The Exorcist
1973
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Sep 5, 2023 · Fifty years after her Academy Award –nominated performance as Chris MacNeil in the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist, 90-year-old Ellen Burstyn is reprising her famous role in the upcoming...
Apr 19, 2024 · Ellen Burstyn, American actress who was known for her understated charm and versatility. She won an Oscar for her depiction of the travails of a single mother in the movie Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974).
Ellen Burstyn. Actress: Requiem for a Dream. Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress.
Jan 5, 2021 · As she prepares to smash an Oscar record, the great actor talks about drawing on her own suffering, missing her violent mother – and surviving the Hollywood ‘hamburger machine’.
Dec 7, 2022 · In films such as The Exorcist and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Ellen Burstyn became one of the iconic faces of 1970s New Hollywood. On her 90th birthday, she tells us some tales about that golden era. 7 December 2022. By Anthony Frajman. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
Jul 12, 2023 · W inner of an Oscar, a Tony, and two Emmys, Ellen Burstyn is widely recognized as one of the greatest living American actors. Lesser known is her importance to the history of the Method, an approach to acting rooted in lived experience that introduced a new, radically present and humane style of stage and screen performance.
Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women in dramas, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting".
