
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2017
Marian as Self
2012Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life as Mabel Billingsly
2010The Extra Man as Vivian Cudlip
2009Home as Peggy
2009The Toe Tactic as Eunice (voice)
2008Murnau, Borzage and Fox as Self
2008The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment as The Duchess of Krakenthorp
2008Leatherheads as Clerk
2008The Visitor as Barbara
2007August Rush as The Dean
2007Miriam as Mrs. H.T. Miller
2007Suburban Girl as Margaret Paddleford
2006Big Day
2006In from the Night as Nora Cantata
2006The Book of Daniel as Helen
2005Ballets Russes as Narrator
2004Clubhouse
2004Plainsong as Iva Stearns
2004Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision as Narrator (voice)
2003Mona Lisa Smile as President Jocelyn Carr
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2002Hollywood Ending as Alexandra
2001Town & Country as Eugenie's Mother
2001A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Louise Grantham Robilotti
2001A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Mrs. Louise Grantham Robilotti
2000Duets as Harriet Gahagan
2000If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Abby Hedley
20001961 as Abby Hedley
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Peggy Kendall
1999The Haunting as Mrs. Dudley
1998Celebrity as Datloff Party Guest
1998Sex and the City as Mrs. Big
1998Affliction as Alma Pittman
1997Home Alone 3 as Mrs. Hess
1997Digging to China as Leah Schroth
1996Remember WENN as Miss Frye
1995Tom and Huck as Widow Douglas
1995Clarissa as Lillian Banion
1995Central Park West
1995Truman as Eleanor Roosevelt
1994In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness as Justice Susie Sharp
1993Frasier as Betty
1992The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag as Margaret Armstrong
1991Good & Evil as Charlotte Sandler
1990Law & Order as Suzanne
1990Wings as Eleanor Kingsbury
1988Murphy Brown as Murphy's Aunt Brooke
1988Zits as Miss Maple
1987Gertrude Stein and a Companion! as Alice B. Toklas
1984Murder, She Wrote as Lydia Winthrop
1984Kate & Allie
1978Fingers as Ruth
1975Kate McShane as Secretary
1967Mannix as Ida Colby
1966The Star Wagon as Marian
1965The Greatest Story Ever Told as Herodias
1965Branded as Neela
1959Crime and Punishment USA as Debbie Cole
1959The Big Fisherman as Arnon
1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958The Rifleman as Hazel / The Vision
1958The Texan as Cora Laird
1958The Plot to Kill Stalin as Mme. Molotov
1958The Light in the Forest as Kate Owens
1958Shirley Temple's Storybook as Widow Enga
1957The Court of Last Resort
1957Suspicion
1957Perry Mason as Mary K. Davis
1957M Squad as Martha Wicklow
1957Have Gun, Will Travel as Mollie Stanton
1957Have Gun, Will Travel as Christie Smith
1957The True Story of Jesse James as Rowena Cobb
1957The Young Stranger as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Alicia Jolland
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards as Self - Audience Member
1956Tony Awards as Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
1956Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1955Matinee Theater
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lydia Brailing
1955Gunsmoke as Mrs. Cullen
1955The Millionaire as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister
1954Climax! as Betty
1954The Lonely Night as Caroline
1953General Electric Theater as Persis Hughes
1953General Electric Theater as Adelaide Baines
1953General Electric Theater as Leah
1952Omnibus
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Emily
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Iva Stearns
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Nora Cantata
1950Lux Video Theatre as May
1950Lux Video Theatre as Anne
1949Hands of Murder
1948Studio One as Anna Zenger
1948Studio One as Mary Widdicomb
1948Studio One as Belle Giles
1948Studio One as Anna Zeger
1948The Philco Television Playhouse
1948The Philco Television Playhouse as Emilia
1947Kraft Television Theatre







