| Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes
|
| 1958
|
Kraft Television Theatre
|
Linda
|
Episode: "Trick or Treat"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1961
|
Michael Shayne
|
Carol
|
Episode: "Strike Out"; credited as Ellen McRae[2]
|
| The Loretta Young Show
|
Ann Walters
|
Episode: "Woodlot"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| Dr. Kildare
|
Anne Garner
|
Episode: "Second Chance"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| Surfside 6
|
Wandra Drake
|
Episode: "Double Image"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1961, 1963
|
77 Sunset Strip
|
Betty Benson (1961)
Sandra Keene (1963)
|
2 episodes; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1961
|
Cheyenne
|
Emmy Mae
|
Episode: "Day's Pay"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| The Dick Powell Show
|
Rose Maxon
|
Episode: "Ricochet"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
1962,
1971
|
Gunsmoke
|
Polly Mims (1962)
Amy Waters (1971)
|
3 episodes; credited as Ellen McRae (1962), credited as Ellen Burstyn (1971)
|
| 1962
|
Ben Casey
|
Dr. Leslie Fraser (ep. 1)
Connie (ep. 2)
|
2 episodes; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| Bus Stop
|
Phyllis Dunning
|
Episode: "Cry to Heaven"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| Checkmate
|
Margo
|
Episode: "The Bold and the Tough"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
|
Dr. Donna Whittaker
|
Episode: "A Splinter Off the Old Block"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| Perry Mason
|
Mona Winthrope White
|
Episode: "The Case of the Dodging Domino"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| The Real McCoys
|
Dorothy Carter
|
Episode: "The Girl Veterinarian"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
|
Joan
|
Episode: "Harry, the Father Image"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1963
|
Laramie
|
Amy
|
Episode: "No Place to Run"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| The Defenders
|
Hilda Wesley
|
Episode: "The Heathen"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| Going My Way
|
Louise
|
Episode: "Hear No Evil"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| Wagon Train
|
Margaret Whitlow
|
Episode: "The Jim Whitlow Story"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| Vacation Playhouse
|
Ellen
|
Episode: "The Big Brain"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1964
|
Suspense Theater
|
Barbara / Lucille
|
Episode: "The Deep End"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
|
Eva Laurelton
|
Episode: "Runaway"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| The Greatest Show on Earth
|
Susan Mason
|
Episode: "Big Man from Nairobi"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| Death Valley Days
|
Jenny
|
Episode: "Hastings Cut-off"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1964–65
|
The Doctors
|
Dr. Kate Bartok
|
Multiple episodes; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1965
|
For the People
|
Maria Haviland
|
Episode: "Seized, Confined and Detained"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1966
|
The Time Tunnel
|
Dr. Eve Holland
|
Episode: "Crack of Doom"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1967–68
|
Iron Horse
|
Julie Parsons
|
9 episodes; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1967
|
The Big Valley
|
Sister Jacob
|
Episode: "Days of Grace"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1968
|
Insight
|
Janet
|
Episode: "All the Things I've Never Liked"; credited as Ellen McRae
|
| 1969
|
The Virginian
|
Kate Bürden
|
Episode: "Last Grave at Socorro Creek"
|
| 1972
|
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
|
Rachel Lambert
|
Episode: "Lisa, I Hardly Knew You"
|
| 1974
|
Thursday's Game
|
Lynne Evers
|
Television movie
|
| 1981
|
The People vs. Jean Harris
|
Jean Harris
|
Television movie
|
| 1985
|
Into Thin Air
|
Joan Walker
|
Television movie
|
| Surviving: A Family in Crisis
|
Tina Brogan
|
| 1986
|
Act of Vengeance
|
Margaret Yablonski
|
| Something in Common
|
Lynn Hollander
|
| 1986–87
|
The Ellen Burstyn Show
|
Ellen Brewer
|
13 episodes
|
| 1987
|
Look Away
|
Mary Todd Lincoln
|
Television movie
|
| Pack of Lies
|
Barbara Jackson
|
Television movie
|
| 1990
|
When You Remember Me
|
Nurse Cooder
|
Television movie
|
| 1991
|
Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
|
Lillian "Lil" Lambert
|
| 1992
|
Taking Back My Life
|
Wilma
|
| 1993
|
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
|
Joan Delvecchio
|
| 1994
|
Trick of the Eye
|
Frances Griffin
|
| Getting Gotti
|
Jo Giaclone
|
| Getting Out
|
Arlie's Mother
|
| 1995
|
Follow the River
|
Gretel
|
| My Brother's Keeper
|
Helen
|
| 1996
|
Timepiece
|
Maud Gannon
|
| Our Son, the Matchmaker
|
Iva Mae Longwell
|
| 1997
|
Flash
|
Laura Strong
|
| A Deadly Vision
|
Yvette Watson
|
| 1998
|
A Will of Their Own
|
Veronica Steward
|
Mini-series
|
| The Patron Saint of Liars
|
June Clatterbuck
|
Television movie
|
| 1999
|
Night Ride Home
|
Maggie
|
| 2000
|
Mermaid
|
Trish Gill
|
Television movie
|
| 2000–02
|
That's Life
|
Dolly DeLucca
|
34 episodes
|
| 2001
|
Within These Walls
|
Joan Thomas
|
Television movie
|
| 2003
|
Brush with Fate
|
Rika
|
| 2004
|
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
|
Ruby
|
The Madam's Family:
The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel
|
Tommie
|
| 2005
|
Our Fathers
|
Mary Ryan
|
| Mrs. Harris
|
Ex-lover No. 3
Former Tarnower "Steady"
|
Television movie
|
| 2006
|
The Book of Daniel
|
Bishop Beatrice Congreve
|
8 episodes
|
| 2007
|
For One More Day
|
Pauline Benetto
|
Television movie
|
| 2007–11
|
Big Love
|
Nancy Davis Dutton
|
6 episodes
|
| 2008
|
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
|
Bernie Stabler
|
Episode: "Swing"
|
| 2012
|
Political Animals
|
Margaret Barrish
|
6 episodes
|
| Coma
|
Mrs. Emerson
|
2 episodes
|
| 2014
|
Flowers in the Attic
|
Olivia Foxworth
|
Television movie
|
| Petals on the Wind
|
Olivia Foxworth
|
Television movie
|
| Louie
|
Evanka
|
5 episodes: "Elevator" Parts 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
|
| 2015
|
Mom
|
Shirley Stabler
|
Episode: "Terrorists and Gingerbread"
|
| 2016
|
House of Cards
|
Elizabeth Hale
|
5 episodes
|
| 2021–present
|
Law & Order: Organized Crime
|
Bernie Stabler
|
Recurring role
|
| 2022
|
The First Lady
|
Sara Roosevelt[3]
|
6 episodes
|
