Sylvia Sidney
Known for Acting
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).
Filmography
Beetlejuice
1988
as Juno
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Grandma Norris
Used People
1992
as Becky
Damien - Omen II
1978
as Aunt Marion
Fury
1936
as Katherine Grant
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
as Joan Prentice
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
You Only Live Once
1937
as Joan Graham
Snowbeast
1977
as Mrs. Carrie Rill
Hammett
1982
as Donaldina Cameron
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
as Self
Dead End
1937
as Drina
Raid on Entebbe
1976
as Dora Bloch
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977
as Miss Coral
City Streets
1931
as Nan Cooley
God Told Me To
1976
as Elizabeth Mullin
An Early Frost
1985
as Beatrice McKenna
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
as June Tolliver