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Sylvia Syms

1934 - 2023

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Sylvia May Laura Syms (6 January 1934 – 27 January 2023) was an English stage and screen actress. Her best-known film roles include My Teenage Daughter (1956), Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award, Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961) and The Tamarind Seed (1974). Known as the "Grand Dame of British Cinema", Syms was a major player in films from the mid-1950s until mid-1960s, usually in stiff-upper-lip English pictures, as opposed to kitchen sink realism dramas, before becoming more of a supporting actress in both film and television roles. On television, she was known for her recurring role as dressmaker Olive Woodhouse on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvia Syms is the 7,171st most popular actor (down from 6,233rd in 2019), the 5,378th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,611th in 2019) and the 813th most popular British Actor.

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Among actors, Sylvia Syms ranks 7,171 out of 13,578. Before her are Jackie Burroughs, Alice Joyce, Joy Page, Edward Albert, Merv Griffin, and Lynne Frederick. After her are Amrita Singh, Nia Peeples, Nick Chinlund, Alan Curtis, Teri Polo, and Sadhana Shivdasani.

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Among people born in 1934, Sylvia Syms ranks 524. Before her are Todor Diev, Juan Manuel Bordeu, Eladio Rojas, Paddy Driver, Piers Anthony, and Corey Allen. After her are Alfonso Portugal, Nidal Al Achkar, Ron Flowers, Richard Briers, Ruskin Bond, and Maurice Norman. Among people deceased in 2023, Sylvia Syms ranks 504. Before her are Anne Heywood, Gordon Pinsent, Gil de Ferran, Francesco Nuti, Patricia Janečková, and Basil van Rooyen. After her are Vahidin Musemić, Peter-Michael Kolbe, Richard Moll, Helena Pilejczyk, Bert I. Gordon, and Dimitrie Popescu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sylvia Syms ranks 5,380 out of 8,785. Before her are Thomas C. Jerdon (1811), Jackie Burroughs (1939), Titus Oates (1649), Andy King (1988), William Dunbar (1460), and Lynne Frederick (1954). After her are Tom Clarke (1858), Anne Fine (1947), Henry Tate (1819), Sarah Trimmer (1741), Michael Thomas (1967), and Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705).

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Among actors born in United Kingdom, Sylvia Syms ranks 813. Before her are Mia Goth (1993), Peter Cook (1937), Phyllis Logan (1956), John McEnery (1943), Jackie Burroughs (1939), and Lynne Frederick (1954). After her are Daniel Massey (1933), Louise Lombard (1970), Keith Allen (1953), Sean Pertwee (1964), Naomi Scott (1993), and Trevor Goddard (1962).

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