Sylvestra Le Touzel

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Sylvestra Le Touzel


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As Mrs Allen in television's Northanger Abbey


Sylvestra Le Touzelwas born in Jersey to a long-standing family of that name

Playing Fanny Price in the BBC's adaptation of Mansfield Park in 1983

Early years

She showed an interest in acting at an extremely early age, enrolling at the Peggy Sharpe School in London, where she felt inhibited by her small stature, and, in 1968, when she made her television debut in a "Doctor Who" (1963) story, had to lie about her age as she was just coming up to ten years old and the minimum age for juvenile players was twelve.

Subsequent television roles followed, including as Fanny Price in a 1983 adaptation of "Mansfield Park" (1983), though, in cult television terms, this was eclipsed by a commercial, still long remembered, for Heineken lager in which, in a parody of My Fair Lady (1964) she portrayed an upper-class girl being tutored for a cockney role by Bryan Pringle, success only coming when she drank a can of Heineken (which "refreshes the parts other lagers cannot not reach" and enabled her to proclaim that 'the wa'er in Majjawca don't taste like wot i' ough'a').

Marriage

Married to actor Owen Teale since 2001, they live, with their two children, in Telegraph Hill, London, near to Goldsmith's College, where she has done some teaching. In 2008 she appeared on the West End stage with Kenneth Branagh in his generally well received revival of the play 'Ivanov'.

Iron Lady

She appeared in the 2011 film Iron Lady which starred Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher.

The famous Heineken advert
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