Patricia "Patsy" Byrne was an English actress, best known for her role as "Nursie" in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm"s domineering mother in the Independent Television comedy series Watching.
Education
Byrne was educated at Ashford School for Girls. 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.
Career
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 British Broadcasting Corporation children"s programme Playdays.
Other roles included appearances in I, Claudius (1976),, Inspector Morse (1989), Les Misérables (1998), David Copperfield (1999) and, as well as numerous radio plays.
Byrne died at Denville Hall, a retirement home for performers, on 17 June 2014.