Mary Tamm
Actor
Born March 22, 1950 in 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.
Filmography
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Romana I (archive footage)
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
Self
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Romana I (archive footage)
Doghouse
Meg Nut
The Ties That Bind Us
Romana (archive footage)
A Matter of Time
The Ribos File
Parrot Fashion
Getting Blood from the Stones
The Humans of Tara
Defining Shadows
A Class Apart
Mrs. Fills
Diamond Geezer
Twisted Tales
Mrs Templeman
The Story of Doctor Who
Spine Chillers
Wire in the Blood
Elektra
Rose and Maloney
Danuta Richmond
Amazons and Gladiators
Zenobia
Sorted
School Mother
Doctors
CI5: The New Professionals
Crime Traveller
Heartbeat
Marilyn
Perfect Scoundrels
Mary Cooper
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs. Farley
Three Kinds of Heat
Piou
Worlds Beyond
Susan Wentworth
Casualty
Virginia Wilson
Who's Who
Doctor Who's Who's Who
Romana
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Romana I (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jane Eyre
Blanche Ingram
Brookside
Bergerac
Leslie West
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Romana (I) (archive footage)
The Assassination Run
Jill Fraser
Only When I Laugh
Leonora
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Romana
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Romana
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
Romana
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Romana
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Romana
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Romana
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Romana
Return of the Saint
Gerri Hanson
The Likely Lads
Christina
The Girls of Slender Means
Selina Redwood
The Odessa File
Sigi
Hassan Terro's Escape
Tales That Witness Madness
Ginny (segment "Luau")
The Donati Conspiracy
Sally Ross
Warship
Public Eye
Jenny
Doctor Who