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Post by spiderwort on Dec 8, 2018 1:27:21 GMT
Updated and revised from a previous post.
Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 7, 1932. She began her career as a show girl on The Jackie Gleason Show (1952), then studied acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio and honed her skills to become of one of our finest actresses, winning an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award out of multiple nominations in the process.
She spent the 1950s and 1960s acting in television under her married name, Ellen McRae, in everything from Gunsmoke to Surfside 6.
Here in Iron Horse (1967):
Her break-out film role came in 1971 with The Last Picture Show, for which she received her first Oscar nomination as best supporting actress.
She was nominated again as best actress for The Exorcist (1973).
And she won as best actress for Alice Doesn't Live Her Anymore (1974).
She was nominated three more times as best actress - for Same Time, Next Year (1978) (for which she also won the Tony Award for her Broadway performance),
Resurrection (1980),
and Requiem for a Dream (2000).
She's had a sixty plus year career and is still going strong today.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 8, 2018 1:35:23 GMT
How lovely to celebrate Ms. Ellen Burstyn's birthday this Friday, I know you're a fan spiderwort. She's suffered so terribly in some roles I've seen her in, I must admit, I often think of her as anguished which is testament to her believability as a performer. Hope she has an awesome day (I think she loves Harvey Keitel and who doesn't) 
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Post by wanton87 on Dec 8, 2018 1:35:34 GMT
Coincidentally enough spiderwort, I just happened to catch Ms Burstyn in a few recently viewed features, under her previous moniker. The first was Goodbye Charlie, and following that, I caught her on a Suspense episode: Night On Red Mountain. Had to look up that very attractive women in Goodbye Charlie, and it was then that I discovered that she and Ellen Burstyn were one in the same.
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 8, 2018 1:47:42 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Dec 8, 2018 2:04:35 GMT
Cool movie. |
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Post by politicidal on Dec 8, 2018 2:08:04 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Dec 8, 2018 2:33:56 GMT
Coincidentally enough spiderwort, I just happened to catch Ms Burstyn in a few recently viewed features, under her previous moniker. The first was Goodbye Charlie, and following that, I caught her on a Suspense episode: Night On Red Mountain. Had to look up that very attractive women in Goodbye Charlie, and it was then that I discovered that she and Ellen Burstyn were one in the same. Yes, interesting, isn't it? And this from me: when I was a young, aspiring director in the 1960s sitting in my small hometown, I watched everything that moved, big screen and small, and Ellen McRae was my favorite television actress. Years later in Hollywood I had the good fortune to get to know her (as Ellen Burstyn). What a gift that was for me. |
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Post by jervistetch on Dec 8, 2018 2:42:18 GMT
Happy Birthday, Ellen. Thank you for everything.
If I’m not mistaken, though, I think she was just a nominee for THE EXORCIST and actually won Best Actress for ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE.
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Post by spiderwort on Dec 8, 2018 2:44:33 GMT
Happy Birthday, Ellen. Thank you for everything. If I’m not mistaken, though, I think she was just a nominee for THE EXORCIST and actually won Best Actress for ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. Of course, you are correct!! Thank you so much. I know better, just wasn't thinking. I will adjust my OP. Bless you! |
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Post by jervistetch on Dec 8, 2018 2:46:49 GMT
Bless you, Spider, for this loving tribute to a true star.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 8, 2018 9:13:04 GMT
Happy Birthday Ellen, indeed!!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 9:21:37 GMT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to a great actress. 🌹
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Post by teleadm on Dec 7, 2019 15:49:13 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Dec 7, 2019 23:18:15 GMT
Happy Birthday Ellen Burstyn!!!  Law and Order: Special Victimes Unit 2008 TV episode
Teleadm, about her Emmy winning performance as Stabler's psychologically damaged mother on Law and Order: SVU, I have to say that only a great actress would have had the courage to play that role with the fierce honesty and integrity that she displayed, fully exposed emotionally and physically (with little or no makeup). I think it's one of her finest performances and perfectly illustrates what you so beautifully said: "under that prim surface is an acting vulcano that is wonderfully still going!" Truer words were never spoken.
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Post by biker1 on Dec 8, 2019 0:50:21 GMT
pack of lies (1987-tvm)
One of the best TV movies I've seen. A tense suburban drama, circa 1960s London, re. a couple invaded by communist paranoia and the British Secret Service. Burstyn great, and a true story.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 8, 2019 14:52:15 GMT
I love Ellen Burstyn, happy birthday to a great lady and a great actress.   |
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Post by biker1 on Dec 8, 2019 20:25:09 GMT
So when her movie career kicked off circa 1970, she was going on 40 years old, which would explain why so often she got 'mother' roles - the last picture show, the exorcist, alice doesn't live here anymore, not to overlook requiem for a dream.
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Post by spiderwort on Dec 8, 2019 22:44:49 GMT
So when her movie career kicked off circa 1970, she was going on 40 years old, which would explain why so often she got 'mother' roles - the last picture show, the exorcist, alice doesn't live here anymore, not to overlook requiem for a dream.
Absolutely true. But before that she was in just about every tv show there was, as Ellen McRae, her name at that time. As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts here, she was my favorite tv actress in the 1960s, in part because she did so much work guest starring in different series, but also because she was outstanding when she did it. I'm glad she ended up having the career she deserved.
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Post by biker1 on Dec 9, 2019 5:59:07 GMT
Ellen Burstyn had a great run through the 1970s, but seem to dip quickly in the 80s. Maybe she had reached that female age where premier film roles become slim - particularly in the corporate driven film industry of the 1980s. There's always TV though, and she went on to do heaps of TV movies.
I guess requiem for a dream was a kind of comeback for her. A long career, and still at it.
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