Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

117

Gender

Female

Birthday

1934-01-06

Deathday

2023-01-27 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Woolwich, London, England, UK

Also Known As

Sylvia Sims
Silvia Syms
Sylvia May Laura Syms

Sylvia Syms

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

6.3%

What a Girl Wants

Mar 27, 2003

6.9%

The Queen

Sep 15, 2006

7.9%

Doctor Who

Nov 23, 1963

6.5%

Shining Through

Jan 31, 1992

7.8%

Gentleman Jack

Apr 22, 2019

6.0%

Asylum

Nov 17, 1972

7.5%

Victim

Aug 1, 1961

7.6%

Agatha Christie's Marple

Dec 12, 2004

5.4%

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

May 14, 2003

7.3%

The Saint

Oct 4, 1962

7.3%

The Saint

Oct 4, 1962

7.3%

The Saint

Oct 4, 1962

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Acting

2019

Gentleman Jack as Mrs Rawson

2018

Together

2017

Bette and Joan as Self - Presenter

2013

Talking Pictures as Narrator

2012		Run For Your Wife as Hip Operation Woman
2012		Playhouse Presents as Alice
2012		Booked Out as Mrs Nicholls

2011

Case Histories as Binky Rain

2010

The Long Lonely Walk as Mrs. Didcott

2009		Bunny and the Bull as Hotelier
2009		Collision as Joyce Thompson
2009		The Week We Went To War
2009		Is Anybody There? as Lilian
2009		Above Suspicion as Mrs. Hedges

2007

The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self

2006

The Queen as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

2005		The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen
2005		Child of Mine as Alice

2004		Agatha Christie's Marple as Lavinia Pinkerton
2004		New Tricks as Beatrice

2003		Blue Murder as Peggy Gaumont
2003		I'll Sleep When I'm Dead as Mrs. Bartz
2003		What a Girl Wants as Princess Charlotte

2002		Doctor Zhivago as Madame Fleury
2002		Born and Bred as Elizabeth Grimshaw
2002		The Jury as Elsie Beamish

2001

Judge John Deed as Rose Hussein

2000		At Home with the Braithwaites as Marion Riley
2000		Mavis and the Mermaid as Gioga

1999

Holby City as Margaret Larkin

1998

Neville's Island as Mrs. Campness

1997		Food of Love as Mrs. Harvey-Brown
1997		Original Sin as Esme Carling

1996		Dalziel & Pascoe as Maisie Barron
1996		Half the Picture as Margaret Thatcher

1995		The Glass Virgin as Lady Constance
1995		Kavanagh Q.C. as Claudia

1994

Staggered as Margaret

1993		Dirty Weekend as Mrs. Crosby
1993		Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
1993		Peak Practice as Isabel de Gines

1992		Natural Lies
1992		Heartbeat as Peggy Tatton
1992		Mulberry as Springtime
1992		Shining Through as Linda's Mother

1991		The Laughter of God
1991		Pebble Mill as Self
1991		Thatcher: The Final Days as Margaret Thatcher

1989		Doctor Who: Ghost Light as Mrs Pritchard
1989		Shirley Valentine as Headmistress
1989		A Chorus of Disapproval as Rebecca Huntley-Pike
1989		Elstree: Britain's Hollywood as Self

1988

Mr. H Is Late

1987		Intimate Contact as Annie Stanhope
1987		The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Lilian Crown
1987		The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Stephen's mother
1987		The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Mrs. Whalby
1987		The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Mrs. Thorn

1986		Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986		Casualty as Bunny Tyrill
1986		Casualty as Mrs. Bullock
1986		Absolute Beginners as Cynthia Eve

1985		Time for Murder as Viven Scott-Forbes
1985		Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced as Mrs. Easterbrook

1984

Miss Marple as Mrs. Easterbrook

1982		Countdown
1982		It's Your Move as The Wife
1982		Wogan as Self
1982		Nancy Astor as Nanaire Langthorne

1980

There Goes The Bride as Ursula Westerby

1978

Give Us Tomorrow as Wendy Hammond

1974

The Tamarind Seed as Margaret Stephenson

1972		Asylum as Ruth
1972		The Adventurer as Karen Ballard

1969		Paul Temple
1969		Strange Report as Carol Webber
1969		Run Wild, Run Free as Mrs. Ransome
1969		The Desperados as Laura

1968		The Fiction Makers as Joyce Darling
1968		Hostile Witness as Sheila Larkin

1967

Danger Route as Barbara Canning

1966

Bat Out of Hell

1965		Operation Crossbow as Constance Babington Smith
1965		The Big Job as Myrtle Robbins

1964

East of Sudan as Miss Woodville

1963		Doctor Who as Mrs. Pritchard
1963		The World Ten Times Over as Billa
1963		The Punch and Judy Man as Delia Pinner
1963		The Human Jungle as Margo

1962		The Saint as Arlene
1962		The Saint as Lady Anne Yearley
1962		The Saint as Amos Klein
1962		The Saint as Jeannine Roger
1962		The Quare Fellow as Kathleen
1962		The Merv Griffin Show as Self

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		Victim as Laura Farr
1961		Flame in the Streets as Kathie Palmer
1961		Amazons of Rome as Clelia

1960		The World of Suzie Wong as Kay O’Neill
1960		Danger Man as Paula Glover
1960		Conspiracy of Hearts as Sister Mitya

1959		Expresso Bongo as Maisie King
1959		Ferry to Hong Kong as Liz Ferrers
1959		No Trees in the Street as Hetty

1958		Bachelor of Hearts as Ann Wainwright
1958		The Moonraker as Anne Wyndham
1958		Ice Cold in Alex as Sister Diana Murdoch

1957		The Birthday Present as Jean Scott
1957		No Time for Tears as Nurse Margaret Collier
1957		Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1957		Woman in a Dressing Gown as Georgie Harlow

1956		Armchair Theatre as Kay McCone
1956		Armchair Theatre as Mary Fleming
1956		My Teenage Daughter as Janet Carr

1955		Television Playhouse as Deborah Grayson
1955		Television Playhouse as Hilary