Marian Seldes
Known for Acting · 92 credits
- Born
- 1928-08-23
- Died
- 2014-10-06
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- 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.
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Known For
TV Shows (44)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Peggy Kendall
Law & Order
1990
as Suzanne
Perry Mason
1957
as Mary K. Davis
Frasier
1993
as Betty
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Lydia Winthrop
The Rifleman
1958
as Hazel / The Vision
Matinee Theater
1955
Wings
1990
as Eleanor Kingsbury
Murphy Brown
1988
as Murphy's Aunt Brooke
Sex and the City
1998
as Mrs. Big
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member / Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Climax!
1954
as Betty
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Mollie Stanton / Christie Smith
Mannix
1967
as Ida Colby
Studio One
1948
as Anna Zenger / Mary Widdicomb / Belle Giles / Anna Zeger
Gunsmoke
1955
as Mrs. Cullen
Kate & Allie
1984
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Emilia
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Alicia Jolland
Nurse Jackie
2009
as Tottie
Omnibus
1952
The Millionaire
1955
as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Lydia Brailing
Suspicion
1957
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
as Widow Enga
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
as Louise Grantham Robilotti / Mrs. Pitcairn
M Squad
1957
as Martha Wicklow
The Texan
1958
as Cora Laird
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as May / Anne
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Branded
1965
as Neela
Central Park West
1995
Remember WENN
1996
as Miss Frye
Hands of Murder
1949
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Emily / Iva Stearns / Nora Cantata
The Book of Daniel
2006
as Helen
The Court of Last Resort
1957
Clubhouse
2004
Big Day
2006
Good & Evil
1991
as Charlotte Sandler
General Electric Theater
1953
as Persis Hughes / Adelaide Baines / Leah
Half Hour to Kill
1958
as Joyce Field
Special for Women
1960
Movies (48)
Home Alone 3
1997
as Mrs. Hess
The Haunting
1999
as Mrs. Dudley
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
as President Jocelyn Carr
August Rush
2007
as The Dean
Celebrity
1998
as Datloff Party Guest
Affliction
1998
as Alma Pittman
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Herodias
Suburban Girl
2007
as Margaret Paddleford
Digging to China
1997
as Leah Schroth
Leatherheads
2008
as Clerk
The Visitor
2008
as Barbara
Hollywood Ending
2002
as Alexandra
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
as Abby Hedley
Duets
2000
as Harriet Gahagan
Ballets Russes
2005
as Narrator
Tom and Huck
1995
as Widow Douglas
The Light in the Forest
1958
as Kate Owens
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
The Extra Man
2010
as Vivian Cudlip
The Star Wagon
1966
as Marian
Fingers
1978
as Ruth
In from the Night
2006
as Nora Cantata
The True Story of Jesse James
1957
as Rowena Cobb
Home
2009
as Peggy
Town & Country
2001
as Eugenie's Mother
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
as Margaret Armstrong
The Young Stranger
1957
as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
Truman
1995
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Crime and Punishment USA
1959
as Debbie Cole
The Toe Tactic
2009
as Eunice (voice)
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
2012
as Mabel Billingsly
1961
2000
as Abby Hedley
Plainsong
2004
as Iva Stearns
The Big Fisherman
1959
as Arnon
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
1994
as Justice Susie Sharp
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
as Mme. Molotov
Gertrude Stein and a Companion!
1987
as Alice B. Toklas
In a Pig's Eye
1989
as Mrs. Isabel Purvis
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008
as Self
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
2008
as The Duchess of Krakenthorp
Kate McShane
1975
as Secretary
Clarissa
1995
as Lillian Banion
Zits
1988
as Miss Maple
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
2004
as Narrator (voice)
The Lonely Night
1954
as Caroline
Marian
2017
as Self
Miriam
2007
as Mrs. H.T. Miller
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Bernadette Episode
as Louise Soubirous
About Marian Seldes
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 Lifet… With 92 credits spanning from 1947 to 2017, Marian Seldes has appeared in 48 films and 44 TV shows.
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- Home Alone 3 (1997) — as Mrs. Hess
- The Haunting (1999) — as Mrs. Dudley
- Mona Lisa Smile (2003) — as President Jocelyn Carr
- August Rush (2007) — as The Dean
- Celebrity (1998) — as Datloff Party Guest
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