• Name: Ellen Burstyn
  
• Birth Name: Edna Rae Gilhooley
  
• Height: 5' 7"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: December 7, 1932
  
• Birth Place: Detroit, Michigan, USA
  
• Profession: actress, producer
  
• Education: Actors Studio, New York, New York
  
•   : American Film Institute, Los Angeles, California
  
•   : NYC's School of Visual Arts, New York (Honorary doctorate of fine arts in 1983)
  
• Husband/Wife: Neil Burstyn (actor; married in 1960; divorced in 1971), Paul Roberts (director; married in 1957; divorced in 1959), William C Alexander (poet; married in 1950; divorced in 1955)
  
• Relationship: William Friedkin (director; worked together on The Exorcist; Burstyn claimed they had an affair in 1976)
  
• Father: John Austin Gillooly (building contractor)
  
• Mother: Correine Gillooly
  
• Son: Jefferson Burstyn (adopted; born in 1962)
  

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• "Acting feels like a congenial condition to me - it's in my genes."
• "It's unfortunate but our society is such that, for women in Hollywood, you get to a certain age and just fall off a cliff. But in my case, I refuse to die. I will hang on, by a little finger if necessary."

• Golden Satellite Award: Best Actress, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2001)
• Independent Spirit Award: Best Female Lead, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2001)
• Chicago Film Critics Association: Best Actress, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2001)
• Online Film Critics Society: Best Actress, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2001)
• Southeastern Film Critics Association: Best Actress, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2001)
• Florida Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2001)
• Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2001)
• Boston Film Festival: Film Excellence Award (2000)
• Stockholm Film Festival: Best Actress, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000)
• Sierra Award: Best Actress, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000)
• National Board of Review, Career Achievement Award (2000)
• Boston Society of Film Critics: Best Actress, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000)
• Retirement Research Foundation, Special Achievement Award (1996)
• Berlin International Film Festival: Berlinale Camera (1988)
• Golden Globe: Best Motion Picture Actress, SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR (1979)
• British Academy Awards: Best Actress, ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1976)
• Academy Awards: Best Actress, ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1975)
• Tony Award: Best Actress, SAME TIME NEXT YEAR (1975)
• National Society of Film Critics: Best Supporting Actress, LAST PICTURE SHOW (1972)
• New York Film Critics Circle: Best Supporting Actress, LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)

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