Cathy Tyson
| Cathy Tyson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Catherine Tyson 12 June 1965 Kingston-upon-Thames, London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1984 – present |
| Spouse(s) |
Craig Charles (1984–89) Michael Kingston (2015—) |
| Children | Jack (born May 1988) |
Catherine "Cathy" Tyson (born 12 June 1965) is an English stage, film and television actress. She won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Mona Lisa. The film also earned her Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. She has also starred in The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Priest (1994), and in the ITV drama series Band of Gold (1995–97).
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 about 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.
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