
Sylvia Syms
Department: Acting
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

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

Amazons of Rome
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

Mr. H Is Late
1988

Neville's Island
1998

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 Queen'
2007

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

Talking Pictures
2013

Blue Murder
2003

The Human Jungle
1963

Collision
2009

At Home with the Braithwaites
2000

Intimate Contact
1987

Holby City
1999

Casualty
1986

Casualty
1986

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993

Wogan
1982

Case Histories
2011

Kavanagh Q.C.
1995

New Tricks
2004

Born and Bred
2002

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987

Danger Man
1960

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
1985

The Adventurer
1972

Strange Report
1969

Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957

Armchair Theatre
1956

Television Playhouse
1955

Television Playhouse
1955

Armchair Theatre
1956

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

The Saint
1962

The Saint
1962

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986

Gentleman Jack
2019

The Saint
1962

Mulberry
1992

Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
1989

Nancy Astor
1982

The Glass Virgin
1995

Sunday Night Theatre
1950

Time for Murder
1985

Playhouse Presents
2012

Ghosts
1995

Doctor Zhivago
2002