Cast & creator
Marian Seldes
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order, Perry Mason
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.
Also known as: Marion Seldes, Marian Hall Seldes
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film credits
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television credits
106
1947–2017 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (106)
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Peggy Kendall
1999
Law & Order
Suzanne
1990
Perry Mason
Mary K. Davis
1957
Frasier
Betty
1993
Murder, She Wrote
Lydia Winthrop
1984
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards
Self - Audience Member
1956Tony Awards
Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
1956
Mannix
Ida Colby
1967
Sex and the City
Mrs. Big
1998
Have Gun, Will Travel
Mollie Stanton
1957Have Gun, Will Travel
Christie Smith
1957
Climax!
Betty
1954
The Rifleman
Hazel / The Vision
1958
Matinee Theater
1955
Wings
Eleanor Kingsbury
1990
Studio One
Anna Zenger
1948Studio One
Mary Widdicomb
1948Studio One
Belle Giles
1948Studio One
Anna Zeger
1948
Murphy Brown
Murphy's Aunt Brooke
1988
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948The Philco Television Playhouse
Emilia
1948
Nurse Jackie
Tottie
2009
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Alicia Jolland
1956
Gunsmoke
Mrs. Cullen
1955
Omnibus
1952
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
The Texan
Cora Laird
1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Lydia Brailing
1955
M Squad
Martha Wicklow
1957
Kate & Allie
1984
The Millionaire
Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister
1955
Branded
Neela
1965
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Widow Enga
1958
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Louise Grantham Robilotti
2001A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Mrs. Pitcairn
2001Lux Video Theatre
May
1950Lux Video Theatre
Anne
1950
Home Alone 3
Mrs. Hess
1997
Suspicion
1957
Remember WENN
Miss Frye
1996
Central Park West
1995
The Haunting
Mrs. Dudley
1999
Mona Lisa Smile
Jocelyn Carr
2003
August Rush
The Dean
2007
Clubhouse
2004
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Emily
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Iva Stearns
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Nora Cantata
1951
Big Day
2006
The Book of Daniel
Helen
2006
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Herodias
1965
General Electric Theater
Persis Hughes
1953General Electric Theater
Adelaide Baines
1953General Electric Theater
Leah
1953The Court of Last Resort
1957
The Visitor
Barbara
2008
Suburban Girl
Margaret Paddleford
2007
Special for Women
1960
Good & Evil
Charlotte Sandler
1991
Leatherheads
Clerk
2008
Celebrity
Datloff Party Guest
1998
Duets
Harriet Gahagan
2000
Hollywood Ending
Alexandra
2002
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Abby Hedley
2000
Affliction
Alma Pittman
1998
Tom and Huck
Widow Douglas
1995
La Fille du Régiment - Metropolitan Opera
The Duchess of Krakenthorp
2008Hands of Murder
1949
The True Story of Jesse James
Rowena Cobb
1957
Half Hour to Kill
Joyce Field
1958
Town & Country
Eugenie's Mother
2001
The Extra Man
Vivian Cudlip
2010
In from the Night
Nora Cantata
2006
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
2003
Crime and Punishment USA
Debbie Cole
1959
Digging to China
Leah Schroth
1997
The Light in the Forest
Kate Owens
1958
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
Margaret Armstrong
1992
The Young Stranger
Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
1957Panic Button
Kate Sullivan
1957
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Mabel Billingsly
2012In a Pig's Eye
Mrs. Isabel Purvis
1989
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
Self
2008
The Plot to Kill Stalin
Mme. Molotov
1958
Ballets Russes
Narrator
2005
Home
Peggy
2009
The Big Fisherman
Arnon
1959
Fingers
Ruth
1978
Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
1995
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
Narrator (voice)
2004
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
Justice Susie Sharp
1994
The Star Wagon
Marian
1966
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Bernadette Episode
Louise Soubirous
Clarissa
Lillian Banion
1995
Gertrude Stein and a Companion!
Alice B. Toklas
1987
Plainsong
Iva Stearns
2004
1961
Abby Hedley
2000
The Toe Tactic
Eunice (voice)
2009
Kate McShane
Secretary
1975
Zits
Miss Maple
1988
Marian
Self
2017
Miriam
Mrs. H.T. Miller
2007The Lonely Night
Caroline
1954