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Sylvia Syms

Stage Actress / Film Actress | * 01/06/1934 († 89, 01/27/2023) | London, England (United Kingdom (UK))
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Sylvia May Laura Syms (6 January 1934 – 27 January 2023) was an English stage and screen actress. Her best-known film roles include My Teenage Daughter (1956), Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award, Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), and The Tamarind Seed (1974). Known as the "Grand Dame of British Cinema", Syms was a major player in films from the mid-1950s until mid-1960s, usually in stiff-upper-lip English pictures, as opposed to kitchen sink realism dramas, before becoming more of a supporting actress in both film and television roles. On television, she was known for her recurring role as dressmaker Olive Woodhouse on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She was also a notable theatre player. Syms portra... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Crime

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Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a cla ...

Amazons of Rome

Certification unknown

1961 | 2.2/5 | 1h 45min
Drama, Adventure
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A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his f ...

Woman in a Dressing Gown

Certification unknown

1957 | 3.4/5 | 1h 33min
Romance / Love, Drama
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The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise b ...

The Queen

FSK: 0+ years

2006 | 3.5/5 | 1h 43min
Drama, History
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An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight ...

What a Girl Wants

FSK: 12+ years

2003 | 3.1/5 | 1h 45min
Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama, Kids & Family
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Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need. ...

The Saint

FSK: 6+ years

1962 | 3.6/5 | 1h per episode
Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Awards & Nominations for Sylvia Syms

Officer of The Order of The British Empire
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Movies with Sylvia Syms as Actress(58)

2018 Together
as Self - Presenter2017 Bette and Joan
as Mrs Nicholls2012 Booked Out
as Hip Operation Woman2012 Run For Your Wife
as Mrs. Didcott2010 The Long Lonely Walk
as Hotelier2009 Bunny and the Bull
as Lilian2009 Is Anybody There?
as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon2006 The Queen
as Alice2005 Child of Mine
as Belle Rosen2005 The Poseidon Adventure
as Mrs. Bartz2003 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
as Princess Charlotte2003 What a Girl Wants
as Gioga2000 Mavis and the Mermaid
as Mrs. Campness1998 Neville's Island
as Mrs. Harvey-Brown1997 Food of Love
as Margaret Thatcher1996 Half The Picture
as Margaret1994 Staggered
as Mrs. Crosby1993 Dirty Weekend
as Linda's Mother1992 Shining Through
as Rebecca Huntley-Pike1989 A Chorus of Disapproval
as Headmistress1989 Shirley Valentine
1988 Mr. H Is Late
as Cynthia Eve1986 Absolute Beginners
as The Wife1982 It's Your Move
as Ursula Westerby1980 There Goes The Bride
as Wendy Hammond1978 Give Us Tomorrow
as Margaret Stephenson1974 The Tamarind Seed
as Ruth1972 Asylum
as Cashier1971 Born to Win
as Laura1969 The Desperados
as Mrs. Ransome1969 Run Wild, Run Free
as Joyce Darling1968 The Fiction Makers
as Sheila Larkin1968 Hostile Witness
as Barbara Canning1967 Danger Route
as Myrtle Robbins1965 The Big Job
as (archive footage)1965 The Love Goddesses
as Constance Babington Smith1965 Operation Crossbow
as Miss Woodville1964 East of Sudan
as Billa1963 The World Ten Times Over
as Delia Pinner1963 The Punch and Judy Man
as Kathleen1962 The Quare Fellow
as Laura Farr1961 Victim
as Clelia1961 Amazons of Rome
as Kathie Palmer1961 Flame in the Streets
as Kay O’Neill1960 The World of Suzie Wong
as Sister Mitya1960 Conspiracy of Hearts
as Liz Ferrers1959 Ferry to Hong Kong
as Hetty1959 No Trees in the Street
as Maisie King1959 Expresso Bongo
as Ann Wainwright1958 Bachelor of Hearts
as Anne Wyndham1958 The Moonraker
as Sister Diana Murdoch1958 Ice Cold in Alex
as Jean Scott1957 The Birthday Present
as Georgie Harlow1957 Woman in a Dressing Gown
as Nurse Margaret Collier1957 No Time for Tears
as Janet Carr1956 My Teenage Daughter
as Telephone Operator (Uncredited)1952 Night Without Sleep
as Ms. Quimby (Uncredited)1951 The Blue Veil

TV Shows/Series with Sylvia Syms as Actress(34)

as Mrs Rawson2019 Gentleman Jack
as Narrator2013 Talking Pictures
as Alice2012 Playhouse Presents
2009 The Week We Went To War
as Joyce Thompson2009 Collision
as Lavinia Pinkerton2004 Agatha Christie's Marple
as Peggy Gaumont2003 Blue Murder
as Elsie Beamish2002 The Jury
2001 Judge John Deed
as Marion Riley2000 At Home with the Braithwaites
as Margaret Larkin1999 Holby City
as Esme Carling1997 Original Sin
1996 Dalziel & Pascoe
as Lady Constance1995 The Glass Virgin
as Isabel de Gines1993 Peak Practice
as Springtime1992 Mulberry
as Peggy Tatton1992 Heartbeat
as herself1991 Pebble Mill
as Annie Stanhope1987 Intimate Contact
1987 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Bunny Tyrill1986 Casualty
as Mrs. Bullock1986 Casualty
1982 Countdown
as Nanaire Langthorne1982 Nancy Astor
as herself1982 Wogan
1969 Paul Temple
1966 Bat Out of Hell
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Mrs. Pritchard1963 Doctor Who
as Arlene1962 The Saint
as Amos Klein1962 The Saint
as Lady Anne Yearley1962 The Saint
as Jeannine Roger1962 The Saint
as herself1962 The Merv Griffin Show

Full Name: Sylvia May Laura Syms
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Saturday, 01/06 1934 (January) in London, England (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Friday, 01/27 2023 (January) in Denville Hall (aged: 89)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Children: Beatie Edney
Other names for Sylvia Syms (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Sylvia Sims"
"Sylvia May Laura Syms"
Sylvia Syms frequently works together with these people:
Terry Walsh (39x, Actor)
Pat Gorman (16x, Actor)
Max Faulkner (14x, Actor)
John Scott Martin (12x, Actor)
Cy Town (11x, Actor)
Geoffrey Bayldon (10x, Actor)
Tenniel Evans (10x, Actor)
Michael Wisher (10x, Actor)
Bernard Horsfall (10x, Actor)
Paul Copley (9x, Actor)
John Bennett (9x, Actor)
Eric Sykes (8x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:7668, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 03/30/2024