Patsy Byrne
Nacimiento : 1933-07-13, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK
Muerte : 2014-06-17
Historia
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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Old Lady
Kevin y Perry son dos adolescentes en plena efervescencia sexual. Su objetivo de cara al verano es conseguir realizar su máximo y prioritario sueño: echar un polvo. Para ello, y con la intención de alejarse de sus padres, harán todo lo posible para ahorrar dinero e irse a Ibiza, un paraíso de sol, música, discotecas y sexo.
Nursie
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Toussaint
Francia, a principios del siglo XIX. De forma cruel e injusta, Jean Valjean es condenado y llevado a prisión por robar una barra de pan. Pero el convicto logra escapar de la cárcel y se refugia en la pobre villa de Vigau, de la que con el tiempo llegará a ser alcalde y a la que convertirá en una próspera ciudad. Mientras, para el policía Javert, encontrarle se ha convertido en una obsesión y le perseguirá de forma implacable durante toda su vida.
Eliza
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
Mrs. Nesbit
A 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother are dumped by their abusive mother and her boyfriend to spend a few days at the rambling country house of their grandfather, who has been estranged from the family for the past ten years. The girl discovers the old mans corpse in his room, and, fearing that they might be blamed for killing him, devises a cover-up plan, which is almost foiled by a local boy.
Matron
This movie deals with the problems suffered by many smaller girls' boarding schools during the early 1990s recession, and makes use of metaphor and analogy in its critique of the John Major government of the day.
Mrs. Crabtree
Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country, and begins to see the ghost of another girl.
Giant Nanny
Eustace is sent to a horrible school and finds a friend in Jill Pole, who's also running from bullies and looking for a place to hide. The two of them are magically transported from the garden shed into the magical world of Narnia, where they are entrusted with a task by Aslan: to rescue the king's stolen son, Prince Rilian. Together with Puddleglum the Marshwiggle, they must travel north across the mountains, dodge giants, and journey down into the earth itself to rescue Rilian from the mysterious evil that holds him bound there.
Nursie / Bernard
Ebenezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) recibe, en la noche de navidad, visitas fantasmales de sus ancestros y descendientes. Especial televisivo de la serie británica Blackadder.
Rosie
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Mrs Lunt
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Mrs. Plummer
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Nurse
Comedia que trata sobre el personal de un hospital que, atemorizado, se prepara para la visita de nada más y nada menos que la reina de Inglaterra. El centro Britannia Hospital va a inaugurar un nuevo ala en su edificio y la soberana del país decide estar presente ese día. El pánico se extiende por todo el hospital, ante la visión de todo lo que puede ocurrir durante el esperado acontecimiento. La cocinera se niega a preparar el menú del día, los pintores se resisten a terminar su trabajo y los manifestantes que quieren derrocar a un dictador que se encuentra hospitalizado en el centro serán los encargados de crispar los ánimos al máximo nivel.
Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) es un periodista que comienza un documental sobre un hospital. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mrs. Green
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
Cook
Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
Mrs. Treadwell
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Sasha
The title character is a married provincial schoolmaster and a notorious philanderer. He is a russian Don Juan except that he himself doesn't seek to seduce; the women around him simply find him irresistibly attractive, and he is only too happy to go along. The play predates the realism of Chekhov's later works in its desjointedness, but many of its scenes show the seeds of brilliance that would eventually emerge.
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
Audrey
One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shakespeare's comedy is still remembered with joy by a generation of theatre-goers. The design was dominated by a huge oak tree, but the production is most memorable for Vanessa Redgrave’s luminous Rosalind, supported by Max Adrian and Ian Bannen.
