June 12

Catherine "Cathy" Tyson (born 12 June 1965) is an English stage, film and television actress. 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). Other films she did include “Priest” and “The Serpent And The Rainbow”. Probably her best-known television appearance was in the ITV series “Band of Gold”. In 2007 Tyson joined the cast of two long-running television series. She played deputy headmistress Miss Gayle in the BBC One school drama “Grange Hill”, and featured in the ITV soap opera “Emmerdale”. Tyson played in BBC Three's “Liverpool Nativity”, a modern adaptation of the traditional Christmas story.