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Cathy Tyson

Highest Rated: 100% Help (2021)

Lowest Rated: 13% ChickLit (2016)

Birthday: Jun 12, 1965

Birthplace: Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK

This strikingly attractive black English performer made a memorable feature debut playing an enigmatic high-class call girl with a secret or two in Neil Jordan's "Mona Lisa" (1986). As the mysterious love-object of her driver, a short, dull-witted but good-hearted ex-con (Bob Hoskins), Tyson projected what the NEW YORK TIMES hailed as "a magical screen personality . . . beautiful, intelligent and hard as nails." The press hype of the day selected her for future film stardom--but something subsequently went awry with her movie career.

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Highest rated movies

100% 92% Help
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98% 81% Mona Lisa
Watchlist 94% 55% Hoard  Watchlist 86% 86% Bank of Dave Watchlist
63% 83% Priest
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62% 57% The Serpent and the Rainbow
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13% 15% ChickLit
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Together
Watchlist 40% A Christmas Wish Watchlist
29% The Marker
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Cathy Tyson Cathy Tyson THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW, Badja Djola, Cathy Tyson, 1988, (c) Universal THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW, Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, 1988, (c) Universal MONA LISA, Cathy Tyson, Bob Hoskins, 1986 MONA LISA, Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine, Cathy Tyson, 1986 MONA LISA, Cathy Tyson, Bob Hoskins, 1986, crying THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW, Bill Pullman (center), Cathy Tyson, 1988, (c) Universal MONA LISA, Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, 1986, arguing MONA LISA, Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine, Cathy Tyson, 1986. ©Island Pictures View more photos

Filmography

Movies

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94% 55% Hoard  Sam (Character) - 2023
86% 86% Bank of Dave Maureen (Character) - 2023
100% 92% Help Polly (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet 40% A Christmas Wish Gilda (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Graves Margaret (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Together Linda Burns (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 29% The Marker Maura (Character) - 2017
13% 15% ChickLit Diana (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World Jackie (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 65% The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Josefina (Character) - 2001
63% 83% Priest Maria Kerrigan (Character) $3.8M 1994
No Score Yet 79% The Lost Language of Cranes Jerene Parks (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Angels Frances (Character) - 1991
62% 57% The Serpent and the Rainbow Marielle Duchamp (Character) $19.0M 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Business as Usual Josie Patterson (Character) $28.0K 1987
98% 81% Mona Lisa Simone (Character) $4.3M 1986

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet JoJo & Gran Gran Gran Gran (Voice) 2020-2024
90% 62% Criminal Record Doris Mattis (Character) 2024
No Score Yet 85% Death in Paradise Jacqueline St Clair (Character) 2024
100% 94% Boiling Point Vivian (Character) 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Whitstable Pearl Tina Rowe (Character) 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pointless Celebrities Guest 2021