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
Movies
- The Queen
2006
- Asylum
1972
- Operation Crossbow
1965
- Victim
1961
- Ice Cold in Alex
1958
- The Big Job
1965
- Shirley Valentine
1989
- Dirty Weekend
1993
- Booked Out
2012
- Bette and Joan
2017
- Danger Route
1967
- Ferry to Hong Kong
1959
- It's Your Move
1982
- Run Wild, Run Free
1969
- Hostile Witness
1968
- Expresso Bongo
1959
- Le vergini di Roma
1961
- The Quare Fellow
1962
- Half the Picture
1996
- Conspiracy of Hearts
1960
- The World Ten Times Over
1963
- Give Us Tomorrow
1978
- No Trees in the Street
1959
- The Long Lonely Walk
2010
- Flame in the Streets
1961
- The Moonraker
1958
- East of Sudan
1964
- Mavis and the Mermaid
2000
- Child of Mine
2005
- Run For Your Wife
2012
- Woman in a Dressing Gown
1957
- The Desperados
1969
- My Teenage Daughter
1956
- The Birthday Present
1957
- What a Girl Wants
2003
- There Goes The Bride
1980
- The Laughter of God
1991
- A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
- The Tamarind Seed
1974
- No Time for Tears
1957
- Staggered
1994
- Bunny and the Bull
2009
- The Fiction Makers
1968
- Is Anybody There?
2009
- Absolute Beginners
1986
- Neville's Island
1998
- Mr. H Is Late
1988
- The Punch and Judy Man
1963
- Doctor Who: Ghost Light
1989
- Shining Through
1992
- Food of Love
1997
- Together
2018
- The Poseidon Adventure
2005
- The World of Suzie Wong
1960
- Thatcher: The Final Days
1991
- Bachelor of Hearts
1958
- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
2003
- Dancing
1995
- The Making of 'The Quee...
2007
- The Love Goddesses
1965
TV Shows
- Doctor Who
1963
- The Merv Griffin Show
1962
- Heartbeat
1992
- Countdown
1982
- Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
- The Saint
1962
- Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
- Judge John Deed
2001
- The Jury
2002
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
- Pebble Mill
1991
- Bat Out of Hell
1966
- Original Sin
1997
- Paul Temple
1969
- The Week We Went To War
2009
- Peak Practice
1993
- Above Suspicion
2009
- Playhouse Presents
2012
- Talking Pictures
2013
- Blue Murder
2003
- The Human Jungle
1963
- Collision
2009
- At Home with the Braith...
2000
- Intimate Contact
1987
- Holby City
1999
- Casualty
1986
- Casualty
1986
- Hollywood U.K.: British...
1993
- Wogan
1982
- Case Histories
2011
- New Tricks
2004
- Born and Bred
2002
- Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
- The Ruth Rendell Myster...
1987
- The Ruth Rendell Myster...
1987
- The Ruth Rendell Myster...
1987
- The Ruth Rendell Myster...
1987
- Miss Marple: A Murder I...
1985
- The Adventurer
1972
- Strange Report
1969
- Danger Man
1960
- Tonight Starring Jack P...
1957
- Armchair Theatre
1956
- Armchair Theatre
1956
- Television Playhouse
1955
- Television Playhouse
1955
- Doctor Zhivago
2002
- The Mike Douglas Show
1961
- The Saint
1962
- The Saint
1962
- Fifties Features - The ...
1986
- Time for Murder
1985
- Gentleman Jack
2019
- The Saint
1962
- Mulberry
1992
- Elstree: Britain's Holl...
1989
- Nancy Astor
1982
- The Glass Virgin
1995