Ellen Burstyn
Birthday: 1932-12-07
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography: Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women in dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting". She has also received a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. Burstyn made her acting debut on Broadway in Fair Game in 1957 before winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Same Time, Next Year (1975). She earned the Academy Award for Best Actress as the widow Alice Hyatt in Martin Scorsese's romantic drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). Her other Oscar-nominated roles were in The Last Picture Show (1971), The Exorcist (1973), Same Time, Next Year (1978), Resurrection (1980), and Requiem for a Dream (2000). Her other notable films include Harry and Tonto (1974), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002), W. (2008), Interstellar (2014), The Age of Adaline (2015), and Pieces of a Woman (2020). She won Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest role in the NBC legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2009) and supporting role in the USA Network political miniseries Political Animals (2013). Her other Emmy-nominated roles include Pack of Lies (1988), Mrs. Harris (2005), Big Love (2008), Draft Day, Flowers in the Attic (both 2014), and House of Cards (2016). Since 2000, she has been co-president of the Actors Studio, a drama school in New York City. In 2013, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame for her work onstage.
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The Fountain
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Requiem for a Dream
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W.
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Playing by Heart
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When a Man Loves a Woman
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The Five People You Meet In Heaven
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How to Make an American Quilt
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The Last Picture Show
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Dying Young
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The Wicker Man
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Alex in Wonderland
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The Elephant King
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The Exorcist
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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According to Greta
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Mitch Albom's For One More Day
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
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The Velveteen Rabbit
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Harry and Tonto
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The Stone Angel
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Our Fathers
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Same Time, Next Year
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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The Spitfire Grill
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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The Baby-Sitters Club
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A Dream of Passion
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The Mighty Macs
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The Yards
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Grand Isle
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Timepiece
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Picture This
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Lovely, Still
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The King of Marvin Gardens
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Goodbye Charlie
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Providence
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The Patron Saint of Liars
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Three Months
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Brush with Fate
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Pit Stop
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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The Cemetery Club
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Tropic of Cancer
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Resurrection
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For Those Who Think Young
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Love, Marilyn
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Twice in a Lifetime
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The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
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Marilyn in Manhattan
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Mermaid
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Within These Walls
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Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
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Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
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Interstellar
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The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel
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Draft Day
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The Ambassador
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Thursday's Game
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Flowers in the Attic
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Night Ride Home
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River of Fundament
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And the Oscar Goes To...
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Hello Actors Studio
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Pack of Lies
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People vs. Jean Harris
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My Brother's Keeper
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The Calling
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Deceiver
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30 Days
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Two Men in Town
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Silence of the North
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Roommates
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found...
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The Age of Adaline
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Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
Longtime singles Lillian Lambert and Clifford Pepperman enjoy a romance late in their lives....
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Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Combining unprecedented access to Davis' vast personal archives with original interviews, this docum...
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, ...
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Mother, Couch
The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furnitur...
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Main Street
From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, ...
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Ricochet
An army sergeant blames himself for causing a rookie's death during training....
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Act of Vengeance
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and be...
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About Scout
A rebellious Goth girl embarks on a road trip across Texas with a suicidal young man in an effort to...
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Surviving
Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is int...
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Wish You Well
A young girl and her brother come of age at their great grandmother's house in Virginia during the 1...
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Follow The River
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Bl...
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Unity
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of th...
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Wiener-Dog
A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all ...
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Flash
A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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The Tale
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship...
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When You Remember Me
Fact-based story of Mike Mills, a teen with muscular dystrophy, who is placed in a state nursing hom...
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Hanna's War
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would ...
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Custody
When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected...
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Getting Gotti
Though she grew up in the same neighborhood with him, the new Assistant U.S. Attorney is determined ...
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Die letzte Vorstellung: Ein Rückblick
This hour-long 1999 documentary by Laurent Bouzereau features interviews with director Peter Bogdano...
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The House of Tomorrow
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through tw...
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Bathing Flo
A man who agrees to house sit doesn't realize until later that the gig comes with responsibilities i...
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Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story
A client's claims of incest cause an attorney to remember the traumas she suffered when she was a se...
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Nostalgia
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and m...
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Trick of the Eye
A woman artist is hired by a wealthy woman to paint a mural in a room however she finds out that the...
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You Can Thank Me Later
Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives...
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All I Wish
A woman struggles to escape the clutches of her overbearing, co-dependent mother, while gradually fa...
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Reflections of a Philosopher King
A short video piece featuring director Bob Rafelson and actress Ellen Burstyn discussing the evoluti...
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Into Thin Air
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from...
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Mrs. Harris
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly ...
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Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime
A chronicle of the life of Marilyn Monroe, told through some of her most personal possessions as the...
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Lucy in the Sky
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space – and...
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A Deadly Vision
A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to h...
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Friedkin Uncut
An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary an...
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Queen Bees
Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just...
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American Woman
A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well...
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PoliWood
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Pre...
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The Color of Evening
An aging artist seeks his muse and a young lover in the form of a beautiful model....
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Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
Anjelica Huston narrates this exploration of the spectacularly dreamlike world of Salvador Dali’s pr...
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Red Dragon
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecte...
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The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NB...
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BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
This 2009 documentary features directors Bob Rafelson, Peter Bogdanovich, and Henry Jaglom, actor-di...
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America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
Documentary on the BBS company who released some of the best films of the 1970s....
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Getting Out
Breaking out of prison with a child in her womb and a dream of a normal existence, Arlene Holsclaw (...
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Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
True story about a rape victim who took a stand that rape is never the victim's fault and inspired m...
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Pieces of a Woman
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mou...
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Earth and the American Dream
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From ...
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Second Chances
A documentary about the making of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore....
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Easy Out?
Scare film. Man comes back from armed service with bad conduct discharge; family greets him happily;...
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Another Happy Day
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family d...
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Something in Common
A young man and a nice woman in her forties fall in love. His mother goes berserk when he tells her ...
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The Making of Requiem for a Dream
A dive into the production of Darren Aronofsky's psychological drama....
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Watch on the Rhine
Written and set during the rise of Hitler’s Germany, Watch on the Rhine is a play about an American ...
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The Exorcist: Believer
Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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Delphine and Carole
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were ...
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A Decade Under the Influence
A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today...
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E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump
E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump is a powerful documentary that brings to life the brave testimony of...
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Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
From the very beginning, actor Paul Newman captivated the cinema audience with his exceptional azure...
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Petals on the Wind
This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escap...
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When It Was a Game 2
Composed entirely of never-before-seen 8mm and 16mm footage filmed between 1925 and 1961 by baseball...
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Place To Be
No-nonsense Brooke and discombobulated divorcee Nelson travel from Chicago to New York to return a l...
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Breakdown: 1975
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art....
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cine...
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Roots of Roe
Abortion and contraception go back thousands of years. So does the question of who should control th...
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