Jean Marsh

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Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh (1 July 1934 – 13 April 2025) was an English actress and writer. Born in London, Jean Marsh became interested in show business while taking dancing and mime classes as therapy for a childhood illness. After attending a charm school and working as a model, she started acting in repertory and took voice lessons. Her repertory work was supplemented by a number of film appearances as a dancer. She then spent three years in America, appearing in Sir John Gielgud's Broadway production of "Much Ado About Nothing" and numerous TV shows, including an episode of "The Twilight Zone"(1959). Returning to London, she won roles on stage, film and TV. It was during this period that she appeared in "Doctor Who" (1963), first as Princess Joanna in "The Crusade" and then as Sara Kingdom in "The Daleks' Master Plan." In the early 1970s she co-created and starred in LWT's "Upstairs, Downstairs" (1971). Since then she has maintained a very busy career in the theatre, on TV - including a starring role in the US sitcom "9 to 5"(1982) and films such as Return to Oz (1985) and Willow (1988). She also co-created another successful series, "The House of Eliott" (1991).

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2022
Willow
TV show Queen Bavmorda
2014
Grantchester
TV show Daisy Livingstone
2014
Outlier
Movie Lilith Winterbottom
2011
The Last Post
Movie Colette
2010
Upstairs Downstairs
TV show Mrs Rose Buck
2010
The Heavy
Movie Mrs. Mason
2008
Crooked House
TV show Lady Constance de Momery
2008
Sense and Sensibility
TV show Mrs Ferrars
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Movie Self
2006
The One Show
TV show Self - Guest
2005
Sensitive Skin
TV show Lizzie Galbraith
2004
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
TV show Violet Sidney
2004
The Paul O'Grady Show
TV show Self
2002
After Upstairs Downstairs
Movie Self
2000
Monarch
Movie The Queens
2000
The Ghost Hunter
TV show Mrs Croker