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Patsy Byrne
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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 …
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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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
as Self
Kevin & Perry Go Large
as Old Lady
Blackadder: Back & Forth
as Nursie
Les Misérables
as Toussaint
The Treasure Seekers
as Eliza
The Gingerbread House
as Mrs. Nesbit
The Higher Mortals
as Matron
Emily's Ghost
as Mrs. Crabtree
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
as Giant Nanny
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Nursie / Bernard
Stealing Heaven
Hanna's War
as Rosie
Hotel du Lac
as Mrs. Dempster
Mr. Love
as Mrs Lunt
Floating Off
as Lady on train
The Return of the Soldier
as Mrs. Plummer
Britannia Hospital
as Nurse
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
as Mrs. Green
The Gathering Storm
as Cook
The Ruling Class
as Mrs. Treadwell
The Alf Garnett Saga
as Mrs. Frewin
No Poster
Platonov
as Sasha
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
No Poster
As You Like It
as Audrey
The Cherry Orchard
as Dunyasha