Ellen Burstyn likes to play strong, surprising women. She's been doing it her entire career, from her early, iconic roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and The Exorcist (the woman faced down the devil, for goodness sake) to more recent turns as Barbara Bush in Oliver Stone's W. and a Mormon family matriarch on the Showtime series Big Love. Her best characters have never been shy to say what's on their mind. … Back to Article
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