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Sylvia Syms
Actor
Born January 6, 1934Died January 27, 2023 (89 years)
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).
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Filmography
| 2019 | Gentleman Jack (TV Series) · as Mrs Rawson |
| 2018 | |
| 2014 | The Hatching · as Mrs. Wembridge |
| 2013 | Talking Pictures (2013) (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2012 | Run for Your Wife · as Hip Operation Woman |
| 2012 | Playhouse Presents (TV Series) · as Alice |
| 2012 | Booked Out · as Mrs Nicholls |
| 2011 | Case Histories (TV Series) · as Binky Rain |
| 2010 | Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010) (TV Series) · as Nellie Manson |
| 2010 | Rev. (TV Series) · as Joan |
| 2010 | The Long Lonely Walk · as Mrs. Didcott |
| 2009 | Bunny and the Bull · as Hotelier |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Missing (2009) (TV Series) · as Mrs. Hall |
| 2009 | Above Suspicion (TV Series) · as Mrs. Hedges |
| 2008 | Is Anybody There? · as Lilian |
| 2006 | The Queen · as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon |
| 2005 | Child of Mine · as Alice |
| 2005 | The Poseidon Adventure · as Belle Rosen |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple (TV Series) · as Lavinia Pinkerton |
| 2003 | Blue Murder (UK) (TV Series) · as Peggy Gaumont |
| 2003 | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead · as Mrs. Bartz |
| 2003 | What a Girl Wants · as Princess Charlotte |
| 2003 | New Tricks (TV Series) · as Beatrice |
| 2002 | Doctor Zhivago (TV Series) · as Madame Fleury |
| 2002 | Born and Bred (TV Series) · as Elizabeth Grimshaw |
| 2002 | The Jury (TV Series) · as Elsie Beamish |
| 2001 | Judge John Deed (TV Series) · as Rose Hussein |
| 2000 | Doctors (TV Series) · as Dorothy Holland |
| 2000 | At Home with the Braithwaites (TV Series) · as Marion Riley |
| 1999 | Holby City (TV Series) · as Margaret Larkin |
| 1998 | Neville's Island · as Mrs. Campness |
| 1997 | Food of Love · as Mrs. Harvey-Brown |
| 1997 | Where the Heart Is (TV Series) · as Essie Crayford |
| 1997 | Family Affairs (TV Series) · as Ros Lawson |
| 1997 | Original Sin (TV Series) · as Esme Carling |
| 1997 | The House of Angelo · as Alice Angelo |
| 1996 | Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series) · as Maisie Barron |
| 1995 | Catherine Cookson's The Glass Virgin (TV Series) · as Lady Constance |
| 1995 | Kavanagh Q.C. (TV Series) · as Claudia |
| 1994 | Staggered · as Margaret |
| 1993 | Dirty Weekend · as Mrs. Crosby |
| 1993 | Peak Practice (TV Series) · as Isabel De Gines |
| 1992 | |
| 1992 | Mulberry (TV Series) · as Springtime |
| 1992 | Shining Through · as Linda's Mother |
| 1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval · as Rebecca Huntley-Pike |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: Ghost Light · as Mrs Pritchard |
| 1989 | Shirley Valentine · as Headmistress |
| 1989 | May to December (TV Series) · as Dollie |
| 1988 | |
| 1987 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) · as Lilian Crown |
| 1986 | Casualty (TV Series) · as Mrs. Bullock |
| 1986 | Absolute Beginners · as Cynthia Eve |
| 1985 | Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (TV Series) · as Mrs. Easterbrook |
| 1985 | EastEnders (TV Series) · as Olive |
| 1984 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as Diana |
| 1984 | Miss Marple (TV Series) · as Mrs. Easterbrook |
| 1982 | Countdown (TV Series) |
| 1982 | It's Your Move · as The Wife |
| 1982 | Nancy Astor (TV Series) · 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 | The Adventurer (TV Series) · as Karen Ballard |
| 1972 | |
| 1969 | Paul Temple (TV Series) |
| 1969 | Strange Report (TV Series) · as Carol Webber |
| 1969 | Hostile Witness · as Sheila Larkin |
| 1969 | The Desperados · as Laura |
| 1969 | Run Wild, Run Free · as Mrs. Ransome |
| 1968 | The Fiction-Makers · as Joyce Darling |
| 1967 | Danger Route · as Barbara Canning |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse (TV Series) · as Carlotta Forcelli |
| 1966 | Bat Out of Hell (TV Series) |
| 1966 | The Baron (TV Series) · as Cathy Dorne |
| 1965 | The Big Job · as Myrtle Robbins |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) · as Judy Marriott |
| 1965 | Operation Crossbow · as Constance Babington Smith |
| 1964 | East of Sudan · as Miss Woodville |
| 1963 | Doctor Who (TV Series) · as Mrs. Pritchard |
| 1963 | The World Ten Times Over · as Billa |
| 1963 | Love Story (1963) (TV Series) · as Julie |
| 1963 | The Punch and Judy Man · as Delia Pinner |
| 1963 | The Human Jungle (TV Series) · as Margo |
| 1962 | The Quare Fellow · as Kathleen |
| 1962 | |
| 1962 | Suspense (1962) (TV Series) · as Miranda Taylor |
| 1961 | Victim · as Laura Farr |
| 1961 | Flame in the Streets · as Kathie Palmer |
| 1961 | Amazons of Rome · as Clelia |
| 1960 | The World of Suzie Wong · as Kay O’neill |
| 1960 | Danger Man (TV Series) · as Paula Glover |
| 1960 | Conspiracy of Hearts · as Sister Mitya |
| 1959 | Expresso Bongo · as Maisie King |
| 1959 | Ferry to Hong Kong · as Liz Ferrers |
| 1959 | No Trees in the Street · as Hetty |
| 1958 | Bachelor of Hearts · as Ann Wainwright |
| 1958 | The Moonraker · as Anne Wyndham |
| 1958 | Ice Cold in Alex · as Sister Diana Murdoch |
| 1957 | The Birthday Present · as Jean Scott |
| 1957 | No Time for Tears · as Nurse Margaret Collier |
| 1957 | Woman in a Dressing Gown · as Georgie Harlow |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Mary Fleming |
| 1956 | Teenage Bad Girl · as Janet Carr |
| 1955 | ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Deborah Grayson |
| 1950 | Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Janet Towne |