Actress Jean Marsh
Lifeless at 90 …
‘Willow,’ ‘Return to Oz’ Star
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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 move away Sunday whereas additionally sharing an announcement from Michael Lindsay-Hogg — a pioneer within the music video trade and pal of Marsh’s — revealing she handed at her residence in London Sunday as a result of issues of dementia.
Lindsay-Hogg says he and Marsh have been shut for 60 years, talking virtually every day during the last 40 … including she was a sensible, humorous, fairly, sort particular person — gifted as each an actress and author — who was beloved by everybody who met her.
Marsh started her display screen profession within the late Forties … showing in a collection of uncredited roles in smaller reveals earlier than grabbing bit elements 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.
Throughout the Nineteen Eighties, Marsh grabbed a number of outstanding roles … together with taking part in the villain Queen Bavmorda in Ron Howard and George Lucas‘ fantasy drama ‘Willow” and playing several recurring characters in the classic “Physician Who” collection.
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 remaining display screen look earlier than her demise.
Jean was 90.
RIP
