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Marian Hall Seldes was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career spanned over 60 years. 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 included 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.
Birth Name
Marian Hall Seldes
Born
Thursday, 23 August 1928
Died
Monday, 06 October 2014
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021 |
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life | Mabel Billingsly | 2012 |
Lost Bohemia | Self | 2011 |
The Extra Man | Vivian Cudlip | 2010 |
The 64th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient | 2010 |
Nurse Jackie | Tottie | 2009 |
Home | Peggy | 2009 |
The Toe Tactic | Eunice / Eunice (voice) | 2009 |
Leatherheads | Clerk | 2008 |
August Rush | The Dean | 2007 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021 |
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life | Mabel Billingsly | 2012 |
Lost Bohemia | Self | 2011 |
The Extra Man | Vivian Cudlip | 2010 |
The 64th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient | 2010 |
Nurse Jackie | Tottie | 2009 |
Home | Peggy | 2009 |
The Toe Tactic | Eunice / Eunice (voice) | 2009 |
Leatherheads | Clerk | 2008 |
August Rush | The Dean | 2007 |
The Visitor | Barbara | 2007 |
The 61st Annual Tony Awards | Self - Audience Member | 2007 |
Suburban Girl | Margaret Paddleford | 2007 |
Great Performances at the Met | The Duchess of Krankenthorp | 2006 |
Big Day | Betty | 2006 |
In from the Night | Nora Cantata | 2006 |
The Book of Daniel | Grandma Helen | 2006 |
Ballets Russes | Narrator | 2005 |
Clubhouse | Nana Georgia | 2004 |
Plainsong | Iva Stearns | 2004 |
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2004 |
Mona Lisa Smile | President Jocelyn Carr | 2003 |
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003 |
Hollywood Ending | Alexandra | 2002 |
The Education of Max Bickford | Elaine, Andrea's Mother | 2001 |
Town & Country | Eugenie's Mother | 2001 |
A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Mrs. Louise Grantham Robilotti / Mrs. Pitcairn | 2001 |
100 Centre Street | Dean Gibbons | 2001 |
Duets | Harriet Gahagan | 2000 |
If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Abby Hedley (segment "1961") / Abby Hedley | 2000 |
The Others | Katerina Risavitch | 2000 |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Peggy Kendall | 1999 |
The Haunting | Mrs. Dudley | 1999 |
Celebrity | Datloff Party Guest | 1998 |
Sex and the City | Mrs. Big | 1998 |
Affliction | Alma Pittman | 1998 |
Home Alone 3 | Mrs. Hess | 1997 |
Digging to China | Leah Schroth | 1997 |
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press | Self - George's niece | 1996 |
Theater Talk | Self - Guest | 1996 |
Cosby | Virginia / Elaine | 1996 |
Remember WENN | Miss Frye | 1996 |
Tom and Huck | Widow Douglas | 1995 |
Clarissa | Lillian Banion | 1995 |
C.P.W. | Suzanne Dark | 1995 |
Truman | Eleanor Roosevelt | 1995 |
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness | Justice Susie Sharp | 1994 |
Frasier | Betty | 1993 |
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag | Margaret Armstrong | 1992 |
Good & Evil | Charlotte Sandler | 1991 |
The General Motors Playwrights Theater | The Dean | 1991 |
Law & Order | Suzanne | 1990 |
Wings | Eleanor Kingsbury | 1990 |
Murphy Brown | Murphy's Aunt Brooke | 1988 |
Zits | Miss Maple | 1988 |
Gertrude Stein and a Companion! | Alice B. Toklas | 1987 |
Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller | Self - Narrator | 1987 |
Murder, She Wrote | Lydia Winthrop | 1984 |
Who's the Boss? | Nanna | 1984 |
Kate & Allie | Marion | 1984 |
The 32nd Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1978 |
Fingers | Ruth | 1978 |
Working in the Theatre | Self | 1976 |
Mannix | Ida Colby | 1967 |
The Star Wagon | Marian / Angela | 1966 |
The Greatest Story Ever Told | Herodias | 1965 |
Branded | Neela | 1965 |
East Side/West Side | Nan Morgan | 1963 |
Breaking Point | Madelena Gracchi | 1963 |
The Defenders | Lillian Conn / Ethel Keever | 1961 |
The Robert Herridge Theater | Elisa Allen | 1960 |
Play of the Week | Antoinette / Olga | 1959 |
The Big Fisherman | Arnon | 1959 |
Crime & Punishment, USA | Debbie Cole | 1959 |
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Louise | 1958 |
The Rifleman | Hazel / The Vision | 1958 |
The Texan | Cora Laird | 1958 |
The Light in the Forest | Kate Owens | 1958 |
Shirley Temple's Storybook | Widow Enga | 1958 |
The Court of Last Resort | Roberta Farrell / Mary Morales | 1957 |
Suspicion | Matron Henderson | 1957 |
Perry Mason | Mary K. Davis | 1957 |
M Squad | Martha Wicklow | 1957 |
Have Gun - Will Travel | Christie Smith / Mollie Stanton | 1957 |
The True Story of Jesse James | Rowena Cobb | 1957 |
The Young Stranger | Mrs. Morse | 1957 |
Zane Grey Theatre | Alicia Jolland | 1956 |
Playhouse 90 | Kate Sullivan / Mme. Molotov | 1956 |
Matinee Theatre | Stella / Sarah | 1955 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Lydia Brailing | 1955 |
Gunsmoke | Mrs. Cullen | 1955 |
Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre | Sophie | 1955 |
The Millionaire | Dorothy | 1955 |
The Magical World of Disney | Kate Owens | 1954 |
Climax! | Betty | 1954 |
The Telltale Clue | Emily Neilsen | 1954 |
General Electric Theater | Leah / Adelaide Baines / Persis Hughes | 1953 |
Omnibus | (segment "Antigone") / (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / (segment "Mr. Lincoln") | 1952 |
Hallmark Hall of Fame | Emily Bronte | 1951 |
Lux Video Theatre | May / Anne | 1950 |
Sure As Fate | Lady Macduff | 1950 |
Studio One | Mary Widdicomb / Gentlewoman / Belle Giles / Anna Zenger / Anna Zeger | 1948 |
The Philco Television Playhouse | Emilia | 1948 |