Sylvia Sidney

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
August 9, 1910 (88 years old)
Died
July 1, 1999
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York, USA
Popular Genres
Drama TV Movie Comedy
Career Span
1926 – 1996

Sylvia Sidney

6 wins
60 nominations
2 Oscars
74 credits

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).

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Personal Info

Born
Aug 9, 1910
From
The Bronx, New York, USA
Known For
Acting
Career
1926 – 1996

Award Recognition

6
Wins
60
Nominations
2
Oscars

Complete Filmography

1996

Mars Attacks! as Grandma Norris Award

1992

Used People as Becky Award

1990

Night of 100 Stars III as Self Award
Andre's Mother as Mrs. Downes

1989

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self

1988

Beetlejuice as Juno Award
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self (archive footage)

1987

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

1985

An Early Frost as Beatrice McKenna
Finnegan Begin Again as Margaret

1984

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

1983

The Brass Ring as Grandmother Award
Copkiller as Margaret Smith

1982

Night of 100 Stars as Self Award
Having It All as Marney Award
Hammett as Donaldina Cameron Award
Come Along with Me as Mrs. Flanner

1981

A Small Killing as Sadie Ross

1980

The Gossip Columnist as Alma Lewellyn
F.D.R.: The Last Year as Cousin Polly
The Shadow Box as Felicity

1978

Damien - Omen II as Aunt Marion Award
Siege as Lillian Gordon

1977

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden as Miss Coral Award
Snowbeast as Mrs. Carrie Rill Award

1976

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

1975

Winner Take All as Anne Barclay Award
The Secret Night Caller as Kitty

1973

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

1971

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate as Elizabeth Gibson

1958

No Time at All as Mrs. Kramer

1957

The Helen Morgan Story as Lulu Morgan

1956

Behind the High Wall as Hilda Carmichael

1955

Violent Saturday as Elsie Braden Award
Man on the Ledge as Mrs. Cosick

1952

Les Miserables as Fantine

1949

Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner as Sylvia Sidney

1947

Love from a Stranger as Cecily Harrington

1946

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

1945

Blood on the Sun as Iris Hilliard Award

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 Award

1937

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

1936

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as June Tolliver
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

Jennie Gerhardt as Jennie Gerhardt
Pick-up as Mary Richards

1932

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

1931

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

1930

Five Minutes from the Station as Carrie Adams

1929

Thru Different Eyes as Valerie Briand

1927

Broadway Nights as Performer

1926

The Sorrows of Satan as Bridesmaid (uncredited)

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Beetlejuice
Mars Attacks!
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
You Only Live Once
Hammett

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