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Sylvia Syms

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

Born: Woolwich, London, England, UK, 1934-01-06

Died: 2023-01-27

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	My Teenage Daughter	Janet Carr	60
2	1957	Woman in a Dressing Gown	Georgie Harlow	64
3	1957	No Time for Tears	Nurse Margaret Collier	50
4	1957	The Birthday Present	Jean Scott	71
5	1958	Ice Cold in Alex	Sister Diana Murdoch	73
6	1958	The Moonraker	Anne Wyndham	68
7	1958	Bachelor of Hearts	Ann Wainwright	56
8	1959	No Trees in the Street	Hetty	58
9	1959	Ferry to Hong Kong	Liz Ferrers	55
10	1959	Expresso Bongo	Maisie King	54
11	1960	Conspiracy of Hearts	Sister Mitya	67
12	1960	The World of Suzie Wong	Kay O’Neill	64
13	1961	Amazons of Rome	Clelia	45
14	1961	Flame in the Streets	Kathie Palmer	59
15	1961	Victim	Laura Farr	75
16	1962	The Quare Fellow	Kathleen	58
17	1963	The Punch and Judy Man	Delia Pinner	78
18	1963	The World Ten Times Over	Billa	70
19	1964	East of Sudan	Miss Woodville	53
20	1965	The Big Job	Myrtle Robbins	67
21	1965	Operation Crossbow	Constance Babington Smith	68
22	1967	Danger Route	Barbara Canning	58
23	1968	Hostile Witness	Sheila Larkin	62
24	1968	The Fiction Makers	Joyce Darling	72
25	1969	The Desperados	Laura	41
26	1969	Run Wild, Run Free	Mrs. Ransome	60
27	1972	Asylum	Ruth	60
28	1974	The Tamarind Seed	Margaret Stephenson	62
29	1978	Give Us Tomorrow	Wendy Hammond	35
30	1980	There Goes The Bride	Ursula Westerby	0
31	1982	It's Your Move	The Wife	82
32	1986	Absolute Beginners	Cynthia Eve	55
33	1988	Mr. H Is Late		70
34	1989	A Chorus of Disapproval	Rebecca Huntley-Pike	52
35	1989	Shirley Valentine	Headmistress	63
36	1989	Doctor Who: Ghost Light	Mrs Pritchard	87
37	1991	Thatcher: The Final Days	Margaret Thatcher	65
38	1991	The Laughter of God	Diana	0
39	1992	Shining Through	Linda's Mother	65
40	1992	Natural Lies		0
41	1993	Dirty Weekend	Mrs. Crosby	50
42	1994	Staggered	Margaret	53
43	1995	Dancing		0
44	1996	Half the Picture	Margaret Thatcher	0
45	1997	Food of Love	Mrs. Harvey-Brown	35
46	1998	Neville's Island	Mrs. Campness	56
47	2000	Mavis and the Mermaid	Gioga	0
48	2003	What a Girl Wants	Princess Charlotte	63
49	2003	I'll Sleep When I'm Dead	Mrs. Bartz	54
50	2005	Child of Mine	Alice	58
51	2005	The Poseidon Adventure	Belle Rosen	52
52	2006	The Queen	Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon	69
53	2009	Is Anybody There?	Lilian	62
54	2009	Bunny and the Bull	Hotelier	61
55	2010	The Long Lonely Walk	Mrs. Didcott	0
56	2012	Booked Out	Mrs Nicholls	46
57	2012	Run For Your Wife	Hip Operation Woman	44
58	2017	Bette and Joan	Self - Presenter	0
59	2018	Together		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Television Playhouse	Deborah Grayson	0
2	1955	Television Playhouse	Hilary	0
3	1956	Armchair Theatre	Kay McCone	58
4	1956	Armchair Theatre	Mary Fleming	58
5	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
6	1960	Danger Man	Paula Glover	72
7	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
8	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
9	1962	The Saint	Arlene	73
10	1962	The Saint	Lady Anne Yearley	73
11	1962	The Saint	Amos Klein	73
12	1962	The Saint	Jeannine Roger	73
13	1963	The Human Jungle	Margo	82
14	1963	Doctor Who	Mrs. Pritchard	79
15	1966	Bat Out of Hell		63
16	1969	Strange Report	Carol Webber	65
17	1969	Paul Temple		55
18	1972	The Adventurer	Karen Ballard	55
19	1982	Nancy Astor	Nanaire Langthorne	75
20	1982	Wogan	Self	45
21	1982	Countdown		58
22	1985	Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced	Mrs. Easterbrook	72
23	1985	Time for Murder	Viven Scott-Forbes	40
24	1986	Casualty	Bunny Tyrill	61
25	1986	Casualty	Mrs. Bullock	61
26	1986	Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures		0
27	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Lilian Crown	62
28	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Stephen's mother	62
29	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Mrs. Whalby	62
30	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Mrs. Thorn	62
31	1987	Intimate Contact	Annie Stanhope	20
32	1989	Elstree: Britain's Hollywood	Self	0
33	1991	Pebble Mill	Self	31
34	1992	Mulberry	Springtime	72
35	1992	Heartbeat	Peggy Tatton	71
36	1993	Peak Practice	Isabel de Gines	61
37	1993	Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties	Self	0
38	1995	Kavanagh Q.C.	Claudia	70
39	1995	The Glass Virgin	Lady Constance	73
40	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe	Maisie Barron	64
41	1997	Original Sin	Esme Carling	70
42	1999	Holby City	Margaret Larkin	58
43	2000	At Home with the Braithwaites	Marion Riley	68
44	2001	Judge John Deed	Rose Hussein	66
45	2002	The Jury	Elsie Beamish	64
46	2002	Born and Bred	Elizabeth Grimshaw	85
47	2002	Doctor Zhivago	Madame Fleury	67
48	2003	Blue Murder	Peggy Gaumont	67
49	2004	New Tricks	Beatrice	74
50	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Lavinia Pinkerton	77
51	2007	The Alan Titchmarsh Show	Self	37
52	2009	Above Suspicion	Mrs. Hedges	69
53	2009	The Week We Went To War		50
54	2009	Collision	Joyce Thompson	70
55	2011	Case Histories	Binky Rain	78
56	2012	Playhouse Presents	Alice	60
57	2013	Talking Pictures	Narrator	50
58	2019	Gentleman Jack	Mrs Rawson	78