Margaret Tyzack

Margaret Maud Tyzack OBE (born 9 September 1931),^[1] is an award-winning British actress.

Early life

Tyzack was born in Essex, England, the daughter of Doris (née Moseley) and Thomas Edward Tyzack.^[1] She grew up in West Ham (now Greater London). She attended the all-girls' St Angela's Ursuline School, Newham, and is a graduate of RADA.

Career

Tyzack is noted for her classical stage roles, having joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962. She received an Olivier Award in 1982 for a revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and a Tony award in 1991 for the play Lettice and Lovage, in which she appeared in both the London and Broadway productions opposite Dame Maggie Smith. In 2008 she received acclamation for her portrayal of Mrs St Maugham in a revival of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse, London, for which she won the Best Actress award in the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards^[2] and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2009.^[3]. In 2009 she appears in 'Phedre' at the Lyttelton.

In the early 1990s, she portrayed Indiana Jones' tutor Helen Seymour in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. She appeared in two films directed by Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange. She also appeared as the first murder victim in Woody Allen's Match Point.

She is also remembered for her memorable roles in distinguished BBC television productions. She was Winifred, Soames's sister, in the acclaimed BBC 26-part series The Forsyte Saga in 1967; Queen Anne in The First Churchills; Bette in Cousin Bette; and Antonia in I, Claudius. She also played Clothilde Bradbury-Scott in the BBC adaptation of the Miss Marple story Nemesis, and in Midsomer Murders.

Honours

She was awarded an OBE in 1970 for Services to Drama.

References

External links

• Margaret Tyzack at the Internet Broadway Database
• Margaret Tyzack at the Internet Movie Database
• Selected performances in Theatre Archive, University of Bristol