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Ellen Barkin

Ellen Rona Barkin is an American actress and a producer. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 film Diner, and in the following years, she had starring roles in films such as Tender Mercies (1983), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), The Big Easy (1986), Johnny Handsome, and Sea of Love (both 1989).

Aliases
  • Ellen Rona Barkin
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Filmography

Act of Vengeance

1986
as Annette Gilly

Active Adults

2017
as Lucy

Animal Kingdom (2016)

2016
as Janine "Smurf" Cody

Another Happy Day

2011
as Lynn

Bad Company

1995
as Margaret Wells

Before Women Had Wings

1997
as Glory Marie Jackson

Blood Money

1988
as Nadine Powers

Breaking News In Yuba County

2021
as Debbie

Brooklyn's Finest

2009
as Agent Smith

Buckaroo Banzai Declassified

2002
as Himself

Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne

2012
as Herself

Crime + Punishment in Suburbia

2000
as Maggie Skolnick

Daniel

1983
as Phyllis Isaacson

Desert Bloom

1986
as Aunt Starr

Diner

1982
as Beth Schreiber

Down by Law

1986
as Laurette

Drop Dead Gorgeous

1999
as Annette Atkins

Eddie and the Cruisers

1983
as Maggie Foley

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

1983
as Virginia

Faerie Tale Theatre

1982
as Princess Henrietta

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1998
as Waitress at North Star Cafe

HAPPYish

2015
as Dani Kirschenbloom

Hands of Stone

2016
as Stephanie Arcel

Happy Tears

2009
as Shelly

Harry & Son

1984
as Katie Wilowski

His Way

2011
as Herself

Into the West

1992
as Kathleen

Johnny Handsome

1989
as Sunny Boyd

Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

2015
as Dr. Emma Brookner

Mad Dog Time

1996
as Rita Everly

Man Trouble

1992
as Joan Spruance

Mercy

2000
as Det. Catherine Palmer

Ocean's Thirteen

2007
as Abigail Sponder

Operation: Endgame

2010
as Empress

Palindromes

2004
as Joyce Victor

Sea of Love

1989
as Helen Cruger

She Hate Me

2004
as Margo Chadwick

Shit Year

2010
as Colleen West

Siesta

1987
as Claire

Someone Like You...

2001
as Diane Roberts

Switch

1991
as Amanda Brooks

Tender Mercies

1983
as Sue Anne

Terminal Choice

1985
as Mary O'Connor

Terrible Joe Moran

1984
as Ronnie

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

1984
as Penny Priddy

The Big Easy

1986
as Anne Osborne

The Chameleon

2010
as Kimberly Miller

The Cobbler

2014
as Elaine Greenawalt

The Fan

1996
as Jewel Stern

The Man From Toronto

2022
as The Handler

The New Normal

2012
as Jane Forrest

The Out-Laws

2023
as Lily McDermott

The Princess Who Had Never Laughed

1986
as Princess Henrietta

The White River Kid

1999
as Eva Nell La Fangroy

This Boy’s Life

1993
as Caroline Wolff Hansen

Trust the Man

2005
as Norah

Twelve

2010
as Jessica's Mother

Very Good Girls

2013
as Norma Berger

We're Fighting Back

1981

Wild Bill

1995
as Calamity Jane

Producer

Movie Letters to Juliet 2010
Movie Shit Year 2010

Guest Star

Episode Chelsea Lately
Ellen Barkin 		2012
Episode Chelsea Lately
Ellen Barkin 		2011
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Ellen Barkin, Dave Attell 		2011
Episode Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Ellen Barkin, Demi Lovato, Luke Bryan 		2012
Episode Poker Face (2023)
Exit Stage Death 		2023
Episode King of the Hill
Hank and the Great Glass Elevator 		2001
Episode Modern Family
Send Out the Clowns 		2012
Episode Today
September 7, 2012 		2012
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Show #0009 		1993
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Show #0104 		1994
Episode HAPPYish
Starring Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus and Alois Alzheimer 		2015