10 Facts About Barbara Marten

Barbara Marten was born on 31 January 1952 and is a British actress.

Barbara Marten is most known for playing Eve Montgomery in Casualty.

Barbara Marten has appeared in various soaps, including EastEnders and Brookside, as well as many other drama serials, such as Harry, The Bill and Band of Gold.

Barbara Marten went to the all-girls William Newton School in Norton, then Stockton and Billingham Technical College.

Barbara Marten went to drama school at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art as a teenager for three years, and later said that it put her off becoming an actress.

Barbara Marten trained as a teacher in Birmingham and taught for two years before being drawn back to the stage.

In 1996, Barbara Marten appeared at the National Theatre in Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Barbara Marten played the lead role of Ellen in the film Between Two Women, and then in A Passionate Woman as Moira.

Barbara Marten then played Hannah Greg in the period television drama series The Mill which was about life at Quarry Bank Mill during the Industrial Revolution.

Barbara Marten met Kenny in the 1980s, while acting in a student pantomime in Birmingham, when they were studying to become teachers.