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.
Hassan Terro's Escape
The Odessa File
(Sigi)
The Likely Lads
(Christina)
Amazons and Gladiators
(Zenobia)
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
Three Kinds of Heat
(Piou)
A Class Apart
(Mrs. Fills)
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
(Romana)
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
(Romana)
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
(Romana)
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
(Romana)
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
(Romana)
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
(Romana)
Doghouse
(Meg Nut)
Sorted
(School Mother)
Tales That Witness Madness
(Ginny (segment "Luau"))
Who's Who
The Story of Doctor Who
Doctor Who: Logopolis
(Romana (I) (archive footage))
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
(Romana I (archive footage))
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
(Romana I (archive footage))
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
(Romana I (archive footage) (uncredited))
A Matter of Time
The Ties That Bind Us
(Romana (archive footage))
The Ribos File
Parrot Fashion
Getting Blood from the Stones
The Humans of Tara
Defining Shadows
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
(Self)
Myth Makers 21: Mary Tamm
(Self)
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
(Romana)
Stones Free
(Self)
There's Something About Mary...
(Self)
Brookside
Bergerac
(Leslie West)
Doctor Who
Crime Traveller
Heartbeat
(Marilyn)
Diamond Geezer
Doctors
Public Eye
(Jenny)
CI5: The New Professionals
Warship
The Hello Goodbye Man
Perfect Scoundrels
(Mary Cooper)
Spine Chillers
Doctor Who
(Romana)
Casualty
(Virginia Wilson)
Return of the Saint
(Gerri Hanson)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
(Mrs. Farley)
Doctor Who's Who's Who
(Romana)
The Girls of Slender Means
(Selina Redwood)
The Donati Conspiracy
(Sally Ross)
Jane Eyre
(Blanche Ingram)
Only When I Laugh
(Leonora)
The Inheritors
(Liz Fisher)
Twisted Tales
(Mrs Templeman)