Sylvestra Le Touzel
- Actress
Le Touzel was born in London to a prominent family from Jersey, Channel Islands.
She showed an interest in acting at an early age, enrolling at
a Stage School. 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 where, 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'). Married to actor
Owen Teale
since 2001, they live, with their two children, in Telegraph Hill,
London. In 2008 she appeared on the West End stage with
Kenneth Branagh in his generally well
received revival of the play 'Ivanov'.
