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'''Barbara Marten''' (born 3 January 1947) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] actress. She is most known for playing 'Eve Montgomery' in ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]''. She has appeared in various soaps, including Eastenders and Brookside, as well as many other drama serials such as ''[[Harry (UK TV series)|Harry]]'', ''[[The Bill]]'' and ''[[Band of Gold (TV series)|Band of Gold]]''.
'''Barbara Marten''' (born 3 January 1947) is a British actress. She is most known for playing Eve Montgomery in ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]''. She has appeared in various soaps, including ''[[EastEnders]]'' and ''[[Brookside (TV series)|Brookside]]'', as well as many other drama serials, such as ''[[Harry (UK TV series)|Harry]]'', ''[[The Bill]]'' and ''[[Band of Gold (TV series)|Band of Gold]]''.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Marten was born in [[Leeds]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], and grew up in [[County Durham]]. She went to an all-girls school ('William Newton School'<ref>{{cite web |last1=Team |first1=Picture Stockton |title=Production of The Merchant of Venice, William Newton School |url=https://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/production-of-the-merchant-of-venice-william-newton-school/ |website=Picture Stockton Archive |accessdate=27 December 2018 |language=en |date=24 June 2015}}</ref>) in [[Norton, County Durham|Norton]], then Stockton and Billingham Technical College (which has since been demolished<ref>{{cite web |title=Stockton-Billingham Technical College, England, images |url=https://12000.org/my_courses/ORIGINAL_SCHOOL_IMAGES/stockton_billingham_technical_college/index.htm |website=12000.org |accessdate=27 December 2018}}</ref>). She went to drama school at the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]] as a teenager for 3 years,<ref name=echo/> and says that it actually put her off becoming an actress. She trained as a [[teacher]] in [[Birmingham]] and taught for two years before being drawn back to the stage.<ref name=echo/> 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.
Marten was born in [[Leeds]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], and grew up in [[County Durham]]. She went to the all-girls William Newton School<ref>{{cite web |last1=Team |first1=Picture Stockton |title=Production of The Merchant of Venice, William Newton School |url=https://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/production-of-the-merchant-of-venice-william-newton-school/ |website=Picture Stockton Archive |accessdate=27 December 2018 |language=en |date=24 June 2015}}</ref>) in [[Norton, County Durham|Norton]], then Stockton and Billingham Technical College.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stockton-Billingham Technical College, England, images |url=https://12000.org/my_courses/ORIGINAL_SCHOOL_IMAGES/stockton_billingham_technical_college/index.htm |website=12000.org |accessdate=27 December 2018}}</ref> She went to drama school at the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]] as a teenager for three years,<ref name=echo/> 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.<ref name=echo/>
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 Stakes|St Leger]], and another about battered wives.


