Mary Tamm
Acting • Born 1950-03-22 – Died 2012-07-26
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.
Filmography
56 credits
Hassan Terro's Escape
Movie • 1974
The Odessa File
Movie • 1974
Sigi
Amazons and Gladiators
Movie • 2001
Zenobia
The Likely Lads
Movie • 1976
Christina
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
Movie • 2017
Three Kinds of Heat
Movie • 1987
Piou
A Class Apart
Movie • 2007
Mrs. Fills
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Movie • 1978
Romana
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Movie • 1978
Romana
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Movie • 1978
Romana
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Movie • 1978
Romana
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Movie • 1979
Romana
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Movie • 1979
Romana
Doghouse
Movie • 2009
Meg Nut
Sorted
Movie • 2000
School Mother
Tales That Witness Madness
Movie • 1973
Ginny (segment "Luau")
Who's Who
Movie • 1986
The Story of Doctor Who
Movie • 2003
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Movie • 1981
Romana (I) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Movie • 2013
Romana I (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Movie • 2010
Romana I (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Movie • 1984
Romana I (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Matter of Time
Movie • 2007
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
Romana (archive footage)
The Ribos File
Movie • 2007
Parrot Fashion
Movie • 2007
Getting Blood from the Stones
Movie • 2007
The Humans of Tara
Movie • 2007
Defining Shadows
Movie • 2007
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
Movie • 2011
Self
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
Movie • 1978
Romana
Brookside
TV • 1982
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Leslie West
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Crime Traveller
TV • 1997
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Marilyn
Diamond Geezer
TV • 2005
Doctors
TV • 2000
Public Eye
TV • 1965
Jenny
CI5: The New Professionals
TV • 1999
Warship
TV • 1973
Perfect Scoundrels
TV • 1990
Mary Cooper
Spine Chillers
TV • 2003
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Romana
Casualty
TV • 1986
Virginia Wilson
Return of the Saint
TV • 1978
Gerri Hanson
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Mrs. Farley
Doctor Who's Who's Who
TV • 1985
Romana
The Girls of Slender Means
TV • 1975
Selina Redwood
The Donati Conspiracy
TV • 1973
Sally Ross
Jane Eyre
TV • 1983
Blanche Ingram
Only When I Laugh
TV • 1979
Leonora
The Inheritors
TV • 1974
Liz Fisher
Twisted Tales
TV • 2005
Mrs Templeman
The Hello Goodbye Man
TV • 1984
Jennifer Reynoldston
Worlds Beyond
TV • 1986
Susan Wentworth