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Catherine Tyson (born 12 June 1965) is an English 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.
Tyson's film debut was in Mona Lisa (1986) as Simone, an elegant prostitute, a performance which brought her critical acclaim. Her other films include Business as Usual (1987), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The Lost Language of Cranes (1991), Priest (1994) and The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001). Probably her best-known television appearance was also as a prostitute, Carol Johnson, in the ITV series Band of Gold.
In 2007, Tyson joined the cast of two long-running television series. She played headmistress Miss Gayle in the BBC One school drama Grange Hill, and featured in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as single mother Andrea Hayworth.
Tyson played Herodia in BBC Three's Liverpool Nativity, a modern adaptation of the traditional Christmas story. Recorded as a live event in Liverpool City Centre on 16 December 2007, it was broadcast several times over the Christmas period and repeated the following year.
In September 2009, Tyson enrolled at the adult learning centre City Lit on an access to higher education course in creative studies. She completed a degree in English and Drama at Brunel University in 2013.
In 2018 Tyson played DI Siobhan Clarke in the stage play , written by Rona Munro and Ian Rankin.
In 2020, Tyson was cast as the second titular character in the CBeebies series JoJo & Gran Gran.
In 2021, she guest starred in an episode of TV drama McDonald & Dodds.
In 2021, Tyson appeared in Channel 4 film Help playing Poll, an elderly resident of a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic; the following year she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. She directed and acted in a short film, Lilian (2022) about the WAAF Lilian Bader.
In 2023 she appeared as Maureen in the film Bank of Dave. She also produced the short The Consequence.
In 2024 she played Sam in Luna Carmoon's debut feature Hoard, and Mother Superior Raquella Berto-Anirul in . She also played one of the Furies, Alecto, in the tv series Kaos. Over Christmas 2024 she performed as Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady at the Curve Theatre, Leiciester. My Fair Lady at the Curve
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