Patsy Byrne
Acting
Born 1933-07-13
Died 2014-06-17
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK
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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.
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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Filmography
Acting
48 credits
Heartbeat
Peak Practice
The Wednesday Play
Inspector Morse
BBC Play of the Month
Tales of the Unexpected
Screen Two
Blackadder
All Creatures Great and Small
I, Claudius
The Chronicles of Narnia
Doomwatch
Espionage
Watching
David Copperfield
In Sickness and in Health
Les Misérables
Hazell
Worlds Beyond
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Mr. Love
A Taste for Death
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Kevin & Perry Go Large
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Ruling Class
Hard Times
Britannia Hospital
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
Hanna's War
The Return of the Soldier
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Emily's Ghost
The Cherry Orchard
The Treasure Seekers
The Alf Garnett Saga
The Gathering Storm
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
A Little Silver Trumpet
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Hotel du Lac
As You Like It
Floating Off
Platonov
The Higher Mortals
The Gingerbread House
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