Sylvia Syms
Sylvia Syms (born January 6, 1934 in London ) is a British actress who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and later also belonged to the college.
biography
Sylvia Syms was best known for her films between 1950 and 1960. However, she can still be seen in more recent films, on television and in the theater.
It became known overnight. In her second film, My Teenage Daughter (1954), she played Anna Neagles "problem daughter " and until 1960 she worked with Flora Robson , Orson Welles , Stanley Holloway , Lilli Palmer and William Holden - she also appeared in the film Ice Cold in Alexandria - Firestorm Over Africa (1958). With her in a leading role alongside John Mills , Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews , this flick has become a cult film in recent years as an excerpt was used in a beer commercial. The action is an entertaining story about four British Army medics trying to cross enemy territory. A love scene between Mills and Syms was cut out because it was felt to be too rough.
In 1958 she also appeared in the film The Moonraker, set in the English Civil War , with George Baker in the male lead . In 1959 she played in Fähre nach Hongkong with Curd Juergens and Orson Welles . A year later she was Tony Hancock's wife in The Punch and Judy Man. Other comedies such as The Big Job (1965) with Sid James followed, but it was rather the drama, for which she earned acclaim as The Tamarind Seed (1974) with Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif , which they for the BAFTA Award nomination . My Good Woman (1972) was a TV comedy series about a woman and her husband that ran with Leslie Crowther until 1974. She also played British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on television and theater and appeared in Doctor Who in the episode Ghost Light .
In 1975 she was the jury president of the Berlin International Film Festival . In 2002 she starred in the miniseries The Jury and in 2006 the British Queen Mother in The Queen . She also appeared in The Poseidon Attack , an American television film with little connection to the original 1972 film of the same name.
She also took on the production and direction. Her daughter Beatie Edney is also an actress.
In 1956 she married Alan Edney, the marriage divorced in 1989.
Filmography (selection)
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Web links
- The Official Sylvia Syms web site (english)
- Sylvia Syms in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Syms, Sylvia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England , UK |