American actress
Betsy Aidem
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/BETSY_AIDEM_2024.jpg/220px-BETSY_AIDEM_2024.jpg) Aidem in 2024
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Born
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1957-10-28
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October 28, 1957
(age 66)
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Occupation(s)
| Actress, director
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Years active
| 1982?present
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Spouse
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(
m.
1987;
div.
1996)
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Children
| 1
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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.
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Background
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[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]
Career
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Stage work
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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 Bishe
, 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]
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Film work
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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]
Television shows
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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
.
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Stage appearances
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Partial filmography
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References
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- ^
Obie Awards 2007 List
accessed 05-05-2024
- ^
Playbill
, September 12, 2018 -
Off-Broadway News,
Final Follies
, a Trio of One-Act Plays by A.R. Gurney, Begins Off-Broadway By Olivia Clement
Archived
2019-01-19 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
Broadway World
, Oct. 10, 2016 -
BWW Interview: Betsy Aidem and MAMA'S BOY at George Street Playhouse 10/18 to 11/6 by Marina Kennedy
Archived
2019-01-19 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
New Jersey Stage
, 11/19/2018 -
A Look At Betsy Aidem, Director of "A Doll's House, Part 2" at George Street Playhouse
By Charles Paolino
Archived
2019-01-19 at the
Wayback Machine
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The Globe and Mail
, February 25, 2011 -
There's more to William Fichtner than crazy roles Johanna Schneller
Archived
2020-12-02 at the
Wayback Machine
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TheaterMainia
, June 23, 2009 -
THEATER NEWS, Ari Graynor, Doug Kreeger, Peter Scanavino, Ally Sheedy, et al. Set for 2009 Summer Play Festival - Brian Scott Lipton
Archived
2019-03-27 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
The New York Observer
, 10/04/18 -
REVIEW, A.R. Gurney Listened to Critics, Wrote This Triptych of Stupidity By Rex Reed
Archived
2019-03-27 at the
Wayback Machine
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New York Theatre Guide
, October 8, 2018 -
Review of Primary Stages' Final Follies at Cherry Lane Theatre - Review By: David Walters
Archived
2019-03-27 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
Rotten Tomatoes
-
Betsy Aidem, Filmography, Movies
Archived
2019-03-18 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
Unsold Television Pilots: 1955-1989
, By Lee Goldberg -
2046. The Return of Kojak (aka Kojak: The Belarus File)
Archived
2022-08-11 at the
Wayback Machine
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The Hollywood Reporter
, 3/11/2018 -
'A Vigilante': Film Review | SXSW 2018 by John DeFore
Archived
2019-01-19 at the
Wayback Machine
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Rotten Tomatoes -
Aeris (2018)
Archived
2020-07-31 at the
Wayback Machine
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Variety Magazine
, November 4, 1996 -
The High Life
By
Jeremy Gerard
Archived
2019-01-19 at the
Wayback Machine
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Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s: A Complete Guide
, By Bob Leszczak -
Page 84
Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s
Archived
2022-08-11 at the
Wayback Machine
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TV.com
-
Betsy Aidem, Credits, Guest Star
Archived
2019-01-19 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
Who Was Who on TV, Volume 2
, By Norman Chance -
Page 282
Archived
2022-08-11 at the
Wayback Machine
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Broadway World -
Betsy Aidem Broadway and Theatre Credits, Stage
Performances
Archived
2019-01-25 at the
Wayback Machine
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Boyle, April (Nov 3, 2015).
"Theater Review: 'Mama's Boy' an intriguing play about Oswald family"
.
Portland Press Herald
.
Archived
from the original on August 11, 2022
. Retrieved
Dec 27,
2020
.
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