Veteran British actress Sylvia Syms dies at 89
British actress Sylvia Syms, a star of stage and screen for six decades, has died at the age of 89.
They also thanked the staff at Denville Hall, a care home in London for those in the entertainment industry, for "the truly excellent care they have taken of our Mum over the past year".Syms was born in London on 6 January 1934. At the age of five, she became one of thousands of children evacuated from London, moving first to Kent and then, in 1940, to Monmouthshire.
Like many aspiring actors, she cut her teeth in the West End, where she understudied roles in a variety of plays as well as being part of the Apple Cart Company with Noel Coward.But she became a victim of the British studio system, which sucked in young actors on long contracts, paid them peanuts and hired them out at exorbitant rates.
She purported to be unaware of her growing reputation as an actress, remarking later that the praise showered on her by directors was "because they wanted to get into your knickers".She showed she was as adept at handling dramatic roles as she was at playing in fluffy comedies. Syms appeared in some controversial films including the role as the bigot's daughter in Flame In The Streets, which earned her a ban by the apartheid government in South Africa.
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