Sylvia May Laura Syms OBE (6 January 1934 – 27 January 2023) was an English actress, best known for her roles in the films Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), and The Tamarind Seed (1974). In 2006 she portrayed The Queen Mother in the Stephen Frears movie The Queen, about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the days leading up to Diana’s funeral.
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Are Sylvia Syms And Joan Syms Related?
“Joan Sims was always theoretically my sister, though she wasn’t. Sheila Sim was married to Dickie Attenborough and because they often saw the Queen I suspected Her Majesty thought I was married to Dickie.
Sylvia was born in Woolwich, London, on January 6, 1934, and her father Edwin was a civil servant, trade unionist, and keen amateur entertainer.
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