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Mary Tamm

Mary Tamm

Birthday: 1950-03-22 | Place of Birth: Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK

Mary Tamm (22 March 1950 – 26 July 2012) was a British actress who appeared in many British TV drama series and serials. She is best known for her role as Romana I in the BBC's science fiction television series Doctor Who, appearing opposite Tom Baker in the 1978–1979 story arc The Key to Time. Tamm was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, to an Estonian father and a half-Russian mother, who was an opera singer. Her parents had fled Estonia after four of her father's brothers had died in Stalin's gulag labour camps. Tamm spoke only Estonian at home and attended Estonian-language school on Saturdays. She did not begin learning English until she was enrolled in primary school. At age 11, she won a scholarship to attend Bradford Girls' Grammar School and joined the city's Civic Theatre. She was a graduate and an associate member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she studied from 1969 to 1971.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2013
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS

as    Romana I (archive footage)

2001
Amazons and Gladiators

as    Zenobia

1987
Three Kinds of Heat

as    Piou

1984
The Hello Goodbye Man

as    Jennifer Reynoldston

1979
1979
1978
1978
1978
1978
1978
Merry Christmas Doctor Who

as    Romana

1976
The Likely Lads

as    Christina

1975
The Girls of Slender Means

as    Selina Redwood

1974
The Odessa File

as    Sigi