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| [[Image:Marshj02.jpg|right|175px|Jean Marsh in an agency publicity photo, circa 1992]]
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| '''Jean Marsh''', (born [[1st July|1]][[July]], [[1934]], in [[Wikipedia:Stoke Newington|Stoke Newington]], [[London]]), played [[companion]] [[Sara Kingdom]] in "[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]." Prior to that story, she appeared as [[Joanna]], [[Richard Lionheart]]'s sister, in "[[The Crusade (TV story)|The Crusade]]," and later played Morgaine in "[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]." Outside her appearances on ''[[Doctor Who]],'' she is best known for creating the [[television]] series ''[[Wikipedia:Upstairs, Downstairs|Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' (with Dame [[Wikipedia:Eileen Atkins|Eileen Atkins]]) and for portraying maid Rose Buck in the same series. She and Atkins also co-created the [[1991]] television series ''[[Wikipedia:The House of Eliott|The House of Eliott]]''.
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| Marsh has had several film appearances, including the fantasy films ''[[Wikipedia:Return to Oz|Return to Oz]]'' ([[1985]]) and ''[[Wikipedia:Willow (movie)|Willow]]'' ([[1988]]) in which she plays similar characters of an evil Princess and an evil Queen. Around the same time as her appearance as Morgaine in "Battlefield," she also played Morgaine in an [[United States|American]] television adaptation of ''[[Wikipedia:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court|A Connecticut Yankee in KIng Arthur's Court]],'' starring ''[[Wikipedia:The Cosby Show|The Cosby Show]]'' 's [[Wikipedia:Keshia Knight Pullam|Keshia Knight Pullam]]. She also played Roz in the original version of the ''9 to 5'' television series, based on the [[1980]] comedy film, and had a small but significant role in the [[Wikipedia:Alfred Hitchcock|Alfred Hitchcock]] film, ''Frenzy''.
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| Marsh also made many appearances on British and American television programs in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]], including ''[[Wikipedia:The Twilight Zone|The Twilight Zone]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:UFO (TV series)|UFO]]''. She was once married to [[Jon Pertwee]], the third actor to play the character of [[Third Doctor|the Doctor]] on ''Doctor Who''. One favorite anecdote of her time playing Sara Kingdom is of how she used the space pack which was part of her costume to store her lunch [[sandwich]]es, as related in a ''Doctor Who'' anniversary publication produced by ''[[Wikipedia:Starlog|Starlog]]'' in [[1983]].
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| ==External links==
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| *{{imdb name|id=0550577|name = Jean Marsh}}
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| *{{Wikipedia|Jean_Marsh}}
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| [[Category:Doctor Who cast|Marsh, Jean]]
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| [[Category:Real World|Marsh, Jean]]
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