Mary Tamm
ActingMary 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.
Known For
Doghouse
Meg Nut
The Odessa File
Sigi
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Romana I (archive footage)
The Ties That Bind Us
Romana (archive footage)
Sorted
School Mother
The Likely Lads
Christina
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Romana
Amazons and Gladiators
Zenobia
Tales That Witness Madness
Ginny (segment "Luau")
Three Kinds of Heat
Piou
Filmography — Acting
Doghouse
Meg Nut
The Odessa File
Sigi
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Romana I (archive footage)
The Ties That Bind Us
Romana (archive footage)
Sorted
School Mother
The Likely Lads
Christina
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Romana
Amazons and Gladiators
Zenobia
Tales That Witness Madness
Ginny (segment "Luau")
Three Kinds of Heat
Piou
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Romana I (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
Romana
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
Romana
A Class Apart
Mrs. Fills
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
Romana
Who's Who
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS
Romana I (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Romana (I) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
Romana
The Story of Doctor Who
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Romana
The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
Hassan Terro's Escape
Parrot Fashion
A Matter of Time
Getting Blood from the Stones
Defining Shadows
Tomorrow's Times: The First Doctor
Self
Merry Christmas Doctor Who
Romana
The Humans of Tara
