
Marian Seldes
Known for Acting · 91 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

Frasier
1993
as Betty

Perry Mason
1957
as Mary K. Davis

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Lydia Winthrop

Mannix
1967
as Ida Colby

Sex and the City
1998
as Mrs. Big

Wings
1990
as Eleanor Kingsbury

The Rifleman
1958
as Hazel / The Vision

Matinee Theater
1955

Climax!
1954
as Betty

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Emilia

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Mollie Stanton / Christie Smith

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Alicia Jolland

Studio One
1948
as Anna Zenger / Mary Widdicomb / Belle Giles / Anna Zeger

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee / Self - Audience Member / Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

Murphy Brown
1988
as Murphy's Aunt Brooke

Gunsmoke
1955
as Mrs. Cullen

Omnibus
1952

Nurse Jackie
2009
as Tottie

Kate & Allie
1984

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Lydia Brailing

M Squad
1957
as Martha Wicklow

The Texan
1958
as Cora Laird

The Millionaire
1955
as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958

Branded
1965
as Neela

Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
as Widow Enga

Kraft Television Theatre
1947
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as May / Anne

Suspicion
1957

Remember WENN
1996
as Miss Frye

A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
as Louise Grantham Robilotti / Mrs. Pitcairn

Central Park West
1995

Big Day
2006

The Book of Daniel
2006
as Helen

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Emily / Iva Stearns / Nora Cantata

Clubhouse
2004

General Electric Theater
1953
as Persis Hughes / Adelaide Baines / Leah
The Court of Last Resort
1957

Good & Evil
1991
as Charlotte Sandler

Special for Women
1960
Hands of Murder
1949

Half Hour to Kill
1958
as Joyce Field
Movies (47)

Home Alone 3
1997
as Mrs. Hess

The Haunting
1999
as Mrs. Dudley

August Rush
2007
as The Dean

Celebrity
1998
as Datloff Party Guest

Leatherheads
2008
as Clerk

The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Herodias

Mona Lisa Smile
2003
as President Jocelyn Carr

Suburban Girl
2007
as Margaret Paddleford

If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
as Abby Hedley

Town & Country
2001
as Eugenie's Mother

The Visitor
2008
as Barbara

Tom and Huck
1995
as Widow Douglas

Duets
2000
as Harriet Gahagan

Hollywood Ending
2002
as Alexandra

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self

Affliction
1998
as Alma Pittman

Truman
1995
as Eleanor Roosevelt

Digging to China
1997
as Leah Schroth

Plainsong
2004
as Iva Stearns

Clarissa
1995
as Lillian Banion

The Extra Man
2010
as Vivian Cudlip

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
as Margaret Armstrong

The True Story of Jesse James
1957
as Rowena Cobb

Fingers
1978
as Ruth

In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
1994
as Justice Susie Sharp

The Big Fisherman
1959
as Arnon

Home
2009
as Peggy

The Light in the Forest
1958
as Kate Owens

1961
2000
as Abby Hedley

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
2012
as Mabel Billingsly

The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
as Mme. Molotov

Zits
1988
as Miss Maple

The Young Stranger
1957
as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)

The Toe Tactic
2009
as Eunice (voice)

In from the Night
2006
as Nora Cantata

Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
2004
as Narrator (voice)

Marian
2017
as Self

The Star Wagon
1966
as Marian

Crime and Punishment USA
1959
as Debbie Cole

Kate McShane
1975
as Secretary

Gertrude Stein and a Companion!
1987
as Alice B. Toklas

The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
2008
as The Duchess of Krakenthorp

Ballets Russes
2005
as Narrator

Miriam
2007
as Mrs. H.T. Miller

Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008
as Self
The Lonely Night
1954
as Caroline
In a Pig's Eye
1989
as Mrs. Isabel Purvis
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 91 credits spanning from 1947 to 2017, Marian Seldes has appeared in 47 films and 44 TV shows.
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- Home Alone 3 (1997) — as Mrs. Hess
- The Haunting (1999) — as Mrs. Dudley
- August Rush (2007) — as The Dean
- Celebrity (1998) — as Datloff Party Guest
- Leatherheads (2008) — as Clerk
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