Mary Tamm
Acting
Born 1950-03-22
Died 2012-07-26
Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK
59 credits
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
42 credits
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Doctor Who
Casualty
Heartbeat
Bergerac
Wire in the Blood
Public Eye
Return of the Saint
Jane Eyre
Rose and Maloney
Only When I Laugh
Twisted Tales
Worlds Beyond
Perfect Scoundrels
The Odessa File
Doghouse
The Donati Conspiracy
The Inheritors
Sorted
The Hello Goodbye Man
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
The Girls of Slender Means
Tales That Witness Madness
Amazons and Gladiators
Doctor Who: Logopolis
The Ties That Bind Us
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Doctor Who's Who's Who
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
The Assassination Run
The Likely Lads
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Three Kinds of Heat
A Class Apart
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
The Treachery Game
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
Other credits
17 credits
Brookside
Doctors
Warship
Spine Chillers
CI5: The New Professionals
Crime Traveller
Diamond Geezer
Who's Who
Parrot Fashion
A Matter of Time
The Story of Doctor Who
Hassan Terro's Escape
Defining Shadows
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
Getting Blood from the Stones
The Humans of Tara
The Ribos File
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