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Marian Seldes

Born 1928-08-23

Died 2014-10-06

📍 New York City, New York, USA

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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Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

as Mabel Billingsly

as Vivian Cudlip

as Eunice (voice)

Murnau, Borzage and Fox

The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment

as The Duchess of Krakenthorp

as Mrs. H.T. Miller

as Margaret Paddleford

In from the Night

as Nora Cantata

The Book of Daniel

Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision

as Narrator (voice)

Mona Lisa Smile

as President Jocelyn Carr

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

Hollywood Ending

as Eugenie's Mother

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

as Louise Grantham Robilotti

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

as Mrs. Pitcairn

as Harriet Gahagan

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Peggy Kendall

as Datloff Party Guest

Sex and the City

as Alma Pittman

Digging to China

as Leah Schroth

as Widow Douglas

as Lillian Banion

Central Park West

as Eleanor Roosevelt

In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness

as Justice Susie Sharp

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

as Margaret Armstrong

as Charlotte Sandler

as Eleanor Kingsbury

as Murphy's Aunt Brooke

Gertrude Stein and a Companion!

as Alice B. Toklas

Murder, She Wrote

as Lydia Winthrop

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Special for Women

Crime and Punishment USA

The Big Fisherman

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

as Hazel / The Vision

The Plot to Kill Stalin

as Mme. Molotov

The Light in the Forest

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Half Hour to Kill

as Mary K. Davis

as Martha Wicklow

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Mollie Stanton

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Christie Smith

The True Story of Jesse James

The Young Stranger

as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Alicia Jolland

as Self - Nominee

as Self - Audience Member

as Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

Matinee Theater

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Lydia Brailing

The Millionaire

as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister

General Electric Theater

as Persis Hughes

General Electric Theater

as Adelaide Baines

General Electric Theater

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Nora Cantata

as Mary Widdicomb

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Philco Television Playhouse

Kraft Television Theatre