Portrait of Sylvia Syms

Sylvia Syms

Acting

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).

Born: January 6, 1934

Place of Birth: Woolwich, London, England, UK

Filmography

2019
Gentleman Jack

as Mrs Rawson

2017
Bette and Joan

as Self - Presenter

2013
Talking Pictures

as Narrator

2012
Run For Your Wife

as Hip Operation Woman

2012
2012
Booked Out

as Mrs Nicholls

2011
Case Histories

as Binky Rain

2010
The Long Lonely Walk

as Mrs. Didcott

2009
2009
Collision

as Joyce Thompson

2009
2009
Above Suspicion

as Mrs. Hedges

2006
The Queen

as Queen Mother

2005
2005
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Lavinia Pinkerton

2004
New Tricks

as Beatrice

2003
Blue Murder

as Peggy Gaumont

2003
2003
What a Girl Wants

as Princess Charlotte

2002
Doctor Zhivago

as Madame Fleury

2002
Born and Bred

as Elizabeth Grimshaw

2002
The Jury

as Elsie Beamish

2001
Judge John Deed

as Rose Hussein

1999
Holby City

as Margaret Larkin

1998
Neville's Island

as Mrs. Campness

1997
Food of Love

as Mrs. Harvey-Brown

1997
Original Sin

as Esme Carling

1996
Dalziel & Pascoe

as Maisie Barron

1996
Half the Picture

as Margaret Thatcher

1995
The Glass Virgin

as Lady Constance

1995
Kavanagh Q.C.

as Claudia

1994
Staggered

as Margaret

1993
Dirty Weekend

as Mrs. Crosby

1993
Peak Practice

as Isabel de Gines

1992
Heartbeat

as Peggy Tatton

1992
Mulberry

as Springtime

1992
Shining Through

as Linda's Mother

1991
Thatcher: The Final Days

as Margaret Thatcher

1989
Doctor Who: Ghost Light

as Mrs Pritchard

1989
Shirley Valentine

as Headmistress

1989
A Chorus of Disapproval

as Rebecca Huntley-Pike

1987
Intimate Contact

as Annie Stanhope

1987
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Stephen's mother

1987
1986
Casualty

as Bunny Tyrill

1986
Casualty

as Mrs. Bullock

1986
Absolute Beginners

as Cynthia Eve

1985
Time for Murder

as Viven Scott-Forbes

1985
1982
It's Your Move

as The Wife

1982
Wogan

as Self

1982
Nancy Astor

as Nanaire Langhorne

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

1972
The Adventurer

as Karen Ballard

1969
Strange Report

as Carol Webber

1969
Run Wild, Run Free

as Mrs. Ransome

1969
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
Doctor Who

as Mrs. Pritchard

1963
The Punch and Judy Man

as Delia Pinner

1963
1962
The Saint

as Arlene

1962
The Saint

as Lady Anne Yearley

1962
The Saint

as Amos Klein

1962
The Saint

as Jeannine Roger

1962
The Quare Fellow

as Kathleen

1961
Victim

as Laura Farr

1961
Flame in the Streets

as Kathie Palmer

1961
1960
The World of Suzie Wong

as Kay O’Neill

1960
Danger Man

as Paula Glover

1960
Conspiracy of Hearts

as Sister Mitya

1959
Expresso Bongo

as Maisie King

1959
Ferry to Hong Kong

as Liz Ferrers

1958
Bachelor of Hearts

as Ann Wainwright

1958
The Moonraker

as Anne Wyndham

1958
Ice Cold in Alex

as Sister Diana Murdoch

1957
1957
No Time for Tears

as Nurse Margaret Collier

1957
Woman in a Dressing Gown

as Georgie Harlow

1956
Armchair Theatre

as Kay McCone

1956
Armchair Theatre

as Mary Fleming

1956
My Teenage Daughter

as Janet Carr