Marian Seldes

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1928-08-23

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Marian Seldes

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.

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Acting History

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
2009
The Toe Tactic as Eunice (voice)
2008
Murnau, Borzage and Fox as Self
2008
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment as The Duchess of Krakenthorp
2008
Leatherheads as Clerk
2008
The Visitor as Barbara
2007
August Rush as The Dean
2007
Miriam as Mrs. H.T. Miller
2007
Suburban Girl as Margaret Paddleford
2006
Big Day
2006
In from the Night as Nora Cantata
2006
The Book of Daniel as Helen
2005
Ballets Russes as Narrator
2004
Clubhouse
2004
Plainsong as Iva Stearns
2004
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision as Narrator (voice)
2003
Mona Lisa Smile as President Jocelyn Carr
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2002
Hollywood Ending as Alexandra
2001
Town & Country as Eugenie's Mother
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Louise Grantham Robilotti
2001
A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Mrs. Louise Grantham Robilotti
2000
Duets as Harriet Gahagan
2000
If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Abby Hedley
2000
1961 as Abby Hedley
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Peggy Kendall
1999
The Haunting as Mrs. Dudley
1998
Celebrity as Datloff Party Guest
1998
Sex and the City as Mrs. Big
1998
Affliction as Alma Pittman
1997
Home Alone 3 as Mrs. Hess
1997
Digging to China as Leah Schroth
1996
Remember WENN as Miss Frye
1995
Tom and Huck as Widow Douglas
1995
Clarissa as Lillian Banion
1995
Central Park West
1995
Truman as Eleanor Roosevelt
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
1990
Wings as Eleanor Kingsbury
1988
Murphy Brown as Murphy's Aunt Brooke
1988
Zits as Miss Maple
1987
Gertrude Stein and a Companion! as Alice B. Toklas
1984
Murder, She Wrote as Lydia Winthrop
1984
Kate & Allie
1978
Fingers as Ruth
1975
Kate McShane as Secretary
1967
Mannix as Ida Colby
1966
The Star Wagon as Marian
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told as Herodias
1965
Branded as Neela
1959
Crime and Punishment USA as Debbie Cole
1959
The Big Fisherman as Arnon
1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
The Rifleman as Hazel / The Vision
1958
The Texan as Cora Laird
1958
The Plot to Kill Stalin as Mme. Molotov
1958
The Light in the Forest as Kate Owens
1958
Shirley Temple's Storybook as Widow Enga
1957
The Court of Last Resort
1957
Suspicion
1957
Perry Mason as Mary K. Davis
1957
M Squad as Martha Wicklow
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel as Mollie Stanton
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel as Christie Smith
1957
The True Story of Jesse James as Rowena Cobb
1957
The Young Stranger as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Alicia Jolland
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Audience Member
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1955
Matinee Theater
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lydia Brailing
1955
Gunsmoke as Mrs. Cullen
1955
The Millionaire as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister
1954
Climax! as Betty
1954
The Lonely Night as Caroline
1953
General Electric Theater as Persis Hughes
1953
General Electric Theater as Adelaide Baines
1953
General Electric Theater as Leah
1952
Omnibus
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Emily
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Iva Stearns
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Nora Cantata
1950
Lux Video Theatre as May
1950
Lux Video Theatre as Anne
1949
Hands of Murder
1948
Studio One as Anna Zenger
1948
Studio One as Mary Widdicomb
1948
Studio One as Belle Giles
1948
Studio One as Anna Zeger
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse as Emilia
1947
Kraft Television Theatre