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Used People

as Becky

1992
Beetlejuice

as Juno

1988
Pals

as Fern Stobbs

1987
An Early Frost

as Beatrice McKenna

1985
Damien: Omen II

as Aunt Marion

1978
Siege

as Lillian Gordon

1978
Snowbeast

as Mrs. Carrie Rill

1977
God Told Me To

as Elizabeth Mullin

1976
Raid on Entebbe

as Dora Bloch

1976
Death at Love House

as Clara Josephs

1976
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

as Elizabeth Gibson

1971
Behind the High Wall

as Hilda Carmichael

1956
Violent Saturday

as Elsie Braden

1955
Les Miserables

as Fantine

1952
Blood on the Sun

as Iris Hilliard

1945
You and Me

as Helen

1938
Sabotage

as Mrs. Verloc

1937
Dead End

as Drina Gordon

1937
You Only Live Once

as Joan Graham

1937
Fury

as Katherine Grant

1936
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

as June Tolliver

1936
Accent on Youth

as Linda Brown

1935
Thirty Day Princess

as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina

1934
Pick Up

as Mary Richards

1933
Merrily We Go to Hell

as Joan Prentice

1932
City Streets

as Nan Cooley

1931
An American Tragedy

as Roberta 'Bert' Alden

1931
The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1931
Sylvia Sidney Sylvia Sidney

Birthday

1910-08-09

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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).
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