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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 9, 1910
Died
July 1, 1999
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Sophia Kosow
- Sylvia Sydney
- سیلویا سیدنی
Sylvia Sidney
1.1 Popularity
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
7.5
Clia
Fantasy Island
1998
6.4
Grandma Norris
Mars Attacks!
1996
7.1
Alice
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
5.7
Becky
Used People
1992
4.0
Self
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
0.0
Mrs. Downes
Andre's Mother
1990
🎬
0.0
Self
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
5.5
Mrs. Lumenski
Dear John
1988
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
7.4
Juno
Beetlejuice
1988
Credits
Fantasy Island
as Clia
1998
7.5
Mars Attacks!
as Grandma Norris
1996
6.4
Diagnosis: Murder
as Alice
1993
7.1
Used People
as Becky
1992
5.7
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1990
4.0
Andre's Mother
as Mrs. Downes
1990
0.0
🎬
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self
1989
0.0
Dear John
as Mrs. Lumenski
1988
5.5
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Self (archive footage)
1988
7.0
Beetlejuice
as Juno
1988
7.4
The Witching of Ben Wagner
as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
1987
5.2
thirtysomething
1987
6.1
Pals
as Fern Stobbs
1987
3.7
The Equalizer
as Judge
1985
7.1
An Early Frost
as Beatrice McKenna
1985
5.7
Finnegan Begin Again
as Margaret
1985
6.3
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
Copkiller
as Margaret Smith
1983
5.8
The Brass Ring
as Grandmother
1983
7.0
Having It All
as Marney
1982
5.0
Hammett
as Donaldina Cameron
1982
6.2
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
6.7
Come Along with Me
as Mrs. Flanner
1982
6.0
American Playhouse
as Mrs. Flanner
1982
6.2
A Small Killing
as Sadie Ross
1981
8.0
Magnum, P.I.
as Elizabeth Barrett
1980
7.3
The Shadow Box
as Felicity
1980
4.6
F.D.R.: The Last Year
as Cousin Polly
1980
5.8
The Gossip Columnist
as Alma Lewellyn
1980
7.5
WKRP in Cincinnati
as Lillian Carlson
1978
7.6
Kaz
as Molly
1978
5.0
Damien - Omen II
as Aunt Marion
1978
6.4
Siege
as Lillian Gordon
1978
6.2
The Love Boat
as Natalie Corson
1977
6.3
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
as Miss Coral
1977
5.8
Snowbeast
as Mrs. Carrie Rill
1977
4.2
Eight Is Enough
as Aunt Fealty
1977
6.1
Raid on Entebbe
as Dora Bloch
1976
6.0
God Told Me To
as Elizabeth Mullin
1976
5.8
Death at Love House
as Clara Josephs
1976
4.7
Starsky & Hutch
as Olga Grossman
1975
7.3
Winner Take All
as Anne Barclay
1975
7.0
The Secret Night Caller
as Kitty
1975
6.5
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
1973
5.4
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
as Elizabeth Gibson
1971
5.9
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Defenders
as Adela Collins
1961
5.9
Route 66
as Lonnie Taylor
1960
6.3
Route 66
as Hannah Ellis
1960
6.3
My Three Sons
as Miss Houk
1960
6.5
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Beulah Ridges
1959
6.3
Naked City
as Florence Nunda
1958
5.5
No Time at All
as Mrs. Kramer
1958
0.0
🎬
The Polly Bergen Show
as Self
1957
0.0
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
The Helen Morgan Story
as Lulu Morgan
1957
0.0
Playhouse 90
as Mrs. Kramer
1956
7.6
Behind the High Wall
as Hilda Carmichael
1956
5.1
Man on the Ledge
as Mrs. Cosick
1955
0.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Mrs. Cosick
1955
5.4
🎬
Playwrights '56
1955
6.0
Violent Saturday
as Elsie Braden
1955
6.7
Climax!
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Louella Wheedron
1954
3.3
🎬
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
0.0
General Electric Theater
as Gloria Roma
1953
6.4
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
7.3
The Ford Television Theatre
as Laura Blake
1952
7.3
Les Miserables
as Fantine
1952
5.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
6.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Joyce
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Laura Barrie
1950
6.3
🎬
Cameo Theatre
1950
0.0
🎬
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
as Sylvia Sidney
1949
0.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
Love from a Stranger
as Cecily Harrington
1947
5.7
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
7.5
The Searching Wind
as Cassie Bowman
1946
0.0
Mr. Ace
as Margaret Wyndham Chase
1946
5.6
Blood on the Sun
as Iris Hilliard
1945
5.8
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
1944
7.2
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
7.0
The Wagons Roll at Night
as Flo Lorraine
1941
6.5
One Third of a Nation
as Mary Rogers
1939
5.8
You and Me
as Helen Roberts
1938
6.5
Dead End
as Drina Gordon
1937
7.0
You Only Live Once
as Joan Graham
1937
7.1
Sabotage
as Mrs. Verloc
1937
6.7
Fury
as Katherine Grant
1936
7.4
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as June Tolliver
1936
6.5
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Mary Burns
1935
0.0
Accent on Youth
as Linda Brown
1935
5.5
Behold My Wife!
as Tonita Storm Cloud
1934
7.0
Thirty Day Princess
as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
1934
6.8
Good Dame
as Lillie Taylor
1934
5.5
Jennie Gerhardt
as Jennie Gerhardt
1933
4.0
Pick-up
as Mary Richards
1933
4.0
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho San
1932
5.2
Make Me a Star
as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
1932
5.5
Merrily We Go to Hell
as Joan Prentice
1932
6.3
The Miracle Man
as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
1932
5.7
Ladies of the Big House
as Kathleen Storm McNeil
1931
6.0
Street Scene
as Rose Maurrant
1931
6.7
An American Tragedy
as Roberta 'Bert' Alden
1931
6.1
Confessions of a Co-Ed
as Patricia Harper
1931
5.8
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
1931
7.0
City Streets
as Nan Cooley
1931
6.2
Five Minutes from the Station
as Carrie Adams
1930
6.0
Thru Different Eyes
as Valerie Briand
1929
0.0
Broadway Nights
as Performer
1927
6.0
The Sorrows of Satan
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
1926
6.7