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