Cathy Tyson

Cathy Tyson

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

Movies for Cathy Tyson...

Hoard
Title: Hoard
Character: Sam
Released: May 17, 2024
Type: Movie
Hoard is a tale of mother and daughter; it follows Maria first as a child in their loving routines; their nidus of joy full of catalogues of love. Both like magpies you see. Then as an 18-year-old navigating the past as it pays a visit; when a box of mother returns and a man called Michael comes to stay. The shimmering memories that she once suppressed begin to haunt her; as grief never really heals does it? It simply disguises itself in things.
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Title: Criminal Record
Character: Doris Mathis
Released: January 10, 2024
Type: TV
In the heart of London, an anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives—a young woman in the early stages of her career and a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy—into a fight to correct an old miscarriage of justice.
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Title: Boiling Point
Character: Vivian
Released: October 1, 2023
Type: TV
Eight months after her mentor Andy Jones suffered a heart attack, Head Chef Carly is battling to forge a name for new London restaurant Point North alongside her old kitchen crew. With the pressure to draw in new, hungry customers and the financial squeeze to keep the business profitable, the team must find a way to manage their complicated personal lives whilst creating quality food day in, day out.
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Bank of Dave
Title: Bank of Dave
Character: Maureen
Released: March 23, 2023
Type: Movie
The true story of how Dave Fishwick, a working class man and self-made millionaire, fought to set up a community bank so that he could help the local businesses of Burnley not only survive, but thrive. In his bid to help his beloved community, he has to take on the elitist financial institutions of London and fight to receive the first, new banking license to be issued in over 100 years.
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Sainsbury's: Christmas Food Secrets
Title: Sainsbury's: Christmas Food Secrets
Character: Self
Released: December 17, 2021
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at how supermarket giant Sainsbury's created its festive food range for Christmas 2021.
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Help
Title: Help
Character: Polly
Released: September 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.
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Title: Wolfe
Character: Fay
Released: September 10, 2021
Type: TV
The adventures of Professor Wolfe Kinteh, a crime scene investigator in the north of England.
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National Theatre: Rockets and Blue Lights
Title: National Theatre: Rockets and Blue Lights
Character: Danby / Mary / Meg / Shona
Released: August 25, 2021
Type: Movie
On the set of a new film about Victorian artist JMW Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an unresolved history. Meanwhile, in 1840 Londoners Lucy and Thomas try to come to terms with the meaning of freedom. Moving between London past and present, we embark on a powerfully personal voyage through time.
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Title: Whitstable Pearl
Character: Tina Rowe
Released: May 24, 2021
Type: TV
With her son grown up, single mom Pearl Nolan decides to pursue her lifelong dream and launches a private detective agency, which she runs from her family's restaurant in the coastal town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring nature, locals soon flock to her with all manner of cases. But when an old friend dies suspiciously, Pearl finds herself in conflict with gruff new cop in town, DCI Mike McGuire.
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The Loss Adjuster
Title: The Loss Adjuster
Character: Lorna Fitzgerald
Released: November 27, 2020
Type: Movie
Hapless Insurance Loss Adjuster - Martin Dyer - feels his life is spiralling out of control but discovers that even when you reach rock bottom, that some clouds really do have a silver lining.
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My Beautiful Laundrette
Title: My Beautiful Laundrette
Character: Rachel / Cherry
Released: September 20, 2020
Type: Movie
Set in London during the Thatcher years, My Beautiful Laundrette tells the story of young British Pakistani, Omar, who transforms his Uncle’s run-down laundrette into a thriving business. After being confronted by a fascist gang, Omar recognises school friend Johnny and uses their history to diffuse the situation. As they renovate the laundrette together, love blossoms between them.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Character: Lady Bracknell
Released: April 5, 2020
Type: Movie
Bachelor Jack Worthing and his best mate Algernon Moncrieff hope to marry society’s most eligible ladies, Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. But the lads’ courtship of the women is far from straight forward! With double identities, plenty of ‘Bunburying’ and a number of hostile encounters with the formidable Lady Bracknell, the pair become embroiled in a web of mistaken identities with hilarious consequences.
