Cathy Tyson

Catherine "Cathy" Tyson (born 12 June 1965 in Kingston-upon-Thames, London) is an English stage, film and television actress.

Early life

The daughter of a Trinidadian barrister father and an English social worker mother, Tyson and her family moved to Liverpool when she was approximately two years old.

Career

Tyson attended the Everyman Youth Theatre in her teens.^[1] She dropped out of college at 17 to pursue an acting career at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, before joining the RSC in 1984.

Tyson's film debut was in Mona Lisa (1986) as Simone, an elegant black prostitute. Probably her best-known television appearance was also as a prostitute, Carol Johnson, in the ITV series Band of Gold.

In 2007 Tyson joined the cast of two long-running television series. She played deputy headmistress Miss Gayle in the BBC One school drama Grange Hill, and featured in the popular ITV soap opera Emmerdale as single mother Andrea Hayworth.

Tyson played Herodia in BBC Three's Liverpool Nativity, a modern adaptation of the traditional Christmas story. Recorded as a live event in Liverpool city centre on 16 December 2007, it was broadcast several times over the Christmas period and repeated the following year.

In September 2009, Cathy Tyson enrolled into the adult learning centre City Lit to study 'Creative Studies'.

Charity work

Tyson hosted a charity event for The Sick Children's Trust on 17 November 2007. On 1 November 2008 she agreed to reprise her role of celebrity compere. The event, organised by Friends of Eckersley House, was held at the Haven Golden Sands resort in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire.

Personal life

Tyson has one child — Jack, born May 1988 — from her marriage to actor and comedian Craig Charles. Later married to Andrew Shreeves, she lives in Tufnell Park, North London.

References and notes

External links

• Cathy Tyson at the Internet Movie Database

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