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Catherine "Cathy" Tyson (born 12 June 1965) is an English stage, film and television actress.
Born in Kingston-upon-Thames, London, the daughter of a Trinidadian barrister father and an English social worker mother, Tyson and her family moved to Liverpool when she was approximately two years old.
Tyson attended the Everyman Youth Theatre in her teens. She dropped out of college at 17 to pursue an acting career at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, before joining the RSC in 1984. Also in 1984, Tyson made an early TV appearance playing Joanna in Scully.
Tyson's film debut was in Mona Lisa (1986) as Simone, an elegant prostitute. Her other films include Priest and The Serpent and the Rainbow. 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.
Der Priester [VHS] Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Cathy Tyson, James Ellis, Robert Carlyle, Andy Robe
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Cathy Tyson interviewd by Clare Eluka for Promota Magazine