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Jean Marsh plays a ghostly amalgamation of Henry VIII's past wives, visiting the sickly Monarch shortly before his death.

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Jean Marsh

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Overview

  • Born
    July 1, 1934 · Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
  • Died
    April 13, 2025 · London, England, UK (dementia)
  • Birth name
    Jean Lyndsay Torren Marsh
  • Height
    1.69 m

Biography

    • Born in London, Jean Marsh became interested in show business while taking dancing and mime classes as therapy for a childhood illness. After attending a charm school and working as a model, she started acting in repertory and took voice lessons. Her repertory work was supplemented by a number of film appearances as a dancer. She then spent three years in America, appearing in Sir John Gielgud's Broadway production of "Much Ado About Nothing" and numerous TV shows, including an episode of La quatrième dimension (1959). Returning to London, she won roles on stage, film and TV. It was during this period that she appeared in Docteur Who (1963), first as Princess Joanna in "The Crusade" and then as Sara Kingdom in "The Daleks' Master Plan." In the early 1970s she co-created and starred in LWT's Maîtres et valets (1971). Since then she has maintained a very busy career in the theatre, on TV - including a starring role in the US sitcom Comment se débarrasser de son patron (1982) and films such as Oz: Un monde extraordinaire (1985) and Willow (1988). She also co-created another successful series, The House of Eliott (1991).
      - IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Family

  • Spouse
      Jon Pertwee(April 2, 1955 - August 8, 1960) (divorced)
  • Parents
      Henry Charles John Marsh
      Emmeline Susannah Nightingale Poppy

Trivia

  • Co-created (with actress Eileen Atkins), her most memorable series Maîtres et valets (1971) which ran from 1971 to 1975. The two actresses later co-created The House of Eliott (1991) for BBC TV.
  • She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
  • A cabaret singer and photo model in her early years while studying acting and mime.
  • Suffered a stroke and minor heart attack in 2011, causing her to miss much of the second series of the revival of Maîtres et valets (2010).
  • Along with Harold Innocent and Terence de Marney, she is one of only three actors to appear in both Docteur Who (1963) and La quatrième dimension (1959).

Quotes

  • [on Downton Abbey (2010)] I think we were all surprised. The new Upstairs, Downstairs had been in the works for about three years. We were trying to sort out... 40 years of rights and then it also started - Downton Abbey - in the Edwardian era, which Upstairs, Downstairs did. So it might be a coincidence and I might be the queen of Belgium.
  • [asked if she owns a piece of Maîtres et valets (1971)] I get a residual for the idea as much as I get a residual for the acting. It's a very low fee. I think I got something like $100 an episode initially for the idea, and my royalty is based on that rate. I've got a saying: "If it had been made in America I'd be Mary Tyler Moore. As it is, I'm Mary Tyler Less."

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