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Marian Seldes

Acting

Born August 23, 1928 · New York City, New York, USA

Died October 6, 2014

Also known as Marion Seldes · Marian Hall Seldes

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marian Seldes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actress in a Play · 1967
  • American Theatre Hall of Fame
  • Drama League Award
  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actress in a Play · 2003 · nominated
  • Tony AwardBest Actress in a Play · 1999 · nominated
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  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actress in a Play · 1978 · nominated
  • Tony AwardBest Actress in a Play · 1971 · nominated

Filmography43 titles

The Court of Last Resort

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999as Peggy Kendall

Remember WENN

1996as Miss Frye

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955as Lydia Brailing

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

as Louise Grantham Robilotti

Frasier

1993as Betty

Perry Mason

1957as Mary K. Davis

Murder, She Wrote

1984as Lydia Winthrop

August Rush

2007as The Dean

Sex and the City

1998as Mrs. Big

Law & Order

1990as Suzanne

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957as Christie Smith

Ballets Russes

2005as Narrator

Plainsong

2004as Iva Stearns

Nurse Jackie

2009as Tottie

The Visitor

2007as Barbara

The Rifleman

1958as Hazel / The Vision

Mona Lisa Smile

2003as President Jocelyn Carr

Wings

1990as Eleanor Kingsbury

Mannix

1967as Ida Colby

In from the Night

2006as Nora Cantata

Gunsmoke

1955as Mrs. Cullen

Lux Video Theatre

as May

Hollywood Ending

2002as Alexandra

Shirley Temple's Storybook

as Widow Enga

Digging to China

1997as Leah Schroth

Murphy Brown

1988as Murphy's Aunt Brooke

Fingers

1978as Ruth

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965as Herodias

Affliction

1997as Alma Pittman

The True Story of Jesse James

1957as Rowena Cobb

Celebrity

1998as Datloff Party Guest

Kate & Allie

1984

The Texan

as Cora Laird

Leatherheads

2008as Clerk

The Young Stranger

1957as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)

The Extra Man

2010as Vivian Cudlip

Duets

2000as Harriet Gahagan

Crime and Punishment USA

1959as Debbie Cole

The Haunting

1999as Mrs. Dudley

Home Alone 3

1997as Mrs. Hess

Tom and Huck

1995as Widow Douglas

Town & Country

2001as Eugenie's Mother