Sylvia Syms

The actress Sylvia Syms, best known for the films Ice Cold in Alex and Victim, has died at the age of 89.

Please review their details and accept them to load the content. "She will be so very missed. She will also be remembered for her role as Sister Diana in the 1958 film Ice Cold in Alex, set during the Western Desert campaign during World War II.

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.

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.

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."

ACTRESS Sylvia Syms has tragically died aged 89, her family confirmed.The star was best known for starring in The Queen alongside Helen Mirren.She als.

"She has lived an amazing life and gave us joy and laughter right up to the end. The actress was nominated for a BAFTA for her role in The Tamarind Seed with Julie Andrews. She will be so very missed.

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).

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.

Sylvia Syms, the British actress in 'The Queen' and 'Victim' who played Margaret Thatcher and the Queen Mother, has died. She was 89.

In Stephen Frears’ 2006 royal biopic The Queen, she played The Queen Mother to Helen Mirren’s Queen Elizabeth II (for which Mirren won an Oscar). 1974’s The Tamarind Seed, a Cold War romantic thriller also starring screen icons Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif, landed her a BAFTA nomination. She will be so very missed.” Later in life, Syms became known for playing a a couple of noted Brits, including Margaret Thatcher, who she portrayed in the 1991 TV film Thatcher: The Final Days, dramatizing the events around her removal from power and a role she later took to the stage. In 1961, she played the wife of Dirk Bogarde’s gay barrister in Victim, now credited with being liberalizing but highly controversial at the time (it was refused a seal of approval from the American Motion Picture Production Code), and would remain busy on film and TV throughout the 1960s and ’70s. “She has lived an amazing life, and gave us joy and laughter right up to the end,” they said.

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.”

The actress also played the Queen Mother opposite Helen Mirren as Her Majesty in the 2006 film The Queen. | ITV National News.

"She will be so very missed. Syms "died peacefully" early on Friday at Denville Hall, a care home in London for those in the entertainment industry. Actress Sylvia Syms, best known for the films Ice Cold In Alex and Victim, has died at the age of 89.