Jean Marsh

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Jean Marsh in an agency publicity photo, circa 1992

Jean Marsh, (born 1 July, 1934, in Stoke Newington, London), played companion Sara Kingdom in "The Daleks' Master Plan." Prior to that story, she appeared as Joanna, Richard The Lionheart's sister, in "The Crusade," and later played Morgaine in "Battlefield." Outside her appearances on Doctor Who, she is best known for creating the television series Upstairs, Downstairs (with Dame Eileen Atkins) and for portraying maid Rose Buck in the same series. She and Atkins also co-created the 1991 television series The House of Eliott.

Marsh has had several film appearances, including the fantasy films Return to Oz (1985) and 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 Morgana in an American television adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in KIng Arthur's Court, starring The Cosby Show 's 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 Alfred Hitchcock film, Frenzy.

Marsh also made many appearances on British and American television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, including The Twilight Zone and UFO. She was once married to Jon Pertwee, the third actor to play the character of the Doctor on Doctor Who. One favourite anecdote of her time playing Sara Kingdom is of how she used the space pack which was part of her costume to store her sandwiches, as related in a Doctor Who anniversary publication produced by Radio Times in 1983.

External links

• Jean Marsh at the Internet Movie Database