
Patricia 'Patsy' Byrne (13 July 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English actress, best known for her role as 'Nursie' in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm's domineering mother in the ITV comedy series Watching.
Byrne was educated at Ashford County Grammar School. She studied drama at Rose Bruford College before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company playing parts such as Maria in Twelfth Night and Gruscha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Aldwych Theatre in the early 1960s. In the 1980s she also worked at Chichester Festival Theatre.
Byrne starred alongside Tony Robinson in a Series 3 episode of Maid Marian and her Merry Men. She played ORD "Betty the Tea Lady" on the BBC children's programme Playdays. Other roles included appearances in I, Claudius (1976), Stealing Heaven (1988), Inspector Morse (1989), Les Misérables (1998), David Copperfield (1999) and Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), as well as numerous radio plays. Byrne performed in the 1990 BBC production of C.S. Lewis' "The Silver Chair" as the giant nanny in the city of the giants.
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Les Misérables
1998 · as Toussaint

Mr. Love
1986 · as Mrs Lunt

Kevin & Perry Go Large
2000 · as Old Lady

The Ruling Class
1972 · as Mrs. Treadwell

Britannia Hospital
1982 · as Nurse

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
2008 · as Self

Blackadder: Back & Forth
1999 · as Nursie

As You Like It
1963 · as Audrey

Hanna's War
1988 · as Rosie

Stealing Heaven
1988

Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988 · as Nursie / Bernard

Emily's Ghost
1992 · as Mrs. Crabtree

The Return of the Soldier
1983 · as Mrs. Plummer

Hotel du Lac
1986 · as Mrs. Dempster

The Gathering Storm
1974 · as Cook

The Treasure Seekers
1996 · as Eliza

The Alf Garnett Saga
1972 · as Mrs. Frewin

Floating Off
1983 · as Lady on train