Marian Seldes
Highest Rated: 92% Ballets Russes (2005)
Lowest Rated: 13% Town & Country (2001)
Birthday: Aug 23, 1928
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
This daughter of noted critic and author Gilbert Seldes and niece of pioneering journalist George Seldes began her career as a dancer with the American Ballet. By her late teens, however, the tall, lithe brunette had decided to switch to acting, making her stage debut in a bit role supporting Judith Anderson in "Medea" in 1947. After apprenticing with Katharine Cornell (and supporting that legendary leading lady in NYC stage venues), Marian Seldes made her feature film debut in "The Lonely Night" (1952). By her own admission, her tony upbringing had instilled in her the notion that ambition was not necessarily a good thing, so consequently, her film career proved sporadic. After a flurry of roles, most of which wasted her unique presence, in films like "The True Story of Jesse James" (1957) and "The Light in the Forest" (1958), the actress returned to the East Coast and resumed her stage work.
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Marian Seldes
Filmography
Movies
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Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life | Mabel Billingsly (Character) | - | 2011 |
42% |
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The Extra Man | Vivian (Character) | $453.1K | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Home | Mary (Character) | $9.0K | 2008 |
50% |
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Suburban Girl | Margaret Paddleford (Character) | - | 2007 |
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In From the Night | Nora Cantata (Character) | - | 2006 |
92% |
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Ballets Russes | Narrator | $815.8K | 2005 |
28% |
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Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision | Narrator | $43.5K | 2004 |
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Plainsong | Iva Stearns (Character) | - | 2004 |
34% |
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Mona Lisa Smile | President Jocelyn Carr (Character) | $63.7M | 2003 |
47% |
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Hollywood Ending | Alexandra (Character) | $4.8M | 2002 |
13% |
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Town & Country | Eugenie's Mother (Character) | $6.7M | 2001 |
21% |
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Duets | Harriet Gahagan (Character) | $4.7M | 2000 |
60% |
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Abby Hedley (Character) | - | 2000 |
17% |
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The Haunting | Mrs. Dudley (Character) | $91.2M | 1999 |
43% |
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Digging to China | Leah Schroth (Character) | $19.2K | 1998 |
35% |
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Home Alone 3 | Mrs. Hess (Character) | $30.7M | 1997 |
88% |
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Affliction | Alma Pittman (Character) | $6.3M | 1997 |
89% |
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Truman | Eleanor Roosevelt (Character) | - | 1995 |
25% |
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Tom and Huck | Widow Douglas (Character) | $23.9M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In a Pig's Eye | Mrs. Isabel Purvis (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zits | Miss Maple (Character) | - | 1988 |
85% |
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Fingers | Ruth (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kate McShane | Secretary (Character) | - | 1975 |
42% |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told | Herodias (Character) | - | 1965 |
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The Big Fisherman | Arnon (Character) | - | 1959 |
TV
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81% | 88% | Nurse Jackie | Tottie (Guest Star) | 2011 |
50% | No Score Yet | Big Day | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
54% | No Score Yet | The Book of Daniel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Clubhouse | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
95% | 94% | Frasier | Betty (Guest Star) | 2004 |
79% | No Score Yet | The Education of Max Bickford | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
64% | No Score Yet | The Others | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cosby | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 1998 |
70% | 80% | Sex and the City | Mrs. Big (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wings | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bitter Blood | Unknown (Character) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Lydia Winthrop (Guest Star) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who's the Boss? | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
29% | No Score Yet | Good & Evil | Charlotte Sandler (Character) | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kate & Allie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Ida Colby (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Branded | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | East Side/West Side | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Lydia Brailing (Character) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Mary K. Davis (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1957-1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Mrs. Cullen (Guest Star) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Unknown (Character) | 1951 1953 |