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).
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Movies (24)
Together
2018
Bette and Joan
as Self - Presenter
2017
Run For Your Wife
as Hip Operation Woman
2012
Booked Out
as Mrs Nicholls
2012
The Long Lonely Walk
as Mrs. Didcott
2010
Bunny and the Bull
as Hotelier
2009
Is Anybody There?
as Lilian
2009
The Making of 'The Queen'
as Self
2007
The Queen
as Queen Mother
2006
The Poseidon Adventure
as Belle Rosen
2005
Child of Mine
as Alice
2005
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
as Mrs. Bartz
2003
What a Girl Wants
as Princess Charlotte
2003
Mavis and the Mermaid
as Gioga
2000
Neville's Island
as Mrs. Campness
1998
Food of Love
as Mrs. Harvey-Brown
1997
Half the Picture
as Margaret Thatcher
1996
Dancing
1995
Staggered
as Margaret
1994
Dirty Weekend
as Mrs. Crosby
1993
Natural Lies
1992
Shining Through
as Linda's Mother
1992
The Laughter of God
as Diana
1991
Thatcher: The Final Days
as Margaret Thatcher
1991
TV Shows (26)
Gentleman Jack
as Mrs Rawson
2019
Talking Pictures
as Narrator
2013
Playhouse Presents
as Alice
2012
Case Histories
as Binky Rain
2011
Collision
as Joyce Thompson
2009
The Week We Went To War
2009
Above Suspicion
as Mrs. Hedges
2009
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
2007
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Lavinia Pinkerton
2004
New Tricks
as Beatrice
2004
Blue Murder
as Peggy Gaumont
2003
Doctor Zhivago
as Madame Fleury
2002
Born and Bred
as Elizabeth Grimshaw
2002
The Jury
as Elsie Beamish
2002
Judge John Deed
as Rose Hussein
2001
At Home with the Braithwaites
as Marion Riley
2000
Holby City
as Margaret Larkin
1999
Original Sin
as Esme Carling
1997
Dalziel & Pascoe
as Maisie Barron
1996
The Glass Virgin
as Lady Constance
1995
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Claudia
1995
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
1993
Peak Practice
as Isabel de Gines
1993
Heartbeat
as Peggy Tatton
1992
Mulberry
as Springtime
1992
Pebble Mill
as Self
1991