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Sylvia Sidney

Born: 1910-08-09

From: The Bronx, New York, USA

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