Mary Tamm
Acting
- Born:
- 1950-03-22
- Died:
- 2012-07-26
- Place of birth:
- Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Doghouse
The Ties That Bind Us
A Matter of Time
The Ribos File
Parrot Fashion
Getting Blood from the Stones
The Humans of Tara
Defining Shadows
A Class Apart
Diamond Geezer
Twisted Tales
The Story of Doctor Who
Spine Chillers
Wire in the Blood
Rose and Maloney
Amazons and Gladiators
Sorted
Doctors
CI5: The New Professionals
Crime Traveller
Heartbeat
Perfect Scoundrels
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Three Kinds of Heat
Worlds Beyond
Casualty
Who's Who
Doctor Who's Who's Who
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
The Hello Goodbye Man
Jane Eyre
Brookside
Bergerac
Doctor Who: Logopolis
The Treachery Game
The Assassination Run
Only When I Laugh
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Return of the Saint
The Likely Lads
The Girls of Slender Means
The Odessa File
The Inheritors
Hassan Terro's Escape
Tales That Witness Madness
The Donati Conspiracy
Warship
Public Eye
Doctor Who