Patsy Byrne
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Blackadder: Back & Forth
as Nursie 1999
Kevin & Perry Go Large
as Old Lady 2000
The Ruling Class
as Mrs. Treadwell 1972
Britannia Hospital
as Nurse 1982
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Nursie / Bernard 1988
The Return of the Soldier
as Mrs. Plummer 1983
Stealing Heaven
1988
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
as Self 2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
as Giant Nanny 1990
The Treasure Seekers
as Eliza 1996
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
as Mrs. Green 1979
Mr. Love
as Mrs Lunt 1986
The Alf Garnett Saga
as Mrs. Frewin 1972
The Gathering Storm
as Cook 1974
Hotel du Lac
as Mrs. Dempster 1986
Hanna's War
as Rosie 1988