Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh was born on 1 July 1934 and is an English actress and writer.
25 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 later reprised the role in the BBC's revival of the series.
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Jean Marsh was born and grew up in Stoke Newington, London, the daughter of Emmeline Susannah Nightingale Poppy, a bar employee and dresser for the theatre, and Henry Charles John Jean Marsh, an outdoor maintenance man and printer's assistant.
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Jean Marsh was a regular in the ITV series The Informer starring Ian Hendry.
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Jean Marsh has 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 featured as Bertha Mason Rochester in the George C Scott-Susannah York version of Jane Eyre, directed by Delbert Mann.
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Jean Marsh received awards from the American Drama Centre and American Drama Critics Circle for the role, and 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 BBC Four's Crooked House in December 2008 in a role especially written for her by Mark Gatiss.
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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 has written 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 has 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 Upstairs, Downstairs.
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Jean Marsh was ultimately able to appear in only two scenes over the series.
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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.