Ellen Burstyn is an American actress who won an Academy Award for 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' and has a career spanning from 'The Exorcist' to 'Requiem for a Dream' to her brief but emotionally essential appearance as the elderly Murphy Cooper in 'Interstellar'.
Burstyn's Murphy — glimpsed only as an old woman in a brief deathbed scene — carries the entire emotional weight of the father-daughter separation that Interstellar's physics has enabled, making decades of time dilation visible in a single face.
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