Birthday
1910/08/09
Day of death
1999/07/01 (88 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
Sophia Kosow, Sylvia Sydney
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).
(1996) Mars Attacks!
as Grandma Norris
(1955) Man on the Ledge
as Mrs. Cosick
(1978) Damien: Omen II
as Aunt Marion
(1976) God Told Me To
as Elizabeth Mullin
(1976) Raid on Entebbe
as Dora Bloch
(1937) Sabotage
as Mrs. Verloc
(1981) A Small Killing
as Sadie Ross
(1937) Dead End
as Drina Gordon
(1990) Andre's Mother
as Mrs. Downes
(1931) City Streets
as Nan Cooley
(1936) Fury
as Katherine Grant
(1956) Behind the High Wall
as Hilda Carmichael
(1938) You and Me
as Helen Roberts
(1955) Violent Saturday
as Elsie Braden
(1977) Snowbeast
as Mrs. Carrie Rill
(1932) Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho San
(1937) You Only Live Once
as Joan Graham
(1932) Merrily We Go to Hell
as Joan Prentice
(1934) Thirty Day Princess
as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
(1947) Love from a Stranger
as Cecily Harrington
(1973) Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
(1985) An Early Frost
as Beatrice McKenna
(1945) Blood on the Sun
as Iris Hilliard
(1936) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as June Tolliver
(1941) The Wagons Roll at Night
as Flo Lorraine
(1931) An American Tragedy
as Roberta 'Bert' Alden
(1935) Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Mary Burns
(1931) Confessions of a Co-Ed
as Patricia Harper
(1931) Street Scene
as Rose Maurrant
(1952) Les Miserables
as Fantine
(1931) Ladies of the Big House
as Kathleen Storm McNeil
(1934) Behold My Wife!
as Tonita Storm Cloud
(1933) Pick-up
as Mary Richards
(1978) Siege
as Lillian Gordon
(1934) Good Dame
as Lillie Taylor
(1933) Jennie Gerhardt
as Jennie Gerhardt
(1939) One Third of a Nation
as Mary Rogers
(1935) Accent on Youth
as Linda Brown
(1987) Pals
as Fern Stobbs
(1946) The Searching Wind
as Cassie Bowman
(1975) The Secret Night Caller
as Kitty
(1984) Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1957) The Helen Morgan Story
as Lulu Morgan
(1931) The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
(1971) Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
as Elizabeth Gibson
(1932) The Miracle Man
as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
(1983) The Brass Ring
as Grandmother
(1930) Five Minutes from the Station
as Carrie Adams
(1989) Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self
(1990) Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
(1988) Beetlejuice
as Juno
(1992) Used People
as Becky
(1958) No Time at All
as Mrs. Kramer
(1946) Mr. Ace
as Margaret Wyndham Chase
(1988) Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Self (archive footage)
(1980) F.D.R.: The Last Year
as Cousin Polly
(1983) Copkiller
as Margaret Smith
(1975) Winner Take All
as Anne Barclay
(1941) Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1987) The Witching of Ben Wagner
as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
(1982) Hammett
as Donaldina Cameron
(1976) Death at Love House
as Clara Josephs
(1929) Thru Different Eyes
as Valerie Briand
(1980) The Shadow Box
as Felicity
(1927) Broadway Nights
as Performer
(1985) Finnegan Begin Again
as Margaret
(1977) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
as Miss Coral
(1980) The Gossip Columnist
as Alma Lewellyn
(1932) Make Me a Star
as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
(1982) Having It All
as Marney
(1982) Come Along with Me
as Mrs. Flanner
(1949) Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
as Sylvia Sidney
(1982) Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1980) Magnum, P.I.
as Elizabeth Barrett
(1998) Fantasy Island
as Clia
(1978) WKRP in Cincinnati
as Mama Carlson
(1987) thirtysomething
as ---
(1975) Starsky & Hutch
as Olga Grossman
(1960) My Three Sons
as Miss Houk
(1958) Naked City
as Florence Nunda
(1993) Diagnosis: Murder
as Alice
(1985) The Equalizer
as Judge
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Gloria Roma
(1977) Eight Is Enough
as ---
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Joyce
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---
(1954) Climax!
as ---
(1955) The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Mrs. Cosick
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as ---
(1955) Playwrights '56
as ---
(1951) Tales of Tomorrow
as ---
(1961) The Defenders
as Adela Collins
(1959) The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Beulah Ridges
(1960) Route 66
as Lonnie Taylor
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Laura Barrie
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
(1954) Climax!
as Louella Wheedron
(1988) Dear John
as Mrs. Lumenski
(1977) The Love Boat
as Natalie Corson
(1956) Playhouse 90
as Mrs. Kramer
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mrs. Sylvia Verloc (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1944) Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
(1953) Kraft Television Theatre
as ---
(1960) Route 66
as Hannah Ellis
(1957) The Polly Bergen Show
as Self
(1957) Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
(1952) The Ford Television Theatre
as ---
(1952) The Ford Television Theatre
as Laura Blake
(1950) Cameo Theatre
as ---