Actor
Marian Seldes
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
Acting
2017 -- Marian | Self
2012 -- Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life | Mabel Billingsly
2010 -- The Extra Man | Vivian Cudlip
2009 -- Home | Peggy
2009 -- The Toe Tactic | Eunice (voice)
2008 -- Murnau, Borzage and Fox | Self
2008 -- The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment | The Duchess of Krakenthorp
2008 -- Leatherheads | Clerk
2008 -- The Visitor | Barbara
2007 -- August Rush | The Dean
2007 -- Miriam | Mrs. H.T. Miller
2007 -- Suburban Girl | Margaret Paddleford
2006 -- In from the Night | Nora Cantata
2005 -- Ballets Russes | Narrator
2004 -- Plainsong | Iva Stearns
2004 -- Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision | Narrator (voice)
2003 -- Mona Lisa Smile | President Jocelyn Carr
2003 -- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self
2002 -- Hollywood Ending | Alexandra
2001 -- Town & Country | Eugenie's Mother
2000 -- Duets | Harriet Gahagan
2000 -- If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Abby Hedley
2000 -- 1961 | Abby Hedley
1999 -- The Haunting | Mrs. Dudley
1998 -- Celebrity | Datloff Party Guest
1998 -- Affliction | Alma Pittman
1997 -- Home Alone 3 | Mrs. Hess
1997 -- Digging to China | Leah Schroth
1995 -- Tom and Huck | Widow Douglas
1995 -- Clarissa | Lillian Banion
1995 -- Truman | Eleanor Roosevelt
1994 -- In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness | Justice Susie Sharp
1992 -- The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag | Margaret Armstrong
1988 -- Zits | Miss Maple
1987 -- Gertrude Stein and a Companion! | Alice B. Toklas
1978 -- Fingers | Ruth
1975 -- Kate McShane | Secretary
1966 -- The Star Wagon | Marian
1965 -- The Greatest Story Ever Told | Herodias
1959 -- Crime and Punishment USA | Debbie Cole
1959 -- The Big Fisherman | Arnon
1958 -- The Plot to Kill Stalin | Mme. Molotov
1958 -- The Light in the Forest | Kate Owens
1957 -- The True Story of Jesse James | Rowena Cobb
1957 -- The Young Stranger | Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
1954 -- The Lonely Night | Caroline
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