Ellen Burstyn
- Date of birth:
- 1932
- Mini Bio:
- Ellen Burstyn is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Correine Marie (née Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly, who was a building contractor. She is of Irish, French, Pennsylvania Dutch and Native American ancestry, and was raised Catholic.[4][5] Her parents divorced when she was young. She would later refer to her mother as tough, violent and controlling. She left home at age 18.
Movies starring Ellen Burstyn (5 of 5)