Marian Seldes

Actor Aug 23 (died age 86) New York City, New York, USA 1947–2017 (70 year career)

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Biography

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 t…

Known For

Film

August Rush

The Dean

Film

Mona Lisa Smile

President Jocelyn Carr

Film

The Visitor

Barbara

Film

Home Alone 3

Mrs. Hess

Film

Hollywood Ending

Alexandra

Film

The Haunting

Mrs. Dudley

Film

Celebrity

Datloff Party Guest

Film

Leatherheads

Clerk

Filmography

Acting (89)

Movies (47)

Marian

2017

as Self

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

as Mabel Billingsly

The Extra Man

as Vivian Cudlip

Home

as Peggy

The Toe Tactic

as Eunice (voice)

Leatherheads

as Clerk

The Visitor

as Barbara

The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment

2008

as The Duchess of Krakenthorp

7.0

Murnau, Borzage and Fox

as Self

August Rush

as The Dean

Suburban Girl

as Margaret Paddleford

5.5

Miriam

2007

as Mrs. H.T. Miller

In from the Night

as Nora Cantata

Ballets Russes

as Narrator

Plainsong

as Iva Stearns

Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision

2004

as Narrator (voice)

4.0

Mona Lisa Smile

2003

as President Jocelyn Carr

6.9

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

as Self

Hollywood Ending

as Alexandra

Town & Country

as Eugenie's Mother

Duets

as Harriet Gahagan

If These Walls Could Talk 2

2000

as Abby Hedley

6.5

1961

2000

as Abby Hedley

The Haunting

1999

as Mrs. Dudley

5.5

Celebrity

1998

as Datloff Party Guest

Affliction

as Alma Pittman

Home Alone 3

as Mrs. Hess

Digging to China

as Leah Schroth

Tom and Huck

as Widow Douglas

Truman

as Eleanor Roosevelt

Clarissa

as Lillian Banion

In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness

1994

as Justice Susie Sharp

6.5

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

1992

as Margaret Armstrong

5.1

In a Pig's Eye

1989

as Mrs. Isabel Purvis

Zits

1988

as Miss Maple

3.9

Gertrude Stein and a Companion!

1987

as Alice B. Toklas

Fingers

1978

as Ruth

6.3

Kate McShane

1975

as Secretary

The Star Wagon

1966

as Marian

7.0

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965

as Herodias

6.4

Crime and Punishment USA

as Debbie Cole

The Big Fisherman

as Arnon

The Light in the Forest

1958

as Kate Owens

6.8

The Plot to Kill Stalin

1958

as Mme. Molotov

The True Story of Jesse James

1957

as Rowena Cobb

6.3

The Young Stranger

1957

as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)

5.8

The Lonely Night

1954

as Caroline

Television (42)

Big Day

The Book of Daniel

as Helen

Clubhouse

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

as Louise Grantham Robilotti

7.8

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Peggy Kendall

Sex and the City

as Mrs. Big

Remember WENN

as Miss Frye

Central Park West

Frasier

as Betty

Good & Evil

as Charlotte Sandler

Law & Order

as Suzanne

Wings

as Eleanor Kingsbury

Murphy Brown

as Murphy's Aunt Brooke

Murder, She Wrote

as Lydia Winthrop

Kate & Allie

Mannix

as Ida Colby

Branded

as Neela

The Rifleman

as Hazel / The Vision

7.1

Shirley Temple's Storybook

as Widow Enga

The Texan

as Cora Laird

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Perry Mason

as Mary K. Davis

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Christie Smith

Suspicion

M Squad

as Martha Wicklow

The Court of Last Resort

1957

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Alicia Jolland

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Matinee Theater

1955

5.0

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

as Lydia Brailing

7.8

The Millionaire

1955

as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister

Gunsmoke

as Mrs. Cullen

Climax!

as Betty

General Electric Theater

as Persis Hughes

Omnibus

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Emily

Lux Video Theatre

as May

Hands of Murder

The Philco Television Playhouse

Studio One

as Anna Zeger

Kraft Television Theatre

1947

7.5