- Margaret Tyzack
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Margaret Tyzack Born Margaret Maud Tyzack
9 September 1931[1]
Essex, EnglandDied 25 June 2011 (aged 79) Occupation Actress Years active 1956–2011 Spouse Alan Stephenson (m. 1958-2011) (her death) Children 1 son Margaret Maud Tyzack, CBE (9 September 1931 – 25 June 2011)[2][3] was a British actress.
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Early life
Tyzack was born in Essex, England, the daughter of Doris (née Moseley) and Thomas Edward Tyzack.[1][2] She grew up in West Ham (now Greater London). She attended the all-girls' St Angela's Ursuline School, Newham, and was a graduate of RADA.
Career
Tyzack was 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? in which she played Martha, replacing Joan Plowright who was ill,[4] 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.[4] The American Actors' Equity initially refused permission for Tyzack to join the New York production, but Smith refused to appear without Tyzack because of the "onstage chemistry" she believed the two women had created in their roles.[5] In 2008, she was acclaimed 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[6] and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2009.[7] In 2009, she appeared alongside Helen Mirren in Phedre at the Royal National Theatre.[3]
She appeared in two films directed by Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971).[8] Tyzack also appeared in Woody Allen's 2005 film, Match Point.[8]
However, it was as a television actress that Tyzack became a household name. She is remembered for her leading roles in BBC television productions. She came to notice as Winifred, Soames's sister, in the well received BBC adaptation of Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga in 1967,[8] a series shown internationally. Tyzack played Queen Anne in The First Churchills; Bette in Cousin Bette; and Antonia, mother of the Emperor Claudius, in I, Claudius. She also played Clothilde Bradbury-Scott in the BBC adaptation of the Agatha Christie story Nemesis in 1987.[9]
In the 1990s, she played a major role in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series as the young Indiana Jones' strict Oxford-educated tutor, Miss Helen Seymour. In the 2000s, she made two appearances in Midsomer Murders. In 2011, she joined the cast of soap opera EastEnders, playing Lydia Simmonds.[10] On 13 April 2011, it was announced that for personal reasons she had departed Eastenders and that her role had been recast to Heather Chasen as a result of the nature of the large storyline needing to continue. Tyzack withdrew from the series because of ill health.[3]
Honours
Tyzack was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1970 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours,[11] both for services to drama.
Personal life
Tyzack married mathematician Alan Stephenson in 1958 and together they had one son, Matthew.[1][12]
Tyzack died on 25 June 2011 after a short illness.[3] She died at her home with her family by her side.[3] Her family told the Daily Mail that Tyzack had faced her illness with "the strength, courage, dignity and even humour with which she lived her life."[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Margaret Tyzack". The Daily Telegraph. 28 June 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/8604198/Margaret-Tyzack.html. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- ^ a b Margaret Tyzack Biography (1931-2011)
- ^ a b c d e f Bamigboye, Baz (27 June 2011). "The Forsyte Saga star Margaret Tyzack dies aged 79". Daily Mail (Associated Newspapers). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2008731/The-Forsyte-Saga-star-Margaret-Tyzack-dies-aged-79.html. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
- ^ a b Baker, Richard Anthony (28 June 2011). "Olivier and Tony award-winning actress Margaret Tyzack dies". The Stage. The Stage Newspaper Limited. http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/32710/olivier-and-tony-award-winning-actress. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
- ^ Bruce Weber "Margaret Tyzack, Award-Winning Actress, Dies at 79", New York Times, 27 June 2011
- ^ "Tennant's Shakespearean triumph". BBC News (BBC). 27 January 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7853273.stm. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ Staff (8 March 2009). "Speeches: And the Laurence Olivier Winners Said". WhatsonStage.com. http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821236545161&title=Speeches%3A+And+the+Laurence+Olivier+Winners+Said. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
- ^ a b c Sperling, Daniel (27 June 2011). "'Forsyte Saga', 'EastEnders' star Margaret Tyzack dies, aged 79". Digital Spy (Hachette Filipacchi UK). http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/s2/eastenders/news/a327096/forsyte-saga-eastenders-star-margaret-tyzack-dies-aged-79.html. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
- ^ Welch, Andy (28 June 2011). "Former EastEnder Margaret Tyzack dies aged 79". AOL. http://www.aoltv.co.uk/2011/06/28/former-eastender-margaret-tyzack-dies-aged-79/. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
- ^ Humphreys, Matt (15 February 2011). "Janine's in for a shock... from Grandma". Eastenders (London: BBC Online). http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/eastenders/2011/02/margaret-tyzack.shtml. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59282. p. 8. 31 December 2009.
- ^ Woddis, Carole (27 June 2011). "Margaret Tyzack obituary". The Guardian (Guardian Media Group). http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/jun/27/margaret-tyzack-obituary. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
External links
- Margaret Tyzack at the Internet Broadway Database
- Margaret Tyzack at the Internet Movie Database
- Selected performances in Theatre Archive, University of Bristol
- Obituary in The Guardian
- Obituary in The Independent
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