Ellen rona barkin was born April 16, 1954 in the troubled city of Bronx, located in the state of New York in the United States of America.
His family consisted of his father, who ran the Jamaica Hospital and he was a chemical salesman and his mother, a housewife who raised her in the Jewish religion.
After a relatively quiet childhood, he attended the Mantattan’s High School of Performing Arts, after having declared to his mother that he wanted to act and be a famous person.
After graduating, he decided to enroll in the Hunter College, from which he received his degree in History and Drama. Shortly after this she was tempted to become a history teacher, but decided to opt even more for shows.
Thus, always pursuing perfectionism, he enrolled in the New York’s Actor’s Studio in which he spent seven years learning the most diverse and extensive techniques in comedy and drama.
His career took off to the top only in the decade of the ’80, when in 1982 appeared in the movie of Barry levinson “Diner”. This time he had Kevin Bacon as a partner.
Despite having received good reviews for this film, it did not definitely rise to fame until it released “The Big Easy” next to Dennis Quaid and subsequently “Sea of loveWith the shocking Al Pacino.
Around this time she married the actor Gabriel byrne, with whom he had two children: Jack on 1989 and subsequently Romy marion on 1992. The union dissolved in 1993, on a friendly basis according to both parties.
During the decade of ’90, Barkin participated mainly in plays, of those that do not appear in Broadway, but that enchant the critics by their enormous content of plot.
Of course, this did not mean that he did not act in films like “Into the west” from 1992, “Bad company” from nineteen ninety five, or “Fear and Loathing in Las VegasAlong with the flamboyant Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.
For the year 2000 married the businessman Ronald perelman with whom, together with his brother George Barkin, founded a feature film production company.
In the 2006 They both got divorced on very unfriendly plans, with Ellen receiving a hefty total of $ 40 million as payment for the lawsuit.
His most recent work is the movie “Ocean’s thirteen“Which features high-profile stars such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Elliot gould and even the teacher Al Pacino.