13 April 2025<\/time>\n <\/p>\nJean Marsh has died.<\/p>\n
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Jean Marsh has died<\/p>\n
\nThe ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ co-creator and actress – who won an Emmy award in 1975 for her portrayal of maid Rose Buck in the TV drama – passed away at the age of 90 from complications of dementia in her London home on Sunday (13.04.25).<\/p>\n
\nJean’s friend, director Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg, said in a statement issued through her agent: \u201cJean died peacefully in bed looked after by one of her very loving carers.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cYou could say we were very close for 60 years. She was as wise and funny as anyone I ever met, as well as being very pretty and kind, and talented as both an actress and writer.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAn instinctively empathetic person who was loved by everyone who met her. We spoke on the phone almost every day for the past 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJean began her career on stage, making her debut in London’s West End when she was just 12 years old in ‘The Land Of The Christmas Stocking’.<\/p>\n
\nHer earliest TV appearances came in ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘Danger Man’ and she also starred in episodes of ‘Doctor Who’, most notably as William Hartnell’s brief companion Sara Kingdom.<\/p>\n
\nOn the big screen, Jean – who was married to Jon Pertwee, who was 15 years her senior, for five years from the age of 19 – appeared in fantasy adventure ‘Willow’, thriller ‘Frenzy’, and the dark sequel ‘Return To Oz’.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2007, Jean and the cast of ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ reunited for the first time in over 30 years for a TV special in honour of the 60th anniversary of the Bafta awards.<\/p>\n
\nShe said at the time: “I clearly remember sitting in my friend Eileen Atkins\u2019 kitchen, nearly 40 years ago, discussing an idea for a series showing the contrast between upstairs and downstairs, and we were sharing stories about her father and my mother, both of whom had been in service.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe period drama was revived by the BBC in 2010 and Jean was the only original cast member to return, playing Rose in five episodes and earning another Emmy nomination.<\/p>\n
\nA minor stroke forced the actress – who also created fashion period drama ‘The House of Elliott’ in 1991 – to take a break in 2011 but she eventually returned to work.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2012, she was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to drama.<\/p>\n
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