Patsy Byrne
Acting
Born: 1933-07-13 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK
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
Peak Practice
Mrs. Burns
BBC Play of the Month
Sasha Platonov (née Triletski)
Screen Two
Mrs. Dempster
Heartbeat
Martha Coutts
The Wednesday Play
Marenka
Inspector Morse
Mrs. Maltby
Tales of the Unexpected
Jean
Blackadder
Nursie
All Creatures Great and Small
Mrs. Hammond
The Chronicles of Narnia
Giant Nanny
I, Claudius
Martina
A Taste for Death
Millicent Gentle
Watching
Marjorie Stoneway
The Old Curiosity Shop
Mrs Nubbles
In Sickness and in Health
Mrs. Jones
David Copperfield
Mrs. Gummidge
Espionage
Maid
Les Misérables
Toussaint
Doomwatch
Mary Franklin
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
Marian's Mum
Hazell
Mrs Dobson
Worlds Beyond
Mrs Simmons
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Nursie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Cook
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Nursie / Bernard
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Mrs. Pettican
Mr. Love
Mrs Lunt
Kevin & Perry Go Large
Old Lady
The Ruling Class
Mrs. Treadwell
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
Self
Stealing Heaven
Hanna's War
Rosie
Britannia Hospital
Nurse
My Son, My Son
The Cherry Orchard
Dunyasha
Hard Times
Old Woman
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Giant Nanny
The Return of the Soldier
Mrs. Plummer