Along with Al Pacino and Harvey Keitel, was named co-president of The Actor's Studio in 2000.
Born at 4:00 AM EST.
Burstyn was not able to attend the 1975 Academy Awards Ceremony, thus couldn't accept her Best Actress Oscar for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). Martin Scorsese, the film's director, accepted her Oscar on her behalf.
Chosen by People Magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World." [May 2001]
Co-head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1988
Doesn't drink alcohol or coffee and practices Yoga.
Godmother of her The Spitfire Grill (1996) co-star, Marcia Gay Harden,'s children.
Has one adopted son, Jefferson, and a granddaughter, Emily.
Has one grandchild.
Her third (and last) husband, Neil Nephew was a bright, talented upcoming actor and writer ("The Monkees" (1966)). According to Ellen, he eventually degenerated into mental illness and became schizophrenic and violent. He left her just before she became a star. When she refused his pleas to get back together, he stalked and terrorized her for many years. He committed suicide in 1978.
In 2005, she was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Acting of the Savannah Film Festival.
In September 2009, she became the 20th person to have won the Triple Crown of Acting: Academy Award (1975: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)); Tony Award (1975: Same Time Next Year), and Emmy Award (2009: "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999)).
Is a Vegetarian.
Is an ordained minister.
Is Irish American.
Is one of twelve actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave and Maggie Smith.
Made a special Academy Awards appearance in 1998, at the The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998) (TV), and participated in the Oscar Winners Tribute sequence along with other Academy Award winners.
Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981
Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1977
Part of remarkable Strasberg alumni: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, James Dean, Steve McQueen, Christopher Walken, Marilyn Monroe,Paul Newman, Martin Landau, Angelina Jolie, Ray Liotta, Dennis Hopper, Matt Zemlin, Anne Bancroft etc.