Marian Seldes
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Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 - October 6, 2014) was an American stage, film, television, and television actress whose career spanned more than 60 years.
In 1967, she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Delicate Balance (1967), Deathtrap (1978–82), and Dinner at Eight (2002). She was a five-time Tony Award nominee and received subsequent nominations for Father's Day (1971) and Dinner at Eight (1999).
She also received a Drama Desk Award for Father's Day.
Equus (1974–77), Ivanov (1997), and Deuce (2007) were among her Broadway credits.
She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995 and was given the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.
Early life
Seldes was born in Manhattan, the niece of Alice Wadhams Hall, a socialite, and Gilbert Seldes, a journalist, author, and editor. George Seldes, a journalist, was her uncle. Timothy was her one brother. Seldes' paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and her mother was from a "prominent WASP family," according to the "Episcopalian blue-blooded Halls. She grew up in a creative environment and spent time at the Neighborhood Playhouse learning acting. Marian Wells Hall, her maternal aunt, was a well-known interior decorator.
Personal life
Katharine Seldes had one child by her first marriage to Julian Claman. They were divorced in 1961. Seldes said that the Claman-Mexico marriage was violent. "I'm a little vague about this marriage because I don't know the individual in it." Me. "I didn't know that people were going to be rude." Seldes left the marriage after her father noticed marks on her face, which she had to leave. Seldes was married to screenwriter/playwright Garson Kanin from 1990 to 1999.
Career
Seldes made her Broadway debut in 1948 in a Medea production, trained for the stage. She began a successful career in which she received five Tony Award nominations, winning her first time out in 1967 for A Delicate Balance, a Delicate Balance. Seldes began acting in television in 1952, in a Hallmark Hall of Fame production that marked the first of many guest stars. She has appeared in several films and in radio plays. Seldes released five albums for Folkways Records of famous works of literature in the mid-1960s, including two recordings of poetry by Robinson Jeffers. She appeared in 179 episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater from 1974 to 1982. She appeared in an episode of Murphy Brown in 1992 as the title character's eccentric Aunt Brooke.
Seldes worked with Sanford Meisner, Katharine Cornell, and Martha Graham. "Marian is our touchstone to those dramatic ancestors," Actor Laura Linney said. She gives you the motivation to move beyond yourself to something more potent and strong." Seldes was a member of The Juilliard School's drama faculty from 1967 to 1991. Christopher Reeve, Robin Williams, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Patti LuPone, Val Kilmer, and Kevin Spacey were among her students. Seldes began teaching at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, in 2002.
Seldes appeared in every one of Ira Levin's play Deathtrap's 1,809 Broadway performances, earning her a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "most dependable actress." Seldes was also known for her readings of short stories in the "Selected Shorts" collection hosted by Isaiah Sheffer at New York City's Symphony Space.
Seldes was invited by the No.l Coward Society in December 2008 to lay flowers in front of Coward's statue at New York's Gershwin Theatre, commemorating the playwright's 109th birthday. Seldes was the recipient of the 2010 Tony Lifetime Achievement Award. "All I've done is live my life in the theater and adored it." I've got an award for being a good sport, so that's what I've got."
Seldes portrayed Mabel Billingsly, a knife-wielding socialite, in Wendy Mass' film adaptation of Wendy Mass' popular children's book Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, written and directed by Tamar Halpern, in 2012.
