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Ellen Greene is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Songs American born on 22 february 1951 at Brooklyn (USA)

Ellen Greene

Ellen Greene
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Nationality USA
Birth 22 february 1951 (73 years) at Brooklyn (USA)

Ellen Greene (born February 22, 1951) is an American singer and actress. Greene has had a long and varied career as a singer, particularly in cabaret, as an actress and singer in numerous stage productions, particularly musical theatre, as well as having performed in many films—notably Little Shop of Horrors—and television programs. From 2007 to 2009, she starred as Vivian Charles on the ABC series Pushing Daisies.

Biography

Greene was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother was a guidance counselor, and her father was a dentist. Greene is Jewish. She attended W. Tresper Clarke High School, in Westbury, New York. She spent summers at Cejwin Camps in Port Jervis, New York, where she performed in musical theatre productions, including the role of Tzeitel in a 1966 production of Fiddler on the Roof. She had a relationship with puppeteer Martin P. Robinson. Her first marriage was to Tibor Hardik. She married Christian Klikovits on September 25, 2003; they have since divorced.

Usually with

Don Bluth
Don Bluth
(1 films)
Gary Goldman
Gary Goldman
(1 films)
Paul Mazursky
Paul Mazursky
(1 films)
Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell
(1 films)
David Zucker
David Zucker
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ellen Greene (26 films)

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Actress

Glory!  Glory!, 2h32
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Films about television
Actors Ellen Greene, Richard Thomas, James Whitmore, Barry Morse, Winston Rekert, George Buza
Roles Ruth
Rating67% 3.383273.383273.383273.383273.38327
A radio preacher's operation is controlled by his honest but bland son. When the preacher is made a media superstar by a savvy huckster, the son is left behind. Everything changes when the son wanders into a bar and witnesses the performance of a woman rock and roll singer and he realizes she is just what he needs to rise to the top of the world of televanglism.
Talk Radio
Talk Radio (1988)
, 1h50
Directed by Oliver Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Radio, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley, Alec Baldwin, John Pankow
Roles Ellen
Rating71% 3.5983453.5983453.5983453.5983453.598345
Barry Champlain, a Jewish radio personality in Dallas, Texas, is a host with a caustic sense of humor and a knack for cutting people down with his controversial politically liberal views.
Me and Him
Me and Him (1988)
, 1h33
Directed by Doris Dörrie
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Griffin Dunne, Ellen Greene, Carey Lowell, Kelly Bishop, Craig T. Nelson, David Alan Grier
Roles Annette Uttanzi
Rating43% 2.167882.167882.167882.167882.16788
Little Shop of Horrors, 1h34
Directed by Frank Oz
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Musical theatre, Horror, Musical, Comic science fiction
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Comedy science fiction films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'une plante
Actors Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, James Belushi, Levi Stubbs
Roles Audrey
Rating70% 3.548413.548413.548413.548413.54841
In September 1963, Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis) and his colleague, Audrey (Ellen Greene), work at Mushnik's Flower Shop, lamenting they cannot escape the slums of New York City, living in a run-down, beat up neighborhood referred to as "Skid Row." Struggling from a lack of customers, Mr. Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia) prompts to close the store, only for Audrey to suggest displaying an unusual plant Seymour owns. Immediately attracting a customer, Seymour explains he bought the plant, which he dubbed "Audrey II", from a Chinese flower shop during a solar eclipse. Attracting business to Mushnik's shop, the plant soon starts dying, worrying Seymour. Accidentally pricking his finger, he then discovers Audrey II needs human blood to thrive.
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, 1h46
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Geraldine Page, Dianne Wiest, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Roles Karen Mulligan
Rating61% 3.098593.098593.098593.098593.09859
Barbara Gordon appears to have it all, including a successful career in a male-dominated industry and a solid relationship with her live-in lover, attorney Derek Bauer. Beneath her facade is a high-strung personality who heavily relies on sedatives to reduce tension and anxiety and maintain a composed exterior for her friends and associates. Her current project focuses on cancer patient Jean Scott Martin and her husband Ben and how the couple is coping as the disease progresses. Despite reservations expressed by her collaborators, Barbara is determined to end the film on a positive note, showing the Martins embracing on the beach. When she shows them a rough cut, fatalistic Jean is angered by the false optimism and vehemently voices her objections to Barbara's choices.
Next Stop, Greenwich Village, 1h51
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, Christopher Walken, Antonio Fargas
Roles Sarah Roth
Rating69% 3.4934253.4934253.4934253.4934253.493425
The film takes place in 1953. Larry Lipinsky is a young Jewish boy from Brooklyn, New York, who has dreams of stardom. He moves to Greenwich Village, much to the chagrin of his extremely overprotective mother. Larry ends up hanging out with an eccentric bunch of characters while waiting for his big break. He has a group of tight-knit friends, which includes a wacky girl named Connie; Anita, an emotionally distraught young woman who constantly contemplates suicide; Robert, a young WASP who fancies himself a poet; and Bernstein, a gay man. All the while, he tries to maintain a stormy relationship with Sarah, his girlfriend. This band of outsiders becomes Larry's new family as he struggles as an actor and works toward a break in Hollywood.