==Career==
==Career==
In 1996, Marten appeared at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] in [[Helen Edmundson|Helen Edmundson's]] adaptation of [[Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy's]] ''[[War and Peace]]''.<ref name=echo/> She has also appeared in various other plays such as '''Hamlet'', ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (at [[Manchester Royal Exchange]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cavendish |first1=Dominic |title=Review of the year: Regional theatre |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3669954/Review-of-the-year-Regional-theatre.html |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=The Daily Telegraph|date=15 December 2007}}</ref>), ''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'' ([[Royal Lyceum Theatre|Lyceum, Edinburgh]]),<ref>{{cite news |title=Casualty launches Barbara on stage |url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/casualty-launches-barbara-on-stage-1-1240390 |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=scotsman.com |date=10 January 2008 |language=en}}</ref> ''Everything Is Possible: The York Suffragettes'' ([[York Theatre Royal]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Charles |title=Barbara Marten to lead cast in York Suffragette play Everything Is Possible |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15300796.barbara-marten-to-lead-cast-in-york-suffragette-play-everything-is-possible/ |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=York Press |date=22 May 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Simcock">{{cite news |last1=Simcock |first1=Georgia |title=York's women battle for equality in new community blockbuster show |url=https://www.yorkmix.com/entertainment/yorks-women-battle-equality-new-community-blockbuster-show/ |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=YorkMix |date=21 June 2017}}</ref>) and a touring production of ''[[An Inspector Calls]]''.<ref name="Wolf"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Barbara Marten , Company , An Inspector Calls |url=https://www.aninspectorcalls.com/company/cast/barbara-marten |website=www.aninspectorcalls.com |accessdate=27 December 2018}}</ref>
In 1996, Marten appeared at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] in [[Helen Edmundson|Helen Edmundson's]] adaptation of [[Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy's]] ''[[War and Peace]]''.<ref name=echo/> She has also appeared in various other plays such as ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' (at [[Manchester Royal Exchange]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cavendish |first1=Dominic |title=Review of the year: Regional theatre |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3669954/Review-of-the-year-Regional-theatre.html |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=15 December 2007}}</ref>), ''[[The Winter’s Tale]]'' (at the Royal Exchange), ''Get Up & Tie Your Fingers'' (Customs House), ''The Awkward Squad'' ([[West End theatre|West End]]), ''[[Heldenplatz (play)|Heldenplatz]]'' ([[Arcola Theatre|Arcola]]), ''The Enemies Within'', ''Some Kind of Hero'' (at the [[Young Vic]]), ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' ([[Royal Lyceum Theatre|Lyceum, Edinburgh]]),<ref>{{cite news |title=Casualty launches Barbara on stage |url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/casualty-launches-barbara-on-stage-1-1240390 |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=[[The Scotsman]] |date=10 January 2008 |language=en}}</ref> ''Everything Is Possible: The York Suffragettes'' ([[York Theatre Royal]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Charles |title=Barbara Marten to lead cast in York Suffragette play Everything Is Possible |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15300796.barbara-marten-to-lead-cast-in-york-suffragette-play-everything-is-possible/ |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=[[The Press (York)|York Press]] |date=22 May 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Simcock">{{cite news |last1=Simcock |first1=Georgia |title=York's women battle for equality in new community blockbuster show |url=https://www.yorkmix.com/entertainment/yorks-women-battle-equality-new-community-blockbuster-show/ |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=YorkMix |date=21 June 2017}}</ref>) and a touring production of ''[[An Inspector Calls]]''.<ref name="Wolf"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Barbara Marten , Company , An Inspector Calls |url=https://www.aninspectorcalls.com/company/cast/barbara-marten |website=www.aninspectorcalls.com |accessdate=27 December 2018}}</ref>


From 1997 to 1999 she played the part of nurse 'Eve Montgomery' in ''Casualty''.<ref name="Simcock"/><ref>{{cite web |title=BBC One - Casualty - Eve Montgomery |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/14Kf9khXqgb6XFyP6fXf2cH/eve-montgomery |website=BBC |accessdate=27 December 2018}}</ref><ref>Chris Perry {{google books|IJQACAAAQBAJ|The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013|page=106}}</ref> Since then she has appeared in many TV dramas, receiving much acclaim for her work in dramas such as ''[[Bob & Rose]]'' and ''[[Fat Friends]]''. She played the lead role of Ellen in the British movie ''[[Between Two Women (2000 film)|Between Two Women]]'' (2000), and then in "[[A Passionate Woman]]" (2010) as Moira. She appeared in the 2012 series ''[[Public Enemies (TV series)|Public Enemies]]''.
From 1997 to 1999, she played the part of nurse Eve Montgomery in ''Casualty''.<ref name="Simcock"/><ref>{{cite web |title=BBC One - Casualty - Eve Montgomery |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/14Kf9khXqgb6XFyP6fXf2cH/eve-montgomery |website=BBC |accessdate=27 December 2018}}</ref><ref>Chris Perry {{google books|IJQACAAAQBAJ|The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013|page=106}}</ref> 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 film)|Between Two Women]]'' (2000), and then in ''[[A Passionate Woman]]'' (2010) as Moira. She appeared in the 2012 series ''[[Public Enemies (TV series)|Public Enemies]]''.


She then played Hannah Greg in the period television drama series ''[[The Mill (TV series)|The Mill]]'' (between 2013-2014) which was about life at [[Quarry Bank Mill]] during the [[Industrial Revolution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-mill|title=The Mill|publisher=[[Channel 4]]|accessdate=3 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wise |first1=Lauren |title=10 times Cheshire was transformed into filming locations |url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/gallery/10-times-cheshire-transformed-filming-15127348 |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=chesterchronicle |date=13 September 2018}}</ref>
Marten then played Hannah Greg in the period television drama series ''[[The Mill (TV series)|The Mill]]'' (between 2013 and 2014) which was about life at [[Quarry Bank Mill]] during the [[Industrial Revolution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-mill|title=The Mill|publisher=[[Channel 4]]|accessdate=3 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wise |first1=Lauren |title=10 times Cheshire was transformed into filming locations |url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/gallery/10-times-cheshire-transformed-filming-15127348 |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=[[Chester Chronicle]] |date=13 September 2018}}</ref>


