Ellen Burstyn Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Ellen Burstyn filmography covers 71 movie titles and 17 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Ellen Burstyn movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Goodbye Charlie (1964) as Franny Salzman
• Pit Stop (1969) as Ellen McCleod
• Alex in Wonderland (1970) as Beth Morrison
• Tropic of Cancer (1970) as Mona (uncredited)
• The Last Picture Show (1971) as Lois Farrow
• The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) as Sally
• The Exorcist (1973) as Chris MacNeil
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) as Alice Hyatt
• Harry and Tonto (1974) as Shirley Mallard
• Providence (1977) as Sonia Langham
• Same Time, Next Year (1978) as Doris
• Resurrection (1980) as Edna
• Be Pretty and Shut Up! (1981) as Self
• The Ambassador (1985) as Alex Hacker
• Twice in a Lifetime (1985) as Kate MacKenzie
• Act of Vengeance (1986) as Margaret Yablonski
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987) as Mrs. Stocks (voice)
• Dying Young (1991) as Mrs. O'Neil
• When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) as Emily
• How to Make an American Quilt (1995) as Hy Dodd
• Roommates (1995) as Judith
• The Baby-Sitters Club (1995) as Mrs. Haberman
• The Spitfire Grill (1996) as Hannah Ferguson
• Deceiver (1997) as Mook
• Playing by Heart (1998) as Mildred
• The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist (1998) as Self - Chris MacNeil
• Requiem for a Dream (2000) as Sara Goldfarb
• The Yards (2000) as Val Handler
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) as Vivi
• Red Dragon (2002) as Grandma Dolarhyde (voice) (uncredited)
• A Decade Under the Influence (2003) as Self
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) as Self
• The Five People You Meet In Heaven (2004) as Ruby
• The Fountain (2006) as Dr. Lillian Guzetti
• The Wicker Man (2006) as Sister Summersisle
• The Stone Angel (2007) as Hagar
• The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008) as Miss Addie
• W. (2008) as Barbara Bush
• According to Greta (2009) as Katherine
• Lovely, Still (2009) as Mary
• The Velveteen Rabbit (2009) as Swan (voice)
• Main Street (2010) as Georgiana Carr
• Another Happy Day (2011) as Doris Baker
• The Mighty Macs (2011) as Mother St. John
• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2012) as Nanette
• Love, Marilyn (2013) as Self
• Wish You Well (2013) as Louisa Mae Cardinal
• And the Oscar Goes To... (2014) as Self - Interviewee
• Draft Day (2014) as Barb Weaver
• Flowers in the Attic (2014) as Grandmother
• Interstellar (2014) as Murph (older)
• Petals on the Wind (2014) as Olivia Foxworth
• The Calling (2014) as Emily Micallef
• Two Men in Town (2014) as Mère Garnett
• About Scout (2015) as Gram
• The Age of Adaline (2015) as Flemming
• Unity (2015) as Narrator (voice)
• Custody (2016) as Beatrice Fisher
• Wiener-Dog (2016) as Nana
• All I Wish (2018) as Celia Berges
• Friedkin Uncut (2018) as Self
• Nostalgia (2018) as Helen Greer
• The Tale (2018) as Nettie
• Lucy in the Sky (2019) as Nana Holbrook
• The House of Tomorrow (2019) as Josephine Prendergast
• Pieces of a Woman (2020) as Elizabeth Weiss
• Queen Bees (2021) as Helen Wilson
• Three Months (2022) as Valerie
• The Exorcist: Believer (2023) as Chris MacNeil
• Mother, Couch (2024) as Mother
• Breakdown: 1975 (2025) as Self

Ellen Burstyn television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Ellen Burstyn; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• 77 Sunset Strip as Betty Benson; Sandra Keene
• American Experience as Narrator (voice)
• Big Love as Nancy Davis Dutton
• Cheyenne as Emmy Mae
• Coma as Mrs. Emerson
• Gunsmoke as Polly; Amy Waters
• House of Cards as Elizabeth Hale
• Law & Order: Organized Crime as Bernadette 'Bernie' Stabler
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Bernie Stabler
• Mom as Shirley
• Perry Mason as Mona Winthrope White
• Political Animals as Margaret Barrish
• The Big Valley as Sister Sarah Jacob
• The First Lady as Sara Delano Roosevelt
• The Oscars as Self
• The Time Tunnel as Eve Holland
• The Virginian as Kate Burden

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Ellen Burstyn's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.