Jean Marsh
Acting
Born 1934-07-01
Died 2025-04-13
Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
95 credits
Primetime Emmy Awards 1
Awards
Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won
- 1975 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Won Upstairs, Downstairs
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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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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Doctor Who
The Mike Douglas Show
Play for Today
Holby City
The Love Boat
Murder, She Wrote
Hawaii Five-O
The Waltons
The Merv Griffin Show
The One Show
The Saint
The Twilight Zone
The Dick Cavett Show
Gideon's Way
Grantchester
Tales from the Darkside
Upstairs, Downstairs
The Persuaders!
Omnibus
The Paul O'Grady Show
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Danger Man
UFO
Willow
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Cleopatra
Kavanagh Q.C.
Story Parade
The Expert
Sense and Sensibility
The Third Man
Willow
Detective
Upstairs Downstairs
Department S
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Return to Oz
The Wonderful World of Disney
9 to 5
Frenzy
The Changeling
Master of the Game
The Eagle Has Landed
The Informer
Goliath Awaits
Fatherland
No Strings
Crooked House
Sensitive Skin
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Danny the Champion of the World
The Horsemasters
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Other credits
2 credits
Writing
2 credits
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