Jean Marsh
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Jean Marsh, (born 1 July 1934, in Stoke Newington, London, England), is an actress and writer best known for creating the British television series Upstairs, Downstairs (with Dame Eileen Atkins) and for portraying house parlourmaid 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.
Marsh also made many appearances on British and American television programs in the 1950s and 1960s, including The Twilight Zone (in a memorable episode in which she played a prisoner's robotic companion) and UFO. She also had a role in the failed television series based on the movie of the same name, 9 to 5.
She was once married to Jon Pertwee, the third actor to play the character of Doctor on the television series Doctor Who. Marsh herself appeared three times in the series, both before and after Pertwee's era, playing different characters, including the First Doctor's companion Sara Kingdom. Her part of Morgaine in the serial Battlefield is similar to her roles in the above-mentioned fantasy films. Coincidentally, Marsh appeared with Nicholas Courtney in both his first and last Doctor Who television appearances, The Daleks' Master Plan and Battlefield respectively, notwithstanding his role in the Children in Need special Dimensions in Time.
In 2000 Marsh had a starring role in CBBC drama The Ghosthunter, as the evil Mrs Croker. The Ghosthunter ran for three series from 2000–2002. Marsh also made an appearance in the Blue Peter Quest in 2003 as the villain, Stryker.
Today Marsh now lives in Boxford Berkshire, and when she isn't acting, she spends her time shopping in Waitrose.
[edit] External links
Jean Marsh at the Internet Movie Database
