Mary Tamm
Acting
1950-03-22 · Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
2017 · Movie
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
2013 · Movie
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
2011 · Movie
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
2010 · Movie
Doghouse
2009 · Movie
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Movie
Parrot Fashion
2007 · Movie
The Humans of Tara
2007 · Movie
A Matter of Time
2007 · Movie
Getting Blood from the Stones
2007 · Movie
The Ribos File
2007 · Movie
Defining Shadows
2007 · Movie
A Class Apart
2007 · Movie
Diamond Geezer
2005 · Series
Twisted Tales
2005 · Series
The Story of Doctor Who
2003 · Movie
Spine Chillers
2003 · Series
Wire in the Blood
2002 · Series
Rose and Maloney
2002 · Series
Amazons and Gladiators
2001 · Movie
Sorted
2000 · Movie
Doctors
2000 · Series
CI5: The New Professionals
1999 · Series
Crime Traveller
1997 · Series
Heartbeat
1992 · Series
Perfect Scoundrels
1990 · Series
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Series
Three Kinds of Heat
1987 · Movie
Worlds Beyond
1986 · Series
Casualty
1986 · Series
Who's Who
1986 · Movie
Doctor Who's Who's Who
1985 · Series
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984 · Movie
The Hello Goodbye Man
1984 · Series
Jane Eyre
1983 · Series
Brookside
1982 · Series
Bergerac
1981 · Series
Doctor Who: Logopolis
1981 · Movie
The Treachery Game
1981 · Series
The Assassination Run
1980 · Series
Only When I Laugh
1979 · Series
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
1979 · Movie
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
1978 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
1978 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
1978 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
1978 · Movie
Return of the Saint
1978 · Series
The Likely Lads
1976 · Movie
The Girls of Slender Means
1975 · Series
The Odessa File
1974 · Movie
The Inheritors
1974 · Series
Hassan Terro's Escape
1974 · Movie
Tales That Witness Madness
1973 · Movie
The Donati Conspiracy
1973 · Series
Warship
1973 · Series
Public Eye
1965 · Series
Doctor Who
1963 · Series