Ellen Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan. She left school and worked as a dancer and model until the age of 23. She made her stage debut on Broadway in 1957 and soon started to make appearances in television shows. She gained recognition after starring in the 1971’s The Last Picture Show. Her next appearance in The Exorcist, earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1975, she won a Tony Award for her performance in the comedy Same Time, Next Year.
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Ellen Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan. Burstyn left school and worked as a dancer and model until the age of 23. She made her stage debut on Broadway in 1957 and soon started to make appearances in television shows. She gained recognition after starring in the 1971’s The Last Picture Show, a story by Peter Bogdanovich. Her next appearance in The Exorcist, earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1975, she won a Tony Award for her performance in the comedy Same Time, Next Year. In 2013, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame for her work on stage. Since 2000, she has been co-president of the Actors Studio, a drama school in New York City. In the 2010s, she made appearances in TV series including the political dramas Political Animals and House of Cards, both of which earned her Emmy Award nominations. She has described her ancestry as \”Irish, French, Pennsylvania Dutch, a little Canadian Indian\”. Burstyn has an older brother, Jack, and a younger brother, Steve. She was credited as Ellen McRae until 1967, when she and her then-husband Neil Nephew both changed their surname to Burstyn, and she began to be credited as Burstyn. In 1970, she appeared uncredited and fully frontally nude in the Joseph Strickler adaptation of Tropic of Cancer, a small-scale adaptation of the controversial novel Tropic of Cancer. In 1998, the film was selected for the National Film Registry for preservation in the United States, and was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Burstyn and her co-star Cloris Leachman.
The film earned critical acclaim for its nostalgia and visual style that is reminiscent of that in which the plot takes place in 1951, the year in which Tropic takes place. She is one of the few performers to have won an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony. She has been married to actor Neil Burstyn since 1967 and they have two children, a son and a daughter. She also has a stepson, a grandson, and two great-grandchildren, all of whom she has worked with on stage and in film and television. She appeared in numerous television films and gained further recognition from her performances in Resurrection, How to Make an American Quilt, and Requiem For a Dream. She was again nominated for an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for playing a lonely drug-addicted woman in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, which won her a Golden Globe Award. She had a recurring role as Dr. Kate Bartok on the NBC daytime television soap opera The Doctors from 1964–1965. Between 1967 and 1968, she co- starred as Julie Parsons opposite Dale Robertson in the ABC western The Iron Horse. In 2007, Burstyn appeared as an \”away we go\” dancing girl on The Jackie Gleason Show under the name Erica Dean.
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