Meet The Parents Of American Actress, Ellen Barkin

Famous American actress and producer, Ellen Rona Barkin was born on April 16th 1954 in The Bronx, New York in the United States of America. She was born to Chemical Salesman, Sol Barkin and Evelyn Rozin Barkin, a hospital administrator at Jamaica Hospital. She shares the same parents with her brother George Barkin.

Early Life & Career

Ellen Barkin was born into a Jewish family who emigrated from Siberia and the Russian-Polish border. Barkin attended Parsons Junior High School while residing in Flushing, New York. The High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan is where she earned her high school graduation. She later majored in both acting and history at Hunter College. She had considered becoming an ancient history teacher. At the Actors Studio in New York City, she continued her acting training. Before getting her first audition, she reportedly spent ten years studying acting.

Barry Levinson’s comedy-drama Diner, which was written and directed in 1982, gave her her breakthrough performance, for which she garnered positive reviews. Despite her inexperience and Bruce Beresford’s lack of knowledge with her work, Barkin persuaded him to give her a role in the drama movie Tender Mercies during an audition in New York City in 1983. She also made an appearance in the rock and roll drama Eddie and the Cruisers from 1983. Barkin later starred alongside Dennis Quaid and Al Pacino in the thrillers Sea of Love in 1989 and The Big Easy in 1987, both of which were commercial successes. As one of Susan Sarandon’s roommates in the play Extremities, about an intended rape victim who turns the tables on her attacker, Barkin has had appearances in off-Broadway productions. In addition, Barkin has appeared in a number of made-for-television movies, including The White River Kid in 1999 and Before Women Had Wings in 1997, for which she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. On XM’s Deep Tracks, she provided the opening narration for each Theme Time Radio Hour with host Bob Dylan.

In 2005, Barkin founded a movie production firm with her brother George, her ex-husband Ronald Perelman, a rich financier, and their respective partners. The Normal Heart, in which Barkin made her Broadway debut as Dr. Brookner, earned her the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For her role in Another Happy Day, Barkin has won praise. Her performance was named one of the year’s top female performances by IndieWire. She played Dani Kirschenbloom in the Showtime comedy-drama Happyish in 2015. In the TNT drama series Animal Kingdom from 2016 to 2019, Barkin played Janine “Smurf” Cody, the matriarch of the crime family. The 2010 Australian film, in which Jacki Weaver plays Smurf, served as the inspiration for the TV show.

About Ellen Barkin’s Parents

Ellen Barkin was born to Evelyn Rozin Barkin who was a hospital administrator at the Jamaica Hospital and Sol Barkin who was a Chemical Salesman. Barkin was born into a Jewish family who emigrated from Siberia and the Russian-Polish border. Unfortunately, there isn’t much information documented about his parents on the internet.

Personal Life

From her first marriage to actor Gabriel Byrne, Barkin is the mother of two children, Jack Daniel who was born in 1989 and Romy Marion, also born in 1992. Despite their 1993 separation and 1999 divorce, the two remain close. Even Byrne went to Barkin’s wedding to millionaire businessman Ronald Perelman in 2000. That marriage, according to New York magazine, divorced in 2006. She collaborated with actor Johnny Depp on the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the two started dating in 1998. Barkin dated the director Sam Levinson from 2008 to 2011. “Magnificent Jewels from the Collection of Ellen Barkin” sold for $20,369,200 in October 2006 at Christie’s in New York. Barkin sued Perelman for allegedly promising to invest $3.4 million in their film production firm in 2007. She received a $4.3 million fine from him.