Sylvia Syms was born in London on 6 January 1934 and at five, she became one of thousands of children evacuated from the capital.
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 later said marriage gave her the the stability she had missed as a child, and allowed her to use a wedding ring to fend off unwanted advances in the studio. She gave a powerful performance as the wife of a condemned prisoner in the screen version of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow in 1962 and played Tony Hancock's wife in The Punch & Judy Man.
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