a leading role in the sitcom The Hello, Goodbye Man opposite Ian Lavender in 1984 for BBC 2, around the same time as her guest appearance in Bergerac. In the early 1990s she was a regular guest panellist on the ITV morning quiz show Crosswits. Subsequently, Tamm played the characters of Penny Crosbie in the soap opera Brookside from 1993 to 1996, and Yvonne Edwards in the BBC drama Paradise Heights (2002), as well as guest roles in many other television programmes, including Crime Traveller on BBC1, another time travel drama. Tamm returned as Pandora in the second series of the Gallifrey audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions. Her first such appearance was in Gallifrey: Lies (2005). She also appeared (as herself) in a special feature in the 2007 DVD boxed set release of The Key to Time, discussing her experiences on the programme. In August 2009, Tamm made a brief one-week appearance as Orlenda in EastEnders. Reprising the role of Romana, Tamm recorded seven new Doctor Who audio adventures for Big Finish Productions with Tom Baker shortly before her death, which were released in 2013 as series 2 of the Fourth Doctor Adventures. Personal life Mary Tamm was married to Marcus Ringrose, an insurance executive, from 1978 until her death from cancer on 26 July 2012. They had one daughter, Lauren, born November 1979. Ringrose himself died from a heart attack just hours after Tamm's funeral. Her autobiography, entitled First Generation, was published in September 2009 by Fantom Films. Before her death she had been working on a second part of her autobiography, Second Generation, which was published in 2014. Filmography Film Television References External links 1950 births 2012 deaths Alumni of RADA English people of Estonian descent Deaths from cancer in England English film actresses English soap opera actresses English television actresses People educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses Actresses from Bradford