Sylvia Syms

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Ice Cold In Alex star Sylvia Syms dies aged 89, family confirms (Times Series)

The actress “died peacefully” early on Friday in a London care home Denville Hall which looks after those in the entertainment industry.

She was a great treasure - my condolences to @beatieedney on the loss of a very special Mum." Vale." Her elegant voice was always instantly recognisable. One user posted: "Sorry to see that we’ve lost the ever-impressive Sylvia Syms (1934-2023), a powerful and astute performer, she was a mainstay of British film and television for seven decades. [Helen Mirren](https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/topics/helen-mirren/) as Her Majesty in the 2006 film The Queen or for her role as Sister Diana in the 1958 war film Ice Cold In Alex. Sharing the news, her children noted that Syms “lived an amazing life” and that "she will be so very missed".

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Actress Sylvia Syms dies at the age of 89, her family reveal (Daily Mail)

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.'

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Sylvia Syms obituary (The Guardian)

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.

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Sylvia Syms Dead: 'Ice Cold in Alex' Actor Was 89 (Variety)

British actor Sylvia Syms, known for her roles in 'Ice Cold in Alex,' 'Victim' and 'Thatcher,' has died. She was 89.

[BAFTA](https://variety.com/t/bafta/) acting nominations for “Woman in a Dressing Gown” (1957), followed by nods for “No Trees in the Street” (1959) and “The Tamarind Seed” (1974). Most recently, Syms was in BBC series “Gentleman Jack” Syms was educated at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

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Sylvia Syms Dead: 'The Queen' & 'Victim' Star Was 89 (Deadline)

Sylvia Syms, the English actress known for 'Ice Cold Alex,' 'The Tamarind Seed' and as the Queen Mother in Stephen Frears' The Queen,' has died at 89.

Shortly after the end of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s period of office in 1990, Syms portrayed her in Thatcher: The Final Days (1991), a Granada TV film for ITV. In 1958, she landed a role in BAFTA-nominated film Ice Cold in Alex. In a statement shared with The Sun, Syms’ family said: “She has lived an amazing life and gave us joy and laughter right up to the end.

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English actress Sylvia Syms dies aged 89 (Sky News Australia)

English actress Sylvia Syms has died at the age of 89. Ms Syms' acting career spanned more than six decades; she was best known for the films "Ice Cold in ...

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Screen legend Sylvia Syms dies aged 89 (Crow River Media)

'The Queen' star Sylvia Syms has died at the age of 89, her family have confirmed.

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EastEnders pays tribute to former cast member Sylvia Syms after death (digitalspy.com)

The veteran actress played Peggy Mitchell's friend Olive Woodhouse in the BBC One soap between 2007 and 2010. She also starred in Thatcher: The Final Days as ...

[director Edgar Wright tweeting](https://twitter.com/edgarwright/status/1619015609421004800): "Sorry to hear the luminous screen star Sylvia Syms has passed away. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer. "We are deeply saddened to hear that Sylvia Syms has passed away. [EastEnders' Danny Dyer's Netflix show has air date](https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/a42650975/eastenders-danny-dyer-ellie-taylor-cheat-netflix-airdate/) The veteran actress played Peggy Mitchell's friend Olive Woodhouse in the BBC One soap between 2007 and 2010. [Doctor Who](https://www.digitalspy.com/doctor-who/) serial, Rev, [Gentleman Jack](https://www.digitalspy.com/gentleman-jack/) and the Keira Knightley version of Doctor Zhivago.

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Sylvia Syms, 'Ice Cold in Alex,' and 'The Queen' star, dies (WOKV)

LONDON — (AP) — Actress Sylvia Syms, who starred in classic British films including “Ice Cold in Alex” and “Victim,” has died, her family said Friday.

She played the wife of Dirk Bogarde’s closeted gay lawyer in the 1961 thriller “Victim,” the first British film to deal openly with homosexuality. Syms played British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1991 TV film “Thatcher: The Final Days,” and appeared as the Queen Mother Elizabeth — mother of Helen Mirren’s Queen Elizabeth II — in Stephen Frears’ Academy Award-winning 2006 film “The Queen.” She will be so very missed.”

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Sylvia Syms, star of British film and stage, dies at 89 (The Washington Post)

Sylvia Syms, an English actress who found a place in British film history playing the stoic wife of a closeted barrister in “Victim,” a 1961 movie that ...

“It was horrible but a wonderful experience,” she described the filming in the Libyan desert. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2007. [Ice Cold in Alex](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053935/)” (1958). [ television ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsqZDl99PNk) by the Danish beer maker Carlsberg and was a welcome payday for Ms. She recounted that she was paid 30 pounds a week while shooting the film, or about 800 pounds, or $990, in purchasing power today. She was a sultry chorus girl in the beatnik-era musical “Expresso Bongo” (1959) starring rock singer Cliff Richard, played part of a love triangle in the romantic drama “The World of Suzie Wong” (1960) and, until 2010, had a recurring part as a dressmaker in the BBC series “Eastenders.” In 1991, she portrayed former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in “Thatcher: The Final Days.” “A lot of actresses turned the part down because of the subject matter,” Ms. I don’t think so!” “I don’t think anyone ... “As frank and deliberate exposition of the well-known presence and plight of the tacit homosexual in modern society it is certainly unprecedented and intellectually bold,” wrote film critic Bosley Crowther. In Britain, “Victim” was a modest box office success, but it became a reference point for public and political debate over anti-gay laws. (In 2003, the Supreme Court, in Lawrence v. Sylvia Syms, an English actress who found a place in British film history playing the wife of a closeted barrister in “Victim,” a 1961 movie that depicted homosexuality with a degree of compassion at a time when same-sex relationships were criminalized, died Jan.

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