Mary Tamm
Acting
Born March 22, 1950 · 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…
Known For · 40 titles
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Brookside
Casualty
Heartbeat
Doctors
Bergerac
Public Eye
Return of the Saint
Wire in the Blood
Worlds Beyond
Jane Eyre
Rose and Maloney
Warship
Only When I Laugh
Twisted Tales
Spine Chillers
CI5: The New Professionals
Perfect Scoundrels
Crime Traveller
The Odessa File
Doghouse
The Inheritors
The Donati Conspiracy
The Hello Goodbye Man
Parrot Fashion
Who's Who
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Sorted
Tales That Witness Madness
Amazons and Gladiators
The Girls of Slender Means
Diamond Geezer
Doctor Who's Who's Who
Doctor Who: Logopolis
The Story of Doctor Who
The Ties That Bind Us
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
The Treachery Game
The Likely Lads