Biography
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 …
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Career Milestones
2008 | Had a small role in the George Clooney directed "Leatherheads" | |
2007 | Played well-bred Midge Barker, opposite Angela Lansbury's blue collar Leona Mullen, in the Broadway production of "Deuce" | |
2007 | Had a supporting role in the independent film "The Visitor" | |
2003 | Portrayed the president of a woman's college in the 1950s in "Mona Lisa Smile" | |
2003 | Earned a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Play for her role in "Dinner at Eight" | |
2002 | Began teaching at Fordham University in New York City | |
2001 | Had featured role in Neil Simon's Broadway comedy "45 Seconds from Broadway" | |
2001 | Played Andie MacDowell's mother in "Town & Country" | |
2000 | Starred in Edward Albee's "The Play About the Baby" at the Alley Theater in Houston; reprised role in the off-Broadway production in 2001 | |
2000 | Acted on stage as a theatrical grande dame in The Drama Dept. production of "The Torch-Bearers" | |
1999 | Had supporting role as a mysterious housekeeper in "The Haunting" | |
1999 | Returned to Broadway, replacing an ailing Irene Worth, in the revival of "Ring Round the Moon"; earned a Best Actress Tony Award nomination as the wheelchair-bound Madame Desmermortes | |
1998 | Played Mr. Big's (Chris Noth) mother in an episode of HBO's "Sex and the City" | |
1998 | Played the terminally ill mother of the mentally-challenged Kevin Bacon in "Digging to China" | |
1997 | Acted alongside former student Kevin Kline in "Ivanov"; directed by Gerald Guitterez, another former student | |
1997 | Cast as the grumpy woman who inadvertently passes a stolen computer chip to her next-door neighbor in "Home Alone 3" | |
1996 | Was interviewed for the Oscar-nominated documentary "Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press" | |
1995 | Portrayed former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the HBO biopic "Truman" | |
1995 | Appeared as the Widow Douglas in "Tom and Huck" | |
1992 | First acted in Edward Albee's award-winning "Three Tall Women"; later appeared in the off-Broadway production in 1994 | |
1992 | Offered a memorable turn as Aunt Brook on a holiday episode of "Murphy Brown" (CBS) | |
1992 | Had featured role in the screen comedy "The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag" | |
1991 | Debuted as a series regular on the short-lived ABC sitcom "Good & Evil" | |
1991 | Resumed film career portraying Alice B. Toklas to Jan Miner's Gertrude Stein in "Gertrude Stein and a Companion" | |
1990 | Co-starred in the ill-fated (and ill-conceived) musical sequel "Annie 2: Miss Hanigan's Revenge" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC | |
1983 | Played the starchy matron in the hit off-Broadway play "Painting Churches" | |
1978 | Co-starred as the murdered wife of playwright Sydney Bruhl in the long-running "Deathtrap"; earned a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Play | |
1978 | Published her memoirs The Bright Lights | |
1977 | Portrayed the titular dancer in "Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russian Navy" | |
1977 | Made one-shot return to features as Harvey Kietel's mentally unbalanced mother in "Fingers" | |
1974 | Played over 900 performances as the magistrate and later as Alan's mother in "Equus" | |
1971 | Earned a Tony Award nomination for her role in Oliver Hailey's "Father's Day"; show opened and closed on the same night | |
1967 | Was a faculty member of the Juilliard School of Drama; among her students were Kevin Kline, Gerald Guiterrez and Frances Conroy | |
1967 | Played Julia, the much married daughter of a warring couple (played by Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn) in Albee's "A Delicate Balance" | |
1965 | Appeared as Herodias in "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; last feature for over a decade | |
1965 | Initial stage collaboration with Edward Albee, "Tiny Alice" | |
1964 | Performed in Tennessee Williams' "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" | |
1960 | Returned to Broadway to appear in "The Wall" | |
1955 | Acted in the Broadway production of "The Chalk Garden" | |
1952 | Feature acting debut, "The Lonely Night" | |
1949 | Made an early TV appearance in a production of "Macbeth" | |
| Appeared with Katharine Cornell in "That Lady" (1949) and "The Tower Beyond Tragedy" (1950) | ||
1948 | Made her Broadway theatre debut in a production of "Medea" | |
1945 | Made stage acting debut with the Cambridge Summer Theater | |
1942 | Debuted as a dancer with the American Ballet in "Petrouchka" | |
Awards
1967 | Tony Award for Actress, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic) |