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.
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Movies (31)
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
2017
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
2013 · Romana I (archive footage)
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
2011 · Self
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
2010 · Romana I (archive footage)
Doghouse
2009 · Meg Nut
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Romana (archive footage)
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 · Mrs. Fills
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
Amazons and Gladiators
2001 · Zenobia
Sorted
2000 · School Mother
Three Kinds of Heat
1987 · Piou
Who's Who
1986
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984 · Romana I (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Logopolis
1981 · Romana (I) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979 · Romana
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
1979 · Romana
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
1978 · Romana
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
1978 · Romana
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
1978 · Romana
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978 · Romana
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
1978 · Romana
The Likely Lads
1976 · Christina
The Odessa File
1974 · Sigi
Hassan Terro's Escape
1974
Tales That Witness Madness
1973 · Ginny (segment "Luau")
TV shows (28)
Diamond Geezer
2005
Twisted Tales
2005 · Mrs Templeman
Spine Chillers
2003 · Mrs Templeton
Wire in the Blood
2002 · Elektra
Rose and Maloney
2002 · Danuta Richmond
Doctors
2000
CI5: The New Professionals
1999
Crime Traveller
1997
Heartbeat
1992 · Marilyn
Perfect Scoundrels
1990 · Mary Cooper
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Mrs. Farley
Worlds Beyond
1986 · Susan Wentworth
Casualty
1986 · Virginia Wilson
Doctor Who's Who's Who
1985 · Romana
The Hello Goodbye Man
1984 · Jennifer Reynoldston
Jane Eyre
1983 · Blanche Ingram
Brookside
1982 · Penny Crosbie
Bergerac
1981 · Leslie West
The Treachery Game
1981 · Jill Fraser
The Assassination Run
1980 · Jill Fraser
Only When I Laugh
1979 · Leonora
Return of the Saint
1978 · Gerri Hanson
The Girls of Slender Means
1975 · Selina Redwood
The Inheritors
1974 · Liz Fisher
The Donati Conspiracy
1973 · Sally Ross
Warship
1973
Public Eye
1965 · Jenny
Doctor Who
1963 · Romana