Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 13, 1933
Died
Jun 17, 2014
Place of Birth
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK
Credits
51 titles
Patsy 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. 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
Filmography
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
Self
Kevin & Perry Go Large
Old Lady
David Copperfield
Mrs. Gummidge
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Nursie
Les Misérables
Toussaint
The Treasure Seekers
Eliza
The Gingerbread House
Mrs. Nesbit
Hard Times
Old Woman
The Higher Mortals
Matron
Peak Practice
Mrs. Burns
Heartbeat
Martha Coutts
Emily's Ghost
Mrs. Crabtree
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Giant Nanny
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
Marian's Mum
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Nursie / Bernard
The Chronicles of Narnia
Giant Nanny
A Taste for Death
Millicent Gentle
Stealing Heaven
Hanna's War
Rosie
Watching
Marjorie Stoneway
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Mrs. Pettican
Inspector Morse
Mrs. Maltby
Worlds Beyond
Mrs Simmons
Hotel du Lac
Mrs. Dempster
Mr. Love
Mrs Lunt
In Sickness and in Health
Mrs. Jones
Screen Two
Mrs. Dempster
Floating Off
Lady on train
Blackadder
Nursie
The Return of the Soldier
Mrs. Plummer
Britannia Hospital
Nurse
A Little Silver Trumpet
Mrs. Cleaver
The Old Curiosity Shop
Mrs Nubbles
Tales of the Unexpected
Jean
My Son, My Son
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Mrs. Green
Hazell
Mrs Dobson
All Creatures Great and Small
Mrs. Hammond
I, Claudius
Martina
The Gathering Storm
Cook
The Ruling Class
Mrs. Treadwell
The Alf Garnett Saga
Mrs. Frewin
Platonov
Sasha
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Doomwatch
Mary Franklin
BBC Play of the Month
Sasha Platonov (née Triletski)
The Wednesday Play
Marenka
Espionage
Maid
As You Like It
Audrey
The Cherry Orchard
Dunyasha