==Personal life==
Barbara and her husband, [[Mike Kenny (writer)|Mike Kenny]],<ref name="Burton">{{cite news |last1=Burton |first1=Nigel |title=Twenty years on - what happened to the cast of Harry, the BBC drama shot in Darlington |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14507851.twenty-years-on-what-happened-to-the-cast-of-harry-the-bbc-drama-shot-in-darlington/ |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=The Northern Echo |language=en}}</ref> (writer including 'The Railway Children' play) have three sons, Theo, Josh and Billy. She met him in the 1980s, while acting in a student pantomime in Birmingham,<ref name="yorkpress">{{cite news |title=Caitlin, The Studio, York Theatre Royal, February 12 to March 6 |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7892898.caitlin-the-studio-york-theatre-royal-february-12-to-march-6/ |accessdate=28 December 2018 |work=York Press |date=6 February 2004 |language=en}}</ref> when they were studying to become a teachers.<ref name=echo/> They have lived in [[York]] for 12 years since 2004,<ref name=echo/> before moving to [[Leeds]].<ref name="Simcock"/> The children have studied at the Steiner School at Fulford.<ref name="yorkpress"/>
Barbara and her husband, [[Mike Kenny (writer)|Mike Kenny]],<ref name="Burton">{{cite news |last1=Burton |first1=Nigel |title=Twenty years on - what happened to the cast of Harry, the BBC drama shot in Darlington |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14507851.twenty-years-on-what-happened-to-the-cast-of-harry-the-bbc-drama-shot-in-darlington/ |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=[[The Northern Echo]] |language=en}}</ref> (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,<ref name="yorkpress">{{cite news |title=Caitlin, The Studio, York Theatre Royal, February 12 to March 6 |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7892898.caitlin-the-studio-york-theatre-royal-february-12-to-march-6/ |accessdate=28 December 2018 |work=York Press |date=6 February 2004 |language=en}}</ref> when they were studying to become teachers.<ref name=echo/> They have lived in [[York]] since 2004,<ref name=echo/> having previously lived in [[Leeds]].<ref name="Simcock"/> The children have studied at the Steiner School at [[Fulford, North Yorkshire|Fulford]].<ref name="yorkpress"/>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
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| 1985–1989
| 1985-1989
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| Margaret Jefferson
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| 4 episodes<ref name="Burton"/>
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| 1993–1995
| 1993-1995
| ''[[Harry (UK TV series)|Harry]]''
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| Rita Salter (Harry's ex-wife)
| Rita Salter (Harry's ex-wife)
| 15 episodes<ref name="Burton"/><ref>Norman Chance {{google books|dqLRaPDcbTgC|Who Was Who on TV, Volume 2|page=32}}</ref>
| 15 episodes<ref name="Burton"/><ref>Norman Chance {{google books|dqLRaPDcbTgC|Who Was Who on TV, Volume 2|page=32}}</ref>
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| 1997–1999
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| ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]''
| ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]''
| Eve Montgomery / Tamara Redpath (1 episode in 1999)
| Eve Montgomery / Tamara Redpath (1 episode in 1989)
| 39 episodes
| 39 episodes
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| ''[[The Bill]]''
| ''[[The Bill]]''
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| Laura Meadows / Joan Barnwood / Barbara Dean
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| 3 episodes<ref name="Burton"/>
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| ''[[Medics (UK TV series)|Medics]]''
| ''[[Medics (British TV series)|Medics]]''
| Barbara Lawson
| Barbara Lawson
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| 1 episode
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| 1 episode
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| ''[[Where the Heart Is (UK TV series)|Where the Heart Is]]''
| ''[[Where the Heart Is (British TV series)|Where the Heart Is]]''
| Frances Barrow
| Frances Barrow
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| 1 episode
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| 2000–2002
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| ''[[Fat Friends]]''
| Liz Ashburn
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| 2008
| ''[[Heartbeat (UK TV series)|Heartbeat]]''
| ''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]''
| Margaret Watson
| Margaret Watson
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| 1 episode
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| 1 episode
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| ''[[The Street (UK TV series)|The Street]]''
| ''[[The Street (British TV series)|The Street]]''
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| Nessa
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| 1 episode
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| 2013–2014
| 2013-2014
| ''[[The Mill (TV series)|The Mill]]''
| ''[[The Mill (TV series)|The Mill]]''
| Hannah Greg
| Hannah Greg
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| Mrs. McKelvie
| 2 episodes<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baron |first1=Saskia |title=Mrs Wilson finale, BBC One review - stranger than fiction |url=https://theartsdesk.com/tv/mrs-wilson-finale-bbc-one-review-stranger-fiction |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=theartsdesk.com |date=12 December 2018}}</ref>
| 2 episodes<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baron |first1=Saskia |title=Mrs Wilson finale, BBC One review - stranger than fiction |url=https://theartsdesk.com/tv/mrs-wilson-finale-bbc-one-review-stranger-fiction |accessdate=27 December 2018 |work=theartsdesk.com |date=12 December 2018}}</ref>
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|2021
|[[A Discovery of Witches (TV series)|''A Discovery of Witches'']]
|Queen [[Elizabeth I]]
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|''[[The Devil's Hour]]''
|Sylvia Chambers
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|''[[Dune: Prophecy]]''
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| ''[[The Twin (2022 film)|The Twin]]''
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==Awards==
==Awards==
In 2018, she was nominated in for ''[[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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=2018 Nominees and Winners |url=https://www.dramadeskawards.com/2018-winners |website=www.dramadeskawards.com |accessdate=28 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612020729/https://www.dramadeskawards.com/2018-winners |archive-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=2018 Nominees and Winners |url=https://www.dramadeskawards.com/2018-winners |website=www.dramadeskawards.com |accessdate=28 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612020729/https://www.dramadeskawards.com/2018-winners |archive-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061222063909/http://www.stainforthonline.co.uk/faith/faith_cast_barbara_marten.htm#interview interview]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061222063909/http://www.stainforthonline.co.uk/faith/faith_cast_barbara_marten.htm#interview interview]
*{{imdb name|nm0551649|Barbara Marten}}
*{{IMDb name|nm0551649|Barbara Marten}}


