Marian Seldes
Born: 1928-08-23 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2014-10-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 – October 6, 2014) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marian Seldes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2017
- Marian as Self
2012
- Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life as Mabel Billingsly
2010
- The Extra Man as Vivian Cudlip
2009
- Home as Peggy
- The Toe Tactic as Eunice (voice)
2008
- The Visitor as Barbara
- Leatherheads as Clerk
- The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment as The Duchess of Krakenthorp
- Murnau, Borzage and Fox as Self
2007
- August Rush as The Dean
- Suburban Girl as Margaret Paddleford
- Miriam as Mrs. H.T. Miller
2006
- The Book of Daniel as Helen
- In from the Night as Nora Cantata
- Big Day
2005
- Ballets Russes as Narrator
2004
- Plainsong as Iva Stearns
- Clubhouse
- Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision as Narrator (voice)
2003
- Mona Lisa Smile as President Jocelyn Carr
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2002
- Hollywood Ending as Alexandra
2001
- Town & Country as Eugenie's Mother
- A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Louise Grantham Robilotti
2000
- Duets as Harriet Gahagan
- If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Abby Hedley
- 1961 as Abby Hedley
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Peggy Kendall
- The Haunting as Mrs. Dudley
1998
- Sex and the City as Mrs. Big
- Celebrity as Datloff Party Guest
1997
- Home Alone 3 as Mrs. Hess
- Affliction as Alma Pittman
- Digging to China as Leah Schroth
1996
- Remember WENN as Miss Frye
1995
- Truman as Eleanor Roosevelt
- Tom and Huck as Widow Douglas
- Clarissa as Lillian Banion
- Central Park West
1994
- In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness as Justice Susie Sharp
1993
- Frasier as Betty
1992
- The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag as Margaret Armstrong
1991
- Good & Evil as Charlotte Sandler
1990
- Law & Order as Suzanne
- Wings as Eleanor Kingsbury
1988
- Murphy Brown as Murphy's Aunt Brooke
- Zits as Miss Maple
1987
- Gertrude Stein and a Companion! as Alice B. Toklas
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Lydia Winthrop
- Kate & Allie
1978
- Fingers as Ruth
1975
- Kate McShane as Secretary
1967
- Mannix as Ida Colby
1966
- The Star Wagon as Marian
1965
- Branded as Neela
- The Greatest Story Ever Told as Herodias
1959
- Crime and Punishment USA as Debbie Cole
- The Big Fisherman as Arnon
1958
- The Rifleman as Hazel / The Vision
- The Texan as Cora Laird
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Shirley Temple's Storybook as Widow Enga
- The Light in the Forest as Kate Owens
- The Plot to Kill Stalin as Mme. Molotov
1957
- Perry Mason as Mary K. Davis
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Mollie Stanton
- M Squad as Martha Wicklow
- The Court of Last Resort
- Suspicion
- The True Story of Jesse James as Rowena Cobb
- The Young Stranger as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Alicia Jolland
1955
- Gunsmoke as Mrs. Cullen
- Matinee Theater
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lydia Brailing
- The Millionaire as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister
1954
- Climax! as Betty
- The Lonely Night as Caroline
1953
- General Electric Theater as Persis Hughes
1952
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Emily
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as May
1949
1948
- Studio One as Anna Zenger
- The Philco Television Playhouse