Patsy Byrne
24 movies · 27 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 13, 1933
- Died
- Jun 17, 2014 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK
- Also known as
- Patricia Patsy Byrne · Patricia Byrne
Biography
Patricia 'Patsy' Byrne (13 July 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English actress, best known for her role as 'Nursie' in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm's domineering mother in the ITV comedy series Watching.
Byrne was educated at Ashford County Grammar School. She studied drama at Rose Bruford College before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company playing parts such as Maria in Twelfth Night and Gruscha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Aldwych Theatre in the early 1960s. In the 1980s she also worked at Chichester Festival Theatre.
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Byrne starred alongside Tony Robinson in a Series 3 episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. She played ORD "Betty the Tea Lady" on the BBC children's programme Playdays. Other roles included appearances in I, Claudius (1976), Stealing Heaven (1988), Inspector Morse (1989), Les Misérables (1998), David Copperfield (1999) and Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), as well as numerous radio plays. Byrne performed in the 1990 BBC production of C.S. Lewis' "The Silver Chair" as the giant nanny in the city of the giants.
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Patsy Byrne: movies and TV shows
Acting (51)
- 2000 Kevin & Perry Go Large
as Old Lady
- 1999
- 1999 Blackadder: Back & Forth
as Nursie
- 1998 Les Misérables
as Toussaint
- 1996 The Treasure Seekers
as Eliza
- 1996 The Gingerbread House
as Mrs. Nesbit
- 1994
- 1993 The Higher Mortals
as Matron
- 1993
- 1992
- 1992 Emily's Ghost
as Mrs. Crabtree
- 1990 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
as Giant Nanny
- 1989
- 1988 Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Nursie / Bernard
- 1988
- 1988
- 1988
- 1988 Hanna's War
as Rosie
- 1987
- 1987
- 1987
- 1986
- 1986 Hotel du Lac
as Mrs. Dempster
- 1986 Mr. Love
as Mrs Lunt
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983 Floating Off
as Lady on train
- 1983
- 1983 The Return of the Soldier
as Mrs. Plummer
- 1982 Britannia Hospital
as Nurse
- 1980
- 1979
- 1979
- 1979
- 1978 The Class Of Miss MacMichael
as Mrs. Green
- 1978
- 1978
- 1976
- 1974 The Gathering Storm
as Cook
- 1972 The Ruling Class
as Mrs. Treadwell
- 1972 The Alf Garnett Saga
as Mrs. Frewin
- 1971 Platonov
as Sasha
- 1970
- 1970
- 1965
- 1964
- 1963
- 1963 As You Like It
as Audrey
- 1962 The Cherry Orchard
as Dunyasha
- 1951
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 2008