Mary Tamm
Born: 1950-03-22 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died: 2012-07-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2013
- Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS as Romana I (archive footage)
2011
2010
- Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2 as Romana I (archive footage)
2009
- Doghouse as Meg Nut
2008
- The Ties That Bind Us as Romana (archive footage)
2007
2005
- Twisted Tales as Mrs Templeman
- Diamond Geezer
2002
- Wire in the Blood as Elektra
2001
- Amazons and Gladiators as Zenobia
1997
1992
- Heartbeat as Marilyn
1990
- Perfect Scoundrels as Mary Cooper
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Farley
1987
- Three Kinds of Heat as Piou
1986
- Casualty as Virginia Wilson
- Worlds Beyond as Susan Wentworth
- Who's Who
1985
- Doctor Who's Who's Who as Romana
1984
- The Hello Goodbye Man as Jennifer Reynoldston
- Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks as Romana I (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
- Jane Eyre as Blanche Ingram
1982
1981
- Bergerac as Leslie West
- Doctor Who: Logopolis as Romana (I) (archive footage)
1979
- Only When I Laugh as Leonora
- Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor as Romana
- Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll as Romana
1978
- Return of the Saint as Gerri Hanson
- Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet as Romana
- Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara as Romana
- Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation as Romana
- Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood as Romana
- Merry Christmas Doctor Who as Romana
1976
- The Likely Lads as Christina
1975
- The Girls of Slender Means as Selina Redwood
1974
- The Odessa File as Sigi
- The Inheritors as Liz Fisher
- Hassan Terro's Escape
1973
- Warship
- The Donati Conspiracy as Sally Ross
- Tales That Witness Madness as Ginny (segment "Luau")
1965
- Public Eye as Jenny