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Ellen Burstyn is an American actress who made her entry into entertainment via theatre in the late 1950s, before starring in feature films and television series over the next few decades. She earned her first Oscar nomination for “The Last Picture Show” (1971), and then her second nomination for her lead performance in “The Exorcist” (1973). The next year, she won the Oscar for Best Actress for Martin Scorsese’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” Soon after she won a Tony Award for the Broadway play “Same Time, Next Year,” then earned a Golden Globe and a fourth Oscar nomination for her performance in the 1978 film adaptation of the play. Burstyn was nominated for an Academy Award two more times, for “Resurrection” (1980) and “Requiem for a Dream” (2000). Burstyn is one a few actresses, and human beings, to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (or a 3GOT): an Emmy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. In 2013, she won an Emmy for her role as Margaret Barrish in the mini-series “Political Animals.”