Ellen Barkin

Ellen Barkin (2011)

Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954 in the Bronx , New York City ) is an American actress .

Life

Barkin grew up in New York as the daughter of Jewish parents. Her father was a chemical salesman, her mother a hospital worker. She took acting lessons from Marcia Haufrecht in New York's Actors Studio and then graduated from school.

Her first appearances were in small theaters in New York. At the same time, she also appeared in supporting roles in various television series. In 1982 she got her first movie role in the movie American Diner as a Frustrated Wife, directed by Barry Levinson . Barkin had her breakthrough in 1987 in the film The Big Easy alongside Dennis Quaid . In this film, she embodied an initially over-correct lawyer who turns into a passionate lover. As a result, she made films in various genres.

Barkin has a son (* 1989) and a daughter (* 1992) from her marriage to Gabriel Byrne . From 2000 to 2006 she was married to Ronald Perelman (* 1943), the CEO of Revlon , in her second marriage .

As an actress, Barkin was again commercially successful in 2004 with appearances in Spike Lee's She Hate Me and the Todd Solondz film Palindrome .

Filmography (selection)

• 1981: Bronx Justice (We're Fighting Back) (Movie made for TV) - directed by Lou Antonio
• 1981: Death on Campus (Kent State) (TV movie) - directed by James Goldstone
• 1982 American Diner (Diner) - Director: Barry Levinson
• 1983: Tender Mercies (Tender Mercies) - Director: Bruce Beresford
• 1983: Daniel - Director: Sidney Lumet
• 1983: Eddie and the Cruisers - Directed by Martin Davidson
• 1983: Buckaroo Banzai - The 8th Dimension (Buckaroo Banzai) - Director: WD Richter
• 1983: Three Women in New York (Enormous Changes at the Last Minute) - Directors: Mirra Bank, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
• 1984: Harry & Son - Director: Paul Newman
• 1984: Nick is in a tight spot (Terrible Joe Moran) - Director: Joseph Sargent
• 1985: In the Heat of Nevada (Desert Bloom) - Director: Eugene Corr
• 1985: Death Poker (Terminal Choice) - Directed by Sheldon Larry
• 1986: Down By Law - Director: Jim Jarmusch
• 1987: The Big Easy - The Big Easy (The Big Easy) - Director: Jim McBride
• 1987: Siesta - Director: Mary Lambert
• 1987: Made in Heaven - Director: Alan Rudolph
• 1988: Tropic War (Blood Money) - Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
• 1989: Sea of ​​Love - Melody of Death - Director: Harold Becker
• 1989: Johnny Handsome - The beautiful Johnny (Johnny Handsome) - Director: Walter Hill
• 1991: Switch - The woman in the man (Switch) - Director: Blake Edwards
• 1992: Mac - Director: John Turturro
• 1992: Into the West - Director: Mike Newell
• 1992: Man Trouble - Directed by Bob Rafelson
• 1993: This Boy's Life - Directed by Michael Caton-Jones
• 1994: Unzipped - Director: Douglas Keeve
• 1995: Bad Company - Directed by Damian Harris
• 1995: Wild Bill - Directed by Walter Hill
• 1996: Fan (The Fan) - Director: Tony Scott
• 1996: Bullet Point (Mad Dog Time) - Director: Larry Bishop
• 1997: Before Women Had Wings (TV movie) - Director: Lloyd Kramer
• 1998: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Director: Terry Gilliam
• 1999: Mercilessly Beautiful (Drop Dead Gorgeous) - Director: Michael Patrick Jann
• 1999: The White River Kid - Director: Arne Glimcher
• 2000: Mercy - The Dark Side of Lust (Mercy) - Director: Damian Harris
• 2001: Someone Like You (Someone Like You) - Director: Tony Goldwyn
• 2004: She Hate Me - Directed by Spike Lee
• 2004: Palindromes - Director: Todd Solondz
• 2005: Love is a matter of nerves (Trust the Man) - Director: Bart Freundlich
• 2007: Ocean's 13 (Ocean's Thirteen) - Director: Steven Soderbergh
• 2009: Happy Tears - Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
• 2010: Law of the Street - Brooklyn's Finest (Brooklyn's Finest) - Director: Antoine Fuqua
• 2010: Twelve - Director: Joel Schumacher
• 2010: The Chameleon - Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
• 2010: Shit Year - Director: Cam Archer
• 2010: Operation: Endgame - Director: Fouad Mikati
• 2011: Another Happy Day - directed by Sam Levinson
• 2012: Modern Family (Season 3 - Episode 16)
• 2012–2013: The New Normal (TV series)
• 2013: Very Good Girls - Director: Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
• 2014: Cobbler - The Cobbler - Director: Tom McCarthy
• 2016: Hands of Stone - Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
• since 2016: Animal Kingdom (TV series)
• 2017: Active Adults - Director: Aaron Fisher-Cohen

Awards

• 1998: Emmy for Glory Marie Jackson in like a bird without wings (Before Women Had Wings) as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
• 2011: Tony Award for Dr. Emma Brookner in The Normal Heart for Best Supporting Actress

literature

• Meinolf Zurhorst : The new sex goddesses , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-453-04129-1 (pp. 32–43)

Web links

Commons : Ellen Barkin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ellen Barkin in the Internet Movie Database (English)