Scriptwriter

Three Wishes
Directed by Martha Coolidge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, David Marshall Grant, Jay O. Sanders, Michael O'Keefe
Roles Story
Rating61% 3.0509153.0509153.0509153.0509153.050915
Tom évite de justesse, de renverser un piéton avec sa voiture. Sous le choc, il se met alors à se souvenir de son enfance, à partir du jour où sa mère, Jeanne, a percuté Jack, un jeune homme dans la vingtaine d'années.
Three Wishes, 1h55
Directed by Martha Coolidge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, D. B. Sweeney, David Marshall Grant, Michael O'Keefe
Roles Story
Rating61% 3.0509153.0509153.0509153.0509153.050915
While Jane Holman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) is driving with her two sons, Tom and Gunny, she accidentally runs into a drifter, named Jack McCloud (Patrick Swayze), who breaks his leg. Feeling sorry for him, Jane invites Jack and his dog Betty Jane to stay at her home until his leg has healed. After having some difficulties in adapting to this new lifestyle, Jack soon finds himself loved by the family and they all want him to stay. When he starts teaching baseball to Tom, who misses his father who went missing in action during the Korean War, the two of them develop a strong bond. Meanwhile, Gunny believes that there is more to Jack and Betty Jane than meets the eye, and he is determined to find out what.
The Seventh Sign, 1h37
Directed by Carl Schultz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films set in the future, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Friedman, John Heard, John Taylor
Roles Author
Rating58% 2.902372.902372.902372.902372.90237
Signs of the apocalypse are appearing, along with a mysterious wanderer. Father Lucci (Peter Friedman) is the Vatican official investigating them. He dismisses the occurrences as natural, but Abby Quinn (Demi Moore) believes that they are real.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, 1h35
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Children's films
Actors William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, Julian Fellowes, Hugh Quarshie, Julian Curry
Rating51% 2.553362.553362.553362.553362.55336
George Loomis (William Katt) and and his wife Dr. Susan Matthews-Loomis (Sean Young) find a family of Mokele-mbembe (referred to as Brontosaurs) in Central Africa and they struggle to protect them from a greedy scientist named Dr. Eric Kiviat (Patrick McGoohan) and the military.

Sound

Rock-A-Doodle, 1h16
Directed by Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Glen Campbell, Sorrell Booke, Christopher Plummer, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ellen Greene, Sandy Duncan
Roles Songs
Rating60% 3.002483.002483.002483.002483.00248
Chanticleer is a rooster, whose job is to wake the sun up every morning, but the Grand Duke of Owls, who hates sunshine sabotages him to make it look like the sun comes up on its own without Chanticleer's crow. Detested by the farm animals, he leaves the farm to look for work in the city. Afterward, perpetual darkness and rainfall threaten the farm with flooding. Turning out to be a story read to a young human boy named Edmond, it seems that the flooding has found his family and when his mother goes to help them stop it, he calls out to Chanticleer and is heard by the Grand Duke himself who takes a dislike to Edmond's attempts to foil his plans. He turns him into a kitten to devour him, but he is saved at the last second by Pattou, a bloodhound from Chanticleer's farm. He is accompanied by Snipes, a claustrophobic magpie, and Peepers, an intellectual field mouse, as well as several animals from the farm hoping to find Chanticleer and apologize to him for their behavior. Edmond accompanies Pattou, Snipes and Peepers to the city while the rest of the animals remain at Edmond's house. En route, they are attacked by Hunch; the Duke's diminutive nephew, assigned by him to stop Edmond and the others from finding Chanticleer. They narrowly escape and enter the city.