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
She was known especially for their films between 1950 and 1960. However, it is still in more recent films, on television and in the theater.
She became famous 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 - also she entered Alexandria in the film Ice Cold - Fire Storm over Africa (1958), on. With her in a lead role alongside John Mills, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews, this strip became a cult film in recent years, as an extract has been used in a beer commercial. The story is an entertaining story about four paramedics the British Army who are trying to cross enemy territory. A love scene between Mills and Syms was cut because it was considered too coarse.
In 1958, she also appeared in the film The Moonraker, who plays in the English Civil War, with George Baker in the male lead. In 1959 she played in Ferry to Hong Kong with Curd Jürgens and Orson Welles. A year later she was Tony Hancock's wife in The Punch and Judy Man. Other comedies like The Big Job ( 1965) with Sid James followed, but it was rather the dramas for which they earned applause, such as The fruit of the tropical tree ( 1974) with Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award. My Good Woman ( 1972) was a television comedy series about a woman and her husband, who ran with Leslie Crowther to 1974. She played beyond the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on television and in the theater and appeared in Doctor Who in the episode Ghost Light.
In 1975, she was President of the Jury of the International Film Festival in Berlin. In 2002, she played the leading role in the miniseries The Jury and 2006, the British Queen Mother in The Queen. She also appeared in The Poseidon Adventure, an American TV movie with little connection with the original film of the same name from 1972.
They also took over production and direction. Beatie Edney your daughter is also an actress.
Married Syms was with Alan Edney. The marriage was in 1956 and was divorced in 1989.