Patsy Byrne
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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Acted in
Kevin & Perry Go Large
2000
as Old Lady
Blackadder: Back & Forth
1999
as Nursie
Les Misérables
1998
as Toussaint
The Treasure Seekers
1996
as Eliza
The Gingerbread House
1996
as Mrs. Nesbit
Hard Times
1994
as Old Woman
The Higher Mortals
1993
as Matron
Peak Practice
1993
as Mrs. Burns
Heartbeat
1992
as Martha Coutts
Emily's Ghost
1992
as Mrs. Crabtree
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
1990
as Giant Nanny
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
as Nursie / Bernard
A Taste for Death
1988
as Millicent Gentle
Stealing Heaven
1988
Hanna's War
1988
as Rosie
Watching
1987
as Marjorie Stoneway
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
as Mrs. Pettican
Inspector Morse
1987
as Mrs. Maltby
Hotel du Lac
1986
as Mrs. Dempster
Mr. Love
1985
as Mrs Lunt
Floating Off
1983
as Lady on train
Blackadder
1983
as Nursie
Blackadder
1983
as Nursie / Bernard
The Return of the Soldier
1983
as Mrs. Plummer
Britannia Hospital
1982
as Nurse
A Little Silver Trumpet
1980
as Mrs. Cleaver
The Old Curiosity Shop
1979
as Mrs. Nubbles
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Jean
My Son, My Son
1979
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1979
as Mrs. Green
All Creatures Great and Small
1978
as Mrs. Hammond
I, Claudius
1976
The Gathering Storm
1974
as Cook
The Ruling Class
1972
as Mrs. Treadwell
Platonov
1971
as Sasha
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1970
As You Like It
1963
as Audrey
The Cherry Orchard
1962
as Dunyasha
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Cook