Ellen Greene
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
Supercharged American stage and screen actress Ellen Greene was educated at Ryder College. After her leading-lady film debut in Next Stop Greenwich Village (1978), Ellen's career was steady but unspectacular until she was cast as airheaded heroine Audrey in the 1982 Broadway musical hit Little Shop of Horrors. She was among the few cast members to recreate her role for the 1986 screen version; so winning was her performance in this film and the subsequent Talk Radio (1988), that critics and pundits predicted major stardom. So far as Ellen was concerned, she was already a star, and behaved accordingly. Cast as a neurotic rock 'n' roller-turned-evangelist in the 1989 TV movie Glory! Glory!, Ms. Greene became difficult and demanding, throwing her weight around in a manner suggesting that she been on top long enough to be permitted this behavior. Evidently her imperiousness paid off; Glory! Glory! was an excellent effort, thanks in no small part to the towering performance of its leading lady. After Glory! Glory!, Ellen Greene continued to get good roles on stage and in television; in 1992, the actress joined several other musical comedy veterans as a voice artist for the animated cartoon feature Rock a Doodle.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Untold Story |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | Love's Last Resort |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Muddy Corman |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Little Shop Of Horrors: A Summer Of Musicals |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Fielder's Choice |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder |
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— | 2005 |
77% | The Cooler |
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$8.2M | 2003 |
40% | Love Object |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Sex and a Girl |
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— | 2001 |
51% | One Fine Day |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | An Occasional Hell |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Killer: A Journal of Murder |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Jaded |
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— | 1996 |
74% | Léon: The Professional |
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— | 1994 |
0% | Wagons East! |
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— | 1994 |
54% | The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Fathers & Sons |
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— | 1993 |
20% | Rock-a-Doodle |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Stepping Out |
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— | 1991 |
81% | Pump Up the Volume |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Glory! Glory! |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Dinner at Eight |
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— | 1989 |
82% | Talk Radio |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Me and Him |
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— | 1988 |
90% | Little Shop of Horrors |
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— | 1986 |
33% | I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can |
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— | 1982 |
80% | Next Stop, Greenwich Village |
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— | 1976 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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53% |
Heroes
2006-2010
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96% |
Pushing Daisies
2007-2009
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No Score Yet |
Out of Jimmy's Head
2007-2008
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74% |
The X-Files
1993-2018
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No Score Yet |
Suddenly Susan
1996-2000
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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Quotes from Ellen Greene's Characters
Audrey: | I don't believe this. |
Audrey II: | Believe it, baby, it talks. |
Audrey: | Am I dreaming this? |
Audrey II: | No, and you ain't in Kansas, neather. |
Seymour Krelborn: | That's it, after tomorrow we can leave together! |
Audrey: | Togetha'? |
Seymour Krelborn: | If you'l have me...Audrey, will you have me? |
Audrey: | Whaddya mean? |
Seymour Krelborn: | ....Marry me, Audrey! |
Audrey: | Oh, Seymour, this is so sudden! |
Seymour Krelborn: | Well, will ya? |
Audrey: | ....Sure. |
Seymour Krelborn: | Then that's it! We'll go get married right now. Tomorrow Ill be on TV, get the money, and then we'll live happily ever after. Oh, Audrey, I'll give you a wonderful life, with no plants, I promise--no plants at all! |
Audrey: | You're talkin peculiar again... |
Seymour Krelborn: | We'll start tonight. We'll go to City Hall, get married, and spend the night somewhere safe, some nice hotel. |
Audrey: | Oh, Seymour! |
Seymour Krelborn: | Oh, Audrey.... |
Audrey: | Oh, I gotta get ready! |
Seymour Krelborn: | Hurry, hurry! |
Seymour Krelborn: | ....We started doing business, and you liked me, and-- |
Seymour Krelborn: | We started doing business, and making money and you liked me. |
Audrey: | Seymour! You really think I liked you because a' that? I liked you from the day I came to work here! |
Audrey: | Do you really think I liked you because of that? I liked you from the day I came to work here! |
Seymour Krelborn: | You mean....you'd still like me even if I was poor again? |
Seymour Krelborn: | You mean....you'd still like me even if I was wasn't famous? |
Audrey: | I'd still love you. All I ever wanted was you....and a sweet little house. |
Audrey: | I'd still love you. Seymour. |
Seymour Krelborn: | Really? |
Audrey: | All I ever wanted was you....and a sweet little house. |
Orin Scrivello D.D.S.: | *yells* Is somebody talkin' to you?! |
Orin Scrivello D.D.S.: | [yells] Is somebody talking to you?! |
Audrey: | *says nervously* Oh, no....excuse me. |
Audrey: | [says nervously] Oh, no...excuse me. |
Orin Scrivello D.D.S.: | Excuse me what?!! |
Orin Scrivello D.D.S.: | Excuse me what?! |
Audrey: | Excuse me.....docta'. |
Audrey: | Excuse me.....doctor. |