Editing Sylvia Syms (section)

==Personal life==
From 9 June 1956 to 1989, Syms was married to Alan Edney, whom she had dated since she was a teenager.<ref name="Bergan" /> In 1961 they lost a baby daughter, Jessica.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/789140479/?terms=%22alan%20edney%22&match=1|newspaper=Daily Herald|date=28 April 1961|page= 1|title=Sylvia Syms Baby Ill}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/789291260/?terms=%22alan%20edney%22&match=1|title=Sylvia Syms Told Baby Is Dead|newspaper=Daily Herald|date=29 April 1961|page=5}}</ref> Later that year Syms and her husband adopted a son, Benjamin Mark.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/789294540/?terms=%22alan%20edney%22&match=1|title=At last... you're mine|newspaper=Daily Herald|date=26 September 1961|page=1}}</ref> In October 1962 she gave birth to a daughter, [[Beatie Edney]] who is also an actress.<ref name = Times/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/789127195/?terms=%22alan%20edney%22&match=1|title=Sylvia and her dream baby|newspaper=Daily Herald|date=27 October 1962|page= 3}}</ref> Syms and her husband divorced in 1989 when she discovered he had a mistress for several years and that they shared a two-year-old daughter.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/751389305/?terms=%22alan%20edney%22&match=1|title=Style of a 'good fat 14'|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=21 October 1989|page= 38}}</ref>

She was the aunt of musicians [[Nick Webb (musician)|Nick]] and [[Alex Webb (musician)|Alex Webb]].

Her sister Joan married Norman Webb, the Cambridge-educated statistician who invented the Television Audience Measurement system, and was later a chief executive of [[Gallup, Inc.|Gallup]].<ref>''The Stage'' Thursday 17 April 2003, page 13</ref>

Syms was a longtime supporter of the Stars Foundation for Cerebral Palsy, serving on its board as an officer for 16 years until 2020, with singer [[Vera Lynn]].{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}

In the last year of her life, Syms lived at [[Denville Hall]], a retirement home for actors in London. She died there on 27 January 2023, three weeks after her 89th birthday.<ref name="Grdn">{{cite news |last1=Pulver |first1=Andrew |title=Sylvia Syms, prolific British actor, dies aged 89 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/27/sylvia-syms-prolific-british-actor-dies-aged-89 |access-date=28 January 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=27 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://news.sky.com/story/sylvia-syms-ice-cold-in-alex-star-dies-at-the-age-of-89-12796814|title = Sylvia Syms: Ice Cold in Alex star dies at the age of 89|work = [[Sky News]]|date = 27 January 2023|accessdate = 27 January 2023}}</ref>