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==Later career== Other comedies followed, such as ''[[The Big Job (film)|The Big Job]]'' (1965), but it was for drama that she won acclaim, including ''The Tamarind Seed'' (1974) with [[Julie Andrews]] and [[Omar Sharif]], for which she was nominated for a [[BAFTA|British Film Academy award]]. In 1970, Syms changed direction playing [[Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)|Beatrice]] opposite [[Julian Glover]]'s Benedick in a production of [[William Shakespeare]]'s [[Much Ado About Nothing]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/productions/much-ado-about-nothing-1970-prospect-theatre-company/|title = Much Ado About Nothing (1970)|website = [[University of Warwick]]|accessdate = 29 August 2023}}</ref> The [[Prospect Theatre Company]] production, directed by [[Tony Richardson]], was first presented at the [[Edinburgh International Festival]] and subsequently toured the [[United Kingdom]]. Syms featured in the husband-and-wife TV comedy ''My Good Woman'' from 1972 to 1974<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/my_good_woman/|title = My Good Woman|website = [[British Comedy Guide]]|accessdate = 30 January 2023}}</ref> and on the weekly BBC programme ''Movie Quiz'' as one of two team captains. In 1975, Syms headed the jury at the [[25th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="berlinale">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1975/04_jury_1975/04_Jury_1975.html|title=Berlinale 1975: Juries|access-date=5 July 2010|work=berlinale.de}}</ref> In 1989, Syms guest-starred in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[Ghost Light (Doctor Who)|Ghost Light]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-guide/ghost-light/ | title= Ghost Light β β β | work=Radio Times | first=Patrick | last=Mulkern | access-date=30 April 2023}}</ref> Shortly after [[Premiership of Margaret Thatcher#Fall from power|the end of]] [[British Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s term in office in 1990, Syms portrayed her in ''[[Thatcher: The Final Days]]'' (1991),<ref name="Grdn"/> a [[ITV Granada|Granada]] television film for [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], which dramatises the events surrounding Thatcher's removal from power, a role she recreated for the stage.<ref name = Bergan/> From 2000 to 2003, she played Marion Riley in the ITV comedy-drama ''[[At Home with the Braithwaites]]''. She also featured in the serial ''[[The Jury (TV serial)|The Jury]]'' (2002) and in the same year contributed ''[[Sonnet 142]]'' to the compilation album ''[[When Love Speaks]]''.<ref name="Bergan" /> For [[Stephen Frears]]'s biopic ''The Queen'' (2006), Syms was cast as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.<ref name = Bergan/> She also appeared in ''[[The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]'' (2005), an American TV film that was a loose remake of [[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|the 1972 feature film]]. Syms also took up producing and directing. In 2009, Syms appeared in the film ''[[Is Anybody There?]]'' alongside [[Michael Caine]] and [[Anne-Marie Duff]]. In 2009, she featured in the ITV drama series ''[[Collision (TV series)|Collision]]''. In 2010, she guest-starred as a patient in BBC One's drama series ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]'', having played a different character in an episode in 2007. Syms also appeared as another character in ''Casualty''{{'}}s sister series ''[[Holby City]]'' in 2003. From 2007 to 2010, she had a recurring role in [[BBC One]]'s ''EastEnders'', playing dressmaker Olive Woodhouse.<ref name = Bergan/> In 2010, Syms took part in the [[BBC]]'s ''The Young Ones'', a series in which six celebrities in their seventies and eighties attempt to overcome some of the problems of ageing by harking back to the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tq4d3|title=BBC One β The Young Ones|publisher=BBC|date=22 December 2010|access-date=13 June 2012}}</ref> From 2013 to 2019, Syms was the narrator of ''[[Talking Pictures (TV series)|Talking Pictures]]'', which aired on [[BBC Two]].<ref name = Bergan/> Syms had numerous theatre roles, including in productions of ''Much Ado About Nothing'', ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' and ''Antony and Cleopatra''.<ref name="Bergan" />
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