Biography
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 t...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Marian
2017
as Self
When Marian stops speaking, she relies on her students, colleagues and only daughter to speak for her.
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
2012
as Mabel Billingsly
Jeremy Fink and his best friend Lizzy must search high and low throughout the streets of Manhattan for clues to unlock the mysterious box he received ...
The Extra Man
2010
as Vivian Cudlip
A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Home
2009
as Peggy
Inga is a mother with the soul of a poet at a crossroads. Her estranged husband Hermann is bereft of emotional support for her in the wake of her reco...
The Toe Tactic
2009
as Eunice (voice)
Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching - she now temps as an office ass...
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008
as Self
Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
2008
as The Duchess of Krakenthorp
Madcap physical comedy and impeccable coloratura come together for Natalie Dessay’s indelible portrayal of the feisty tomboy raised by a regiment of F...
Leatherheads
2008
as Clerk
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing ...
The Visitor
2008
as Barbara
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
August Rush
2007
as The Dean
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, h...
Miriam
2007
as Mrs. H.T. Miller
An elderly woman makes the acquaintance of a strange and disturbed little girl in this haunting film based on the Truman Capote short story 'Miriam.'
Suburban Girl
2007
as Margaret Paddleford
Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confidence, a problem that isn't helped by her new, overbe...
In from the Night
2006
as Nora Cantata
Vicki Miller is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bo...
Ballets Russes
2005
as Narrator
For many, modern ballet began with the Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo, originally made up of Russian exiles from the Russian Revolution. This film tells ...
Plainsong
2004
as Iva Stearns
Tom Guthrie, a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones, a fellow teacher, tries to p...
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
2004
as Narrator (voice)
The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry an...
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
as President Jocelyn Carr
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront...
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...
Hollywood Ending
2002
as Alexandra
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman fi...
Town & Country
2001
as Eugenie's Mother
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps, some with his wif...
Duets
2000
as Harriet Gahagan
Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Oma...
1961
2000
as Abby Hedley
An elderly lesbian couple, Edith (Vanessa Redgrave) and Abby (Marian Seldes), find out their long-term relationship has no bearing in the eyes of the ...
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
as Abby Hedley
The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Ed...
The Haunting
1999
as Mrs. Dudley
Dr. David Marrow invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate gu...
Celebrity
1998
as Datloff Party Guest
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment j...
Affliction
1997
as Alma Pittman
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally...
Home Alone 3
1997
as Mrs. Hess
9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top...
Digging to China
1997
as Leah Schroth
Precocious young Harriet and her older sister Gwen live at their mother's motel in small-town New Hampshire. Harriet dreams of a life beyond her inatt...
Tom and Huck
1995
as Widow Douglas
A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and n...
Clarissa
1995
as Lillian Banion
Pilot episode of the cancelled follow-up series to Nickelodeon's "Clarissa Explains it All" in which debutante Clarissa Darling contends to her life i...
Truman
1995
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision...
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
1994
as Justice Susie Sharp
After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
as Margaret Armstrong
A Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession.
Zits
1988
as Miss Maple
When their music teacher needs an expensive operation after being mugged, a group of precocious middle school students attempt to raise the money by s...
Gertrude Stein and a Companion!
1987
as Alice B. Toklas
We arrive just after the death of Gertrude Stein. Her ghost returns to Alice B. Toklas and the genesis and development of their relationship is richly...
Fingers
1978
as Ruth
A wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso father, a lifestyle that could eventually ruin his drea...
Kate McShane
1975
as Secretary
A flamboyant Denver lady lawyer, with the help of her father, a retired cop who does the legwork for her investigations, and her brother, a Jesuit pri...
The Star Wagon
1966
as Marian
The Star Wagon is a play in black and white starring Dustin Hoffman.
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Herodias
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. M...
Crime and Punishment USA
1959
as Debbie Cole
Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.
The Big Fisherman
1959
as Arnon
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
as Mme. Molotov
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including...
The Light in the Forest
1958
as Kate Owens
A young white man who spent his whole life raised by a Native American tribe is sent to live with his true family and must learn to fit in with the pe...
The True Story of Jesse James
1957
as Rowena Cobb
Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympath...
The Young Stranger
1957
as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater ...
The Lonely Night
1954
as Caroline
After Caroline Cram finds herself in an analyst's office, she starts groping for the truth about her hopelessness, fears, loneliness and anxieties. A ...