Mary Tamm was born in Bradford , Yorkshire.

.Her parents were refugees from Estonia.

 She attended Bradford Girls Grammar school, and left with 6 O- levels and 3 A-levels.

She trained at Rada where she won the Emile Littler and Hannam Clarke awards.

Her first professional job was at the new Birmingham Repertory theatre where she spent nine months in the new building on Broad Street, working alongside Derek Jacobi, Joan Sims and Ronnie Barker.

TV work swiftly followed, notably, The Donati Conspiracy, with the late and great Richard Beckinsale, and Girls of Slender Means, with Miriam Margolyes and Patricia Hodge.

Her first feature film was Tales that Witness Madness, with Kim Novak, a cult classic, and The Odessa File, with Jon Voight, which pitched her career into the international arena.

 Best remembered for Doctor Who, playing Romana, and Brookside, for her performance as Penny Crosbie, Mary's work has been  varied and highly  acclaimed .

Recently she has starred in Diamond Geezer, with David Jason, A Class Act, Doctors, the BBC  drama series Paradise Heights with Neil Morrisey and Ralf Little, and Jonathan Creek, with Steven Berkoff, as well as many guest appearances in several TV productions. See CV for more details.

Her recent stage work includes Amanda in Private Lives, Maria Halliwell in When We Are Married,  Mari Hoff in Little Voice, and Beverley  in Abigail's Party.   

 She married Marcus  in 1978, and they have one daughter and one grandchild. Mary lives in London  with her husband and two cats.    

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 Mary is a member of the associates of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and for ten years worked on the  committee, raising money for the student hardship fund. In 2005, she helped organise and appeared in  the Rada centenary gala, which included past Rada luminaries such as Joan Collins, David Warner, Gemma Jones and many more.  

 Please visit http://rada.org  for more details .   

She  mentors students at the academy, and helps with their progress both throughout their training, and afterwards, when they enter the profession. She has attended workshops and forums  at drama schools in London, and has taught improvisation and audition speech techniques,as well as directing student productions.