Cathy Tyson
Actors · Directors
English actress
About Cathy Tyson
Catherine Tyson (born 12 June 1965) is a British actress. She won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Mona Lisa (1986), which also earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards. She has starred in The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Priest (1994), and Band of Gold (1995–1997). She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2022 for her performance in the film Help.
Quick facts
- Known for
- Death in Paradise, Casualty, Vera
- Born
- 1965-06-12
- Artist type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Kingston upon Thames
- Associated area
- United Kingdom
- Active period
- 1965-06-12
- ISNI
- 0000000052515453
External & source links
Film & television credits

Death in Paradise

Casualty

Vera

Screen Two

Dune: Prophecy

Blue Lights

Lewis

Criminal Record

KAOS

Ride or Die

Modern Times

McDonald & Dodds

The Play on One

Night and Day

Whitstable Pearl

Coming Up

Boiling Point

Band of Gold
Harry

Cursed Films

The Serpent and the Rainbow

JoJo & Gran Gran

Always and Everyone

Black Ops

Wolfe

Hoard

A Thing Called Love

Working Shakespeare

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Mona Lisa

Scully

Bank of Dave

Unauthorised Absence

Priest

Rules of Engagement
Drama Trails

Perfect

The Lost Language of Cranes

Bonkers

Out of the Blue

An Accidental Studio

Tasting Freedom

Truckload

National Theatre Live: Rockets and Blue Lights

Help

On the Palm

The Loss Adjuster
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare

The Marker

The Fight

Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World

Business as Usual

ChickLit
Black Samphire

Remember

A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave

Angels

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy

CBeebies Presents: Christmas in Storyland

Together
Turbulence

The Importance of Being Earnest

Two Graves

Forgiven

My Beautiful Laundrette
Liverpool Nativity

Sainsbury's: Christmas Food Secrets

