Sylvia May Laura Syms, (6 January 1934 – 27 January 2023) was an English actress.

Syms is best known for her roles in Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), and The Tamarind Seed (1974).

Sylvia Syms

In 2006 she played Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in the Stephen Frears movie The Queen, about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the few days after that, leading up to the funeral.

Sylvia Syms

In the last year of her life, Syms lived at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in London. She died there on 27 January 2023, at the age of 89.

Sylvia Syms

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1934 births

2023 deaths

English movie actors

English television actors

English stage actors

Actors from London

Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art