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