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

Filmography

• 2000Kevin & Perry Go Large — Old Lady
• 1999Blackadder: Back & Forth — Nursie
• David Copperfield — Mrs. Gummidge
• 1998Les Misérables — Toussaint
• 1996The Gingerbread House — Mrs. Nesbit
• 1996The Treasure Seekers — Eliza
• Hard Times — Old Woman
• Peak Practice — Mrs. Burns
• 1993The Higher Mortals — Matron
• 1992Emily's Ghost — Mrs. Crabtree
• Heartbeat — Martha Coutts
• 1990The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair — Giant Nanny
• Maid Marian and Her Merry Men — Marian's Mum
• A Taste for Death — Millicent Gentle
• 1988Blackadder's Christmas Carol — Nursie / Bernard
• 1988Hanna's War — Rosie
• 1988Stealing Heaven
• The Chronicles of Narnia — Giant Nanny
• A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery — Mrs. Pettican
• Inspector Morse — Mrs. Maltby
• Watching — Marjorie Stoneway
• 1986Hotel du Lac — Mrs. Dempster
• 1986Mr. Love — Mrs Lunt
• Worlds Beyond — Mrs Simmons
• In Sickness and in Health — Mrs. Jones
• Screen Two — Mrs. Dempster
• Miracles Take Longer — Betty Hackforth
• Blackadder — Nursie
• 1983Floating Off — Lady on train
• 1983The Return of the Soldier — Mrs. Plummer
• 1982Britannia Hospital — Nurse
• A Little Silver Trumpet — Mrs. Cleaver
• My Son, My Son
• Tales of the Unexpected — Jean
• The Old Curiosity Shop — Mrs Nubbles
• All Creatures Great and Small — Mrs. Hammond
• Hazell — Mrs Dobson
• 1978The Class Of Miss MacMichael — Mrs. Green
• I, Claudius — Martina
• 1974The Gathering Storm — Cook
• 1972The Alf Garnett Saga — Mrs. Frewin
• 1972The Ruling Class — Mrs. Treadwell
• 1971Platonov — Sasha
• Doomwatch — Mary Franklin
• 1970The Cellar and the Almond Tree
• BBC Play of the Month — Sasha Platonov (née Triletski)
• The Wednesday Play — Marenka
• 1963As You Like It — Audrey
• Espionage — Maid
• 1962The Cherry Orchard — Dunyasha
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Cook

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2008Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga — Self