Sylvia Syms

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Sylvia May Syms (born 6 January 1934) is an English actress best known for her appearances in the films Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), No Trees in the Street (1961), and The Tamarind Seed (1974).

In 2006, she portrayed The Queen Mother in Stephen Frears' film The Queen, about Diana, Princess of Wales' death, and the few days after that, leading up to her funeral.

She is still working in film, television, and theater.

Personal life

Syms was born in Woolwich, London, England, and the daughter of Daisy (née Hale) and Edwin Syms, a trade unionist and civil servant. She grew up in Well Hall, Eltham, and was educated at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, on whose board she later served. Beatie Edney, her daughter, is also an actor, and she is the aunt of singers Nick and Alex Webb.

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Career

Anna Neagle's troubled daughter appeared in her second film, My Teenage Daughter (1956). She appeared in the film Ice Cold in Alex in 1958 (alongside John Mills, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews) during the same year she appeared in The Moonraker, an English Civil War film. She appeared in Expresso Bongo with Cliff Richard in 1959. In 1961, she appeared as the wife of a barrister who is a closet homosexual. The film was supposed to have widened the conversation that resulted in the decriminalization of homosexual offences in private. In 1962, she appeared in The Quare Fellow as the wife of a homeless man, and in 1963 she appeared as Tony Hancock's wife in The Punch and Judy Man. Nick Webb, her nephew, appeared in the film as well. Other comedies followed, including The Big Job (1965) with Hancock's former co-star Sid James and Bat Out of Hell (1967), but it was for drama that she received 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, 1972, was a husband-and-wife television comedy film that ran until 1974 with Leslie Crowther. At the same time, she was one of two team captains on BBC's weekly Movie Quiz, hosted by Robin Ray. She was the jury member of the 25th Berlin International Film Festival in 1975. Syms appeared in the Doctor Who film "Ghost Light" in 1989.

Syms portrayed her in Thatcher: The Final Days (1991), a Granada television film that dramatises the events surrounding her ouster from office shortly after the completion of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's time as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's term in 1990. She later reprised her role on stage. Marion Riley appeared in the ITV comedy-drama series At Home with the Braithwaites from 2000 to 2003, and she appeared in "Sonnet 142" on the compilation album When Love Speaks from 2000 to 2003. She was included in Stephen Frears' The Queen Mother (2006), alongside Dame Helen Mirren, who, as her daughter Queen Elizabeth II, received an Oscar nomination. She appeared in The Poseidon Adventure (2005), an American television film with no apparent connection to the 1972 feature film. She has also taken up producing and directing.

She appeared in the film Is Anywhere There? in 2009, she appeared in the film Is Anywhere There? In the ITV1 drama series Collision, Michael Caine and Anne-Marie Duff appear alongside each other. She appeared in an episode from 2007. In 2003, Syms appeared in Casualty's sister series Holby City as another character. Syms has appeared on BBC One's EastEnders as a dancer, as well as playing dressmaker Olive Woodhouse; her last appearance in the role came on July 20, 2010. Syms appeared on BBC's The Young Ones in 2010, a series in which six celebrities in their 70s and 80s tried to solve some of the ageing issues by harking back to the 1970s. Syms, the narrator of Talking Pictures from 2013 to 2019, appeared on BBC Two.

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