Sylvia Sidney

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).

Cast

Mars Attacks!

Grandma Norris

Man on the Ledge

Mrs. Cosick

Damien - Omen II

Aunt Marion

God Told Me To

Elizabeth Mullin

Raid on Entebbe

Dora Bloch

Sabotage

Mrs. Verloc

A Small Killing

Sadie Ross

Dead End

Drina Gordon

Andre's Mother

Mrs. Downes

City Streets

Nan Cooley

Fury

Katherine Grant

Behind the High Wall

Hilda Carmichael

You and Me

Helen Roberts

Violent Saturday

Elsie Braden

Snowbeast

Mrs. Carrie Rill

Madame Butterfly

Cho-Cho San

You Only Live Once

Joan Graham

Merrily We Go to Hell

Joan Prentice

Thirty Day Princess

Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina

Love from a Stranger

Cecily Harrington

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother

An Early Frost

Beatrice McKenna

Blood on the Sun

Iris Hilliard

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

June Tolliver

The Wagons Roll at Night

Flo Lorraine

An American Tragedy

Roberta 'Bert' Alden

Mary Burns, Fugitive

Mary Burns

Confessions of a Co-Ed

Patricia Harper

Street Scene

Rose Maurrant

Les Miserables

Fantine

Ladies of the Big House

Kathleen Storm McNeil

Behold My Wife!

Tonita Storm Cloud

Pick-up

Mary Richards

Siege

Lillian Gordon

Good Dame

Lillie Taylor

Jennie Gerhardt

Jennie Gerhardt

One Third of a Nation

Mary Rogers

Accent on Youth

Linda Brown

Pals

Fern Stobbs

The Searching Wind

Cassie Bowman

The Secret Night Caller

Kitty

Going Hollywood: The '30s

(archive footage)

The Helen Morgan Story

Lulu Morgan

The House That Shadows Built

(archive footage)

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

Elizabeth Gibson

The Miracle Man

Helen Smith aka Helen Vail

The Brass Ring

Grandmother

Five Minutes from the Station

Carrie Adams

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Self

Night of 100 Stars III

Self

Beetlejuice

Juno

Used People

Becky

No Time at All

Mrs. Kramer

Mr. Ace

Margaret Wyndham Chase

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Self (archive footage)

F.D.R.: The Last Year

Cousin Polly

Copkiller

Margaret Smith

Winner Take All

Anne Barclay

Breakdowns of 1941

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Witching of Ben Wagner

Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)

Hammett

Donaldina Cameron

Death at Love House

Clara Josephs

Thru Different Eyes

Valerie Briand

The Shadow Box

Felicity

Broadway Nights

Performer

Finnegan Begin Again

Margaret

Make Me a Star

Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Miss Coral

The Gossip Columnist

Alma Lewellyn

Having It All

Marney

Come Along with Me

Mrs. Flanner

Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner

Sylvia Sidney

Night of 100 Stars

Self

The Sorrows of Satan

Bridesmaid (uncredited)