Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1934-07-01
Day of Death
2025-04-13
Place of Birth
Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
Jean Marsh
Biography
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).
Filmography (47)
Outlier
2014
The Last Post
2011
The Heavy
2010
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
After Upstairs Downstairs
2002
Monarch
2000
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997
Fatherland
1994
Adam Bede
1992
Bejewelled
1991
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
1990
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1989
Doctor Who: Battlefield
1989
Danny the Champion of the World
1989
