
Patsy Byrne
Biography
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
TV Shows(26)

David Copperfield
Mrs. Gummidge

Hard Times
Old Woman

Peak Practice
Mrs. Burns

Heartbeat
Martha Coutts

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
Marian's Mum

A Taste for Death
Millicent Gentle

The Chronicles of Narnia
Giant Nanny

Watching
Marjorie Stoneway

Inspector Morse
Mrs. Maltby

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Mrs. Pettican

Worlds Beyond
Mrs Simmons

In Sickness and in Health
Mrs. Jones

Screen Two
Mrs. Dempster

Blackadder
Nursie
A Little Silver Trumpet
Mrs. Cleaver

Tales of the Unexpected
Jean
My Son, My Son

The Old Curiosity Shop
Mrs Nubbles

All Creatures Great and Small
Mrs. Hammond

Hazell
Mrs Dobson