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Title: Cursed Films
Released: April 2, 2020
Type: TV
A documentary series exploring the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film productions. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen, to the rumored use of real human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary amongst film fans and filmmakers alike. But where does the truth lie?
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Title: McDonald & Dodds
Character: Jackie Somner
Released: March 1, 2020
Type: TV
Two detectives, DCI McDonald and DS Dodds, who seemingly have nothing in common, are thrown together and forge a rumbustious friendship and entertaining partnership.
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An Accidental Studio
Title: An Accidental Studio
Character: Self
Released: July 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Charts the early years of HandMade Films seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison.
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The Fight
Title: The Fight
Character: Viv Best
Released: March 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Tina lives in a quiet seaside town but her life is anything but quiet - her mother is threatening to leave her father, her daughter is being bullied and she and her husband Mick are juggling full time jobs and three children. Determined to ditch the dysfunction and beat her inner demons, Tina puts on her fighting gloves - literally, stepping into the boxing ring to sweat out her anxieties and punch up her self-worth. But does she have what it takes to get her family off the ropes and emerge victorious?
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Together
Title: Together
Released: June 22, 2018
Type: Movie
An elderly couple face separation when one of them is admitted to a care home.
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Two Graves
Title: Two Graves
Character: Margaret Powers
Released: June 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Margaret Powers—a middle aged, middle class doctor of pathology—seeks a path of vengeance when she captures and tortures the young man she believes murdered her son, but in a bid to extract a confession, that path to vengeance leads to tragedy and unearths deeply troubling truths.
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The Marker
Title: The Marker
Character: Maura
Released: June 25, 2017
Type: Movie
Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost.
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ChickLit
Title: ChickLit
Character: Diana
Released: September 2, 2016
Type: Movie
ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mummy porn' novel in the style of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman 'author' does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to 'role play' the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control - leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.
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Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World
Title: Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World
Character: Jackie
Released: February 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World is a darkly comic tale of a young man’s battle with madness. Ollie Kepler, wacky astronomy enthusiast and web designer, moves in with his best friend after he loses his fiancé, but is repeatedly drawn back to the place of her death – their empty, unpainted apartment. There, a broken promise made to her returns to haunt him with growing intensity. Ollie’s guilt merges with his scientific brilliance into a crazed attempt to redeem himself. Quitting his job in a bizarre act of defiance, Ollie spirals into a chilling world of obsession and tormenting voices, threatening both his friendship and sanity. Convinced that a strange piece of rock he has found is a micro-chip which holds a vital message from his fiancé, Ollie sets about trying to unlock it with disastrous results. Somehow purple holds the key. Disturbing and eerily humorous, the film explores the fantasies the mind creates when reality overwhelms.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Jacqueline StClair
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: Drama Trails
Released: August 1, 2010
Type: TV
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Liverpool Nativity
Title: Liverpool Nativity
Character: Herodia
Released: December 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Inspired by The Manchester Passion, Liverpool Nativity employs the city's great musical heritage as the soundtrack to a contemporary music drama set in a fictitious state, a tale as relevant today as it was 2,000 years ago. The live event tells the intimate personal story of a pregnant young girl set against a backdrop of political tension and unrest and stars a host of well- known Liverpool actors and personalities.
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Title: Night and Day
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Night and Day is a British soap opera which was produced by Granada Television for LWT and ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. Its theme-song, "Always & Forever", was sung by Kylie Minogue.
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Title: Perfect
Character: Marie
Released: April 23, 2001
Type: TV
A serial bigamist, Julie Harding (Michelle Collins) is a compulsive flirt with a wicked sense of humour. She loves a good wedding - especially her own - but Julie is a perfectionist, and the reality of married life doesn't always mirror the magic of the big day.
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Title: The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Released: March 7, 2001
Type: Movie
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.
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A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave
Title: A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave
Character: Narrator
Released: January 29, 1996
Type: Movie
A documentary following the life of Olaudah Equiano, based on his autobiography "The Interesting Narration of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African".
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Priest
Title: Priest
Character: Maria Kerrigan
Released: March 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.
