Margaret Tyzack to Guest Star in BBC's EASTENDERS

Stage and screen star Margaret Tyzack is set to join BBC's soap opera 'EastEnders.' Tyzack will star as 'Lydia Simmonds,' Janine's grandmother.

Tyzack is noted for her classical stage roles, having joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962. She received an Olivier Award in 1982 for a revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and a Tony award in 1991 for the play Lettice and Lovage, in which she appeared in both the London and Broadway productions opposite Dame Maggie Smith. In 2008 she received acclamation for her portrayal of Mrs St Maugham in a revival of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse, London, for which she won the Best Actress award in the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2009. In 2009 she appeared alongside Dame Helen Mirren in Phedre at the Royal National Theatre.

 

She is also remembered for her memorable roles in distinguished BBC television productions. She played Winifred, Soames's sister, in the acclaimed BBC adaptation ofThe Forsyte Saga in 1967; Queen Anne in The First Churchills; Bette in Cousin Bette; and Antonia the mother of the Emperor Claudius in I, Claudius. In the 1990s she played a major role in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series as the young Indiana Jones' strict Oxford-educated tutor, Miss Helen Seymour.

 

EastEnders is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks as one of the most watched shows in the UK. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End of London. The series primarily centres around the residents of Albert Square, a Victorian square of terraced houses, and its neighbouring streets, namely Bridge Street, Turpin Road and George Street, and which encompasses a pub, street market, night club, community centre, café and various small businesses, in addition to a park and allotments.

 

 

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