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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1934-01-06 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Woolwich, London, England, UK

Sylvia Syms

Biography:

Sylvia May Laura Syms, OBE (January 6, 1934 - January 27, 2023) was an English actress of film, television, and stage. One of the major players in films from the mid-1950s until mid-1960s, she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for her role in Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957). She is also known for her roles in films like Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), and The Tamarind Seed (1974).

Known For

Acting

2019

Gentleman Jack as Mrs Rawson

2018

2017

Bette and Joan as Self - Presenter

2013

Talking Pictures as Narrator

2012

Booked Out as Mrs Nicholls
Run For Your Wife as Hip Operation Woman

2011

Case Histories as Binky Rain

2010

The Long Lonely Walk as Mrs. Didcott

2009

Bunny and the Bull as Hotelier
Above Suspicion as Mrs. Hedges
Collision as Joyce Thompson

2007

2006

The Queen as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

2005

Child of Mine as Alice
The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple as Lavinia Pinkerton
New Tricks as Beatrice

2003

What a Girl Wants as Princess Charlotte
Blue Murder as Peggy Gaumont

2002

The Jury as Elsie Beamish
Born and Bred as Elizabeth Grimshaw
Doctor Zhivago as Madame Fleury

2001

Judge John Deed as Rose Hussein

2000

1999

Holby City as Margaret Larkin

1998

Neville's Island as Mrs. Campness

1997

Food of Love as Mrs. Harvey-Brown
Original Sin as Esme Carling

1996

Half the Picture as Margaret Thatcher
Dalziel & Pascoe as Maisie Barron

1995

Kavanagh Q.C. as Claudia
The Glass Virgin as Lady Constance

1994

Staggered as Margaret

1993

Dirty Weekend as Mrs. Crosby
Peak Practice as Isabel de Gines

1992

Shining Through as Linda's Mother
Heartbeat as Peggy Tatton
Mulberry as Springtime

1991

Thatcher: The Final Days as Margaret Thatcher
Pebble Mill as Self

1989

Shirley Valentine as Headmistress
A Chorus of Disapproval as Rebecca Huntley-Pike
Doctor Who: Ghost Light as Mrs Pritchard

1988

1987

Intimate Contact as Annie Stanhope
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Stephen's mother

1986

Absolute Beginners as Cynthia Eve
Casualty as Bunny Tyrill
Casualty as Mrs. Bullock

1985

Time for Murder as Viven Scott-Forbes

1984

Miss Marple as Mrs. Easterbrook

1982

It's Your Move as The Wife
Wogan as Self
Nancy Astor as Nanaire Langthorne

1980

There Goes The Bride as Ursula Westerby

1978

Give Us Tomorrow as Wendy Hammond

1974

The Tamarind Seed as Margaret Stephenson

1972

Asylum as Ruth
The Adventurer as Karen Ballard

1969

Run Wild, Run Free as Mrs. Ransome
Strange Report as Carol Webber

1968

Hostile Witness as Sheila Larkin
The Fiction Makers as Joyce Darling

1967

Danger Route as Barbara Canning

1966

1965

Operation Crossbow as Constance Babington Smith
The Big Job as Myrtle Robbins

1964

East of Sudan as Miss Woodville

1963

The Punch and Judy Man as Delia Pinner
Doctor Who as Mrs. Pritchard

1962

The Quare Fellow as Kathleen
The Saint as Arlene
The Saint as Lady Anne Yearley
The Saint as Amos Klein
The Saint as Jeannine Roger

1961

Victim as Laura Farr
Amazons of Rome as Clelia
Flame in the Streets as Kathie Palmer

1960

Conspiracy of Hearts as Sister Mitya
The World of Suzie Wong as Kay O’Neill
Danger Man as Paula Glover

1959

Ferry to Hong Kong as Liz Ferrers
Expresso Bongo as Maisie King

1958

Ice Cold in Alex as Sister Diana Murdoch
The Moonraker as Anne Wyndham
Bachelor of Hearts as Ann Wainwright

1957

Woman in a Dressing Gown as Georgie Harlow
The Birthday Present as Jean Scott
No Time for Tears as Nurse Margaret Collier

1956

My Teenage Daughter as Janet Carr
Armchair Theatre as Kay McCone
Armchair Theatre as Mary Fleming

1955

Television Playhouse as Deborah Grayson