Sylvia Syms

Actress Sylvia Syms, best known for the films Ice Cold In Alex and Victim, has died at the age of 89, her family said.

The London-born actress was nominated three times for British Film Academy Awards. “She has lived an amazing life and gave us joy and laughter right up to the end. starring Michael Caine.

Actress Sylvia Syms, who had parts in EastEnders, Doctor Who and much more, has died at the age of 89. The actress' death has been announced by her ...

She made an admirable fist of her loss of looks and figure in later life. The actress was married to Alan Edney from 1956 until 1989. She has lived an amazing life and gave us joy and laughter right up to the end. Before a fourth typed: "Memorable for her horror at her husband's confession of lust for a man in Victim. Fans have since flocked to social media to share their condolences, with one writing: "Sad news. #SylviaSyms."

'She has lived an amazing life and gave us joy and laughter right up to the end,' her children said.

Syms and Edney had two children, daughter Beatie and son Ben, both of whom are also actors. What a loss.” She has lived an amazing life and gave us joy and laughter right up to the end,” Beatie and Ben Edney said.

Sylvia Syms, best known for the films Ice Cold In Alex and Victim, 'died peacefully' early on Friday at Denville Hall, a care home in London for those in ...

Sylvia was later made an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2007. 'It's why I became a performer and never stopped working.' She was born on January 6, 1934, in London. “Sylvia, this is Scot Williams” they said. A statement from her children, Beatie and Ben Edney, said: 'Our mother, Sylvia, died peacefully this morning. It was pretty awful.'

Syms “died peacefully” early on Friday at Denville Hall, a care home in London for people in the entertainment industry. Her children said the actress, ...

Syms was also known for the 1961 film Victim, in which she starred as the wife of a barrister played by Sir Dirk Bogarde, who is having a gay relationship. [London](/topic/london) for people in the entertainment industry. [ctress](/topic/actress) Sylvia Syms, best known for the films Ice Cold In Alex and Victim, has died at the age of 89.

Performer starred opposite Dirk Bogarde in Victim as well as playing the mother of Helen Mirren's monarch in The Queen.

Syms was nominated for another Bafta, for best supporting actress, for her role as a diplomat’s wife in the 1974 romantic thriller The Tamarind Seed, starring Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif. More prominent roles followed: she played a nurse in the classic war thriller Ice Cold in Alex (1958), wannabe singer Maisie in Expresso Bongo (1959), and the wife of Dirk Bogarde’s closeted barrister in Born in 1934, Syms studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) and made an instant impact with her first major film role, as a delinquent in My Teenage Daughter (1956).

Actress Sylvia Syms has died at the age of 89. The film star 'died peacefully' early on Friday (January 27) at Denville Hall, a care home in London for ...

A statement from Beatie and Ben Edney announcing the sad news read: ‘Our mother, Sylvia, died peacefully this morning. As well in the BBC family, in 2010 she guest-starred as a patient in drama series Casualty, having played a different character in an episode from 2007. Her most recent role was in 2019 in the BBC period drama Gentleman Jack as Mrs Rawson. Syms appeared as another character in Casualty’s sister series Holby City in 2003 and from 2007, had a recurring role in EastEnders, playing dressmaker Olive Woodhouse; her last appearance in the role was in July 2010. [London](https://metro.co.uk/tag/london/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P2_LNK1) for those in the entertainment industry. Her children said the actress, who played the Queen Mother opposite Helen Mirren as Her Majesty in the 2006 film The Queen, ‘lived an amazing life.’

Actress Sylvia Syms, best known for the films Ice Cold In Alex and Victim, has died at the age of 89. Syms “died peacefully” early on Friday at Denville ...

After Margaret Thatcher’s resignation in 1990, Syms played the former prime minister in a TV play which she recreated for the stage. From 1972, Syms had her own show as Leslie Crowther’s wife in My Good Woman for two years until she starred in the Dame Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif film The Tamarind Seed, for which she got a Bafta nomination. Syms was also known for the 1961 film Victim, in which she starred as the wife of a barrister played by Sir Dirk Bogarde, who is having a gay relationship.

Actor who starred in films of the 1950s and 60s including Ice Cold in Alex and went on to a long career in supporting roles.

[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/30/queenmother.monarchy12) in Stephen Frears’s film [The Queen](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/sep/15/helenmirren.drama) in 2006. As Thatcher, Syms was brilliant as a madwoman in the cellar of No 10. Needless to say, in a typically moralistic ending, she sees the error of her ways and is reunited with her mother. In the 1970s and 80s, when the film roles began to dwindle, Syms took on more television and theatre work. In complete contrast was her novice nun helping other nuns to smuggle Jewish children escaping the Nazis in war-torn Italy, and confronting her feelings towards an Italian major (Ronald Lewis) in the moving drama Conspiracy of Hearts (1960). Syms was a plucky nurse in Thompson’s Ice Cold in Alex (1958), in dusty khaki on a trek through the north African desert from Tobruk to Alexandria in 1942. For the following decade, Syms was very active in British cinema, managing to belie her reputation as a sweet-tempered English rose by taking roles such as a stripper, Maisie King, in Expresso Bongo (1959). She was evacuated from the capital aged four with her brother and sister at the outbreak of the second world war. [Roy Ward Baker](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/08/roy-ward-baker-obituary)’s Flame in the Streets (1961), another screenplay by Willis, was a well-intentioned plea for racial harmony, in which Syms played the daughter of a trade union leader ( [John Mills](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/apr/23/1)), whose intention to marry a West Indian man puts her father’s liberal views to the test. It starred Syms as a girl hoping to escape her environment and a local hoodlum ( [Herbert Lom](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/27/herbert-lom)). [J Lee Thompson](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/sep/04/guardianobituaries.filmnews1)’s Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), which had Syms playing the “other woman” for whom Anthony Quayle wants to leave his wife (Yvonne Mitchell). Nevertheless, the ethereal Syms starred in a wide variety of films during that period before she developed in later years into a fine supporting actor.

Syms “died peacefully” early on Friday at Denville Hall, a care home in London for people in the entertainment industry. Her children said the actress, ...

Syms was also known for the 1961 film Victim, in which she starred as the wife of a barrister played by Sir Dirk Bogarde, who is having a gay relationship. Syms “died peacefully” early on Friday at Denville Hall, a care home in London for people in the entertainment industry. Syms “died peacefully” early on Friday at a care home in London