Betsy Aidem | |
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Born | East Meadow, Long Island, New York, U.S. | October 28, 1957
Occupation(s) | Actress, director |
Years active | 1982–present |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Betsy Aidem (born October 28, 1957) is an American actress.
Her film work includes The Bleeding House , See You in the Morning , A Vigilante , and Aeris . Her television work includes The High Life and The Americans , appearing in the latter in the episodes "Safe House" and "Covert War".
Her stage work includes Steel Magnolias and Five Women Wearing the Same Dress . She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Prayer for the French Republic. In 2007, she was given an Obie Award for "sustained excellence of performance" for her work Off-Broadway. [1]
[2] Aidem first became interested in acting while she was in high school. Her debut was as a fairy in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . [3] She is also a stage play director and her first professional production was in 2018, A Doll's House, Part 2 , which was a stage production of the Lucas Hnath comedy. [4] She was the first wife of William Fichtner and had a child with him. [5]
Midway through 2009, Aidem was in Nicki Bloom's Tender, a story about an act of violence that destroys a family. The play, directed by Daniela Topol, also starred Kerry Bishé, Michael Cullen, and Matt Dellapina. [6] In October 2018, she appeared as the loony and flamboyant Professor Carroway in Love Course which was about two eccentric neurotics, Carroway and Professor Burgess, teaching a course in romantic literature and two students who attend the course and end up teaching it. [7] [8]
Her earliest film work was in the 1982 film A Little Sex , where she played a passer-by. [9] In 1985, she appeared in the television film Kojak: The Belarus File as Elissa Barak. [10]
She appeared in Sarah Daggar-Nickson's 2018 film A Vigilante which starred Olivia Wilde, Morgan Spector and Kyle Catlett. [11] Also that year she was in Aeris , a film about a couple adopting a sick kitten. [12]
Her work on television shows includes reoccurring roles on The High Life as Irene, [13] [14] and as Dr. Sloane on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . [15] [16]
Title | Role | Playwright | Director | Year | Notes # |
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Balm in Gilead | Kay | Lanford Wilson | John Malkovich | 1984 | Off-Broadway |
Crossing the Bar | Performer | Michael Zettler | Jerry Zaks | 1985 | Off-Broadway |
A Lie of the Mind | Sally | Sam Shepard | Sam Shepard | 1985 | Off-Broadway |
Steel Magnolias | Shelby | Robert Harling | Pamela Berlin | 1987 | Off-Broadway |
Road | Carol | Jim Cartwright | Simon Curtis | 1987 | Off-Broadway |
The Night Hank Williams Died | Nellie Bess Powers Clark | Larry L. King | Christopher Ashley | 1989 | Off-Broadway |
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress | Georgeanne | Alan Ball | Melia Bensussen | 1993 | Off-Broadway |
Teibele and Her Demon | Teibele | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Daniel Gerroll | 1994 | Off-Broadway |
The Butterfly Collection | Performer | Theresa Rebeck | Bartlett Sher | 2000 | Off-Broadway |
Good Thing | Nancy Roy | Jessica Goldberg | Jo Bonney | 2001 | Off-Broadway |
Sea of Tranquility | Phyllis | Howard Korder | Neil Pepe | 2004 | Off-Broadway |
Celebration and The Room | Julie | Harold Pinter | Neil Pepe | 2005 | Off-Broadway |
Mary Rose | Mrs. Moreland | J. M. Barrie | Tina Landau | 2007 | Off-Broadway |
Crooked | Elise | Catherine Trieschmann | Liz Diamond | 2008 | Off-Broadway |
Tender | Nicki Bloom | Daniela Topol | 2009 | Off-Broadway | |
The Metal Children | Lynne / Roberta Cupp | Adam Rapp | Adam Rapp | 2010 | Off-Broadway |
Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling | Performer | Adam Rapp | Neil Pepe | 2011 | Off-Broadway |
Nikolai and the Others | Lisa Sokoloff | Richard Nelson | David Cromer | 2013 | Off-Broadway |
All the Way | Lady Bird Johnson / various | Robert Schenkkan | Bill Rauch | 2014 | Broadway [17] |
Mama's Boy | Marguerite Oswald | Rob Urbinati | Brian P. Allen | 2015 | Regional [18] |
Final Follies | Wilma Trumbo/Professor Carroway | A. R. Gurney | David Saint | 2018 | Off-Broadway |
Prayer for the French Republic | Marcelle Salomon Benhamou | Joshua Harmon | David Cromer | 2022 | Off-Broadway |
Leopoldstadt | Grandma Emilia | Tom Stoppard | Patrick Marber | 2022 | Original Broadway Production |
Prayer for the French Republic | Marcelle Salomon Benhamou | Joshua Harmon | David Cromer | 2023 | Original Broadway Production |
Liberation | Margie | Rajiv Joseph | Whitney White | 2025 | Off-Broadway World Premiere |
Title | Role | Director | Year | Notes |
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A Little Sex | Passerby | Bruce Paltrow | 1982 | |
Kojak: The Belarus File | Elissa Barak | Robert Markowitz | 1985 | |
See You in the Morning | Larry's Sister-in-Law | Alan J. Pakula | 1989 | |
Fool's Fire | Lady Angela | Julie Taymor | 1992 | |
Nine Months | Gail's Nurse | Chris Columbus | 1995 | |
Music of the Heart | Mrs Lamb | Wes Craven | 1999 | |
You Can Count on Me | Minister | Kenneth Lonergan | 2000 | |
Maze | Lydia | Rob Morrow | 2000 | |
Far from Heaven | Pool Mother | Todd Haynes | 2002 | |
People I Know | Talia Greene | Dan Algrant | 2002 | |
Winter Passing | Nurse | Adam Rapp | 2005 | |
Confess | Julie Bradford | Stefan Schaefer | 2005 | |
The Attic | Ms. Kettering | Mary Lambert | 2007 | |
Motherhood | Jordan's Mom | Katherine Dieckmann | 2009 | |
The Bleeding | Marilyn | Philip Gelatt | 2011 | |
Mr. Popper's Penguins | Tavern Hostess | Mark Waters | 2011 | |
The Oranges | Anne Allen | Julian Farino | 2011 | |
Margaret | Abigail | Kenneth Lonergan | 2011 | |
Arbitrage | Vogler's Secretary | Nicholas Jarecki | 2012 | |
The Greatest Showman | Mrs. Carlyle | Michael Gracey | 2017 | |
A Vigilante | Andrea Shaund | Sarah Daggar-Nickson | 2018 | |