Betsy Aidem

Betsy Aidem 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.

Background

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''. 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. She was the first wife of William Fichtner and had a child with him.

Career

Stage work

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. 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.

Film work

Her earliest film work was in the 1982 film '' A Little Sex'', where she played a passer-by. In 1985, she appeared in the television film '' Kojak: The Belarus File'' as Elissa Barak.

She appeared in Sarah Daggar-Nickson's 2018 film '' A Vigilante'' which starred Olivia Wilde, Morgan Spector and Kyle Catlett. Also that year she was in '' Aeris'', a film about a couple adopting a sick kitten.

Television shows

Her work on television shows includes reoccurring roles on '' The High Life'' as Irene, and as Dr. Sloane on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.''Who Was Who on TV, Volume 2'', By Norman Chance
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Stage appearances

Partial filmography

References

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American stage actresses
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American theatre directors
Living people
American film actresses
American television actresses
People from East Meadow, New York
Actresses from New York (state)
American women theatre directors
Obie Award recipients
Year of birth missing (living people)