LONDON — Actress Sylvia Syms, who starred in traditional British movies together with “Ice Chilly in Alex” and “Sufferer,” has died, her household mentioned Friday. She was 89.
Syms’ youngsters mentioned she “died peacefully” on Friday at Denville Corridor, a London retirement house for actors and entertainers.
“She has lived an incredible life and gave us pleasure and laughter proper as much as the top,” youngsters Beatie and Ben Edney, mentioned in a press release. “Simply yesterday we had been reminiscing collectively about all our adventures. She shall be so very missed.”
Born in London in 1934, Syms grew to become a British cinema stalwart, showing in most of the best-remembered British motion pictures of the Nineteen Fifties and 60s.
She starred reverse John Mills in World Warfare II journey “Ice Chilly in Alex” in 1958 and appeared the subsequent yr in rock musical “Expresso Bongo” with Laurence Harvey and Cliff Richard. She performed the spouse of Dirk Bogarde’s closeted homosexual lawyer within the 1961 thriller “Sufferer,” the primary British movie to deal overtly with homosexuality.
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Different notable movies in a profession that stretched over seven many years included 1974’s Chilly Warfare drama “The Tamarind Seed,” with Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif.
Syms performed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1991 TV movie “Thatcher: The Last Days,” and appeared because the Queen Mom Elizabeth — mom of Helen Mirren’s Queen Elizabeth II — in Stephen Frears’ Academy Award-winning 2006 movie “The Queen.”
The next yr, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the true queen at Buckingham Palace.
Syms had a recurring position on the BBC cleaning soap opera “EastEnders” between 2007 and 2010, and continued to carry out in movie and tv nicely into her 80s.
Syms married Alan Edney in 1956; the couple divorced in 1989. She is survived by her daughter and son.
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