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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Catherine "Cathy"
Tyson (born 12 June 1965 in Kingston-upon-Thames, London) is an English
stage, film and television actress. The daughter of a Trinidadian
barrister father and an English social worker mother, Tyson and her
family moved to Liverpool when she was approximately two years old.
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. Tyson's film debut was in Mona
Lisa (1986) as Simone, an elegant mixed-race prostitute. Probably her
best-known television appearance was also as a prostitute, Carol
Johnson, in the ITV series Band of Gold.
