Biography

Ellen Gerstein is an actress/writer/producer/director.

Ellen has been an actress for many years, she was honored with the Robert Prosky Character Actor Award. She was recently seen in the feature Venom and soon to be seen in the upcoming feature Dead of Night. You may have seen her in Treasure of The Black Jaguar and Swelter. In such television shows as Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Brothers, Fresh Off the Boat, and recurring on Shameless, as well Southland, Friends, and Seinfeld to name a few. Winning awards for best actress in the short films Passage and Firm with Purpose both on the festival circuit and she appears as a lead in the feature The Golden Age. She's done numerous films and has worked with incredible people like Danny DeVito, Lainie Kazan, Robert DeNiro, Kathy Bates, Cuba Gooding, Jason Bateman, Ted Danson, Martin Scorcese, Paul Schraeder, Rob Marshall, and Mimi Leder to name a few.

Ellen directed and acted in her international award winning short film, Come Away with Me, winning over 30 festival awards worldwide. She also wrote and produced the original song "Come Away with Me Tonight" for the film. Ellen wrote, produced, and directed the international award winning short film Waiting for Ronald. A 34-year-old mentally challenged man leaves the institution where he has spent most of his years to start a new life. She cast actors with disabilities along with non-challenged actors and had incredible success. It is being developed into a TV series, Just South of Normal. She created and stars in the popular and hysterical web series Sylvia's Just Sayin'.

Ellen has acted in, as well as produced and directed theater in LA. She co-wrote and co-produced Club Disco and created the character, Angie, an interactive play at the Llillian theater. Ellen has worked with incredible people like Danny Divito, Lainie Kazan, Robert DeNiro, Kathy Bates, Jason Bateman,Ted Danson, Martin Scorcese, Paul Schraeder, Rob Marshall, and Mimi Leder to name a few.

Ellen has acted in, as well as produced and directed theater in LA. Including her award winning one-woman show, My Psychotherapy Comeback Tour, a semi-finalist in the Samuel French Short Play Festival. Performed in LA and New York. She originated characters including: Ruthie in Potroast at the Actors Gang; Shirley in Sit and Shiver, a play by Steven Berkoff, at the Odyssey; Rosalie in the play Angel Share at the Tiffany, with Paula Prentiss. She co-wrote, co-produced and originated the character Angie in the long running interactive play Club Disco.

Ellen is a member of Women in Film, The Alliance of Women Directors. As well as a life member and on the audition committee of the Actors Studio and an audition judge. Somewhere along the line Ellen received a Graduate Degree in Psychology, so she does not have to pay for therapy, she can just talk to herself.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ellen Gerstein