Ellen Rona Barkin is an American actress and producer who was born on April 16, 1954. Her breakout performance came in the 1982 movie Diner, and she went on to star in movies including Tender Mercies, Eddie and the Cruisers, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Big Easy, Johnny Handsome, and Sea of Love in the years that followed (both 1989).
Who is Gabriel Byrne wife Ellen Barkin?
The daughter of Sol Barkin, a chemical salesman, and Evelyn (née Rozin), a hospital administrator who worked at Jamaica Hospital, Barkin was born in The Bronx, New York. She was from a Jewish family that had left 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. Barkin once desired to instruct in ancient history. 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.
From her first marriage to actor Gabriel Byrne, Barkin is the mother of two children, Jack Daniel (born 1989) and Romy Marion (born 1992). Despite their 1993 separation and 1999 divorce, the two remain close. Even Byrne went to Barkin’s wedding to billionaire businessman Ronald Perelman in 2000.
