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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 6, 1934
Died
January 27, 2023
Place of Birth
Woolwich, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Sylvia Sims
- Silvia Syms
- Sylvia May Laura Syms
Sylvia Syms
0.5 Popularity
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).
Known For
7.8
Mrs Rawson
Gentleman Jack
2019
0.0
Together
2018
0.0
Self - Presenter
Bette and Joan
2017
5.8
Narrator
Talking Pictures
2013
4.4
Hip Operation Woman
Run For Your Wife
2012
6.0
Alice
Playhouse Presents
2012
4.3
Mrs Nicholls
Booked Out
2012
7.8
Binky Rain
Case Histories
2011
0.0
Mrs. Didcott
The Long Lonely Walk
2010
6.0
Hotelier
Bunny and the Bull
2009
Credits
Gentleman Jack
as Mrs Rawson
2019
7.8
Together
2018
0.0
Bette and Joan
as Self - Presenter
2017
0.0
Talking Pictures
as Narrator
2013
5.8
Run For Your Wife
as Hip Operation Woman
2012
4.4
Playhouse Presents
as Alice
2012
6.0
Booked Out
as Mrs Nicholls
2012
4.3
Case Histories
as Binky Rain
2011
7.8
The Long Lonely Walk
as Mrs. Didcott
2010
0.0
Bunny and the Bull
as Hotelier
2009
6.0
Collision
as Joyce Thompson
2009
7.0
The Week We Went To War
2009
5.0
Is Anybody There?
as Lilian
2009
6.3
Above Suspicion
as Mrs. Hedges
2009
6.8
🎬
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
2007
3.7
🎬
The Making of 'The Queen'
as Self
2007
6.0
The Queen
as Queen Mother
2006
6.9
The Poseidon Adventure
as Belle Rosen
2005
5.2
Child of Mine
as Alice
2005
5.7
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Lavinia Pinkerton
2004
7.8
New Tricks
as Beatrice
2004
7.4
Blue Murder
as Peggy Gaumont
2003
6.7
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
as Mrs. Bartz
2003
5.4
What a Girl Wants
as Princess Charlotte
2003
6.3
Doctor Zhivago
as Madame Fleury
2002
6.6
Born and Bred
as Elizabeth Grimshaw
2002
8.5
The Jury
as Elsie Beamish
2002
6.8
Judge John Deed
as Rose Hussein
2001
6.7
At Home with the Braithwaites
as Marion Riley
2000
6.4
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Mavis and the Mermaid
as Gioga
2000
0.0
Holby City
as Margaret Larkin
1999
5.8
Neville's Island
as Mrs. Campness
1998
5.6
Food of Love
as Mrs. Harvey-Brown
1997
3.0
Original Sin
as Esme Carling
1997
7.0
Dalziel & Pascoe
as Maisie Barron
1996
6.3
Half the Picture
as Margaret Thatcher
1996
0.0
The Glass Virgin
as Lady Constance
1995
7.3
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Claudia
1995
7.0
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Dancing
1995
0.0
Staggered
as Margaret
1994
5.3
Dirty Weekend
as Mrs. Crosby
1993
4.7
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
1993
0.0
Peak Practice
as Isabel de Gines
1993
6.1
Heartbeat
as Peggy Tatton
1992
7.1
Mulberry
as Springtime
1992
7.2
Shining Through
as Linda's Mother
1992
6.5
The Laughter of God
as Diana
1991
1.0
🎬
Pebble Mill
as Self
1991
3.1
Thatcher: The Final Days
as Margaret Thatcher
1991
6.5
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
as Mrs Pritchard
1989
8.7
Shirley Valentine
as Headmistress
1989
6.2
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Rebecca Huntley-Pike
1989
5.3
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
as Self
1989
0.0
Mr. H Is Late
1988
6.6
Intimate Contact
as Annie Stanhope
1987
2.0
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Stephen's mother
1987
6.3
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Mrs. Whalby
1987
6.3
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Mrs. Thorn
1987
6.3
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Lilian Crown
1987
6.3
🎬
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
0.0
Casualty
as Bunny Tyrill
1986
6.1
Casualty
as Mrs. Bullock
1986
6.1
Absolute Beginners
as Cynthia Eve
1986
5.4
Time for Murder
as Viven Scott-Forbes
1985
4.0
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
as Mrs. Easterbrook
1985
7.2
Countdown
1982
6.0
It's Your Move
as The Wife
1982
8.2
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Nancy Astor
as Nanaire Langhorne
1982
7.5
There Goes The Bride
as Ursula Westerby
1980
0.0
Give Us Tomorrow
as Wendy Hammond
1978
3.1
The Tamarind Seed
as Margaret Stephenson
1974
6.1
Asylum
as Ruth
1972
6.0
The Adventurer
as Karen Ballard
1972
5.5
Paul Temple
1969
7.0
Strange Report
as Carol Webber
1969
6.5
Run Wild, Run Free
as Mrs. Ransome
1969
6.0
The Desperados
as Laura
1969
3.9
The Fiction Makers
as Joyce Darling
1968
7.0
Hostile Witness
as Sheila Larkin
1968
6.2
Danger Route
as Barbara Canning
1967
5.6
Bat Out of Hell
1966
6.3
The Big Job
as Myrtle Robbins
1965
6.7
Operation Crossbow
as Constance Babington Smith
1965
6.7
East of Sudan
as Miss Woodville
1964
5.3
Doctor Who
as Mrs. Pritchard
1963
7.9
The World Ten Times Over
as Billa
1963
7.0
The Punch and Judy Man
as Delia Pinner
1963
7.8
The Human Jungle
as Margo
1963
8.2
The Saint
as Arlene
1962
7.4
The Saint
as Lady Anne Yearley
1962
7.4
The Saint
as Amos Klein
1962
7.4
The Saint
as Jeannine Roger
1962
7.4
The Quare Fellow
as Kathleen
1962
5.3
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Victim
as Laura Farr
1961
7.5
Flame in the Streets
as Kathie Palmer
1961
5.9
Amazons of Rome
as Clelia
1961
4.5
The World of Suzie Wong
as Kay O’Neill
1960
6.4
Danger Man
as Paula Glover
1960
7.3
Conspiracy of Hearts
as Sister Mitya
1960
6.7
Expresso Bongo
as Maisie King
1959
5.1
Ferry to Hong Kong
as Liz Ferrers
1959
5.5
No Trees in the Street
as Hetty
1959
5.8
Bachelor of Hearts
as Ann Wainwright
1958
5.6
The Moonraker
as Anne Wyndham
1958
6.8
Ice Cold in Alex
as Sister Diana Murdoch
1958
7.3
The Birthday Present
as Jean Scott
1957
7.1
No Time for Tears
as Nurse Margaret Collier
1957
5.0
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
Woman in a Dressing Gown
as Georgie Harlow
1957
6.1
Armchair Theatre
as Kay McCone
1956
5.8
Armchair Theatre
as Mary Fleming
1956
5.8
My Teenage Daughter
as Janet Carr
1956
6.0
🎬
Television Playhouse
as Deborah Grayson
1955
0.0
🎬
Television Playhouse
as Hilary
1955
0.0