Jan 6, 1934 - Woolwich, London, England, UK
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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| Movie | 2006 | The Queen | Queen Mother | |
| Movie | 1972 | Asylum | Ruth | |
| Movie | 1965 | Operation Crossbow | Constance Babington Smith | |
| Movie | 1961 | Victim | Laura Farr | |
| Movie | 1958 | Ice Cold in Alex | Sister Diana Murdoch | |
| Movie | 1965 | The Big Job | Myrtle Robbins | |
| Movie | 1989 | Shirley Valentine | Headmistress | |
| Movie | 1993 | Dirty Weekend | Mrs. Crosby | |
| Movie | 2012 | Booked Out | Mrs Nicholls | |
| Movie | 2017 | Bette and Joan | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 1967 | Danger Route | Barbara Canning | |
| Movie | 1959 | Ferry to Hong Kong | Liz Ferrers | |
| Movie | 1982 | It's Your Move | The Wife | |
| Movie | 1969 | Run Wild, Run Free | Mrs. Ransome | |
| Movie | 1968 | Hostile Witness | Sheila Larkin | |
| Movie | 1959 | Expresso Bongo | Maisie King | |
| Movie | 1961 | Amazons of Rome | Clelia | |
| Movie | 1962 | The Quare Fellow | Kathleen | |
| Movie | 1996 | Half the Picture | Margaret Thatcher | |
| Movie | 1960 | Conspiracy of Hearts | Sister Mitya | |
| Movie | 1963 | The World Ten Times Over | Billa | |
| Movie | 1978 | Give Us Tomorrow | Wendy Hammond | |
| Movie | 1959 | No Trees in the Street | Hetty | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Long Lonely Walk | Mrs. Didcott | |
| Movie | 1961 | Flame in the Streets | Kathie Palmer | |
| Movie | 1958 | The Moonraker | Anne Wyndham | |
| Movie | 1964 | East of Sudan | Miss Woodville | |
| Movie | 2000 | Mavis and the Mermaid | Gioga | |
| Movie | 2005 | Child of Mine | Alice | |
| Movie | 2012 | Run For Your Wife | Hip Operation Woman | |
| Movie | 1957 | Woman in a Dressing Gown | Georgie Harlow | |
| Movie | 1969 | The Desperados | Laura | |
| Movie | 1956 | My Teenage Daughter | Janet Carr | |
| Movie | 1957 | The Birthday Present | Jean Scott | |
| Movie | 2003 | What a Girl Wants | Princess Charlotte | |
| Movie | 1980 | There Goes The Bride | Ursula Westerby | |
| Movie | 1992 | Natural Lies | ||
| Movie | 1991 | The Laughter of God | Diana | |
| Movie | 1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Rebecca Huntley-Pike | |
| Movie | 1974 | The Tamarind Seed | Margaret Stephenson | |
| Movie | 1957 | No Time for Tears | Nurse Margaret Collier | |
| Movie | 1994 | Staggered | Margaret | |
| Movie | 2009 | Bunny and the Bull | Hotelier | |
| Movie | 1968 | The Fiction Makers | Joyce Darling | |
| Movie | 2009 | Is Anybody There? | Lilian | |
| Movie | 1986 | Absolute Beginners | Cynthia Eve | |
| Movie | 1998 | Neville's Island | Mrs. Campness | |
| Movie | 1988 | Mr. H Is Late | ||
| Movie | 1963 | The Punch and Judy Man | Delia Pinner | |
| Movie | 1989 | Doctor Who: Ghost Light | Mrs Pritchard | |
| Movie | 1992 | Shining Through | Linda's Mother | |
| Movie | 1997 | Food of Love | Mrs. Harvey-Brown | |
| Movie | 2018 | Together | ||
| Movie | 2005 | The Poseidon Adventure | Belle Rosen | |
| Movie | 1960 | The World of Suzie Wong | Kay O’Neill | |
| Movie | 1991 | Thatcher: The Final Days | Margaret Thatcher | |
| Movie | 1958 | Bachelor of Hearts | Ann Wainwright | |
| Movie | 2003 | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | Mrs. Bartz | |
| Movie | 1995 | Dancing | ||
| TV Show | 1963 | Doctor Who | Mrs. Pritchard | 3 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Heartbeat | Peggy Tatton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Countdown | 38 | |
| TV Show | 1996 | Dalziel & Pascoe | Maisie Barron | 2 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Saint | Arlene | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Lavinia Pinkerton | 1 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Judge John Deed | Rose Hussein | 2 |
| TV Show | 2002 | The Jury | Elsie Beamish | 6 |
| TV Show | 2007 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1991 | Pebble Mill | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1966 | Bat Out of Hell | 5 | |
| TV Show | 1997 | Original Sin | Esme Carling | 3 |
| TV Show | 1969 | Paul Temple | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2009 | The Week We Went To War | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1993 | Peak Practice | Isabel de Gines | 15 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Above Suspicion | Mrs. Hedges | 2 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Playhouse Presents | Alice | 1 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Talking Pictures | Narrator | 34 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Blue Murder | Peggy Gaumont | 1 |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Human Jungle | Margo | 1 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Collision | Joyce Thompson | 5 |
| TV Show | 2000 | At Home with the Braithwaites | Marion Riley | 26 |
| TV Show | 1987 | Intimate Contact | Annie Stanhope | 2 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Holby City | Margaret Larkin | 1 |
| TV Show | 1986 | Casualty | Bunny Tyrill | 1 |
| TV Show | 1986 | Casualty | Mrs. Bullock | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Wogan | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Case Histories | Binky Rain | 2 |
| TV Show | 1995 | Kavanagh Q.C. | Claudia | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | New Tricks | Beatrice | 1 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Born and Bred | Elizabeth Grimshaw | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Stephen's mother | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Mrs. Whalby | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Mrs. Thorn | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Lilian Crown | 2 |
| TV Show | 1960 | Danger Man | Paula Glover | 1 |
| TV Show | 1985 | Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced | Mrs. Easterbrook | 3 |
| TV Show | 1972 | The Adventurer | Karen Ballard | 1 |
| TV Show | 1969 | Strange Report | Carol Webber | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Tonight Starring Jack Paar | Self | 6 |
| TV Show | 1995 | The Glass Virgin | Lady Constance | 3 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Kay McCone | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Television Playhouse | Deborah Grayson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Television Playhouse | Hilary | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Mary Fleming | 1 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Doctor Zhivago | Madame Fleury | 3 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | 4 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Saint | Lady Anne Yearley | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Saint | Amos Klein | 2 |
| TV Show | 1986 | Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1985 | Time for Murder | Viven Scott-Forbes | 1 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Gentleman Jack | Mrs Rawson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Saint | Jeannine Roger | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Mulberry | Springtime | 1 |
| TV Show | 1989 | Elstree: Britain's Hollywood | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Nancy Astor | Nanaire Langhorne | 3 |
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