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Jean Marsh, the Emmy-winning star of Upstairs, Downstairs, has passed away.

Per the New York Times, Marsh died at her London home on Sunday. According to her close friend, filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Marsh's death was attributed to complications from dementia. She was 90 years old.

Jean Lyndsay Torren Marsh was born on July 1, 1934. She attended theater school before making her on-screen debut at the age of 18 in the 1952 TV movie The Infinite Shoeblack. She's make her feature film debut the following year in 1953's The Limping Man. By 1959, she relocated to the United States, picking up a role in the first season of The Twilight Zone as a robot companion created for a prisoner (played by Jack Warden) on an asteroid.

In the early 1970s, Marsh helped launch the TV series Upstairs, Downstairs. The show lasted from 1971 to 1975 in England and from 1974 to 1977 in the United States. Marsh played the role of Rose,...

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