
Sylvia Syms
Born January 6, 1934 · Woolwich, London, England, UK
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).
Notable Appearances
Movies

What a Girl Wants

The Queen

Shining Through

The Poseidon Adventure

Run Wild, Run Free

Shirley Valentine

Asylum

Operation Crossbow

The World of Suzie Wong

Absolute Beginners

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Ice Cold in Alex

The Tamarind Seed

Child of Mine

Thatcher: The Final Days

Bunny and the Bull

Give Us Tomorrow

Is Anybody There?

The Punch and Judy Man

A Chorus of Disapproval

Victim

Run For Your Wife

Ferry to Hong Kong

Neville's Island

It's Your Move

Food of Love

Amazons of Rome

The Desperados

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

There Goes The Bride

Dirty Weekend

No Trees in the Street

The Fiction Makers

The Moonraker

Bette and Joan

My Teenage Daughter

The Big Job

Flame in the Streets

Mr. H Is Late

No Time for Tears

Booked Out

Woman in a Dressing Gown

Danger Route

The World Ten Times Over

The Laughter of God

The Birthday Present

Expresso Bongo

Staggered
TV Shows

Casualty

Wogan

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Heartbeat

Peak Practice

Screen Two

The Saint

ITV Playhouse

Thirty-Minute Theatre

New Tricks

Agatha Christie's Marple

Dalziel and Pascoe

Danger Man

Sunday Night Theatre

Born and Bred

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Judge John Deed

Playhouse Presents

Kavanagh Q.C.

Countdown

Gentleman Jack

Blue Murder

Case Histories

Above Suspicion

Paul Temple

The Human Jungle

At Home with the Braithwaites

The Adventurer

Talking Pictures

Half Hour Story

The Jury

Doctor Zhivago

Strange Report

Collision

Nancy Astor

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

Armchair Theatre

Mulberry

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

Time for Murder

Ghosts

Bat Out of Hell

Miss Marple

Original Sin

The Glass Virgin

The Week We Went To War

Intimate Contact












