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Barbara Marten | |
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| Born | Barbara Mason [1] 3 January 1947 Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Other names | Barbara Kenny |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Spouse | Mike Kenny |
| Children | 3 |
Barbara Marten (born 3 January 1947) is a British actress. She is most known for playing Eve Montgomery in Casualty . She has appeared in various soaps, including EastEnders and Brookside , as well as many other drama serials, such as Harry , The Bill and Band of Gold .
Marten was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, and grew up in County Durham. She went to the all-girls William Newton School [2] ) in Norton, then Stockton and Billingham Technical College. [3] She went to drama school at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art as a teenager for three years, [1] and later said that it put her off becoming an actress. Marten trained as a teacher in Birmingham and taught for two years before being drawn back to the stage. [1]
After becoming involved with a theatre group in Coventry, Marten joined a newly formed theatre group in Doncaster. They toured Yorkshire, performing plays about various subjects, including the St Leger, and another about battered wives.
In 1996, Marten appeared at the National Theatre in Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace . [1] She has also appeared in various other plays such as Hamlet , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (at Manchester Royal Exchange [4] ), The Winter’s Tale (at the Royal Exchange), Get Up & Tie Your Fingers (Customs House), The Awkward Squad (West End), Heldenplatz (Arcola), The Enemies Within, Some Kind of Hero (at the Young Vic), The Glass Menagerie (Lyceum, Edinburgh), [5] Everything Is Possible: The York Suffragettes (York Theatre Royal [6] [7] ) and a touring production of An Inspector Calls . [8] [9]
From 1997 to 1999, she played the part of nurse Eve Montgomery in Casualty. [7] [10] [11] Since then, she has appeared in many TV dramas, receiving much acclaim for her work in dramas such as Bob & Rose and Fat Friends . Marten played the lead role of Ellen in the film Between Two Women (2000), and then in A Passionate Woman (2010) as Moira. She appeared in the 2012 series Public Enemies .
Marten then played Hannah Greg in the period television drama series The Mill (between 2013 and 2014) which was about life at Quarry Bank Mill during the Industrial Revolution. [12] [13]
Barbara and her husband, Mike Kenny, [14] (writer of The Railway Children play) have three sons, Theo, Josh and Billy. Marten met Kenny in the 1980s, while acting in a student pantomime in Birmingham, [15] when they were studying to become a teachers. [1] They have lived in York since 2004, [1] having previously lived in Leeds. [7] The children have studied at the Steiner School at Fulford. [15]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1985 | The Practice | Barbara Quinn | 4 episodes |
| 1988 | Christabel | Freda | 1 episode |
| Screen Two | Marlene | 1 episode | |
| The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Katharine Freeman | 1 episode | |
| 1985–1989 | Brookside | Margaret Jefferson | 4 episodes [14] |
| 1989 | Screen One | Bill's wife | 1 episode |
| 1992 | The Life and Times of Henry Pratt | Ada Pratt | (TV Mini-Series), 1 episode |
| In Suspicious Circumstances | Mrs. Browning | (TV Series), 1 episode | |
| 1993 | Love and Reason | Mel Lynch | (TV Mini-Series), 3 episodes |
| 1993–1995 | Harry | Rita Salter (Harry's ex-wife) | 15 episodes [14] [16] |
| 1997–1999 | Casualty | Eve Montgomery / Tamara Redpath (1 episode in 1989) | 39 episodes |
| 1995–2006 | The Bill | Laura Meadows / Joan Barnwood / Barbara Dean | 12 episodes (10 episodes as Laura Meadows) [14] [8] |
| 1995 | Band of Gold | Mrs. Richards | 3 episodes [14] |
| Medics | Barbara Lawson | 1 episode | |
| 1997 | The Sherman Plays | Gwen John | (TV Series),1 episode |
| 2000 | Badger | Marie | 1 episode |
| Where the Heart Is | Frances Barrow | 1 episode | |
| 2000–2002 | Fat Friends | Liz Ashburn | 3 episodes |
| 2001 | Bob & Rose | Carol Cooper | 1 episode |
| 2005 | Rome | Diviner | 1 episode |
| The Royal | Assistant Matron Thelma Parker | 1 episode | |
| EastEnders | D.S. Haydon or DS Haydon | 7 episodes [14] | |
| 2006 | Goldplated | Beth White | 8 episodes |
| Silent Witness | Mary Duncan | 3 episodes | |
| 2007 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Louise Roach | 2 episode |
| 2008 | Heartbeat | Margaret Watson | 1 episode |
| 2009 | Waking the Dead | Penny Cain | 2 episodes |
| Doctors | Liz Frobisher | 1 episode | |
| The Street | Nessa | 1 episode | |
| Law & Order: UK | Phillipa Keegan | 1 episode | |
| 2010 | A Passionate Woman | Moira | 1 episode |
| Five Days | Ellie Gooding | 1 episode | |
| 2011 | Walk Like a Panther | Margaret Bolton | 1 episode |
| In with the Flynns | Mrs. Cooper | 1 episode | |
| 2012 | Vera | Diane Barton | 1 episode |
| Kidnap and Ransom | Janet Taylor | 3 episodes | |
| Whitechapel | Adelina Grace | 1 episode | |
| Public Enemies | Kathy Whiteley | 3 episodes | |
| 2013 | Frankie | Jean Winters | 1 episode |
| 2013–2014 | The Mill | Hannah Greg | 10 episodes |
| 2018 | Mrs Wilson | Mrs. McKelvie | 2 episodes [17] |
| 2021 | A Discovery of Witches | Queen Elizabeth I | 2 episodes |
| 2022 | The Devil's Hour | Sylvia Chambers | 3 episodes |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1987 | A Month in the Country | Mrs. Sykes | Irish drama film [18] |
| 1989 | Home Run | Bill's wife | |
| The Fifteen Streets | Hannah Kelly | (TV Movie) | |
| 1990 | Shoot to Kill | Stella Stalker | (TV Movie) |
| 1996 | Goodbye My Love | Jean Humphry | (TV Movie) |
| 2002 | Flesh and Blood | Barbara | (TV Movie) |
| A Is for Acid | Emily Haigh | (TV Movie) | |
| 2003 | The Debt | Gwen Dresner | (TV Movie) |
| In Search of the Brontës | Tabitha Aykroyd | (TV Movie) | |
| 2004 | Between Two Women | Ellen Hardy | |
| 2005 | Faith | Doreen | (TV Movie) |
| 2008 | Florence Nightingale | Fanny, Florence's mother | (TV Movie) |
| 2010 | Capture Anthologies: Fables & Fairytales | Margaret Travis | (Video) |
| Oranges and Sunshine | Mary | ||
| 2015 | I Hamlet | Gertrude | |
| 2020 | The Turning | Mrs. Grose | |
| 2022 | The Twin | Helen |
In 2018, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her role in People, Places and Things at National Theatre/St. Ann's Warehouse. [19]
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