Jean Marsh
Acting
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).
Outlier
Lilith Winterbottom
The Last Post
Colette
The Heavy
Mrs. Mason
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
After Upstairs Downstairs
Self
Monarch
The Queens
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Thyrza Grey
Fatherland
Anna von Hagen
Adam Bede
Lisbeth Bede
Bejewelled
Barbara
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Self (archive footage)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Morgana
Doctor Who: Battlefield
Morgaine
Danny the Champion of the World
Miss Hunter
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Self
Willow
Queen Bavmorda
Return to Oz
Nurse Wilson / Mombi
The Corsican Brothers
Mazzere
Royal Variety Performance 1984
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Sara Kingdom (archive footage) (uncredited)
See China and Die
Sally Hackman
The Changeling
Joanna Russell
The Eagle Has Landed
Joanna Grey
UFO: Radar contact... They're landing!
Dark Places
Victoria
The Persuaders!
Nicola
Frenzy
Monica Barling
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Mother on moonrocket
Skin Deep
Madeleine Walsh
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Rochester
The Limbo Line
A Bit of Crucifixion, Father
Edna
Charlie Bubbles
Waitress (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
Sara Kingdom
Doctor Who: The Crusade
Joanna
Face of a Stranger
Grace
Unearthly Stranger
Miss Ballard
Cleopatra
Octavia (uncredited)
Heart to Heart
Peggy Mann
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Horsemasters
Ingrid
The Horsemasters
Andrienne
The Rebel
Strange Woman at Party (Uncredited)
Back to Back
Caroline
The Moon and Sixpence
Ata
The Love Lottery
Dancer in Sally's Dream (uncredited)
The Limping Man
Landlady's Daughter