Biography
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).
Awards & recognition
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2007
Filmography42 titles
Doctor Who
Gentleman Jack
Case Histories
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Glass Virgin
The Saint
Victim
Danger Man
New Tricks
Kavanagh QC
Ice Cold in Alex
Heartbeat
The Fiction Makers
Collision
The Queen
The Jury
Above Suspicion
Blue Murder
Doctor Zhivago
Operation Crossbow
The World of Suzie Wong
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Shining Through
At Home with the Braithwaites
Dalziel and Pascoe
Hostile Witness
What a Girl Wants
Shirley Valentine
Flame in the Streets
Casualty
The Tamarind Seed
Bunny and the Bull
Asylum
Child of Mine
Danger Route
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Absolute Beginners
Expresso Bongo
The Poseidon Adventure
Amazons of Rome
The Desperados
Give Us Tomorrow