Sylvia Syms

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1934-01-06 (89 years old)

Deathday

2023-01-27

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).

Acting

2006

The Queen

as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

1972

Asylum

as Ruth

1965

Operation Crossbow

as Constance Babington Smith

1961

Victim

as Laura Farr

1958

Ice Cold in Alex

as Sister Diana Murdoch

1965

The Big Job

as Myrtle Robbins

1989

Shirley Valentine

as Headmistress

1993

Dirty Weekend

as Mrs. Crosby

2012

Booked Out

as Mrs Nicholls

2017

Bette and Joan

as Self - Presenter

1967

Danger Route

as Barbara Canning

1959

Ferry to Hong Kong

as Liz Ferrers

1982

It's Your Move

as The Wife

1969

Run Wild, Run Free

as Mrs. Ransome

1968

Hostile Witness

as Sheila Larkin

1959

Expresso Bongo

as Maisie King

1961

1962

The Quare Fellow

as Kathleen

1996

Half the Picture

as Margaret Thatcher

1960

Conspiracy of Hearts

as Sister Mitya

1978

Give Us Tomorrow

as Wendy Hammond

2010

The Long Lonely Walk

as Mrs. Didcott

1961

Flame in the Streets

as Kathie Palmer

1958

The Moonraker

as Anne Wyndham

1964

East of Sudan

as Miss Woodville

2005

2012

Run For Your Wife

as Hip Operation Woman

1957

Woman in a Dressing Gown

as Georgie Harlow

1969

1956

My Teenage Daughter

as Janet Carr

1957

2003

What a Girl Wants

as Princess Charlotte

1980

There Goes The Bride

as Ursula Westerby

1989

A Chorus of Disapproval

as Rebecca Huntley-Pike

1974

The Tamarind Seed

as Margaret Stephenson

1957

No Time for Tears

as Nurse Margaret Collier

1994

Staggered

as Margaret

2009

1968

The Fiction Makers

as Joyce Darling

2009

1986

Absolute Beginners

as Cynthia Eve

1998

Neville's Island

as Mrs. Campness

1963

The Punch and Judy Man

as Delia Pinner

1989

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

as Mrs Pritchard

1992

Shining Through

as Linda's Mother

1997

Food of Love

as Mrs. Harvey-Brown

2005

1960

The World of Suzie Wong

as Kay O’Neill

1991

Thatcher: The Final Days

as Margaret Thatcher

1958

Bachelor of Hearts

as Ann Wainwright

2003

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