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