Mary Tamm
Known for: Acting
Born: March 22, 1950
Died: July 26, 2012
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
31 movies · 28 TV shows, newest first
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The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
2017
6.7
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
2013
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Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
2011
6.5
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
2010
5.8
Doghouse
2009
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The Ties That Bind Us
2008
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A Matter of Time
2007
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The Ribos File
2007
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Parrot Fashion
2007
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Getting Blood from the Stones
2007
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The Humans of Tara
2007
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Defining Shadows
2007
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A Class Apart
2007
8.5
Diamond Geezer
2005
7.7
Twisted Tales
2005
8.0
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
7.5
Spine Chillers
2003
7.9
Wire in the Blood
2002
6.4
Rose and Maloney
2002
3.2
Amazons and Gladiators
2001
5.5
Sorted
2000
4.8
Doctors
2000
6.8
CI5: The New Professionals
1999
7.3
Crime Traveller
1997
7.2
Heartbeat
1992
6.0
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
5.4
Three Kinds of Heat
1987
5.8
Worlds Beyond
1986
6.2
Casualty
1986
10.0
Who's Who
1986
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Doctor Who's Who's Who
1985
7.9
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
19846.5
The Hello Goodbye Man
1984
7.1
Jane Eyre
1983
6.2
Brookside
1982
7.0
Bergerac
1981
7.0
Doctor Who: Logopolis
198110.0
The Treachery Game
1981
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The Assassination Run
1980
6.7
Only When I Laugh
1979
5.5
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979
4.7
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
1979
10.0
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
1978
7.2
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
1978
7.8
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
1978
7.0
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978
6.8
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
1978
7.0
Return of the Saint
1978
6.3
The Likely Lads
1976
3.7
The Girls of Slender Means
1975
6.6
The Odessa File
1974NR
The Inheritors
1974
8.3
Hassan Terro's Escape
1974
5.5
Tales That Witness Madness
1973
8.0
The Donati Conspiracy
1973
6.7
Warship
1973
8.2
Public Eye
1965
7.9
Doctor Who
1963