Sylvia Syms

Actor Jan 6 (died age 89) Woolwich, London, England, UK 1955–2019 (64 year career)

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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

Film

The Queen

Queen Mother

Film

What a Girl Wants

Princess Charlotte

Film

Victim

Laura Farr

Film

Shining Through

Linda's Mother

Film

Ice Cold in Alex

Sister Diana Murdoch

Film

Operation Crossbow

Constance Babington Smith

Film

Asylum

Ruth

Film

Shirley Valentine

Headmistress

Filmography

Acting (109)

Movies (59)

Together

2018

Bette and Joan

2017

as Self - Presenter

Booked Out

2012

as Mrs Nicholls

4.3

Run For Your Wife

2012

as Hip Operation Woman

4.4

The Long Lonely Walk

2010

as Mrs. Didcott

Bunny and the Bull

as Hotelier

Is Anybody There?

as Lilian

The Making of 'The Queen'

as Self

The Queen

as Queen Mother

The Poseidon Adventure

as Belle Rosen

Child of Mine

as Alice

What a Girl Wants

as Princess Charlotte

6.3

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

2003

as Mrs. Bartz

5.4

Mavis and the Mermaid

2000

as Gioga

Neville's Island

as Mrs. Campness

Food of Love

as Mrs. Harvey-Brown

Half the Picture

as Margaret Thatcher

Dancing

Staggered

as Margaret

Dirty Weekend

as Mrs. Crosby

Shining Through

as Linda's Mother

Thatcher: The Final Days

as Margaret Thatcher

The Laughter of God

as Diana

Shirley Valentine

as Headmistress

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

1989

as Mrs Pritchard

8.4

A Chorus of Disapproval

1989

as Rebecca Huntley-Pike

Mr. H Is Late

Absolute Beginners

as Cynthia Eve

It's Your Move

as The Wife

There Goes The Bride

as Ursula Westerby

Give Us Tomorrow

1978

as Wendy Hammond

3.1

The Tamarind Seed

1974

as Margaret Stephenson

Asylum

as Ruth

Run Wild, Run Free

as Mrs. Ransome

The Desperados

as Laura

Hostile Witness

as Sheila Larkin

The Fiction Makers

as Joyce Darling

Danger Route

as Barbara Canning

Operation Crossbow

as Constance Babington Smith

The Big Job

as Myrtle Robbins

East of Sudan

as Miss Woodville

The World Ten Times Over

1963

as Billa

7.0

The Punch and Judy Man

as Delia Pinner

The Quare Fellow

as Kathleen

Victim

as Laura Farr

Amazons of Rome

as Clelia

Flame in the Streets

as Kathie Palmer

The World of Suzie Wong

as Kay O’Neill

Conspiracy of Hearts

as Sister Mitya

No Trees in the Street

as Hetty

Ferry to Hong Kong

as Liz Ferrers

Expresso Bongo

as Maisie King

Bachelor of Hearts

as Ann Wainwright

Ice Cold in Alex

as Sister Diana Murdoch

7.3

The Moonraker

1958

as Anne Wyndham

6.8

Woman in a Dressing Gown

as Georgie Harlow

The Birthday Present

as Jean Scott

No Time for Tears

as Nurse Margaret Collier

5.0

My Teenage Daughter

1956

as Janet Carr

6.0

Television (50)

Gentleman Jack

as Mrs Rawson

Talking Pictures

as Narrator

Playhouse Presents

as Alice

Case Histories

as Binky Rain

Above Suspicion

as Mrs. Hedges

Collision

as Joyce Thompson

The Week We Went To War

2009

5.0

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

2007

as Self

3.7

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Lavinia Pinkerton

New Tricks

as Beatrice

Blue Murder

as Peggy Gaumont

Born and Bred

as Elizabeth Grimshaw

The Jury

as Elsie Beamish

Doctor Zhivago

as Madame Fleury

Judge John Deed

as Rose Hussein

At Home with the Braithwaites

as Marion Riley

Holby City

as Margaret Larkin

Original Sin

as Esme Carling

Dalziel & Pascoe

as Maisie Barron

Kavanagh Q.C.

as Claudia

The Glass Virgin

as Lady Constance

Ghosts

as Heloise's Grandmother

6.0

Peak Practice

1993

as Isabel de Gines

6.1

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

1993

as Self

Heartbeat

as Peggy Tatton

Mulberry

as Springtime

Pebble Mill

as Self

Elstree: Britain's Hollywood

1989

as Self

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Lilian Crown

Intimate Contact

as Annie Stanhope

Casualty

as Bunny Tyrill

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

1986

Time for Murder

1985

as Viven Scott-Forbes

4.0

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

as Mrs. Easterbrook

Wogan

as Self

Countdown

Nancy Astor

as Nanaire Langhorne

The Adventurer

as Karen Ballard

Paul Temple

Strange Report

as Carol Webber

Bat Out of Hell

Doctor Who

as Mrs. Pritchard

The Human Jungle

as Margo

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

The Saint

as Lady Anne Yearley

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

Danger Man

as Paula Glover

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

as Self

Armchair Theatre

as Kay McCone

Television Playhouse

as Deborah Grayson