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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1910-08-09 (114 years old)

Place of Birth

The Bronx, New York, USA

Sylvia Sidney

Biography:

Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow, August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) 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).

Known For

Acting

1998

1996

Mars Attacks! as Grandma Norris

1993

1992

Used People as Becky

1990

Andre's Mother as Mrs. Downes

1989

1988

Beetlejuice as Juno
Dear John as Mrs. Lumenski

1987

Pals as Fern Stobbs
The Witching of Ben Wagner as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)

1985

An Early Frost as Beatrice McKenna
The Equalizer as Judge

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)

1983

The Brass Ring as Grandmother
Copkiller as Margaret Smith

1982

Hammett as Donaldina Cameron
Having It All as Marney
Come Along with Me as Mrs. Flanner

1981

A Small Killing as Sadie Ross

1980

F.D.R.: The Last Year as Cousin Polly
The Shadow Box as Felicity
The Gossip Columnist as Alma Lewellyn
Magnum, P.I. as Elizabeth Barrett

1978

Damien - Omen II as Aunt Marion
Siege as Lillian Gordon
WKRP in Cincinnati as Mama Carlson

1977

Snowbeast as Mrs. Carrie Rill
The Love Boat as Natalie Corson

1976

God Told Me To as Elizabeth Mullin
Raid on Entebbe as Dora Bloch
Death at Love House as Clara Josephs

1975

Winner Take All as Anne Barclay
Starsky & Hutch as Olga Grossman

1973

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother

1971

1961

The Defenders as Adela Collins

1960

My Three Sons as Miss Houk
Route 66 as Lonnie Taylor
Route 66 as Hannah Ellis

1959

1958

No Time at All as Mrs. Kramer
Naked City as Florence Nunda

1957

The Helen Morgan Story as Lulu Morgan

1956

Behind the High Wall as Hilda Carmichael
Playhouse 90 as Mrs. Kramer

1955

Man on the Ledge as Mrs. Cosick
Violent Saturday as Elsie Braden
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mrs. Sylvia Verloc (archive footage) (uncredited)

1954

Climax! as Louella Wheedron

1953

1952

Les Miserables as Fantine

1951

1950

Lux Video Theatre as Laura Barrie

1949

1948

1947

Love from a Stranger as Cecily Harrington

1946

The Searching Wind as Cassie Bowman
Mr. Ace as Margaret Wyndham Chase

1945

Blood on the Sun as Iris Hilliard

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner

1941

The Wagons Roll at Night as Flo Lorraine
Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1939

One Third of a Nation as Mary Rogers

1938

You and Me as Helen Roberts

1937

Sabotage as Mrs. Verloc
Dead End as Drina Gordon
You Only Live Once as Joan Graham

1936

Fury as Katherine Grant

1935

Mary Burns, Fugitive as Mary Burns
Accent on Youth as Linda Brown

1934

Thirty Day Princess as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
Behold My Wife! as Tonita Storm Cloud
Good Dame as Lillie Taylor

1933

Pick-up as Mary Richards
Jennie Gerhardt as Jennie Gerhardt

1932

Madame Butterfly as Cho-Cho San
Merrily We Go to Hell as Joan Prentice
The Miracle Man as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
Make Me a Star as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)

1931

City Streets as Nan Cooley
An American Tragedy as Roberta 'Bert' Alden
Confessions of a Co-Ed as Patricia Harper
Street Scene as Rose Maurrant
Ladies of the Big House as Kathleen Storm McNeil
The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)

1930

1929

Thru Different Eyes as Valerie Briand

1927

Broadway Nights as Performer