Patsy Byrne
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Credits
- 2000 · Kevin & Perry Go Large as Old Lady
- 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 · Hard Times as Old Woman
- 1993 · The Higher Mortals as Matron
- 1993 · Peak Practice as Mrs. Burns
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Martha Coutts
- 1992 · Emily's Ghost as Mrs. Crabtree
- 1990 · The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair as Giant Nanny
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Nursie / Bernard
- 1988 · A Taste for Death as Millicent Gentle
- 1988 · Stealing Heaven as
- 1988 · Hanna's War as Rosie
- 1987 · Watching as Marjorie Stoneway
- 1987 · A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery as Mrs. Pettican
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Mrs. Maltby
- 1986 · Hotel du Lac as Mrs. Dempster
- 1985 · Mr. Love as Mrs Lunt
- 1983 · Floating Off as Lady on train
- 1983 · Blackadder as Nursie
- 1983 · Blackadder as Nursie / Bernard
- 1983 · The Return of the Soldier as Mrs. Plummer
- 1982 · Britannia Hospital as Nurse
- 1980 · A Little Silver Trumpet as Mrs. Cleaver
- 1979 · The Old Curiosity Shop as Mrs. Nubbles
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Jean
- 1979 · My Son, My Son as
- 1979 · The Class Of Miss MacMichael as Mrs. Green
- 1978 · All Creatures Great and Small as Mrs. Hammond
- 1976 · I, Claudius as
- 1974 · The Gathering Storm as Cook
- 1972 · The Ruling Class as Mrs. Treadwell
- 1971 · Platonov as Sasha
- 1970 · The Cellar and the Almond Tree as
- 1963 · As You Like It as Audrey
- 1962 · The Cherry Orchard as Dunyasha
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cook