Sylvia Anderson (née Thamm) (born 25 March 1937) is a British voice artist and producer, most notable for her collaborations with her ex-husband Gerry Anderson. She created the characters for several of the series, co-wrote episodes, voiced female roles in many series, most memorably Lady Penelope in the Thunderbirds television series and subsequent films, and was most influential in the creation of Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons. The couple married in 1960 and were divorced in 1980 following a 5-year separation. March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Gerry Anderson (MBE), born 14 April 1929, is a British producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes, particularly those involving specially modified marionettes, a process called Supermarionation. His first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh childrens series The Adventures of Twizzle. ... Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of puppetry dubbed Supermarionation. The series followed the adventures of International Rescue, an organisation created to help those in grave danger using technically advanced equipment and machinery. ... Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as simply Captain Scarlet, is a science fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions Television company of Sylvia and Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill and first shown in the United Kingdom (originally on ATV Midlands, but later the whole of...

As Sylvia Thamm, she and Gerry Anderson met when they both worked for Polytechnic films, she as a secretary, he as an editor/director. When Anderson and his colleague Arthur Provis created AP Films following the collapse of Polytechnic in 1957, Sylvia followed them in company with John Read and Reg Hill. She became Anderson's second wife shortly after, in 1960, and slowly became involved in production duties. AP Films (APF) was a British independent film production company of the 1950s and 1960s. ...

The creative partnership with Gerry Anderson concluded when their marriage broke down during the production of the first series of Space: 1999 in 1975; Gerry announced his intention to separate on the evening of the wrap party,^[1][2] following which Sylvia severed her ties with the production company. Left to right: Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell and Martin Landau from Space:1999s second season. ...

Unlike her former husband, Sylvia Anderson tends to avoid the limelight, although she has written an autobiography titled Yes M'Lady^[1] covering the Thunderbirds era. Until recently, Sylvia worked as the UK representative for HBO and her new book, My Fab Years is to be published in 2007. Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of puppetry dubbed Supermarionation. The series followed the adventures of International Rescue, an organisation created to help those in grave danger using technically advanced equipment and machinery. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is an American premium cable television network. ...

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External links

• Sylvia Anderson's official website
• Sylvia Anderson at the Internet Movie Database