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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. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a lunch counter. After graduating from Detroit's Cass Technical High School, she went to Texas to model and then to New York as a showgirl on The Jackie Gleason Show (1952). From there, it was to Montreal as a nightclub dancer and then Broadway with her debut in "Fair Game (1957)". By 1963, she appeared on the TV series The Doctors (1963), but she gained notice for her role in Goodbye Charlie (1964). Ellen then took time off to study acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.Her big break came when she was cast as the female lead in Die letzte Vorstellung (1971). For this role, she received nominations for the Golden Globe and Academy Award. Next, she co-starred with Jack Nicholson in Der König von Marvin Gardens (1972), giving a chilling performance. Then came Der Exorzist (1973). She was again nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award. In 1974, she starred in Alice lebt hier nicht mehr (1974), for which performance she won the Oscar and BAFTA awards as Best Actress. For the Golden Globe, she was nominated but lost to Marsha Mason. The same year, she made history by winning a Tony Award for the Broadway play "Same Time, Next Year". She won praise and award nominations for her performances in the film versions of Nächstes Jahr, selbe Zeit (1978) and Der starke Wille (1980).In "Resurrection", she played a woman with the power to heal. A succession of TV movies resulting in two Emmy nominations kept her going as did the series The Ellen Burstyn Show (1986). The TV movies continued through the 1990s. Also in the 1990s, she was cast in the supporting role in such movies as Die sieben besten Jahre (1993), Ein amerikanischer Quilt (1995), Der Baby-Sitters-Club (1995) and Die Geschichte vom Spitfire Grill (1996). In addition to her acting, She was the first woman president of Actor's Equity (1982-85). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>

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