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Birthday: Aug 23, 1928
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Marian Seldes

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

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