Margaret Tyzack
Margaret Tyzack ( born September 9, 1931 in Essex, England; † June 25, 2011 in London) was a British actress.
Life
Family and Education
Tyzack was born in 1931 as the daughter of Thomas Edward Tyzack and his wife Doris ( Moseley ) Tyzack in Essex; other sources give London as place of birth. Her father was a foreman at the food company Tate & Lyle. Tyzack grew up in London's Plaistow, East London, in the London Borough of Newham. She attended St Angela's Ursuline School, a Catholic girls' school of the Ursulines, in Newham. There, her acting talent was discovered by a teacher. Her acting training Tyzack graduated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; to their fellow students was Joan Collins. At RADA, she received an award for comedy and Comedy ( Comedy ).
Theater
As a theater actress Tyzack went first in the province. Their theater debut in 1951 at the Chesterfield Civic Theatre in Chesterfield, as a onlookers in the Covent Garden scene in the comedy Pygmalion. There they remained for two years in the engagement, where she appeared in several plays, the en suite was played.
In 1959 she made her London stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre with the role of Mag Keegan in the stage play The Progress to the Park by Alun Owen. This was followed in 1959, also at the Royal Court Theatre, make the role spinster Miss Frost in a stage version of the novel The Ginger Man by JP Donleavy; they took over this role in 1963 in a production of the play at the Pembroke Theatre, Croydon. In 1962, she played the role of Alice Moore in the play A Man For All Seasons and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at the Nottingham Playhouse.
Since 1962 she performed regularly at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Belonged to their roles there: Vasilisa in overnight shelter (1962, Arts Theatre Club, London), Volumnia in Coriolanus (1972, Stratford- upon- Avon in 1973, Aldwych Theatre, London), Portia in Julius Caesar (1972, Stratford- upon- Avon in 1973, Aldwych Theatre, London), Tamora in Titus Andronicus (1972, Stratford- upon- Avon ), Maria Lvovna in summer guests of Maxim Gorky (1974, Aldwych Theatre, London) and, in place of Peggy Ashcroft, the Countess of Roussillon in well that ends well (1983, Barbican Theatre, London).
In 1969 she joined at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter in the role of landowner Lyubov Andrejewna Ranjewskaja in the tragicomedy The Cherry Orchard on. In 1971 she took over at Piccadilly Theatre in London, as the successor of Eileen Atkins, the role of Queen Elizabeth I in the play Vivat! Vivat Regina! by Robert Bolt.
Starting in 1977, played three years Tyzack Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, including the Countess of Roussillon in the end good, all good, Mrs. Alving in Ghosts and the Queen Dowager Margaret in Richard III. by William Shakespeare. In 1979 she returned to the UK. She played in 1979 at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, the role of the landlord Milly in the play People Are Living There by Athol Fugard. In 1981, she took over for the ailing Joan Plowright at the Royal National Theatre, the role of Martha in Edward Albee's stage classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
In 1983 she joined with the role of the Countess of Roussillon in well that ends well on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on. In 1985, she played at the Royal Court Theatre, the role of Rose, Viv's mother in the play Tom and Viv by Michael Hastings, a play about the marriage of TS Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh -Wood. In 1987 she joined the Gielgud Theatre in London, on the side of Maggie Smith, as spinster Verwaltungsbeamtin Lotte Schoen, in the tragicomedy Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer on. She repeated this role in 1990 on Broadway, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The U.S. actors union Actors' Equity Association had Tyzack as a non -American woman initially denied the appearance approval for this Broadway production; after intervention by Maggie Smith, which threatened not to appear without Tyzack, the union finally relented.
In the 1990s, she had worked as Sybil Berling in the British stage classic An Inspector Calls (1993, Aldwych Theatre, London), as a housekeeper Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest (1993, Aldwych Theatre London, on the side of Maggie Smith as Lady Bracknell ), in Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard (1995, Aldwych Theatre, London) and, in turn, on the side of Maggie Smith, as Muriel in Soldering on by Alan Bennett (1996, Chichester Festival Theatre, Comedy Theatre, West End ) to see.
In 2000, she played at the Pit Theatre in London, the role of the widowed Lady Amy Monchensey in the play A Family Day of TS Eliot. In 2008 she played at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre in London, the role of the eccentric, old Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden tragicomedy of Enid Bagnold. In 2009 she took over at the side of Helen Mirren at the Royal National Theatre, the role of the old nurse and confidante Oenone in Phèdre of Racine tragedy. This was their last London theater role. Your last stage role was in December 2010, Mrs. Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris.
Film and Television
Tyzack also took regular roles in movies.
In the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 ) she played the role of Russian scientist Elena, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick cast her in a small role in his film A Clockwork Orange (1971). In 1987 she portrayed in The stormy life of Joe Orton by Stephen Frears Madame Lambert. In 1997, she starred in the role of the snobbish Lady Bruton in Mrs. Dalloway by Marleen Gorris film. In 2005 she had a minor role as neighbor Mrs. Nicole Eastby in the thriller Match Point by Woody Allen. In 2006 she took over the role of Mother Superior in the fantasy film The Thief Lord.
Frequently Tyzack also worked for television. Notoriety reached Tyzack especially for her role in the British television series The Forsyte Saga ( 1967). In the novel adaptation Tyzack played the role of Winifred Dartie, the sister of the male lead character Soames Forsyte. In the British television series The First Churchills (1969 ), she took over the role of Queen Anne. In the BBC TV series I, Claudius, Emperor and God (1976 ) she played alongside Derek Jacobi, the role of Antonia Minor, mother of Emperor Claudius.
In the multi-part film adaptation Cousin Bette (1971 ), based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac, she was convincing in the title role as the poor cousin Bette, who earns a living as a seamstress.
A continuous series role was from 1992 to 1993 as a private tutor Miss Seymour in the television series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. They also took over episode roles in several other television series, including Quartermass (1979 ), Miss Marple (1987 ), Our Mutual Friend ( 1998), Midsomer Murders (2000; 2009) and Dalziel and Pascoe (1998). In early 2011 she had a role in the British soap opera EastEnders. She played Lydia Simmonds, the maternal grandmother of the two characters Ricky and Janine Butcher. However Tyzack had to give up due to illness the role.
Awards and honors
1969 and 1971 they won in the category " Best Actress " the British Academy Television Award for her performances in The First Churchills and Bette. In 1981 she was awarded in the category "Best Actress in a Revival" the Laurence Olivier Award for her role as Martha in Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 1990 she was awarded in the category " Best Featured Actress" for her portrayal of Lotte Schoen in Lettice and Lovage with the Tony Award. In 1983, she was already once for a Tony Award for " Best Actress " for her role as Countess of Rousillion in well that ends well! been nominated. In 2008, she won in the category " Best Actress " Critics' Circle Theatre Award and 2009 in the category " Best Actress " for the second time Laurence Olivier Award, each for her role as Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden.
In 1970 she was appointed in recognition of their artistic merits of Queen Elizabeth II to the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2010 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Private
1958 Tyzack married mathematician Alan Stephenson. The marriage went forth a son. Tyzack has died aged 79 after a short illness in the presence of her family at her home in London.