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.
Is Sylvia Syms Alive?
Syms was a long-term supporter of the Stars Foundation for Cerebral Palsy, serving on their board as an officer for sixteen years until 2020, with singer Vera Lynn. 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.
When Did Sylvia Syms Die?
Doctor Who cast Sylvia Syms is no more with us as the family announces her death news. They didn’t provide her actual cause of death.
PA released a statement from her children saying Syms passed away peacefully early on Friday (January 27) at Denville Hall, a care home in London.