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Career

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. Up until 1970, she was credited as "Ellen McRae" in nearly all her film and TV appearances. Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... This article is about the year. ... The Sarah Siddons Society is an American non-profit organization founded in 1952 by prominent Chicago theatre patrons with the goal of promoting excellence in the theatre. ... Not to be confused with the Chicago Theatre, aka Chicago Theater, built in 1921, a theater at 175 North State Street Chicago theatre refers not only to theatre performed in Chicago, Illinois but also to the movement in that town that saw a number of small, meagerly-funded companies grow...

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 she 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. The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Alice is a 1974 film which tells the story of a widow who moves with her young son to Tucson, Arizona to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a diner. ... Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is an accolade given by a group of film or theatre professionals in recognition of the work of supporting and character actors. ... The Last Picture Show is a 1971 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... The Exorcist is an Academy Award-winning 1973 film, based on the novel by William Peter Blatty first published in 1971. ... Same Time, Next Year is a play by Bernard Slade which tells the story of a couple, married to others, who develop a relationship in which they meet each year at a country inn and spend a weekend together. ... Resurrection is a 1980 film which tells the story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. ... Requiem for a Dream is a 1978 novel by Hubert Selby, Jr. ...

She appeared in many TV programs in the 1960s, including guest work on Perry Mason, 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. Perry Mason is a fictional defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. ... A wagon train is a long chain of wagons, each moving together and forming a line. ... 1959 Soundtrack - (L to R): Roger Smith, Kookie Byrnes, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. ... The Big Valley was a television Western which ran on ABC from 1965 through 1969. ... The cast of radios Gunsmoke: Howard McNear (Doc), William Conrad (Matt), Georgia Ellis (Kitty) and Parley Baer (Chester) Gunsmoke was a long-running American old-time radio and television Western drama created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is a three-time SAG and two-time Emmy Award-winning American actress, talk show host and comedian. ... Elaine Stritch, (born on February 2, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Irish-American actress and singer with a brassy, rough voice known for her brash, vocal characters. ... CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... Thats Life was a U.S. television family drama that ran on CBS from 2000–2002. ... It has been suggested that NBC Radio City Studios, NBC Studios be merged into this article or section. ... Look up The Book of Daniel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Burstyn last appeared in The Fountain, directed by Darren Aronofsky, wuth whom she worked in Requiem for a Dream. The Fountain is a 2006 science fiction / fantasy film directed by Darren Aronofsky that encompasses three time periods within a millennium, beginning with 16th century conquistadors searching for the Tree of Life, followed by a modern-day search for a cancer cure, framed by a 26th century deep space voyage... Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. ...

Emmy Awards and controversy

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). An Emmy Award. ... Poster for the original West End production Pack of Lies is a 1983 play by English writer Hugh Whitemore. ...

In 2006, she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special for Mrs. Harris (she had played the title character in The People vs. Mrs. Jean Harris.) She was nominated for a performance that, in its entirety, 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. Mrs Harris is a 2006 TV film, starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley, directed by Phyllis Nagy. ...

Other activities

• In 1981, Burstyn recorded "The Ballad of the Nazi Soldier's Wife" (Kurt Weill's musical setting of Bertolt Brecht's text "Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?") for Ben Bagley's album Kurt Weill Revisited, Vol. 2.
• Burstyn served as president of the Actors' Equity Association from 1982 to 1985.
• In 1997, Burstyn was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
• In 2000, Burstyn was named co-president of The Actor's Studio, alongside Al Pacino and Harvey Keitel.
• Burstyn practices Sufism. She is affiliated with the Maezumi Institute (Zen Peacemakers) and says her spiritual journey was inspired by the book The Last Barrier: A Journey Through the World of Sufi Teaching.^[1]

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Filmography

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Distance is a 2001 movie by Japanese director Koreeda Hirokazu, starring Arata, Asano Tadanobu, Iseya Yusuke, Terajima Susumu, and Natsukawa Yui. ... Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a 2002 film directed by Callie Khouri. ... Mermaids is an 1986 novel written by author Patty Dann. ... Requiem for a Dream is a 1978 novel by Hubert Selby, Jr. ... The Yards is a crime thriller/drama with Mark Wahlberg, James Caan, Joaquin Phoenix and Charlize Theron, written and directed by James Gray. ... Walking Across Egypt was a coming-of-age drama shot throughout the state of Florida. ... Playing by Heart is a 1998 dramedy film, which tells the story of several seemingly unconnected characters. ... Flash is a television film which originally aired on The Wonderful World of Disney. ... The Spitfire Grill is a 1996 American motion picture that tells a story of the redemption of a woman who was just released from prison. ... How to Make an American Quilt is a 1995 movie which was directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and stars Winona Ryder. ... The Baby-Sitters Club was a 1995 family movie based on The Baby-Sitters Club series of books. ... Roommates is a 1995 film, starring D.B. Sweeney, Peter Falk and Julianne Moore. ... When a Man Loves a Woman is a 1994 drama film, starring Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Tina Majorino, Mae Whitman, Ellen Burstyn and Lauren Tom. ... Dying Young is a 1991 film based on Marti Leimbachs novel and stars Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent DOnofrio & Ellen Burstyn. ... (1990) TV- Fact-based story of Mike Mills, a teen with muscular dystrophy, who is placed in a state nursing home by his destitute single mother. ... Poster for the original West End production Pack of Lies is a 1983 play by English writer Hugh Whitemore. ... Twice in a Lifetime is a 1985 film starring Gene Hackman and directed by Bud Yorkin. ... The Ambassador is an upcoming comedy film expected to be released sometime in 2008. ... Silence of the North is a 1981 Canadian film starring Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, and Ellen Burstyn. ... Resurrection is a 1980 film which tells the story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. ... Same Time, Next Year is a play by Bernard Slade which tells the story of a couple, married to others, who develop a relationship in which they meet each year at a country inn and spend a weekend together. ... Providence is a 1977 film directed by Alain Resnais and starring Dirk Bogarde, David Warner, Ellen Burstyn, and John Gielgud. ... Alice is a 1974 film which tells the story of a widow who moves with her young son to Tucson, Arizona to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a diner. ... 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External links

• Ellen Burstyn at the Internet Movie Database
• Ellen Burstyn at TV.com
• Ellen Burstyn at Yahoo! Movies
• Ellen Burstyn at the Internet Broadway Database
• Ellen Burstyn at the Notable Names Database
• http://www.ellenburstyn.net Ellen Burstyn's official website

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