Sylvia Sidney
Acting
Born: 1910-08-09 in The Bronx, New York, USA
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
Beetlejuice
Juno
Mars Attacks!
Grandma Norris
Damien - Omen II
Aunt Marion
Magnum, P.I.
Elizabeth Barrett
Sabotage
Mrs. Verloc
Fury
Katherine Grant
Starsky & Hutch
Olga Grossman
The Love Boat
Natalie Corson
You Only Live Once
Joan Graham
God Told Me To
Elizabeth Mullin
Dead End
Drina
Diagnosis: Murder
Alice
WKRP in Cincinnati
Lillian Carlson
Violent Saturday
Elsie Braden
Hammett
Donaldina Cameron
The Equalizer
Judge
Raid on Entebbe
Dora Bloch
Merrily We Go to Hell
Joan Prentice
City Streets
Nan Cooley
You and Me
Helen Roberts
Snowbeast
Mrs. Carrie Rill
Street Scene
Rose Maurrant
Eight Is Enough
Aunt Fealty
Blood on the Sun
Iris Hilliard
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Miss Coral
My Three Sons
Miss Houk
Used People
Becky
An Early Frost
Beatrice McKenna
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
June Tolliver
thirtysomething
Copkiller
Margaret Smith
Madame Butterfly
Cho-cho San
Thirty Day Princess
Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
Golden Globe Awards
Self
Route 66
Lonnie Taylor
Route 66
Hannah Ellis
The Wagons Roll at Night
Flo Lorraine
Dear John
Mrs. Lumenski
An American Tragedy
Roberta 'Bert' Alden
Les Miserables
Fantine