Catherine Tyson was born on 12 June 1965 and is an English actress.
17 Facts About Cathy Tyson
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Cathy Tyson won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Mona Lisa, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards.
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Cathy Tyson has starred in The Serpent and the Rainbow, Priest, and Band of Gold.
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Cathy Tyson won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2022 for her performance in the film Help.
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Cathy Tyson was born in Kingston-upon-Thames on 12 June 1965, the daughter of an English social worker mother and a Trinidadian barrister father.
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Cathy Tyson grew up in Liverpool, having moved there with her parents when she was two years old.
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Cathy Tyson was a pupil at St Winefrides school in Dingle.
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Cathy Tyson attended Liverpool's Everyman Youth Theatre in her teens, and dropped out of college at 17 to pursue an acting career there.
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Cathy Tyson joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, taking the lead role in their performance of Golden Girls.
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Also in 1984, Cathy Tyson made an early TV appearance playing Joanna in Scully.
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In 2007, Cathy Tyson joined the cast of two long-running television series.
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Cathy Tyson played headmistress Miss Gayle in the BBC One school drama Grange Hill, and featured in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as single mother Andrea Hayworth.
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Cathy Tyson played Herodia in BBC Three's Liverpool Nativity, a modern adaptation of the traditional Christmas story.
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In September 2009, Cathy Tyson enrolled at the adult learning centre City Lit on an access to higher education course in creative studies.
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Cathy Tyson completed a degree in English and Drama at Brunel University in 2013.
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In 2021, Cathy Tyson appeared in Channel 4 film Help playing Poll, an elderly resident of a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic; the following year she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
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Cathy Tyson hosted a charity event for the Sick Children's Trust on 17 November 2007, and again on 1 November 2008.