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Dateline: 28th June, 2011
Margaret Tyzack (1931 - 2011) Actress Margaret Tyzack died on Saturday 25th June at the age of 79 after a short illness. Best known to the general public for her role as Winifred in The Forsyte Saga (1967), she had a distinguished career in theatre. After RADA she made her first appearance as a by-stander in the Chesterfield Civic production of Pygmalion in 1951 and, after a period in rep, made her London debut at the Royal Court in 1959 in Progress to the Park and The Ginger Man at the Royal Court. The latter was later to transfer to the Comedy Theatre in 1962. She made her first RSC appearance as Vassilissa in Gorki's Lower Depths at the Arts Theatre in 1963 and, opver the years, went to make make appearances in Summerfolk (Maria Lvovna), Coriolanus (Volumnia), Titus Andronicus (Tamara), Julius Caesar (Portia) and All's Well (Countess, replacing Peggy Ashcroft at the Barbican and in New York). She replaced the ill Joan Plowright as Martha in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? at the National in 1981 and won the Olivier Best Actress Award. In 1984 she took over the part of Mrs Birling in Stephen Daldry's An Inspector Calls when it transferred to the Adlwych and, in the same year, played Mrs Haigh-Wood in Michael Hastings' Tom and Viv at the Royal Court. In 1987 she starred alongside Maggie Smith in Peter Shaffer's Lettice and Lovage at the Globe Theatre (now the Gielgud) and in New York, for which she won a Variety Club award and a Tony. Another award winning part was in Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden at the Donmar in 2008. Her final stage appearance was in 2009 when she played the Nurse in Phèdre at the National with Helen Mirren. Her film work includes Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971)and Woody Allen's 2005 film, Match Point. Her TV work, in addition to The Forsyte Saga, includes I, Claudius, Balzac's Cousin Bette, The First Churchills and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Earlier this year she appeared in EastEnders but had to withdraw in April because of ill health. She received the OBE in 1970 and the CBE in 2010.
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