Acting

Sylvia Syms

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

Died 2023-01-27

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).

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Gentleman Jack
as Mrs Rawson
2019
Together
2018
Bette and Joan
as Self - Presenter
2017
Talking Pictures
as Narrator
2013
Run For Your Wife
as Hip Operation Woman
2012
Playhouse Presents
as Alice
2012
Booked Out
as Mrs Nicholls
2012
Case Histories
as Binky Rain
2011
The Long Lonely Walk
as Mrs. Didcott
2010
Bunny and the Bull
as Hotelier
2009
Collision
as Joyce Thompson
2009
The Week We Went To War
2009
Is Anybody There?
as Lilian
2009
Above Suspicion
as Mrs Hedges
2009
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
2007
The Making of 'The Queen'
as Self
2007
The Queen
as Queen Mother
2006
The Poseidon Adventure
as Belle Rosen
2005
Child of Mine
as Alice
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Lavinia Pinkerton
2004
New Tricks
as Beatrice
2004
Blue Murder
as Peggy Gaumont
2003
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
as Mrs. Bartz
2003
What a Girl Wants
as Princess Charlotte
2003
Doctor Zhivago
as Madame Fleury
2002
Born and Bred
as Elizabeth Grimshaw
2002
The Jury
as Elsie Beamish
2002
Judge John Deed
as Rose Hussein
2001
At Home with the Braithwaites
as Marion Riley
2000
Mavis and the Mermaid
as Gioga
2000
Holby City
as Margaret Larkin
1999
Neville's Island
as Mrs. Campness
1998
Food of Love
as Mrs. Harvey-Brown
1997
Original Sin
as Esme Carling
1997
Dalziel and Pascoe
as Maisie Barron
1996
Half the Picture
as Margaret Thatcher
1996
Ghosts
as Mrs Eversley
1995
The Glass Virgin
as Lady Constance
1995
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Claudia
1995
Dancing
1995
Staggered
as Margaret
1994
Dirty Weekend
as Mrs. Crosby
1993
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
1993
Peak Practice
as Isabel de Gines
1993
Heartbeat
as Peggy Tatton
1992
Mulberry
as Springtime
1992
Shining Through
as Linda's Mother
1992
The Laughter of God
as Diana
1991
Pebble Mill
as Self
1991
Thatcher: The Final Days
as Margaret Thatcher
1991
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
as Mrs Pritchard
1989
Shirley Valentine
as Headmistress
1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Rebecca Huntley-Pike
1989
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
as Self
1989
Mr. H Is Late
1988
Intimate Contact
as Annie Stanhope
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Lilian Crown
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Stephen's mother
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Mrs. Thorn
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Mrs. Whalby
1987
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
Casualty
as Bunny Tyrill
1986
Casualty
as Mrs. Bullock
1986
Absolute Beginners
as Cynthia Eve
1986
Time for Murder
as Vivien Scott-Forbes
1985
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
as Mrs. Easterbrook
1985
Screen Two
as Diana
1985
Screen Two
as Margaret Thatcher
1985
Miss Marple
as Mrs. Easterbrook
1984
Countdown
1982
It's Your Move
as The Wife
1982
Wogan
as Self
1982
Nancy Astor
as Nanaire Langhorne
1982
There Goes The Bride
as Ursula Westerby
1980
Give Us Tomorrow
as Wendy Hammond
1978
Comedy Premiere
as Verity Martin
1975
The Tamarind Seed
as Margaret Stephenson
1974
Asylum
as Ruth
1972
The Adventurer
as Karen Ballard
1972
Paul Temple
1969