
Mary Tamm
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
Credits
- 2017 · The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years as
- 2013 · Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS as Romana I (archive footage)
- 2011 · Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor as Self
- 2010 · Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2 as Romana I (archive footage)
- 2009 · Doghouse as Meg Nut
- 2008 · The Ties That Bind Us as Romana (archive footage)
- 2007 · Parrot Fashion as
- 2007 · A Matter of Time as
- 2007 · Getting Blood from the Stones as
- 2007 · The Humans of Tara as
- 2007 · The Ribos File as
- 2007 · Defining Shadows as
- 2007 · A Class Apart as Mrs. Fills
- 2005 · Diamond Geezer as
- 2005 · Twisted Tales as
- 2003 · The Story of Doctor Who as
- 2003 · Spine Chillers as
- 2001 · Amazons and Gladiators as Zenobia
- 2000 · Sorted as School Mother
- 2000 · Doctors as
- 1999 · CI5: The New Professionals as
- 1997 · Crime Traveller as
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Marilyn
- 1990 · Perfect Scoundrels as Mary Cooper
- 1990 · Myth Makers 21: Mary Tamm as Self
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Farley
- 1987 · Three Kinds of Heat as Piou
- 1986 · Casualty as Virginia Wilson
- 1986 · Who's Who as
- 1985 · Doctor Who's Who's Who as Romana
- 1984 · Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks as Romana I (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1984 · The Hello Goodbye Man as
- 1983 · Jane Eyre as Blanche Ingram
- 1982 · Brookside as
- 1981 · Bergerac as Leslie West
- 1981 · Doctor Who: Logopolis as Romana (I) (archive footage)
- 1979 · Only When I Laugh as Leonora
- 1979 · Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor as Romana
- 1979 · Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll as Romana
- 1978 · Merry Christmas Doctor Who as Romana
- 1978 · Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara as Romana
- 1978 · Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood as Romana
- 1978 · Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet as Romana
- 1978 · Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation as Romana
- 1978 · Return of the Saint as Gerri Hanson
- 1976 · The Likely Lads as Christina
- 1975 · The Girls of Slender Means as Selina Redwood
- 1974 · The Odessa File as Sigi
- 1974 · The Inheritors as Liz Fisher
- 1974 · Hassan Terro's Escape as
- 1973 · Tales That Witness Madness as Ginny (segment "Luau")
- 1973 · The Donati Conspiracy as Sally Ross
- 1973 · Warship as
- 1965 · Public Eye as Jenny
- 1963 · Doctor Who as
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Romana