Sylvia Syms

Sylvia Syms

Infobox actor
name = Sylvia Syms



imagesize =200px
caption = Sylvia Syms
birthname = Sylvia Syms
birthdate = birth date and age|1934|1|6|df=yes
birthplace = Woolwich, London, England
othername = Sylvia Syms OBE
occupation = Actress
yearsactive = 1955-present
spouse = Alan Edney (1956-1989)
children = Beatie Edney
website = http://www.sylviasyms.co.uk/
awards =
1965

Sylvia Syms OBE (born 6 January 1934) is an Ondas Award-winning 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". She is remembered by most for her film work through the 1950s and 1960s but is still active in films, television and the theatre. She will be starring in the post-production film "Is There Anybody There?", alongside Michael Caine and Anne-Marie Duff.

Biography

Personal life

Syms was born in London, England to Daisy (Hale) and Edwin Syms, a trade unionist and civil servant. [http://www.filmreference.com/film/10/Sylvia-Syms.html Sylvia Syms Biography (1934-) ] ] She was educated at RADA, on whose council she has served. Her daughter Beatie Edney is also an actress.

Career

She started as a starlet. In her second film "My Teenage Daughter" (1954), she played Anna Neagle's "problem" daughter, and by 1960 had worked with Flora Robson, Orson Welles, Stanley Holloway, Lilli Palmer and William Holden — and made the film "Ice-Cold in Alex" (1958). Co-starring John Mills, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews, this has become a cult film in recent years because an extract from it was used in a beer commercial. It is an entertaining story about four British Army medical personnel trying to get through enemy territory. A love scene between Mills and Syms was dropped from the film because it was considered too strong. Also in 1958, she appeared in the English civil war story "The Moonraker" with George Baker 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. She has played British prime minister Margaret Thatcher on TV and the stage and appeared in the "Doctor Who" story "Ghost Light".

In 2002, she starred in the serial "The Jury". 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 will be appearing in "EastEnders" as a mystery woman called Olive. [" [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001320029-2007110620,00.html Queen Mother to join EastEnders] ", "The Sun". Accessed on 2007-03-12] Syms was made an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2007.

Among the many other famous names she 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.

Filmography

* "My Teenage Daughter" (1957)
* "The Birthday Present" (1957)
* "Woman in a Dressing Gown" (1957)
* "No Time for Tears" (1957)
* "The Moonraker" (1958)
* "Ice-Cold in Alex" (1958)
* "Bachelor of Hearts" (1958)
* "No Trees in the Street" (1959)
* "Ferry to Hong Kong" (1959)
* "Expresso Bongo" (1959)
* "Conspiracy of Hearts" (1960)
* "The World of Suzie Wong" (1960)
* "Vergini di Roma, Le" (1961)
* "Flame in the Streets" (1961)
* "Victim" (1961)
* "The Quare Fellow" (1962)
* "The Punch and Judy Man" (1963)
* "The World Ten Times Over" (1963)
* "East of Sudan" (1964)
* "Operation Crossbow" (1964)
* "The Big Job" (1965)
* "Danger Route" (1967)
* "Hostile Witness" (1968)
* "The Fiction Makers" (1968)
* "It's Your Move" (1969)
* "The Desperados" (1969)
* "Asylum" (1972)
* "The Tamarind Seed" (1974)
* "Give Us Tomorrow" (1978)
* "There Goes the Bride" (1980)
* "Absolute Beginners" (1986)
* "A Chorus of Disaproval" (1988)
* "Shirley Valentine" (1989)
* "The Laughter of God" (1990)
* "Shining Through" (1992)
* "Dirty Weekend" (1993)
* "The House of Angelo" (1997)
* "Food of Love" (1998)
* "Deep Down" (2002)
* "Doctor Zhivago" (2002)
* "What a Girl wants" (2003)
* "Mavis and the Mermaid" (2004)
* "The Poseidon Adventure film" (2005)
* "The Queen" (2006)

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0843401|name=Sylvia Syms
* [http://www.sylviasyms.co.uk/ The Official Sylvia Syms Web-Site]


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