Sylvia Syms, who has died aged 89, made an immediate impact as a screen actor in her 1956 film debut, My Teenage Daughter, Britain’s answer to the James Dean coming-of-age classic Rebel Without a Cause.
Starring as a 17-year-old hanging out with Kenneth Haigh’s delinquent youth and leaving her widowed mother, played by Anna Neagle, in despair, the actor radiated both defiance and vulnerability.
