Patsy Byrne
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1933-07-13
Day of Death
2014-06-17 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK
Patsy Byrne
Biography
Patricia 'Patsy' Byrne (13 July 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English actress, best known for her role as 'Nursie' in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm's domineering mother in the ITV comedy series Watching.
Byrne was educated at Ashford County Grammar School. She studied drama at Rose Bruford College before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company playing parts such as Maria in Twelfth Night and Gruscha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Aldwych Theatre in the early 1960s. In the 1980s she also worked at Chichester Festival Theatre.
Byrne starred alongside Tony Robinson in a Series 3 episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. She played ORD "Betty the Tea Lady" on the BBC children's programme Playdays. Other roles included appearances in I, Claudius (1976), Stealing Heaven (1988), Inspector Morse (1989), Les Misérables (1998), David Copperfield (1999) and Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), as well as numerous radio plays. Byrne performed in the 1990 BBC production of C.S. Lewis' "The Silver Chair" as the giant nanny in the city of the giants.
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Known For
Acting
(2008)
(2000)
Kevin & Perry Go Large
as Old Lady
(1999)
Blackadder: Back & Forth
as Nursie
(1998)
Les Misérables
as Toussaint
(1996)
The Treasure Seekers
as Eliza
(1996)
The Gingerbread House
as Mrs. Nesbit
(1993)
The Higher Mortals
as Matron
(1992)
Emily's Ghost
as Mrs. Crabtree
(1990)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
as Giant Nanny
(1988)
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Nursie / Bernard
(1988)
Hanna's War
as Rosie
(1988)
(1986)
Hotel du Lac
as Mrs. Dempster
(1985)
Mr. Love
as Mrs Lunt
(1983)
The Return of the Soldier
as Mrs. Plummer
(1983)
Floating Off
as Lady on train
(1982)
Britannia Hospital
as Nurse
(1979)
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
as Mrs. Green
(1974)
The Gathering Storm
as Cook
(1972)
The Ruling Class
as Mrs. Treadwell
(1971)
Platonov
as Sasha
(1970)
(1963)
As You Like It
as Audrey
(1962)
The Cherry Orchard
as Dunyasha