Mary Tamm
Acting · Born 1950-03-22 · age 62 at death · 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.
Titles
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Doghouse
The Odessa File
Casualty
Wire in the Blood
Tales That Witness Madness
Doctors
Jane Eyre
Heartbeat
Bergerac
The Likely Lads
Brookside
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Sorted
Amazons and Gladiators
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Only When I Laugh
Return of the Saint
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Public Eye
Crime Traveller
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
CI5: The New Professionals
Rose and Maloney
Worlds Beyond
Three Kinds of Heat
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Hassan Terro's Escape
Twisted Tales
Warship
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
The Girls of Slender Means
Diamond Geezer
The Donati Conspiracy
The Hello Goodbye Man
Who's Who
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
The Treachery Game
The Story of Doctor Who
Spine Chillers
Perfect Scoundrels
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
A Class Apart
A Matter of Time
The Ties That Bind Us
The Ribos File
Parrot Fashion
Getting Blood from the Stones
The Humans of Tara
Defining Shadows
Doctor Who's Who's Who
The Assassination Run