What is Sylvia Syms?
{{Infobox person | name = Sylvia Syms | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | image = http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/persons/61290/61290_v9_ba.jpg | birth_name = Sylvia May Laura Syms<ref>[http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/909797884 Syms profile at company-director-check.co.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130420081827/http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/909797884 |date=20 April 2013 }}. Retrieved 15 September 2012.</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date|1934|1|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Woolwich]], [[London]], England, UK | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|1|27|1934|1|6|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Northwood, London|Northwood]], London, England, UK | occupation = Actress | yearsactive = 1955–2019 | spouse = {{marriage|Alan Edney|1956|1989|end=div}} | children = 2, including [[Beatie Edney|Beatie]] | website = http://www.sylviasyms.co.uk }} '''Sylvia May Laura Syms''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=xpZecHy5KHBnHTdFcq53Xg&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=17 April 2011|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (6 January 1934 – 27 January 2023) was an English actress. Syms is best known for her roles in ''[[Woman in a Dressing Gown]]'' (1957), ''[[Ice Cold in Alex]]'' (1958), ''[[No Trees in the Street]]'' (1959), ''[[Victim (1961 movie)|Victim]]'' (1961), and ''[[The Tamarind Seed]]'' (1974). In 2006 she played [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]] in the [[Stephen Frears]] movie ''[[The Queen (2006 movie)|The Queen]]'', about the death of [[Diana, Princess of Wales]], and the few days after that, leading up to the funeral. In the last year of her life, Syms lived at [[Denville Hall]], a retirement home for actors in London. She died there on 27 January 2023, at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://news.sky.com/story/sylvia-syms-ice-cold-in-alex-star-dies-at