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Sylvia Sidney was an American stage, screen and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award as Best Supporting Actress. She also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).
Birth Name
Sophia Kosow
Born
Monday, 08 August 1910
Died
Thursday, 01 July 1999
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock | Self | 2023 |
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley | Mrs. Verloc | 2013 |
Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock | Mrs. Sylvia Verloc | 2009 |
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards | Self - Memorial Tribute | 2000 |
Fantasy Island | Clia | 1998 |
Mars Attacks! | Grandma Florence Norris / Grandma Norris | 1996 |
Diagnosis Murder | Alice | 1993 |
Used People | Becky | 1992 |
The Man in the Family | Mrs. Panetta | 1991 |
Equal Justice | Mrs. Rogan | 1990 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock | Self | 2023 |
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley | Mrs. Verloc | 2013 |
Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock | Mrs. Sylvia Verloc | 2009 |
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards | Self - Memorial Tribute | 2000 |
Fantasy Island | Clia | 1998 |
Mars Attacks! | Grandma Florence Norris / Grandma Norris | 1996 |
Diagnosis Murder | Alice | 1993 |
Used People | Becky | 1992 |
The Man in the Family | Mrs. Panetta | 1991 |
Equal Justice | Mrs. Rogan | 1990 |
Going Hollywood: The War Years | Self | 1988 |
Dear John | Mrs. Lumenski | 1988 |
Beetlejuice | Juno | 1988 |
Talking Pictures | Self | 1988 |
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man | Self | 1988 |
The Witching of Ben Wagner | Grammy (Regina's Grandmother) | 1987 |
Thirtysomething | Rose Waldman | 1987 |
Biography | Self | 1987 |
Pals | Fern Stobbs | 1987 |
American Masters | Self | 1986 |
Morningstar/Eveningstar | Binnie Baylor | 1986 |
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan | Self | 1985 |
The Equalizer | Judge | 1985 |
An Early Frost | Beatrice McKenna | 1985 |
Finnegan Begin Again | Margaret Finnegan / Margaret | 1985 |
Domestic Life | Mrs. Moskewicz | 1984 |
Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984 |
Whiz Kids | Dolly | 1983 |
Order of Death | Margaret Smith | 1983 |
The Brass Ring | Grandmother | 1983 |
Having It All | Marney | 1982 |
Tom Cottle: Up Close | Self | 1982 |
Hammett | Donaldina Cameron | 1982 |
Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982 |
American Playhouse | Mrs. Downs - Andre's Grandmother / Mrs. Flanner | 1982 |
The Shadow Box | Felicity | 1980 |
Magnum, P.I. | Elizabeth Barrett | 1980 |
F.D.R.: The Last Year | Cousin Polly | 1980 |
California Fever | Mother | 1979 |
Trapper John, M.D. | Mildred Prosser | 1979 |
Supertrain | Agatha Wills | 1979 |
WKRP in Cincinnati | Lillian Carlson | 1978 |
Damien: Omen II | Aunt Marion | 1978 |
Siege | Lillian Gordon | 1978 |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Miss Coral | 1977 |
The Love Boat | Natalie Corson | 1977 |
Snowbeast | Carrie Rill / Mrs. Carrie Rill | 1977 |
Eight Is Enough | Aunt Fealty | 1977 |
Raid on Entebbe | Dora Bloch | 1976 |
God Told Me To | Elizabeth Mullin | 1976 |
Death at Love House | Clara Josephs | 1976 |
Ryan's Hope | Sister Mary Joel | 1975 |
Starsky and Hutch | Olga Grossman | 1975 |
Winner Take All | Anne Barclay | 1975 |
The Secret Night Caller | Kitty | 1975 |
Bicentennial Minutes | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Rita's Mother / Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother | 1973 |
Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate | Elizabeth Gibson | 1971 |
Gypsy | Self | 1965 |
The Doctors | Fading Actress | 1963 |
The Eleventh Hour | Mrs. Arnold | 1962 |
The Doctors and the Nurses | Mrs. Sands | 1962 |
The Defenders | Adela Collins | 1961 |
Route 66 | Lonnie Taylor / Hannah Ellis | 1960 |
My Three Sons | Miss Houk | 1960 |
Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Beulah Ridges | 1959 |
Naked City | Florence Nunda | 1958 |
The Polly Bergen Show | Self | 1957 |
The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar | Herself | 1957 |
Playhouse 90 | Lulu Morgan / Mrs. Golden / Mrs. Kramer | 1956 |
Behind the High Wall | Hilda Carmichael | 1956 |
The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Mrs. Cosick | 1955 |
Playwrights '56 | Sophie | 1955 |
Celebrity Playhouse | Meg Fraser | 1955 |
Violent Saturday | Elsie Braden | 1955 |
Climax! | Louella Wheedron | 1954 |
General Electric Theater | Gloria Roma | 1953 |
The Ford Television Theatre | Laura Blake | 1952 |
Les Miserables | Fantine | 1952 |
Broadway Television Theatre | Mary Herries / Leslie Crosbie / Julia Lambert / Judith Traherne / Elizabeth / Adelina | 1952 |
The Kate Smith Evening Hour | Self | 1951 |
Tales of Tomorrow | Natalie | 1951 |
Lux Video Theatre | Laura Barrie / Joyce | 1950 |
The Philco Television Playhouse | 1948 | |
Love from a Stranger | Cecily Harrington | 1947 |
Mr. Ace | Margaret Wyndham Chase | 1946 |
The Searching Wind | Cassie Bowwman / Cassie Bowman | 1946 |
Blood on the Sun | Iris Hilliard | 1945 |
Breakdowns of 1941 | Self | 1941 |
The Wagons Roll at Night | Flo Lorraine | 1941 |
...One Third of a Nation... | Mary Rogers | 1939 |
You and Me | Helen Dennis / Helen Roberts | 1938 |
Dead End | Drina / Drina Gordon | 1937 |
You Only Live Once | Joan Graham | 1937 |
Sabotage | Mrs. Verloc | 1937 |
Fury | Katherine Grant | 1936 |
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | June Tolliver | 1936 |
Mary Burns, Fugitive | Mary Burns | 1935 |
Accent on Youth | Linda Brown | 1935 |
Behold My Wife! | Tonita Storm Cloud | 1934 |
Thirty Day Princess | Princess Catterina / Nancy Lane | 1934 |
Good Dame | Lillie Taylor | 1934 |
Jennie Gerhardt | Jennie Gerhardt | 1933 |
Pick-up | Mary Richards | 1933 |
Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho San | 1932 |
Make Me a Star | Sylvia Sidney | 1932 |
Merrily We Go to Hell | Joan Prentice | 1932 |
The Miracle Man | Helen Smith aka Helen Vail | 1932 |
Ladies of the Big House | Kathleen Storm McNeil | 1931 |
Street Scene | Rose Maurrant | 1931 |
An American Tragedy | Roberta Alden / Roberta 'Bert' Alden | 1931 |
Confessions of a Co-Ed | Patricia Harper | 1931 |
The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
City Streets | Nan Cooley | 1931 |
Five Minutes from the Station | Carrie Adams | 1930 |
Broadway Nights | Perfomer / Performer | 1927 |
The Sorrows of Satan | Bridesmaid | 1926 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1986 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Won |
1986 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special | Nominated |
1974 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
1974 | Golden Globe | Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture | Nominated |
1963 | Emmy | Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |