Acting credits
52
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Mary Tamm
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 31Series: 21
TMDB ID: 1225428
IMDb ID: nm0848693
Known for: Acting
Born: March 22, 1950
Died: July 26, 2012
Age: 62
Place of birth: Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1963 - 2017
Years active: 55
Average TMDB rating: 6.57
Wikidata: Q463797
Biography
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Mary Tamm.
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
2017 Movie
7.1
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
as Romana I (archive footage)
2013 Movie
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
as Self
2011 Movie
6.5
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
as Romana I (archive footage)
2010 Movie
5.8
Doghouse
as Meg Nut
2009 Movie
The Ties That Bind Us
as Romana (archive footage)
2008 Movie
A Matter of Time
2007 Movie
The Ribos File
2007 Movie
Parrot Fashion
2007 Movie
Getting Blood from the Stones
2007 Movie
The Humans of Tara
2007 Movie
Defining Shadows
2007 Movie
A Class Apart
as Mrs. Fills
2007 Movie
The Story of Doctor Who
2003 Movie
2.8
Amazons and Gladiators
as Zenobia
2001 Movie
5.3
Sorted
as School Mother
2000 Movie
4.2
Three Kinds of Heat
as Piou
1987 Movie
Who's Who
1986 Movie
7.9
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
as Romana I (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984 Movie
7.0
Doctor Who: Logopolis
as Romana (I) (archive footage)
1981 Movie
5.5
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
as Romana
1979 Movie
4.7
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
as Romana
1979 Movie
10.0
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
as Romana
1978 Movie
7.3
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
as Romana
1978 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Mary Tamm.
7.0
Diamond Geezer
3 eps
2005 Series
7.0
Twisted Tales
as Mrs Templeman • 1 eps
2005 Series
7.0
Spine Chillers
1 eps
2003 Series
4.7
Doctors
1 eps
2000 Series
6.5
CI5: The New Professionals
1 eps
1999 Series
7.4
Crime Traveller
1 eps
1997 Series
7.1
Heartbeat
as Marilyn • 1 eps
1992 Series
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs. Farley • 1 eps
1989 Series
5.2
Worlds Beyond
as Susan Wentworth • 1 eps
1986 Series
6.2
Casualty
as Virginia Wilson • 1 eps
1986 Series
Doctor Who's Who's Who
as Romana • 1 eps
1985 Series
7.1
Jane Eyre
as Blanche Ingram • 2 eps
1983 Series
6.1
Brookside
2850 eps
1982 Series
6.7
Bergerac
as Leslie West • 1 eps
1981 Series
6.7
Only When I Laugh
as Leonora • 1 eps
1979 Series
7.0
Return of the Saint
as Gerri Hanson • 1 eps
1978 Series
1.0
The Girls of Slender Means
as Selina Redwood • 3 eps
1975 Series
7.0
The Donati Conspiracy
as Sally Ross • 3 eps
1973 Series
5.5
Warship
1 eps
1973 Series
7.8
Public Eye
as Jenny • 1 eps
1965 Series
7.9
Doctor Who
1963 Series