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Mary Tamm

Mary Tamm

Actor · Born 1950-03-22 · Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK

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Biography

Mary Tamm (22 March 1950 – 26 July 2012) was a British actress who appeared in many British TV drama series and serials. She is best known for her role as Romana I in the BBC's science fiction television series Doctor Who, appearing opposite Tom Baker in the 1978–1979 story arc The Key to Time. Tamm was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, to an Estonian father and a half-Russian mother, who was an opera singer. Her parents had fled Estonia after four of her father's brothers had died in Stalin's gulag labour camps. Tamm spoke only Estonian at home and attended Estonian-language school on Saturdays. She did not begin learning English until she was enrolled in primary school. At age 11, she won a scholarship to attend Bradford Girls' Grammar School and joined the city's Civic Theatre. She was a graduate and an associate member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she studied from 1969 to 1971.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Doctor Who (1963)
  2. Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) — Mrs. Farley
  3. Doghouse (2009) — Meg Nut
  4. The Odessa File (1974) — Sigi
  5. Casualty (1986) — Virginia Wilson
  6. Wire in the Blood (2002) — Elektra
  7. Tales That Witness Madness (1973) — Ginny (segment "Luau")
  8. Doctors (2000)
  9. Jane Eyre (1983) — Blanche Ingram
  10. Heartbeat (1992) — Marilyn
  11. Bergerac (1981) — Leslie West
  12. The Likely Lads (1976) — Christina
  13. Brookside (1982)
  14. Amazons and Gladiators (2001) — Zenobia
  15. Sorted (2000) — School Mother
  16. Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2 (2010) — Romana I (archive footage)
  17. Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS (2013) — Romana I (archive footage)
  18. Only When I Laugh (1979) — Leonora
  19. Return of the Saint (1978) — Gerri Hanson
  20. Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks (1984) — Romana I (archive footage) (uncredited)
  21. Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet (1978) — Romana
  22. Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara (1978) — Romana
  23. Doctor Who: Logopolis (1981) — Romana (I) (archive footage)
  24. Crime Traveller (1997)
  25. Public Eye (1965) — Jenny
  26. Three Kinds of Heat (1987) — Piou
  27. Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation (1978) — Romana
  28. Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood (1978) — Romana
  29. CI5: The New Professionals (1999)
  30. Worlds Beyond (1986) — Susan Wentworth
  31. Rose and Maloney (2002) — Danuta Richmond
  32. Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor (1979) — Romana
  33. Hassan Terro's Escape (1974)
  34. Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll (1979) — Romana
  35. Warship (1973)
  36. The Girls of Slender Means (1975) — Selina Redwood
  37. Twisted Tales (2005) — Mrs Templeman
  38. Diamond Geezer (2005)
  39. The Donati Conspiracy (1973) — Sally Ross
  40. The Hello Goodbye Man (1984) — Jennifer Reynoldston