Personal Info
Known ForActing
GenderFemale
BirthdayAugust 8, 1910 (114 years old)
Place of BirthThe Bronx, New York, USA
Sylvia Sidney
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
Mars Attacks!
Man on the Ledge
Damien - Omen II
God Told Me To
Raid on Entebbe
Sabotage
A Small Killing
Dead End
Andre's Mother
City Streets
Fury
Behind the High Wall
You and Me
Violent Saturday
Snowbeast
Madame Butterfly
You Only Live Once
Merrily We Go to Hell
Thirty Day Princess
Love from a Stranger
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
An Early Frost
Blood on the Sun
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
The Wagons Roll at Night
An American Tragedy
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Street Scene
Les Miserables
Ladies of the Big House
Behold My Wife!
Pick-up
Siege
Good Dame
Jennie Gerhardt
One Third of a Nation
Accent on Youth
Pals
The Searching Wind
The Secret Night Caller
Going Hollywood: The '30s
The Helen Morgan Story
The House That Shadows Built
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
The Miracle Man
The Brass Ring
Five Minutes from the Station
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Night of 100 Stars III
Beetlejuice
Used People
No Time at All
Mr. Ace
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Copkiller
Winner Take All
Breakdowns of 1941
The Witching of Ben Wagner
Hammett
Death at Love House
Thru Different Eyes
The Shadow Box
Broadway Nights
Finnegan Begin Again
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
The Gossip Columnist
Make Me a Star
Having It All
Come Along with Me
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Night of 100 Stars
Magnum, P.I.
Fantasy Island
WKRP in Cincinnati
thirtysomething
Starsky & Hutch
My Three Sons
Naked City
Diagnosis: Murder
The Equalizer
General Electric Theater
Eight Is Enough
Lux Video Theatre
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Climax!
The 20th Century Fox Hour
The Philco Television Playhouse
Playwrights '56
Tales of Tomorrow
The Defenders
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Route 66
Lux Video Theatre
The Mike Douglas Show
Climax!
Dear John
The Love Boat
Playhouse 90
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Golden Globe Awards
Kraft Television Theatre
Route 66
The Polly Bergen Show
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
The Ford Television Theatre
The Ford Television Theatre
Cameo Theatre
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