Sylvia Syms NUDE Sylvia Syms OBE (born 6 January 1934) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her roles in the films The Tamarind Seed, Ice Cold in Alex, No Trees in the Street and Woman in a Dressing Gown, and is remembered by most for her film works in the 1950s and 1960s but is still active in films, television and theatre in recent years. Also in 1958, she appeared in the English civil war story The Moonraker with George Baker as her male lead. Syms played Tony Hancock's wife in The Punch and Judy Man (1962) along with her nephew, Nick Webb. Other comedies followed, such as The Big Job (1965) with Hancock's former co-star Sid James, but it was for drama that she won acclaim, including The Tamarind Seed (1974) with Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif, for which she was nominated for a British Film Academy award. My Good Woman in 1972 was a husband-and-wife television comedy series which ran until 1974 with Leslie Crowther. At the same time, she was one of two team captains on the BBC's weekly "Movie Quiz", hosted by Robin Ray. Shortly after the downfall of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Syms portrayed Thatcher in a TV play covering the events surrounding her demise on ITV, later recreating the role on the stage. In 1989, she appeared in the Doctor Who story Ghost Light. In 2002, she starred in the serial, The Jury, and contributed "Sonnet 142" to the compilation album, When Love Speaks (EMI Classics). In 2006, she co-starred as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in Stephen Frears' The Queen, alongside Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren. She also appeared in The Poseidon Adventure, an American television movie with little connection to the original movie of the same name made in the 1970s. She has also taken up producing and directing. In March 2007, it was announced that she appeared in EastEnders as a mystery woman called Olive.[2] Syms was apppointed an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2007. Among the many other famous actors and actresses Syms has worked with are: Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, Hardy Krüger, Herbert Lom, Cliff Richard, Jenny Agutter, Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Roger Moore, Ray Milland, Bernard Miles and Richard Todd. In 2009, she appeared in the film Is Anybody There?, alongside Michael Caine and Anne-Marie Duff. |
Sylvia Syms
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