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Ellen Burstyn

English
Filmography

Requiem for a Dream

2001
as Sara Goldfarb

The Exorcist

1973
as Chris MacNeil

Pieces of a Woman

2021
as Elizabeth Weiss

The Exorcist: Believer

2023
as Chris MacNeil

The Age of Adaline

2015
as Flemming

The Fountain

2006
as Dr. Lillian Guzetti

Red Dragon

2002
as Grandma Dolarhyde (Voice)

The First Lady (2022)

2022
as Sara Delano Roosevelt

Political Animals

2012
as Margaret Barrish

The Wicker Man

2006
as Sister Summersisle

The People vs. Jean Harris

1981
as Jean Harris

The Velveteen Rabbit

2009
as Swan

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

1987
as Mrs. Stocks (voice)

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

2011
as Nanette

The King of Marvin Gardens

1972
as Sally

The Mighty Macs

2009
as Mother St. John

Queen Bees

2021
as Helen Wilson

Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies

2019
as Ellen Burstyn

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

1998
as Herself - 'Chris MacNeil'

Deceiver

1997
as Mook

Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime

2017
as Ellen Burstyn

Draft Day

2014
as Barb Weaver

Flash

1997
as Laura Strong

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014
as Herself - Interviewee

Night Ride Home

1999
as Maggie

Thursday's Game

1974
as Lynne Evers

The Color of Evening

1990
as Kate O'Rielly

Mermaid

2000
as Trish

Within These Walls

2001
as Joan Thomas

Silence of the North

1981
as Olive Frederickson

For Those Who Think Young

1964
as Dr. Pauline Swenson (as Ellen McRae)

The Book of Daniel

2006
as Beatrice Congreve

Custody

2016
as Beatrice Fisher

Earth and the American Dream

1992
as Reader

Our Fathers

2005
as Mary Ryan

Follow The River

1995
as Gretel

About Scout

2015
as Gram

Same Time, Next Year

1978
as Doris

Coma (2012)

2012
as Mrs. Emerson

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

2006
as Herself

The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel

2004
as Tommie

When a Man Loves a Woman

1994
as Emily

The Last Picture Show: A Look Back

1999
as Ellen Burstyn

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1974
as Alice Wyatt

Marilyn in Manhattan

1998
as Herself

Surviving

1985
as Tina Brogan

Brush with Fate

2003
as Rika

Trick of the Eye

1994
as Frances Griffin

Three Months

2022

Playing by Heart

1998
as Mildred

Lovely, Still

2008
as Mary

The Ambassador

1984
as Alex Hacker

All I Wish

2018
as Celia Berges

Friedkin Uncut

2018

The Baby-Sitters Club

1995
as Emily Haberman

A Will of Their Own

1998
as Veronica Steward

Nostalgia

2018
as Helen Greer

Harry and Tonto

1974
as Shirley Mallard

Bathing Flo

Wish You Well

2013
as Louisa Mae Cardinal

Lucy in the Sky

2019
as Nana Holbrook

Petals on the Wind

2014
as Olivia Foxworth

Twice in a Lifetime

1985
as Kate MacKenzie

Pit Stop

1969
as Ellen McLeod

Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow

2006
as Herself

Dying Young

1991
as Mrs. O'Neil

The Cemetery Club

1993
as Esther Moskowitz

The House of Tomorrow

2017
as Josephine Prendergast

You Can Thank Me Later

1999
as Shirley Cooperberg

Mitch Albom's For One More Day

2007
as Pauline "Posey" Benetto

Saturn Awards

as Self - Nominee

Roommates

1995
as Judith

Resurrection

1980
as Edna

Love, Marilyn

2012
as Herself

The Last Picture Show

1971
as Lois Farrow

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

2010
as Ellen Burstyn

A Dream of Passion

1978

That's Life

2000

Our Son, the Matchmaker

1996
as Iva Mae

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

2003
as Herself

Into Thin Air

1985
as Joan Walker

Tropic of Cancer

1970
as Mona

Hanna's War

1988
as Katalin

The Iron Horse

1966

Getting Gotti

1994

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002
as Viviane Joan 'Vivi' Abbott Walker

