Patricia Heywood (1 August 1931 – 26 June 2024) was a Scottish character actress who appeared in stage productions, films and television.
Her next role was as a maid in the psychodrama Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (1970) by Freddie Francis.
(1971), 10 Rillington Place (1971, where she played Ethel Christie, the wife of serial killer John Christie), Young Winston (1971, as Winston Churchill's nurse), Bequest to the Nation (1973), Wish You Were Here (1987, as Lynda's aunt Millie), Young Toscanini (1988), Getting It Right (1989), and Franco Zeffirelli's Sparrow (1993).
In 1978, Heywood played Nelly in the BBC's television production of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
She played Dickon's mother in the 1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame version of The Secret Garden.