Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin
Ellen Rona Barkin is an American actress and film producer. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 comedy-drama film Diner, and the following years she had starring roles in films include Tender Mercies, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, and The Big Easy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 April 1954
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
heart normal actors
Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.
gains faces pounds
Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.
years people lazy
I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.
husband thinking three
My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.
meaningful kids emotional
I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.
mistake back-again wanted
You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.
skins nicknames skin-and-bones
My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.
successful lasts successful-marriage
A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.
issues film intimacy
But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.
kids hard-times two
Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.
mistake thinking faults
I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.
shoes feet hands
I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.
who-i-am looks want
I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?
sex children couple
I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?