Cathy Tyson

Actor Jun 12 (age 61) London, England, UK 1984–2025 (41 year career)

6.5 avg rating

Biography

Catherine "Cathy" Tyson (born 12 June 1965 in Kingston-upon-Thames, London) is an English stage, film and television actress.

Known For

Film

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Marielle Duchamp

Film

Mona Lisa

Simone

Film

Help

Polly

Film

Bank of Dave

Maureen

Film

Criminal Record

Doris Mathis

Film

Priest

Maria Kerrigan

Film

Boiling Point

Vivian

Film

Hoard

Sam

Filmography

Acting (63)

Movies (37)

Truckload

as Tenant

Hoard

as Sam

Bank of Dave

as Maureen

Help

as Polly

Sainsbury's: Christmas Food Secrets

2021

as Self

8.0

The Canterville Ghost

2021

as Masilda Lovell

National Theatre Live: Rockets and Blue Lights

2021

as Danby / Mary / Meg / Shona

The Loss Adjuster

2020

as Lorna Fitzgerald

5.8

My Beautiful Laundrette

2020

as Rachel / Cherry

CBeebies Presents: Christmas in Storyland

2020

The Importance of Being Earnest

2020

as Lady Bracknell

An Accidental Studio

as Self

The Fight

as Viv Best

Two Graves

as Margaret Powers

Together

The Marker

as Maura

ChickLit

as Diana

Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World

as Jackie

Forgiven

as Therapist

Liverpool Nativity

as Herodia

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

2001

as Josefina

6.2

A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave

1996

as Narrator

Priest

1995

as Maria Kerrigan

6.3

Tasting Freedom

1994

as Narrator

Remember

1993

as Patty

9.0

The Lost Language of Cranes

1992

as Jerene

5.9

Angels

1992

as Frances

Out of the Blue

as Julie

Turbulence

as Melissa

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy

1989

as Self

The Serpent and the Rainbow

as Marielle Duchamp

Business as Usual

as Josie Patterson

On the Palm

as Celia

Mona Lisa

1986

as Simone

6.9

Black Samphire

RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare

as Self

Unauthorised Absence

as Headteacher

Television (26)

Dune: Prophecy

2024

as Raquella Berto-Anirul

Criminal Record

as Doris Mathis

KAOS

as Alecto

Blue Lights

as Dana Morgan

Boiling Point

as Vivian

Black Ops

as Fischer

Whitstable Pearl

as Tina Rowe

Wolfe

as Fay

McDonald & Dodds

as Jackie Somner

JoJo & Gran Gran

as Gran Gran

Cursed Films

as Self

Death in Paradise

as Jacqueline StClair

Vera

as Kath Olivier

Drama Trails

Lewis

as Dr Patterson

Bonkers

as DI Short

Working Shakespeare

Night and Day

Perfect

as Marie

Band of Gold

as Carol Johnson

Modern Times

Harry

as Jenny Wilson

Rules of Engagement

as Annie McPhee

Casualty

as Cider Anne

Screen Two

as Maria Kerrigan

Scully

as Joanna