1. Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh was an English actress and writer.
28 Facts About Jean Marsh
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Jean Marsh co-created and starred in the ITV series Upstairs, Downstairs, for which she won the 1975 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Rose Buck.
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Jean Marsh reprised the role in the BBC's revival of the series.
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Jean Marsh is known for three roles in Doctor Who: as Joan of England in The Crusade; Sara Kingdom, a companion of the First Doctor; and a villain opposite the Seventh Doctor.
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Jean Marsh was briefly married to Jon Pertwee, who played the Third Doctor in the series, from 1955 to 1960.
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Jean Marsh was born on 1 July 1934, and grew up in Stoke Newington, London, one of two daughters born to Henry and Emmeline Jean Marsh.
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Jean Marsh studied ballet, singing, and acting from an early age.
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Jean Marsh was a regular alongside Ian Hendry in the ITV series The Informer.
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Jean Marsh appeared several times in the BBC series Doctor Who.
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Jean Marsh returned later that year as companion Sara Kingdom in 9 episodes of the 12-part serial The Daleks' Master Plan.
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Jean Marsh reprised the role in the audio plays Home Truths, The Drowned World, The Guardian of the Solar System, The Five Companions, The Anachronauts, The Light At The End, An Ordinary Life and The Sontarans.
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Jean Marsh appeared in the 1989 television serial Battlefield as Morgaine, as well as the 2007 audio play The Wishing Beast.
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Jean Marsh made an un-billed cameo appearance in the 2013 docudrama about Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time.
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Jean Marsh received awards from the American Drama Centre and American Drama Critics Circle for the role as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations.
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Jean Marsh served as the presenter for International Animation Festival, an American public television series featuring award-winning animated short films from around the world.
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From 2000 until 2002, Jean Marsh appeared in The Ghost Hunter.
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Jean Marsh made an appearance in the 2008 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility; played the recurring character Lizzie Galbraith alongside Joanna Lumley as Davina Jackson in Babycow Productions' Sensitive Skin, which aired on BBC Two in 2005 and 2007.
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Jean Marsh appeared in December 2008 in a role written for her by Mark Gatiss, in BBC Four's Crooked House.
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Jean Marsh reprised her role as Rose Buck, who had returned to London to run an agency for domestic servants after a period spent nursing her mother in Suffolk.
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Eileen Atkins, who co-created the original series with Jean Marsh, starred in the revived series.
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Subsequently, a six-part second series was commissioned, and began transmission in February 2012 with Jean Marsh's character appearing less frequently due to the stroke suffered by the actress.
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Jean Marsh wrote several books: Fiennders Abbey, The House of Eliott, and Iris.
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Jean Marsh was married to the actor Jon Pertwee from 1955 until their divorce in 1960.
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Jean Marsh had relationships with Albert Finney, Kenneth Haigh, and film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
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On 3 October 2011, the BBC announced that Jean Marsh had suffered a minor stroke and would miss the beginning of the second series of the revived Upstairs, Downstairs.
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Jean Marsh was ultimately only able to appear in two short scenes and a third series was not commissioned.
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Jean Marsh died from complications of dementia, at her London home, on 13 April 2025, at the age of 90.
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Jean Marsh was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.