8.0
8.0
A Small Killing
1981
as Sadie Ross
Sylvia Sidney
Also known as: Sophia Kosow
Acting
Born:August 9, 1910
Died:July 1, 1999(aged 88)
Birthplace:The Bronx, New York, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:Washington Irving High School
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CommunityBiography
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 (68 movies)
7.5
7.5
The Gossip Columnist
1980
as Alma Lewellyn
7.4
7.4
Fury
1936
as Katherine Grant
7.4
7.4
Beetlejuice
1988
as Juno
7.1
7.1
You Only Live Once
1937
as Joan Graham
7.0
7.0
Winner Take All
1975
as Anne Barclay
7.0
7.0
The Brass Ring
1983
as Grandmother
7.0
7.0
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
Dead End
1937
as Drina Gordon
7.0
7.0
The House That Shadows Built
1931
as (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
Behold My Wife!
1934
as Tonita Storm Cloud
6.8
6.8
Thirty Day Princess
1934
as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
6.7
6.7
Violent Saturday
1955
as Elsie Braden
6.7
6.7
Sabotage
1937
as Mrs. Verloc
6.7
6.7
Street Scene
1931
as Rose Maurrant
6.5
6.5
You and Me
1938
as Helen Roberts
6.5
6.5
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
as June Tolliver
6.5
6.5
The Secret Night Caller
1975
as Kitty
6.5
6.5
The Wagons Roll at Night
1941
as Flo Lorraine
6.4
6.4
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Grandma Norris
6.4
6.4
Damien - Omen II
1978
as Aunt Marion
6.3
6.3
Finnegan Begin Again
1985
as Margaret
6.3
6.3
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
as Joan Prentice
6.2
6.2
City Streets
1931
as Nan Cooley
6.2
6.2
Siege
1978
as Lillian Gordon
6.2
6.2
Hammett
1982
as Donaldina Cameron
6.1
6.1
An American Tragedy
1931
as Roberta 'Bert' Alden
6.0
6.0
Five Minutes from the Station
1930
as Carrie Adams
6.0
6.0
Ladies of the Big House
1931
as Kathleen Storm McNeil
6.0
6.0
Broadway Nights
1927
as Performer
6.0
6.0
Come Along with Me
1982
as Mrs. Flanner
6.0
6.0
Raid on Entebbe
1976
as Dora Bloch
5.9
5.9
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1971
as Elizabeth Gibson
5.8
5.8
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977
as Miss Coral
5.8
5.8
God Told Me To
1976
as Elizabeth Mullin
5.8
5.8
Blood on the Sun
1945
as Iris Hilliard
5.8
5.8
Copkiller
1983
as Margaret Smith
5.8
5.8
One Third of a Nation
1939
as Mary Rogers
5.8
5.8
Confessions of a Co-Ed
1931
as Patricia Harper
5.8
5.8
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
as Cousin Polly
5.7
5.7
Used People
1992
as Becky
5.7
5.7
Love from a Stranger
1947
as Cecily Harrington
5.7
5.7
The Miracle Man
1932
as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
5.7
5.7
An Early Frost
1985
as Beatrice McKenna
5.6
5.6
Mr. Ace
1946
as Margaret Wyndham Chase
5.5
5.5
Accent on Youth
1935
as Linda Brown
5.5
5.5
Good Dame
1934
as Lillie Taylor
5.4
5.4
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1973
as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
5.2
5.2
Madame Butterfly
1932
as Cho-Cho San
5.2
5.2
The Witching of Ben Wagner
1987
as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
5.2
5.2
Les Miserables
1952
as Fantine
5.1
5.1
Behind the High Wall
1956
as Hilda Carmichael
5.0
5.0
Having It All
1982
as Marney
4.7
4.7
Death at Love House
1976
as Clara Josephs
4.6
4.6
The Shadow Box
1980
as Felicity
4.2
4.2
Snowbeast
1977
as Mrs. Carrie Rill
4.0
4.0
Jennie Gerhardt
1933
as Jennie Gerhardt
4.0
4.0
Pick-up
1933
as Mary Richards
3.7
3.7
Pals
1987
as Fern Stobbs
No Time at All
1958
as Mrs. Kramer
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
as Mary Burns
Thru Different Eyes
1929
as Valerie Briand
The Searching Wind
1946
as Cassie Bowman
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949
as Sylvia Sidney
Andre's Mother
1990
as Mrs. Downes
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
as Self
Man on the Ledge
1955
as Mrs. Cosick
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
as Lulu Morgan
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