Ellen Burstyn


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12/06/1932
Detroit, MI
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From 1982 to '85, she was the first female president of the Actors' Equity Association.
Earned an Emmy nod for the 1981 TV-movie The People vs. Jean Harris, in which she played a jealous woman who famously murdered "Scarsdale Diet" doctor Herman Tarnower. In 2005, s
Was one of the dancers on The Jackie Gleason Show in 1955.
Won a 1975 Tony for her performance in Same Time, Next Year and was subsequently nominated for an Oscar for the same role in the 1978 big-screen adaptation.