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Band of Gold
Title: Band of Gold
Character: Carol Johnson
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: Movie
A mother leads a life of prostitution after separating from her abusive boyfriend in order to support her family.
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Title: Band of Gold
Character: Carol Johnson
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Band of Gold is a British drama series written by Kay Mellor and produced by Granada Television. It was originally shown on ITV between 1995 and 1997. Starring Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton, the series revolves around the lives of a group of women who live and work in Bradford's red-light district. Three seasons of Band of Gold were produced (the third under the moniker of Gold, with only a small number of characters from the first two series).
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Tasting Freedom
Title: Tasting Freedom
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
'Tasting Freedom' documents the struggles of asylum seekers in Britain for recognition of their basic human rights and investigates abuses on asylum seekers in detention centres and prisons. The documentary gives a startling account of how people who have come to Britain to find freedom are instead persecuted.
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Remember
Title: Remember
Character: Patty
Released: October 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of her fiancé.
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Angels
Title: Angels
Character: Frances
Released: September 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Three guardian angels help three souls evaluate their past lives.
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The Lost Language of Cranes
Title: The Lost Language of Cranes
Character: Jerene
Released: February 9, 1992
Type: Movie
When a young gay man comes out of the closet, his friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings and secrets in their relationship.
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Out of the Blue
Title: Out of the Blue
Character: Julie
Released: August 22, 1991
Type: Movie
Alan makes films in the warehouse studio where he lives, with the help of his friends Rudy and Liz. Even Rudy's girlfriend, Julie, finds herself caught up in his plans. But when Alan falls in love with a beautiful young girl, Chirsty, and decides to create the perfect romance between them, life begins to imitate the film fantasy which has become an obsession for him.
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Turbulence
Title: Turbulence
Character: Melissa
Released: March 24, 1991
Type: Movie
An adolescent girl, sexually abused as a child by her father, runs away from home.
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Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
Title: Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Brian Cox leads a group of young actors in a workshop exploring techniques in performing Shakesperean tragedy, using Macbeth and Titus Andronicus as example texts.
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Title: Rules of Engagement
Character: Annie McPhee
Released: June 12, 1989
Type: TV
Political intrigue and murder occurs when the English town of Portsmouth is sealed off by the military during the eve of World War III.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
Title: The Serpent and the Rainbow
Character: Marielle Duchamp
Released: February 5, 1988
Type: Movie
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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On the Palm
Title: On the Palm
Character: Celia
Released: April 5, 1987
Type: Movie
Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly 'on the palm', it's a welcome change from the dole. Until he finds himself digging dirt on an old friend....
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Business as Usual
Title: Business as Usual
Character: Josie Patterson
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Cider Anne
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Mona Lisa
Title: Mona Lisa
Character: Simone
Released: June 13, 1986
Type: Movie
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
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Title: Scully
Character: Joanna
Released: May 14, 1984
Type: TV
Scully was a British television drama with some comedy elements set in the city of Liverpool, England, that originated from a BBC Play For Today episode "Scully's New Years Eve". Originally broadcast on Channel Four in 1984, the single series was spread over six half-hour episodes plus a one-hour final episode. It was written by playwright Alan Bleasdale. The drama is notable for featuring many of the Liverpool football club first-team squad of that era. Francis Scully is a teenage boy who has his heart set on gaining a trial match for Liverpool to hopefully fulfil his ambition of playing for the club. Francis, in everyday situations during his waking hours, occasionally "sees" famous Liverpool players such as Kenny Dalglish when they are not really there. These dream-like sequences recur throughout the episodes. The main plotline is the efforts of Scully's school teachers to persuade Scully to appear in the school pantomime which they attempt by promising him a trial with his beloved Liverpool if he will cooperate. When Scully and his friends are not in school making trouble for the teachers and the school caretaker, they are seen roaming the local streets upsetting the neighbours and getting into trouble with the police. Scully sometimes has visions of the school caretaker appearing as a vampire due to the caretaker's nickname being Dracula. These frequent waking dream sequences give the show a somewhat surreal atmosphere.