Sylvia Sidney
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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
Credits
Beetlejuice (1988)
as Juno
Mars Attacks! (1996)
as Grandma Norris
Damien - Omen II (1978)
as Aunt Marion
Pick-up (1933)
as Mary Richards
Sabotage (1937)
as Mrs. Verloc
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
as Joan Prentice
Dead End (1937)
as Drina
Mr. Ace (1946)
as Margaret Wyndham Chase
Behold My Wife! (1934)
as Tonita Storm Cloud
Raid on Entebbe (1976)
as Dora Bloch
Les Miserables (1952)
as Fantine
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
as Miss Coral
Blood on the Sun (1945)
as Iris Hilliard
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
as Self
Snowbeast (1977)
as Mrs. Carrie Rill
Hammett (1982)
as Donaldina Cameron
Copkiller (1983)
as Margaret Smith
You Only Live Once (1937)
as Joan Graham
Violent Saturday (1955)
as Elsie Braden
An Early Frost (1985)
as Beatrice McKenna
God Told Me To (1976)
as Elizabeth Mullin
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Street Scene (1931)
as Rose Maurrant
Fury (1936)
as Katherine Grant
Breakdowns of 1941 (1941)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Used People (1992)
as Becky
Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
as Margaret
An American Tragedy (1931)
as Roberta 'Bert' Alden
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
as Elizabeth Gibson
Ladies of the Big House (1931)
as Kathleen Storm McNeil
City Streets (1931)
as Nan Cooley
You and Me (1938)
as Helen Roberts
The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
as Flo Lorraine
Man on the Ledge (1955)
as Mrs. Cosick
The Shadow Box (1980)
as Felicity
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
as Mary Burns
The Gossip Columnist (1980)
as Alma Lewellyn
Thirty Day Princess (1934)
as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
Madame Butterfly (1932)
as Cho-cho San
One Third of a Nation (1939)
as Mary Rogers
Behind the High Wall (1956)
as Hilda Carmichael
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
as (archive footage)
Having It All (1982)
as Marney
F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980)
as Cousin Polly
Death at Love House (1976)
as Clara Josephs
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
as June Tolliver
The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
The Secret Night Caller (1975)
as Kitty
Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
as Jennie Gerhardt
Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)
as Patricia Harper
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (1989)
as Self
Winner Take All (1975)
as Anne Barclay
The Witching of Ben Wagner (1987)
as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
Good Dame (1934)
as Lillie Taylor
No Time at All (1958)
as Mrs. Kramer
Siege (1978)
as Lillian Gordon
Accent on Youth (1935)
as Linda Brown
Pals (1987)
as Fern Stobbs
Andre's Mother (1990)
as Mrs. Downes
Broadway Nights (1927)
as Performer
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
as Lulu Morgan
Make Me a Star (1932)
as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
Come Along with Me (1982)
as Mrs. Flanner
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
as (archive footage)
A Small Killing (1981)
as Sadie Ross
The Miracle Man (1932)
as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
Love from a Stranger (1947)
as Cecily Harrington
The Brass Ring (1983)
as Grandmother
The Searching Wind (1946)
as Cassie Bowman
Five Minutes from the Station (1930)
as Carrie Adams
Thru Different Eyes (1929)
as Valerie Briand
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949)
as Sylvia Sidney