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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marian Seldes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2012Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life — Mabel Billingsly
• 2010The Extra Man — Vivian Cudlip
• 2009Home — Peggy
• Nurse Jackie — Tottie
• 2009The Toe Tactic — Eunice (voice)
• 2008La Fille du Régiment - Metropolitan Opera — The Duchess of Krakenthorp
• 2008Leatherheads — Clerk
• 2008The Visitor — Barbara
• 2007August Rush — The Dean
• 2007Miriam — Mrs. H.T. Miller
• 2007Suburban Girl — Margaret Paddleford
• Big Day
• 2006In from the Night — Nora Cantata
• The Book of Daniel — Helen
• 2005Ballets Russes — Narrator
• Clubhouse
• 2004Plainsong — Iva Stearns
• 2004Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision — Narrator (voice)
• 2003Mona Lisa Smile — Jocelyn Carr
• 2002Hollywood Ending — Alexandra
• A Nero Wolfe Mystery — Louise Grantham Robilotti, Mrs. Pitcairn
• 2001Town & Country — Eugenie's Mother
• 20001961 — Abby Hedley
• 2000Duets — Harriet Gahagan
• 2000If These Walls Could Talk 2 — Abby Hedley
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Peggy Kendall
• 1999The Haunting — Mrs. Dudley
• 1998Affliction — Alma Pittman
• 1998Celebrity — Datloff Party Guest
• Sex and the City — Mrs. Big
• 1997Digging to China — Leah Schroth
• 1997Home Alone 3 — Mrs. Hess
• Remember WENN — Miss Frye
• Central Park West
• 1995Clarissa — Lillian Banion
• 1995Tom and Huck — Widow Douglas
• 1995Truman — Eleanor Roosevelt
• 1994In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness — Justice Susie Sharp
• Frasier — Betty
• 1992The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag — Margaret Armstrong
• Good & Evil — Charlotte Sandler
• Law & Order — Suzanne
• Wings — Eleanor Kingsbury
• 1989In a Pig's Eye — Mrs. Isabel Purvis
• Murphy Brown — Murphy's Aunt Brooke
• 1988Zits — Miss Maple
• 1987Gertrude Stein and a Companion! — Alice B. Toklas
• Kate & Allie
• Murder, She Wrote — Lydia Winthrop
• 1978Fingers — Ruth
• 1975Kate McShane — Secretary
• Mannix — Ida Colby
• 1966The Star Wagon — Marian
• Branded — Neela
• 1965The Greatest Story Ever Told — Herodias
• Special for Women
• 1959Crime and Punishment USA — Debbie Cole
• 1959The Big Fisherman — Arnon
• Half Hour to Kill — Joyce Field
• Shirley Temple's Storybook — Widow Enga
• 1958The Light in the Forest — Kate Owens
• 1958The Plot to Kill Stalin — Mme. Molotov
• The Rifleman — Hazel / The Vision
• The Texan — Cora Laird
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Mollie Stanton, Christie Smith
• M Squad — Martha Wicklow
• 1957Panic Button — Kate Sullivan
• Perry Mason — Mary K. Davis
• Suspicion
• The Court of Last Resort
• 1957The True Story of Jesse James — Rowena Cobb
• 1957The Young Stranger — Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Alicia Jolland
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Lydia Brailing
• Gunsmoke — Mrs. Cullen
• Matinee Theater
• The Millionaire — Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister
• Climax! — Betty
• 1954The Lonely Night — Caroline
• General Electric Theater — Persis Hughes, Adelaide Baines, Leah
• Omnibus
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Emily, Iva Stearns, Nora Cantata
• Lux Video Theatre — May, Anne
• Hands of Murder
• Studio One — Anna Zenger, Mary Widdicomb, Belle Giles, Anna Zeger
• The Philco Television Playhouse — Emilia
• Kraft Television Theatre
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Bernadette Episode — Louise Soubirous

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2017Marian — Self
• 2008Murnau, Borzage and Fox — Self
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Audience Member, Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient