Mary Tamm

Acting

Born: 1950-03-22 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK

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.

Mary Tamm

Biography

Known For

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Doghouse

The Odessa File

Casualty

Wire in the Blood

Tales That Witness Madness

Doctors

Jane Eyre

Heartbeat

Bergerac

Brookside

The Likely Lads

Sorted

Amazons and Gladiators

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2

Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS

Only When I Laugh

Return of the Saint

Doctor Who: Logopolis

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

Crime Traveller

Public Eye

Three Kinds of Heat

Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation

Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood

CI5: The New Professionals

Worlds Beyond

Rose and Maloney

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

Hassan Terro's Escape

Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll

Warship

The Girls of Slender Means

Twisted Tales

Diamond Geezer

Spine Chillers