Actress Jean Marsh
Useless at 90 …
‘Willow,’ ‘Return to Oz’ Star
Revealed
Jean Marsh — a longtime British star who appeared in a number of hit ’80s films — has handed away … TMZ has confirmed.
Lesley Duff — Marsh’s longtime agent — tells us Jean did certainly cross away Sunday whereas additionally sharing a press release from Michael Lindsay-Hogg — a pioneer within the music video business and pal of Marsh’s — revealing she handed at her dwelling in London Sunday as a result of problems of dementia.
Lindsay-Hogg says he and Marsh have been shut for 60 years, talking nearly each day over the past 40 … including she was a sensible, humorous, fairly, type individual — proficient as each an actress and author — who was cherished by everybody who met her.
Marsh started her display screen profession within the late Forties … showing in a sequence of uncredited roles in smaller exhibits earlier than grabbing bit components on “The Twilight Zone” and “I Spy” in addition to a small function within the Elizabeth Taylor-led flick “Cleopatra.”
Jean grabbed Britain’s consideration within the mid-Nineteen Seventies by creating the present “Upstairs, Downstairs” … a drama following the prosperous Bellamy and their servants — not in contrast to “Downton Abbey.”
The present — on which Marsh performed the character Rose Buck — ran in England from 1971 to 1975 and in the USA from 1974 to 1977 … netting Marsh two Golden Globe nominations and three Emmy nods — profitable one of many latter awards in 1975.
Through the Nineteen Eighties, Marsh grabbed a number of distinguished roles … together with enjoying the villain Queen Bavmorda in Ron Howard and George Lucas‘ fantasy drama ‘Willow” and playing several recurring characters in the classic “Physician Who” sequence.
Amongst her quite a few different credit … “Return to Oz,” “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Dangerfield,” “Grantchester,” “The Love Boat,” and “Goliath Awaits.”
Marsh reprised her function as Queen Bavmorda within the 2022 TV spin-off of “Willow” … marking her last display screen look earlier than her loss of life.
Jean was 90.
RIP
