Ellen Greene
Ellen Greene was born on Feb 22, 1951 in USA. Ellen Greene's big-screen debut came with Next Stop, Greenwich Village directed by Paul Mazursky in 1976. Ellen Greene is known for The Walking Dead: Webisodes directed by Avi Youabian, Anais Lilit stars as Mandy and Rick Otto as Andrew. The upcoming new movie Ellen Greene plays is The Untold Story which will be released on Jan 11, 2019.
Ellen Greene was performing as a nightclub singer in several New York City clubs and treading the boards in New York City theater before her friend and mentor, filmmaker Paul Mazursky cast her in her first motion picture, Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), she was awarded the part of Sarah, opposite Lenny Baker. Four years after she originated the role of Audrey, the lovably ditzy, golden-hearted, sweetest masochist in musical-comedy history in Howard Ashman's 1982 Off-Broadway play, The Little Shop of Horrors, the actress reprised the role in Frank Oz's film adaptation, La petite boutique des horreurs (1986) (in which she starred opposite Rick Moranis and Steve Martin). Up to the present time, this is the actress's most talked-about and celebrated role.A few years later, Greene starred in the American drama film Conversations nocturnes (1988), she played the part of Ellen, opposite Eric Bogosian and Alec Baldwin. Aside from the actress's work in these two motion pictures, and ABC's fantasy mystery comedy-drama television series, Pushing Daisies (2007), in which she and Swoosie Kurtz play Lily and Vivian Charles, the agoraphobic sisters. Greene has also provided her talent to New York - Police judiciaire (1990), X Files: aux frontières du réel (1993), Heroes (2006), and Les feux de l'amour (1973).In July 2015, Greene brought back Audrey for a two-night revival of Little Shop of Horrors at New York City Center. She starred opposite Jake Gyllenhaal (who replaced Moranis). The revival received rave reviews, and according to The New York Times, when Greene made her entrance on stage, she received the kind of entrance applause you might imagine greeting the resurrection of Maria Callas at the Metropolitan Opera for a beyond-the-grave performance of "Norma."
Birthday
Feb 22, 1951Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USAAlso known
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Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
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