1. Margaret Tyzack won the 1970 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC serial The First Churchills, and the 1990 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage, opposite Maggie Smith.
16 Facts About Margaret Tyzack
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Margaret Tyzack attended the all-girls' St Angela's Ursuline School, Newham, and was a graduate of RADA.
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Margaret Tyzack was noted for her classical stage roles, having joined the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Vassilissa in Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths in 1962, and had major roles in their 1972 Roman Season as Volumnia in Coriolanus, Portia in Julius Caesar and Tamora in Titus Andronicus.
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Margaret Tyzack appeared in another Gorky play, as Maria Lvovna in Summerfolk RSC 1974.
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Margaret Tyzack had been engaged on short notice by the Festival when Canadian actress Kate Reid dropped out, which initially spurred some protests from Canadian nationalists.
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Margaret Tyzack played the Countess role again for the Royal Shakespeare Company on Broadway in 1983.
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The American Actors' Equity initially refused permission for Margaret Tyzack to join the New York production, but Smith refused to appear without Margaret Tyzack because of the "onstage chemistry" she believed the two women had created in their roles.
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Margaret Tyzack appeared in two films directed by Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange.
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Margaret Tyzack is remembered for her leading roles in BBC television productions.
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Margaret Tyzack came to notice as Winifred, Soames's sister, in the well received BBC adaptation of Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga in 1967, a series shown internationally.
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Margaret Tyzack portrayed the character of Gladys King in Dennis Potter's The Bone Grinder, a metaphor for the decline of the British Empire and rise of American power in the post-war world.
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Margaret Tyzack played Queen Anne in The First Churchills; Bette in Cousin Bette; and Antonia, mother of the Emperor Claudius, in I, Claudius.
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Margaret Tyzack played Clotilde Bradbury-Scott in the BBC adaptation of the Agatha Christie story Nemesis in 1987 in Miss Marple.
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Margaret Tyzack was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1970 Birthday Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 New Year Honours, both for services to drama.
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Margaret Tyzack married mathematician Alan Stephenson in 1958 and together they had one son, Matthew.
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Margaret Tyzack died on 25 June 2011, at the age of 79, following a brief battle with cancer.