Marian Seldes obituary

Marian Seldes, who has died aged 86, was a much-loved, genuine star, even though almost always in supporting roles, and the essence of Broadway theatre for several decades in plays by Edward Albee, Ira Levin and Peter Shaffer. She rarely left Manhattan, New York, taught at the Juilliard School and lived in an apartment overlooking Central Park.

Seldes never played in London, but worked with many leading UK directors, from John Gielgud on her Broadway debut in Medea with Judith Anderson (1947) to Michael Blakemore in her final New York stage appearance, opposite Angela Lansbury in Terrence McNally's Deuce (2007).