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Catherine Tyson (born 12 June 1965) is an English actress. She won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Mona Lisa (1986), which also earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards. She has starred in The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Priest (1994), and Band of Gold (1995–1997). She won British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2022 for her performance in the film Help.[1]

Cathy Tyson
Born
Catherine Tyson

(1965-06-12) 12 June 1965 (age 57)
Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England
OccupationActress
Years active1984–present
Spouses
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    (m. 1984; div. 1989)​
      Michael Kingston
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      (m. 2015)​
      Children1

      Early life


      Tyson was born in Kingston-upon-Thames on 12 June 1965, the daughter of an English social worker mother and a Trinidadian barrister father. She grew up in Liverpool, having moved there with her parents when she was two years old. She was a pupil at St Winefrides school in Dingle.[2] She attended Liverpool's Everyman Youth Theatre in her teens, and dropped out of college at 17 to pursue an acting career there.[3]


      Career


      Tyson joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, taking the lead role in their performance of Golden Girls.[4] Also in 1984, Tyson made an early TV appearance playing Joanna in Scully.

      Tyson's film debut was in Mona Lisa (1986) as Simone, an elegant prostitute, a performance which brought her critical acclaim.[4] Her other films include Business as Usual (1987), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The Lost Language of Cranes (1991), Priest (1994) and The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001). Probably her best-known television appearance was also as a prostitute, Carol Johnson, in the ITV series Band of Gold.[5][6]

      In 2007, Tyson joined the cast of two long-running television series. She 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.

      Tyson played Herodia in BBC Three's Liverpool Nativity, a modern adaptation of the traditional Christmas story. Recorded as a live event in Liverpool City Centre on 16 December 2007, it was broadcast several times over the Christmas period and repeated the following year.

      In September 2009, Tyson enrolled at the adult learning centre City Lit on an access to higher education course in creative studies. She completed a degree in English and Drama at Brunel University in 2013.[7]

      In 2021, she guest starred in an episode of TV drama McDonald & Dodds.[8]

      In the 2021 series Help Cathy plays "Poll" an elderly resident of a care home during Covid. In episode 1 Poll recites the poem "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" by Sir Edward Dyer.[9]


      Charity work


      Tyson hosted a charity event for the Sick Children's Trust on 17 November 2007, and again on 1 November 2008. The event, organised by Friends of Eckersley House, a committee supporting the charity's Leeds house, was held at the Haven Golden Sands resort in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. She is also one of the Honorary Patrons of the London children's charity Scene & Heard.[10]


      Personal life


      Tyson married actor and comedian Craig Charles in 1984. Their son Jack was born in 1988. They divorced in 1989.[11]


      Awards and nominations


      Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
      2002 The British Soap Awards Best Actress Night and Day Nominated [12]
      2022 British Academy Television Awards Best Supporting Actress Help Won [1]

      References and notes


      1. "Bafta TV Awards 2022: The winners and nominees". BBC News. 8 May 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
      2. Jones, Catherine (29 January 2015). "Cathy Tyson to star in Liverpool schoolmate's new play". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
      3. Baxter, Lou (22 October 2007). "Everyman Theatre nurturing stars of the future". Liverpool Daily Post.[dead link]
      4. Yinka Sunmonu (2002). "Tyson, Cathy". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 310. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
      5. Simpson, Dave (2 June 2015). "Interview | Writer Kay Mellor and actor Cathy Tyson: how we made Band of Gold". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
      6. Barnett, David (27 February 2017). "Life as a Bradford sex worker: has anything changed for prostitutes twenty years on from Band of Gold?". The Independent. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
      7. Elmes, John (23 April 2015). "Q&A with Cathy Tyson". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
      8. Power, Ed (28 February 2021). "McDonald & Dodds, review: absolutely ridiculous and brilliant fun for it". The Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
      9. Help, episode 1 2021
      10. "Who We Are". Scene & Heard. Archived from the original on 10 February 2009.
      11. Spencer, Nikki (29 May 2015). "Interview | Craig Charles: My family values". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
      12. Welsh, James (16 May 2002). "British Soap Awards 2002: Nominations". Digital Spy. Hearst Communications. Retrieved 30 April 2019.



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