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ELLEN BURSTYN BIO Ellen Burstyn’s illustrious sixty year acting career encompasses film, stage and television. In 1975 she became only the third woman in history to win both the Tony Award and the Academy Award in the same year, for her worK in Bernard Slade’s Same Time, Next Year on Broadway and in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, for which she also received a Golden Globe nomination and a British Academy Award for Best Actress. Ellen has been nominated for an Academy Award five other times for The Last Picture Show (1972), The Exorcist (1974), Same Time, Next Year (1979), Resurrection (1981), and Requiem for a Dream (2000). She became a “triple crown winner” when she won her first Emmy for a guest appearance in Law & OrDer: SVU (2009), to add to her Oscar and Tony. She also won an Emmy in 2013 for USA’s mini- series Political Animals. She has received Emmy nominations for her title role in The People vs. Jean Harris (1981); her starring role in PacK of Lies (1987), a HallmarK Hall of Fame television production; HBO’s Mrs. Harris (2006); HBO’S Big Love (2008); Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic (2014) for which she also received a nomination in 2015 from the Screen Actors Guild; and House of CarDs (2016). She also appeared in Lifetime’s Petals on the WinD (2014). In 2014, she was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. In 2016, she received the San Francisco Film Society’s Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in acting. She was also honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards from the International Press Academy (2014), the Antalya (TurKey) Film Festival (2014), the StocKholm Film Festival (2015), and the Munich Filmfest (2016). Her recent films include Draft Day (2014), The Calling (2014), Interstellar (2014), and The Age of ADaline (2015). Custody, written and directed by James Lapine, is being released this year. Wiener Dog, written and directed by Todd Solondz, was screened at the Sundance Film Festival 2016 and was released this year. She appeared in the 2015- 16 season of CBS’s Mom with Allison Janney, and also appeared in the fourth season of Netflix’s House of CarDs. Some of her additional theater credits include the Broadway productions of 84 Charing Cross Road (1982), Shirley Valentine (1989), Sacrilege (1995), and the London production of Lillian Hellman’s The ChilDren’s Hour (2011). Ellen Burstyn was the first woman elected president of Actors Equity Association (1982- 85) and serves as the Artistic Director of the famed Actors Studio where she studied with the late Lee Strasberg for many years. She also serves as co-president of the Actors Studio with Al Pacino and Harvey Keitel. Academically, Ellen holds four honorary doctorates, one in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, a Doctor of Humane Letters from Dowling College, a doctorate from The New School for Social Research, and a doctorate from Pace University. Ellen lectures throughout the country on a wide range of topics and became a national best-selling author with the publication of her memoir, Lessons in Becoming Myself (2006), published by Riverhead Press. .