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Jean Marsh Dies: Emmy-Winning ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ Actress & Co-Creator Was 90
Jean Marsh, the Emmy-winning actress and co-creator behind the acclaimed '70s ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, has died at the age of 90.
Born Jean Lyndsay Torren Marsh on July 1, 1934, in London, she showed an early interest in performance, taking dance lessons as a child and later attending repertory school. Marsh’s other notable credits include Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy, war epic The Eagle Has Landed, ABC sitcom 9 to 5, 1985’s Return to Oz, the Val Kilmer-starring and Ron Howard-directed Willow and an uncredited role in Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra. In 2011, she suffered a stroke and heart attack shortly after the Upstairs, Downstairs revival began filming, but told the Daily Mail later on that she retained an optimistic outlook on life: “I suppose I do have a kind of quiet energy and I’m enchanted by people.
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