Sylvia Sidney
ActingAlso Known As
Sophia Kosow, Sylvia Sydney, سیلویا سیدنی
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).
Movies
(74 total)
Beetlejuice
as Juno
Mars Attacks!
as Grandma Norris
Damien - Omen II
as Aunt Marion
Sabotage
as Mrs. Verloc
Fury
as Katherine Grant
You Only Live Once
as Joan Graham
God Told Me To
as Elizabeth Mullin
Dead End
as Drina
Violent Saturday
as Elsie Braden
Hammett
as Donaldina Cameron
Raid on Entebbe
as Dora Bloch
Merrily We Go to Hell
as Joan Prentice
City Streets
as Nan Cooley
You and Me
as Helen Roberts
Snowbeast
as Mrs. Carrie Rill
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
as Miss Coral
Blood on the Sun
as Iris Hilliard
Street Scene
as Rose Maurrant
Used People
as Becky
An Early Frost
as Beatrice McKenna
TV Shows
(38 total)
Magnum, P.I.
as Elizabeth Barrett
Starsky & Hutch
as Olga Grossman
The Love Boat
as Natalie Corson
Diagnosis: Murder
as Alice
WKRP in Cincinnati
as Lillian Carlson
The Equalizer
as Judge
My Three Sons
as Miss Houk
Eight Is Enough
as Aunt Fealty
Dear John
as Mrs. Lumenski
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
Route 66
as Lonnie Taylor
Route 66
as Hannah Ellis
Fantasy Island
as Clia
Naked City
as Florence Nunda
Climax!
as Louella Wheedron
The Defenders
as Adela Collins
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
American Playhouse
as Mrs. Flanner