Marian Seldes won a Drama Desk Award for Father's Day.
15 Facts About Marian Seldes
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Marian Seldes was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.
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Marian Seldes's maternal aunt, Marian Wells Hall, was a prominent interior decorator.
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Marian Seldes went on to an illustrious career in which she earned five Tony Award nominations, winning her first time out in 1967 for A Delicate Balance.
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Marian Seldes performed in a number of movies and in radio plays.
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Marian Seldes studied with Sanford Meisner, Katharine Cornell, and Martha Graham.
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Marian Seldes provides an inspiration that makes you want to reach outside of yourself to something more potent and powerful.
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Marian Seldes's students included Christopher Reeve, Robin Williams, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Patti LuPone, Val Kilmer, and Kevin Spacey.
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In 2002, Marian Seldes began teaching at Fordham University, Lincoln Center.
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Marian Seldes appeared in every one of the 1,809 Broadway performances of Ira Levin's play Deathtrap, a feat that earned her a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records as "most durable actress".
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Marian Seldes was well known for her readings of short stories in the "Selected Shorts" series hosted by Isaiah Sheffer at New York City's Symphony Space.
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Marian Seldes was the recipient of a 2010 Tony Lifetime Achievement Award.
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In 2012, Marian Seldes played the knife-wielding socialite Mabel Billingsly in the film adaptation of Wendy Mass' popular children's book Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, written and directed by Tamar Halpern.
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Marian Seldes had one child, Katharine, by her first marriage to Julian Claman.
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Marian Seldes died at age 86 on October 6,2014 in Manhattan.