Jane Josephine Meirowsky, (b. 1941)[1] known professionally as Jane Merrow, is an English actress who has been active from the 1960s in both Britain and the United States.
Merrow was born in 1941[1] in Hertfordshire to an English mother and German-Jewish refugee father.[2][1][3] "My father’s side of the family were ethnically Jewish, but not practising," she would later state.[2] She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[1][3] She also was active in the British National Youth Theatre and won the Shakespeare Cup at the Kent Drama Festival.[4]
Film and television career
In 1963, Merrow was cast in the lead role of a BBC adaptation of Lorna Doone and subsequently had roles in British TV series such as Danger Man, The Saint, The Baron, The Prisoner (in the 1967 episode "The Schizoid Man" as Alison, a mind reader), Gerry Anderson's UFO, and The Avengers where, having appeared in the penultimate episode of the 1967 series ("Mission ... Highly Improbable"), she was considered as the replacement for a departing Diana Rigg. The role went to Linda Thorson instead.[1]
She also appeared as Lollo Romano in the 1965 "Gang War" episode of Gideon's Way. She featured in a new version of the Nigel Kneale adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1965) which was broadcast in the Theatre 625 series. David Buck was Winston Smith with Merrow as his lover, Julia.[5]
In 1966 she appeared in The Saint (S5,E7:episode entitled "The Angel's Eye") as Mabel, the unwilling partner of her father's bid to steal a famous diamond: The Angel's Eye.
In the 1990s, Merrow returned to Britain to run a family business.[1] In 2006, she took part in a Prisoner-related event in Portmeirion, North Wales,[7] and in 2008, she was a guest there for the annual convention for The Prisoner TV series organised by the Prisoner Appreciation Society.[8]
The summer of 2009 saw Merrow return to the stage, playing Emilia in Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors with the Idaho Shakespeare Company.[9]
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