According to Greta

2009
as Katherine

The Spitfire Grill

1996
as Hannah Ferguson

Mrs. Harris

2006
as Former Tarnower Steady

Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story

1993
as Joan Delvecchio

Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love

1991
as Lillian "Lil" Lambert

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

1981
as Herself

PoliWood

2009

The Elephant King

2006
as Diana Hunt

Reflections of a Philosopher King

2010
as Interviewee

River of Fundament

2014
as Hathfertiti

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story

1992
as Wilma

Wiener-Dog

2016
as Nana

Walking Across Egypt

1999
as Mattie Rigsbee

Two Men in Town

2014
as Mère Garnett

Goodbye Charlie

1964
as Franny Salzman

The Yards

2000
as Val Handler

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

2008
as Miss Addie

The Ellen Burstyn Show

1986

Pack of Lies

1987
as Barbara Jackson

How to Make an American Quilt

1995
as Hy Dodd

Act of Vengeance

1986
as Margaret Yablonski

The Calling

2014
as Emily Micallef

The Tale

2018
as Nadine 'Nettie' Fox

W.

2008
as Barbara Bush

Unity

2015
as Herself - Narrator (voice)

The Stone Angel

2007
as Hagar

Flowers in the Attic

2014
as Olivia Foxworth

When It Was a Game 2

1992
as Self - Passage Narrator

Memories, Dreams & Addictions

2001
as Ellen Burstyn

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

2004
as Ruby

The Patron Saint of Liars

1998
as June Clatterbuck

Providence

1977
as Sonia Langham

Alex in Wonderland

1970
as Beth Morrison

Dangerous

2021

When You Remember Me

1990
as Nurse Cooder

30 Days

2006
as Maura

A Deadly Vision

1997

Director

Episode The Book of Daniel
Assignation 		2006
Movie Bathing Flo
Episode The Book of Daniel
Temptation 		2006

Producer

Movie Bathing Flo

Guest Star

Episode Big Love
Outer Darkness 		2009
Episode Big Love
Prom Queen 		2009
Episode Bus Stop
Cry to Heaven 		1962
Episode For the People
Seized, Confined and Detained 		1965
Episode The Academy Awards
The 49th Academy Awards 1977 		1977
Episode The Real McCoys
The Girl Veterinarian 		1962
Episode RiffTrax
The Wicker Man 		2007
Episode Louie (2010)
Elevator (1) 		2014
Episode Wagon Train
The Jim Whitlow Story 		1963
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Ellen Burstyn 		1981
Episode Law & Order: Organized Crime
Sins of Our Fathers 		2024
Episode The Time Tunnel
Crack of Doom 		1966
Episode American Experience
Telegrams from the Dead 		1994
Episode Big Love
On Trial 		2009
Episode The Academy Awards
The 49th Academy Awards 1977 		1977
Episode Mom
Terrorists and Gingerbread 		2015
Episode Perry Mason
The Case of the Dodging Domino 		1962
Episode Law & Order: Organized Crime
Tag:GEN 		2023
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Bubble Wrap 		2023
Episode Gunsmoke
Wagon Girls 		1962
Episode Ben Casey
Preferably, the Less-Used Arm 		1962
Episode Big Love
Take Me as I Am 		2007
Episode Law & Order: Organized Crime
The Christmas Episode (2) 		2021
Episode Ben Casey
In the Name of Love, a Small Corruption 		1962
Episode SurfSide 6
Double Image 		1961
Episode The Oprah Winfrey Show
The All-Time Greats of Oscar Night 		2006
Episode 77 Sunset Strip
The Navy Caper 		1961
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Swing 		2008
Episode Gunsmoke
Waste (1) 		1971
Episode The Dick Powell Show
Ricochet 		1961
Episode Cheyenne
Day's Pay 		1961
Episode Tony Awards
The 35th Annual Tony Awards 		1981
Episode The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
A Splinter Off the Old Block 		1962
Episode Law & Order: Organized Crime
The Man With No Identity 		2021
Episode Law & Order: Organized Crime
As Iago is to Othello 		2022
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Night Ride Home 		1999
Episode Law & Order: Organized Crime
As Nottingham Was to Robin Hood 		2022
Episode Gunsmoke
Waste (2) 		1971
Episode Law & Order: Organized Crime
New World Order 		2021
Episode 77 Sunset Strip
Dial S for Spencer 		1963
Episode Checkmate
The Bold and the Tough 		1962
Episode The Greatest Show on Earth
Big Man from Nairobi 		1964