Jean Marsh
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh (1 July 1934 – 13 April 2025) was an English actress and writer. Born in London, Jean Marsh became interested in show business while taking dancing and mime classes as therapy for a childhood illness. After attending a charm school and working as a model, she started acting in repertory and took voice lessons. Her repertory work was supplemented by a number of film appearances as a dancer. She then spent three years in America, appearing in Sir John Gielgud's Broadway production of "Much Ado About Nothing" and numerous TV shows, including an episode of "The Twilight Zone"(1959). Returning to London, she won roles on stage, film and TV. It was during this period that she appeared in "Doctor Who" (1963), first as Princess Joanna in "The Crusade" and then as Sara Kingdom in "The Daleks' Master Plan." In the early 1970s she co-created and starred in LWT's "Upstairs, Downstairs" (1971). Since then she has maintained a very busy career in the theatre, on TV - including a starring role in the US sitcom "9 to 5"(1982) and films such as Return to Oz (1985) and Willow (1988). She also co-created another successful series, "The House of Eliott" (1991).
Known for
Credits
Frenzy (1972)
as Monica Barling
1 watch
🍿 5.0
Cleopatra (1963)
as Octavia (uncredited)
Willow (1988)
as Queen Bavmorda
Fatherland (1994)
as Anna von Hagen
The Changeling (1980)
as Joanna Russell
Return to Oz (1985)
as Nurse Wilson / Mombi
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
as Joanna Grey
The Horsemasters (1961)
as Andrienne
Bejewelled (1991)
as Barbara
Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
as Miss Hunter
Jane Eyre (1970)
as Mrs. Rochester
Doctor Who: Battlefield (1989)
as Morgaine
Outlier (2014)
as Lilith Winterbottom
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Dark Places (1973)
as Victoria
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks (1984)
as Sara Kingdom (archive footage) (uncredited)
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (1997)
as Thyrza Grey
The Rebel (1961)
as Strange Woman at Party (Uncredited)
Charlie Bubbles (1968)
as Waitress (uncredited)
Unearthly Stranger (1963)
as Miss Ballard
See China and Die (1981)
as Sally Hackman
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989)
as Morgana
The Heavy (2010)
as Mrs. Mason
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
The Limping Man (1953)
as Landlady's Daughter
Adam Bede (1992)
as Lisbeth Bede
Face of a Stranger (1964)
as Grace
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
as Mother on moonrocket
The Love Lottery (1954)
as Dancer in Sally's Dream (uncredited)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
as Self
The Corsican Brothers (1985)
as Mazzere
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan (1965)
as Sara Kingdom
Doctor Who: The Crusade (1965)
as Joanna
A Bit of Crucifixion, Father (1968)
as Edna
Royal Variety Performance 1984 (1984)
Actor
The Moon and Sixpence (1959)
as Ata
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie (1988)
as Self
After Upstairs Downstairs (2002)
as Self
The Persuaders! (1973)
as Nicola
Heart to Heart (1962)
as Peggy Mann
The Limbo Line (1969)
Actor
UFO: Radar contact... They're landing! (1974)
Actor
The Last Post (2011)
as Colette
Back to Back (1959)
as Caroline
Monarch (2000)
as The Queens
Skin Deep (1971)
as Madeleine Walsh