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| Ellen Barkin |
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"No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind."
| Date of Birth: April 16, 1954 |
| Birthplace: New York City |
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| Ellen Barkin was the delicious femme fatale figure in the '80s that we loved to watch. From there, her breakout roles in The Big Easy (1987) and Sea of Love (1989) vaulted her into the spotlight. Following her lauded performance in 2004's Palindromes, Barkin was cast in 2005's Trust the Man. Today, the attention that her name arouses is a testament to the acclaim and respect she has earned over time. |
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| Ellen Barkin is a no-nonsense woman; we've seen it in the roles she plays and in the way she lives her life. You either live by her rules or you don't deal with her at all. Furthermore, she's still smokin' after half a century, and her acting abilities have only grown stronger. Mrs. Robinson is the name we all remember from The Graduate, but it's Ellen Barkin who now embodies that role in her career and personal life. And we'd like nothing more than to hear her ask, "Would you like me to seduce you?" |
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Ellen Rona Barkin was born on April 16, 1954, in New York City. As a child, she grew up in the Bronx and attended the city's renowned High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Later she attended Hunter College and got involved in workshops at The Actors Studio. In the early '80s, Barkin made her acting debut on the theater stage with Irish Coffee, which she followed up with an appearance in Search for Tomorrow, a soap opera.
Barkin made her film debut in Barry Levinson's first feature film, Diner. Over the next five years, she continued to appear in film and television, but no breakout roles materialized.
That changed in 1987, when she teamed up with Dennis Quaid to make The Big Easy. That same year Barkin met and worked with Gabriel Byrne, who she eventually married. Two years later, she took on another costarring role, this time opposite Al Pacino in Sea of Love. While her film and television appearances continued, Barkin gave birth to her son Jack (born in 1989), and a daughter, Romey (born in 1992). One year after the couple's daughter was born, Ellen and Gabriel divorced.
Barkin spent the next four years as a divorcee with two children, but her work remained steady. In 1997, she was honored with an Emmy and a Golden Satellite Award for her television role in Oprah Winfrey's production of Before Women Had Wings. Shortly thereafter, Barkin appeared alongside Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Brittany Murphy, and Kirstie Alley in the comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999).
In 2000, after a short engagement, Barkin was remarried to Ronald Perelman, owner of cosmetics giant Revlon. Only a couple of years into their marriage, however, Barkin and Perelman separated.
In 2004, Spike Lee directed Barkin in She Hate Me. Shortly after working on the Spike Lee Joint, she was cast in the independent film Palindromes as the mother of a young girl who wants to have a child. The next project she signed up for was 2005's Trust the Man.
Barkin and her second husband, Perelman, reunited after a brief separation. |
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