Name
Marian Seldes
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1928-08-23
Deathday
2014-10-06 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Marian Hall Seldes was an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Delicate Balance in 1967, and received subsequent nominations for Father's Day (1971), Deathtrap (1978–82), Ring Round the Moon (1999), and Dinner at Eight (2002). She also won a Drama Desk Award for Father's Day.
Her other Broadway credits include Equus (1974–77), Ivanov (1997), and Deuce (2007). She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.
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- 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told as Herodias
- 2007 August Rush as The Dean
- 1999 The Haunting as Mrs. Dudley
- 1997 Digging to China as Leah Schroth
- 2008 The Visitor as Barbara
- 2000 1961 as Abby Hedley
- 1954 The Lonely Night as Caroline
- 1958 The Light in the Forest as Kate Owens
- 1998 Celebrity as Datloff Party Guest
- 1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag as Margaret Armstrong
- 2000 If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Abby Hedley
- 1978 Fingers as Ruth
- 1959 Crime and Punishment USA as Debbie Cole
- 2010 The Extra Man as Vivian Cudlip
- 2009 Home as Peggy
- 2004 Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 2009 The Toe Tactic as Eunice (voice)
- 1959 The Big Fisherman as Arnon
- 1975 Kate McShane as Secretary
- 2008 The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment as The Duchess of Krakenthorp
- 1957 The Young Stranger as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
- 2004 Plainsong as Iva Stearns
- 2002 Hollywood Ending as Alexandra
- 1988 Zits as Miss Maple
- 2006 In from the Night as Nora Cantata
- 1958 The Plot to Kill Stalin as Mme. Molotov
- 2008 Murnau, Borzage and Fox as Self
- 2005 Ballets Russes as Narrator
- 1995 Clarissa as Lillian Banion
- 1994 In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness as Justice Susie Sharp
- 2007 Suburban Girl as Margaret Paddleford
- 2012 Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life as Mabel Billingsly
- 1998 Affliction as Alma Pittman
- 2003 Mona Lisa Smile as President Jocelyn Carr
- 1987 Gertrude Stein and a Companion! as Alice B. Toklas
- 1997 Home Alone 3 as Mrs. Hess
- 1995 Truman as Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1966 The Star Wagon as Marian
- 2000 Duets as Harriet Gahagan
- 2008 Leatherheads as Clerk
- 1995 Tom and Huck as Widow Douglas
- 1957 The True Story of Jesse James as Rowena Cobb
- 2017 Marian as Self
- 2007 Miriam as Mrs. H.T. Miller
- 2001 Town & Country as Eugenie's Mother
- 1989 In a Pig's Eye as Mrs. Isabel Purvis
- Soon Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Bernadette Episode as Louise Soubirous
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Lydia Winthrop
- 2006 Big Day ( 2 episodes )
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Suzanne
- 1984 Kate & Allie ( 1 episode )
- 1990 Wings ( 1 episode ) as Eleanor Kingsbury
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Peggy Kendall
- 1995 Central Park West ( 1 episode )
- 2006 The Book of Daniel ( 1 episode ) as Helen
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Mary K. Davis
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Cullen
- 1948 Studio One ( 1 episode ) as Anna Zenger
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Persis Hughes
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Emily
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Lydia Brailing
- 1958 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse ( 1 episode )
- 1955 The Millionaire ( 1 episode ) as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister
- 2004 Clubhouse ( 1 episode )
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as May
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Betty
- 1957 M Squad ( 1 episode ) as Martha Wicklow
- 1991 Good & Evil ( 11 episodes ) as Charlotte Sandler
- 1955 Matinee Theater ( 3 episodes )
- 1948 The Philco Television Playhouse ( 2 episodes )
- 1965 Branded ( 1 episode ) as Neela
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Alicia Jolland
- 1957 The Court of Last Resort ( 1 episode )
- 1958 The Texan ( 1 episode ) as Cora Laird
- 1998 Sex and the City ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Big
- 1993 Frasier ( 1 episode ) as Betty
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Adelaide Baines
- 1948 Studio One ( 1 episode ) as Mary Widdicomb
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Iva Stearns
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Nora Cantata
- 1948 Studio One ( 1 episode ) as Belle Giles
- 1967 Mannix ( 1 episode ) as Ida Colby
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 1 episode ) as Mollie Stanton
- 2001 A Nero Wolfe Mystery ( 2 episodes ) as Louise Grantham Robilotti
- 1948 The Philco Television Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Emilia
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Anne
- 1949 Hands of Murder ( 1 episode )
- 1947 Kraft Television Theatre ( 4 episodes )
- 1957 Suspicion ( 1 episode )
- 1988 Murphy Brown ( 1 episode ) as Murphy's Aunt Brooke
- 1958 The Rifleman ( 1 episode ) as Hazel / The Vision
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 1 episode ) as Christie Smith
- 1952 Omnibus ( 3 episodes )
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 2 episodes ) as Leah
- 1958 Shirley Temple's Storybook ( 1 episode ) as Widow Enga
- 1996 Remember WENN ( 1 episode ) as Miss Frye
- 1948 Studio One ( 1 episode ) as Anna Zeger
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Nominee
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Audience Member
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
- 1958 Half Hour to Kill ( 1 episode ) as Joyce Field
- 1960 Special for Women ( 1 episode )
- 2009 Nurse Jackie ( 1 episode ) as Tottie
- 2001 A Nero Wolfe Mystery ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Pitcairn
