, in 1978 for Same Time, Next Year, in 1980 for Resurrection, and for Requiem for a Dream in 2000.

She appeared in many television shows of the 1960s, including guest appearances on Perry Mason, Maverick, Wagon Train, 77 Sunset Strip, The Big Valley and Gunsmoke. She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1980. In 1986, she had her own sitcom, The Ellen Burstyn Show with Megan Mullally as her daughter and Elaine Stritch as her mother. It was cancelled after one season. From 2000 to 2002, Burstyn appeared in the CBS television drama That's Life. In 2006, she starred as a bishop in the controversial NBC comedy-drama The Book of Daniel.

Burstyn last appeared in The Fountain, directed by Darren Aronofsky, with whom she worked in Requiem for a Dream.

Burstyn was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Special, for the TV movie The People vs. Jean Harris (1981) and again for another TV movie, Pack of Lies (1987).

In 2006, she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special for HBO's Mrs Harris as Dr. Tarnower's "Ex-Lover #3." (She had played the title character in The People vs Mrs Jean Harris.) She was nominated for a performance that consisted of 14 seconds of screen time, two lines of dialogue and a total of 38 words. This is the shortest nominated performance in the history of the Emmy Awards.

Soon after the nominations were announced, an outcry ensued from the press and the public regarding the worthiness of the nomination. One explanation was that people were honoring Burstyn for her nominated but non-winning performance from the first Harris telefilm. A more popular accusation was that the nominating committee was either confused in their recollection, or merely "threw in" her name from sheer recognition and assumption of a worthy performance without actually having viewed it.

The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences initially insisted that "based on the popular vote, this is a legitimate nomination." Meanwhile, HBO deflected the blame for submitting the nomination to the movie production company. Burstyn's own reaction ranged from initial silence to:

“ I thought it was fabulous. My next ambition is to get nominated for seven seconds, and ultimately I want to be nominated for a picture in which I don't even appear. ”

to this final quote:

“ This doesn't have anything to do with me. I don't even want to know about this. You people work it out yourself. ”

Ultimately, co-star Cloris Leachman—with substantially more airtime—actually won the award. In March 2007, the Academy officially announced that eligibility for a Primetime Emmy Award in any of the long-form supporting-actor categories required nominees to appear on-screen in at least 5 percent of the project (9 minutes in a typical 90-minute telefilm).

Many continue to cite this incident to illustrate the lack of integrity in the increasingly expansive process of Emmy Award nominations, where name and role misrecognition have played an increasingly visible role.[1]

Year Film Role Notes
1964 Goodbye Charlie Franzie Salzman
For Those Who Think Young Dr. Pauline Thayer
1969 The Winner Ellen McLeod
1970 Alex in Wonderland Beth Morrison
Tropic of Cancer Mona Miller
1971 The Last Picture Show Lois Farrow
1972 The King of Marvin Gardens Sally
1973 The Exorcist Chris MacNeil
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Alice Hyatt
Harry and Tonto Shirley Mallard
Thursday's Game Lynne Evers TV
1977 Providence Sonia Lngham
1978 A Dream of Passion Brenda
Same Time, Next Year
1980 Resurrection Edna Mae McCauley
1981 Silence of the North Olive Frederickson
The People vs. Jean Harris Jean Harris TV
1984 The Ambassador Alex Hacker
1985 Into Thin Air Joan Walker TV
Twice in a Lifetime Kate MacKenzie
1986 The Ellen Burstyn Show Ellen Brewer TV
Act of Vengeance Margaret Yablonski TV
Something in Common Lynn Hollander TV
1987 Look away Mary Todd Lincoln TV
Pack of Lies Barbara Jackson TV
1988 Hannah's War Katalin
1990 When You Remember Me Nurse Cooder TV
1991 Grand Isle Mademoiselle Reisz
Dying Young Mrs. O'Neil
Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love Lillian "Lil" Lambert TV
1992 Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story Wilma TV
1993 Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story Joan Delvecchio TV
The Cemetery Club Esther Moskowitz
1994 Trick of the Eye Frances Griffin TV
Getting Gotti Jo Giaclone TV
When a Man Loves a Woman Emily
Getting Out Arlie's Mother TV
The Color of Evening Kate O'Reilly
1995 How to Make an American Quilt Hy Dodd
The Baby-Sitters Club Emily Haberman
Follow the River Gretel TV
My Brother's Keeper Helen TV
Roommates Judith
1996 Timepiece Maud Gannon TV
Our Son, the Matchmaker TV
The Spitfire Grill Hannah Ferguson
1997 Flash Laura Strong TV
Deceiver Mook
A Deadly Vision Yvette Watson TV
1998 Playing by Heart Mildred
The Patron Saint of Liars June Clatterbuck TV
You Can Thank Me Later Shirley Cooperberg
1999 Walking Across Egypt Mattie Rigsbee
Night Ride Home Maggie TV
2000 Mermaids Trish Gill TV
Requiem for a Dream Sara Goldfarb
The Yards Val Handler
2001 Within These Walls Joan Thomas TV
Dodson's Journey Mother
2002 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker
2003 Brush with Fate Rika TV
2004 The Five People You Meet in Heaven Ruby TV
The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel Tommie TV
2005 Mrs. Harris Ex-lover #3
Down in the Valley Ma
Our Fathers Mary Ryan TV
2006 The Fountain Dr. Lilian Guzetti
The Wicker Man Sister Summersisle
The Elephant King Diana Hunt Post-production
30 Days Maura Post-production
Preceded by
Glenda Jackson
for A Touch of Class		 Academy Award for Best Actress
1974
for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore		 Succeeded by
Louise Fletcher
for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Preceded by
Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal, and Robert Shaw
48th Academy Awards		 "Oscars" host
49th Academy Awards (with Warren Beatty, Jane Fonda, and Richard Pryor)		 Succeeded by
Bob Hope
50th Academy Awards

Future Projects: The Stone Angel - 2007 The Loss of the Teardrop Diamond - 2008

  1. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031602142.html
  2. ^ http://www.zenpeacemakers.org/mi/programs/mi_newsletter.htm
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