Sylvia Syms
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1934-01-06
Day of Death
2023-01-27 (89 years old)
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
(2018)
(2017)
Bette and Joan
as Self - Presenter
(2012)
Run For Your Wife
as Hip Operation Woman
(2012)
Booked Out
as Mrs Nicholls
(2010)
The Long Lonely Walk
as Mrs. Didcott
(2009)
Is Anybody There?
as Lilian
(2009)
Bunny and the Bull
as Hotelier
(2006)
The Queen
as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
(2005)
The Poseidon Adventure
as Belle Rosen
(2005)
Child of Mine
as Alice
(2003)
What a Girl Wants
as Princess Charlotte
(2003)
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
as Mrs. Bartz
(2000)
Mavis and the Mermaid
as Gioga
(1998)
Neville's Island
as Mrs. Campness
(1997)
Food of Love
as Mrs. Harvey-Brown
(1996)
Half the Picture
as Margaret Thatcher
(1994)
Staggered
as Margaret
(1993)
Dirty Weekend
as Mrs. Crosby
(1992)
Shining Through
as Linda's Mother
(1992)
(1991)
Thatcher: The Final Days
as Margaret Thatcher
(1991)
(1989)
Shirley Valentine
as Headmistress
(1989)
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Rebecca Huntley-Pike
(1989)
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
as Mrs Pritchard
(1988)
(1986)
Absolute Beginners
as Cynthia Eve
(1982)
It's Your Move
as The Wife
(1980)
There Goes The Bride
as Ursula Westerby
(1978)
Give Us Tomorrow
as Wendy Hammond
(1974)
The Tamarind Seed
as Margaret Stephenson
(1972)
Asylum
as Ruth
(1969)
The Desperados
as Laura
(1969)
Run Wild, Run Free
as Mrs. Ransome
(1968)
The Fiction Makers
as Joyce Darling
(1968)
Hostile Witness
as Sheila Larkin
(1967)
Danger Route
as Barbara Canning
(1965)
Operation Crossbow
as Constance Babington Smith
(1965)
The Big Job
as Myrtle Robbins
(1964)
East of Sudan
as Miss Woodville
(1963)
The Punch and Judy Man
as Delia Pinner
(1963)
The World Ten Times Over
as Billa
(1962)
The Quare Fellow
as Kathleen
(1961)
Victim
as Laura Farr
(1961)
Amazons of Rome
as Clelia
(1961)
Flame in the Streets
as Kathie Palmer
(1960)
The World of Suzie Wong
as Kay O’Neill
(1960)
Conspiracy of Hearts
as Sister Mitya
(1959)
Ferry to Hong Kong
as Liz Ferrers
(1959)
No Trees in the Street
as Hetty
(1959)
Expresso Bongo
as Maisie King
(1958)
Ice Cold in Alex
as Sister Diana Murdoch
(1958)
The Moonraker
as Anne Wyndham
(1958)
Bachelor of Hearts
as Ann Wainwright
(1957)
No Time for Tears
as Nurse Margaret Collier
(1957)
The Birthday Present
as Jean Scott
(1957)
Woman in a Dressing Gown
as Georgie Harlow
(1956)
My Teenage Daughter
as Janet Carr