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