Jean Marsh
Jean Lyndsay Torren Marsh, OBE ( born July 1, 1934 at the London Borough of Hackney, England) is a British film and stage actress and screenwriter.
Life
Jean Marsh grew up in a middle class family. Her father was a commercial agent and her mother decorator at a small theater. Marsh was already at a young age on stage and worked as a youth occasionally as a model. She studied only as an adult drama and was in 1953 with the British crime film The Limping Man her debut as an actress.
In 1959 she moved for almost three years in the USA, where she was on Broadway in September of the same year John Gielguds adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing on the stage. However, in the U.S. they had only moderate success. Her best-known film at that time one of the epic film in 1963 produced Cleopatra, in which Marsh was seen in a supporting role. From the 1960s she appeared in guest roles numerous well-known television series such as Simon Templar or The Two, and later in The Waltons (1977 ), Hawaii Five-O (1978 ) or in Murder, She Wrote (1993). The maid rose in the British television series produced from 1971 The house in Eaton Place was her most internationally famous role well. The idea for this series, they even together with her colleague Eileen Atkins had. In 1971 she won an Emmy Award for her outstanding performances. Twice, in 1975 and 1977, she was nominated for a Golden Globe.
As a film actress Marsh became known to a wider audience only by their role of evil queen Bavmorda in the 1988 fantasy film produced Willow, a role for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In June 2012, Marsh was received by Queen Elizabeth II in the Order of the British Empire. They carried out the majority of their lives a single life. On April 2, 1955, the then 21 -year-old married at this time already 36 -year-old actor Jon Pertwee. They were divorced on August 8, 1960. She never remarried and remained childless.
Marsh lives in the rural community of Boxford in the British county of West Berkshire.