Actress Jean Marsh
Lifeless at 90 …
‘Willow,’ ‘Return to Oz’ Star
Revealed
Jean Marsh — a longtime British star who appeared in a number of hit ’80s motion pictures — has handed away … TMZ has confirmed.
Lesley Duff — Marsh’s longtime agent — tells us Jean did certainly move 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 consequence of problems of dementia.
Lindsay-Hogg says he and Marsh had been shut for 60 years, talking nearly each day over the past 40 … including she was a smart, humorous, fairly, sort individual — gifted as each an actress and author — who was beloved by everybody who met her.
Marsh started her display screen profession within the late Nineteen Forties … showing in a sequence of uncredited roles in smaller reveals earlier than grabbing bit elements on “The Twilight Zone” and “I Spy” in addition to a small position 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.
In the course of the Nineteen Eighties, Marsh grabbed a number of distinguished roles … together with taking part in the villain Queen Bavmorda in Ron Howard and George Lucas‘ fantasy drama ‘Willow” and taking part in a number of recurring characters within the traditional “Physician Who” sequence.
Amongst her quite a few different credit … “Return to Oz,” “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court docket,” “Homicide, She Wrote,” “Dangerfield,” “Grantchester,” “The Love Boat,” and “Goliath Awaits.”
Marsh reprised her position as Queen Bavmorda within the 2022 TV spin-off of “Willow” … marking her ultimate display screen look earlier than her demise.
Jean was 90.
RIP