Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn, Edna Rae Gillooly actually ( born December 7, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan ) is an American actress.
Life
Burstyn left early from high school to focus on her modeling career while she was still working also in department stores. In 1957 she made her first appearance as an actress on Broadway. Now she changed completely to acting and took on various roles in television series. In 1963 she moved to New York to take you there at the prestigious Actors Studio by Lee Strasberg acting lessons.
Her breakthrough came with the role of Lois Farrow in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show 1971 for which she received an Academy Award nomination. The following year, she played the mother of the possessed Regan in the horror classic The Exorcist, for which she received an Oscar nomination again. Due to the huge international success of the film ( he was the first, which grossed more than 100 million U.S. dollars ), she was known to a wider audience.
In 1974 she realized a project that was her very heart. In the film, Alice Does not Live Here more she played a young widow who is looking for a second chance at life with her son. The Director was offered to her by the producers, but because they are not agreed for this task, it was taken over by the then relatively unknown Martin Scorsese. Burstyn was nominated for the third time for an Oscar and won it this time, even though they campaigned for the nomination of the Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann.
In the same year she also received a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway play Same Time, Next Year, which was filmed in 1978 by Robert Mulligan. On the side of Alan Alda took over the role she had played in the Broadway show. With The Strong Will put them turn much critical acclaim in 1980, before her film career got a kink in the 1980s. She got offered mainly roles in television films from now on, their own sitcom The Ellen Burstyn show was canceled after one year in 1987.
Burstyn focused at this time more on theater and the promotion of Schauspielernachwuches. But they returned to the Actors Studio back to New York and worked as a drama teacher. After the death of its founder Lee Strasberg they took over on the side of Al Pacino as artistic director. From 1982 to 1985 she was also the president of the Actors' Equity Foundation, an actor's union.
Attention on the big screen they arose first again in 2000 - with the role of Sara Goldfarb in the drug drama Requiem for a Dream. For her performance in this film, she was nominated for an Oscar after a long time. In 2009 she received for her guest appearance as Bernadette Stabler in Law & Order: SVU ( episode: Swing) after four previous nominations her first Emmy.
Ellen Burstyn was married three times and has one son from his marriage to Neil Burstyn.