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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 1, 1934
Died
April 13, 2025
Place of Birth
Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh
- جین مارش
Jean Marsh
1.3 Popularity
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).
Known For
6.8
Queen Bavmorda
Willow
2022
7.3
Daisy Livingstone
Grantchester
2014
🎬
0.0
Outlier
2014
0.0
Colette
The Last Post
2011
7.4
Rose Buck
Upstairs Downstairs
2010
4.8
Mrs. Mason
The Heavy
2010
6.7
Crooked House
2008
6.7
Lady Constance de Momery
Crooked House
2008
7.6
Mrs. Ferrars
Sense and Sensibility
2008
0.0
Self
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Credits
Willow
as Queen Bavmorda
2022
6.8
Grantchester
as Daisy Livingstone
2014
7.3
🎬
Outlier
2014
0.0
The Last Post
as Colette
2011
0.0
Upstairs Downstairs
as Rose Buck
2010
7.4
The Heavy
as Mrs. Mason
2010
4.8
Crooked House
2008
6.7
Crooked House
as Lady Constance de Momery
2008
6.7
Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Ferrars
2008
7.6
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
2007
0.0
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.5
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
as Violet Sidney
2004
0.0
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
4.6
Monarch
as The Queens
2000
6.0
The Ghost Hunter
as Mrs Croker
2000
6.5
Holby City
as Vera Engells
1999
5.7
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
as Thyrza Grey
1997
5.6
Fatherland
as Anna von Hagen
1994
6.2
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994
6.0
Adam Bede
as Lisbeth Bede
1992
7.3
Bejewelled
as Barbara
1991
4.4
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
1990
6.0
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
as Morgana
1989
6.3
Doctor Who: Battlefield
as Morgaine
1989
7.2
Danny the Champion of the World
as Miss Hunter
1989
6.2
No Strings
1989
6.0
Sesame Street | Put Down the Duckie: An All-Star Musical Special
as Self
1988
6.0
Willow
as Queen Bavmorda
1988
7.0
Return to Oz
as Nurse Wilson / Mombi
1985
6.7
Answer Me
as Joan Matlin
1985
0.0
The Corsican Brothers
as Mazzere
1985
6.0
Tales from the Darkside
as Joan Matlin
1984
7.2
Murder, She Wrote
as Glenda Highsmith
1984
7.5
Master of the Game
as Mrs. Talley
1984
5.9
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
as Sara Kingdom (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984
7.8
9 to 5
as Roz Keith
1982
6.8
See China and Die
as Sally Hackman
1981
0.0
Goliath Awaits
as Dr. Goldman
1981
6.8
The Changeling
as Joanna Russell
1980
7.0
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
6.5
The Love Boat
as Celia Hoffman
1977
6.3
The Eagle Has Landed
as Joanna Grey
1976
6.6
UFO Contatto radar... Stanno atterrando!
1974
6.0
Dark Places
as Victoria
1973
5.5
The Persuaders!
as Nicola
1973
8.3
The Waltons
as Hilary von Kleist
1972
7.1
Frenzy
as Monica Barling
1972
7.1
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
as Mother on moonrocket
1972
4.4
Skin Deep
as Madeleine Walsh
1971
0.0
Upstairs, Downstairs
as Rose Buck
1971
7.6
Upstairs, Downstairs
as self
1971
7.6
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs. Vanrenen
1971
7.3
The Persuaders!
as Nicola
1971
7.6
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Rochester
1970
7.0
Play for Today
as Madeleine Walsh
1970
6.3
UFO
as Janna
1970
7.6
Department S
as Agatha Pollen
1969
4.9
The Limbo Line
1969
4.0
🎬
A Bit of Crucifixion, Father
as Edna
1968
0.0
Hawaii Five-O
as Sister Harmony
1968
7.1
The Expert
as Sybil Houghton
1968
10.0
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.7
Charlie Bubbles
as Waitress (uncredited)
1968
6.3
The Informer
as Sylvia Parrish
1966
0.0
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
as Sara Kingdom
1966
7.8
Doctor Who: The Crusade
as Joanna
1965
6.2
Gideon's Way
as Sandra Casey
1965
6.8
Gideon's Way
as Elspeth McCrae
1965
6.8
Face of a Stranger
1964
8.0
Doctor Who
as Sara Kingdom
1963
7.9
Doctor Who
as Morgaine
1963
7.9
Unearthly Stranger
as Miss Ballard
1963
5.7
Cleopatra
as Octavia
1963
7.0
Cleopatra
as Octavia (uncredited)
1963
7.0
Heart to Heart
as Peggy Mann
1962
0.0
The Saint
as Anne Kirby
1962
7.3
The Saint
as Maria
1962
7.3
The Saint
as Helen Phillips
1962
7.3
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.4
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1961
6.8
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Horsemasters
as Andrienne
1961
7.0
The Horsemasters
as Ingrid
1961
7.0
The Rebel
as Strange Woman at Party (Uncredited)
1961
7.8
Danger Man
1960
7.2
Back to Back
as Caroline
1959
0.0
The Moon and Sixpence
as Ata
1959
0.0
The Twilight Zone
as Alicia
1959
8.4
The Third Man
1959
6.7
The Love Lottery
as Dancer in Sally's Dream (uncredited)
1954
4.8
The Limping Man
as Landlady's Daughter
1953
5.2
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mazzere
1951
8.6