Mary Tamm
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Mary Tamm (22 March 1950 – 26 July 2012) was a British actress best known for her role as Romana in the BBC's science fiction television series Doctor Who, starring Tom Baker in the 1978-79 story arc The Key to Time.
Early life
Tamm was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Estonian immigrant parents, and attended Bradford Girls' Grammar School. She was a graduate and an associate member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she studied from 1969–1971.
Personal life
Mary Tamm was married to Marcus Ringrose, an insurance executive, from 1978 to her death from cancer on July 26. Lauren, the couple's one daughter, was born in November 1979. Ringrose died from a heart attack only hours after Tamm's funeral.
Fantom Films released her autobiography, titled First Generation in September 2009. She had been working on a second part of her autobiography, Second Generation, which was published in 2014.
Acting career
Tamm first appeared on the stage with the Birmingham Repertory Company in 1971. In 1972, she moved to London and appeared in the musical Mother Earth. Sally in The Donati Conspiracy, which was her first television appearance on the BBC in 1973. In 1974, a Warship episode was followed by another one. On BBC2, she appeared in Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means in 1975. Tamm appeared in a few films before her appearance with Doctor Who, including Tales That Witness Madness (1973), The Odessa File (1974) and The Likely Lads (1976). In 1981, she appeared in Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table at London's Vaindeville Theatre.
Tamm was not initially keen on playing a companion to the Doctor, feeling that the job was merely a matter of "disgust." When told by the designers that Romana will be a member of the Doctor's own race and therefore as competent as he was, she changed her mind. Tamm left the program after only one season because she felt that the character had returned to the traditional assistant role and could not be developed further. In a 2007 interview, she said she was able to fire a replica sequence to ensure a smooth transition between her tenure and that of her potential replacement (Lalla Ward), but she was not encouraged to do so. According to one source, pregnancy was the explanation for her absence, which Tamm denied as a false rumour created by producer John Nathan-Turner.
Tamm appeared in two BBC 1 dramas, The Treachery Game (1980) and its sequel The Assassination Run (1981), after leaving the series. She appeared in Jane Eyre, Barry Letts' production in 1983, opposite Timothy Dalton. She appeared in the comedy The Hello, Goodbye Man opposite Ian Lavender in 1984, around the same time as her guest appearance in Bergerac. She appeared on the ITV morning quiz show Crosswits in the early 1990s as a regular guest panelist.
Tamm appeared in the soap opera Brookside, 1993 to 1996, and Yvonne Edwards in the BBC drama Paradise Heights (2002), as well as guest appearances in numerous other television shows, including Crime Traveller on BBC1. In Big Finish Productions' second series of the Gallifrey audio plays, Tamm appeared as Pandora. Lies, Gallifrey, 2005. It was her first public appearance. She appeared (as herself) in a special feature of The Key to Time's 2007 DVD boxed set that includes her observations on the program. Tamm appeared in Orlenda in EastEnders for a short period of one week in August 2009. Tamm incarnated Romana, Tamm's seventh new Doctor Who audio adventures for Big Finish Productions with Tom Baker shortly before her death in 2013 as part 2 of the Fourth Doctor Adventures.