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Latest revision as of 00:58, 10 December 2024

Barbara Marten
Born
Barbara Mason[1]

(1947-01-03) 3 January 1947 (age 77)
Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Other namesBarbara Kenny
OccupationActress
Years active1985–present
SpouseMike Kenny
Children3

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.

Early life

[edit]

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.

Career

[edit]

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]

Personal life

[edit]

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 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]

Filmography

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Television

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Year Title Role Notes
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
2024 Dune: Prophecy Sister Avila

Film

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Year Title Role Notes
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)
2000 Between Two Women Ellen Hardy
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)
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

Awards

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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]

References

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  2. ^ Team, Picture Stockton (24 June 2015). "Production of The Merchant of Venice, William Newton School". Picture Stockton Archive. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Stockton-Billingham Technical College, England, images". 12000.org. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  4. ^ Cavendish, Dominic (15 December 2007). "Review of the year: Regional theatre". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Casualty launches Barbara on stage". The Scotsman. 10 January 2008. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  6. ^ Hutchinson, Charles (22 May 2017). "Barbara Marten to lead cast in York Suffragette play Everything Is Possible". York Press. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  7. ^ a b c Simcock, Georgia (21 June 2017). "York's women battle for equality in new community blockbuster show". YorkMix. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  8. ^ a b Wolf, Matt (17 December 2016). "An Inspector Calls' Barbara Marten on Soggy Costumes, a Collapsing Set & Her Show-Biz Marriage". Broadway.com. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  9. ^ "Barbara Marten , Company , An Inspector Calls". www.aninspectorcalls.com. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  10. ^ "BBC One - Casualty - Eve Montgomery". BBC. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  11. ^ Chris Perry The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013, p. 106, at Google Books
  12. ^ "The Mill". Channel 4. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  13. ^ Wise, Lauren (13 September 2018). "10 times Cheshire was transformed into filming locations". Chester Chronicle. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  14. ^ a b c d e f Burton, Nigel. "Twenty years on - what happened to the cast of Harry, the BBC drama shot in Darlington". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  15. ^ a b "Caitlin, The Studio, York Theatre Royal, February 12 to March 6". York Press. 6 February 2004. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  16. ^ Norman Chance Who Was Who on TV, Volume 2, p. 32, at Google Books
  17. ^ Baron, Saskia (12 December 2018). "Mrs Wilson finale, BBC One review - stranger than fiction". theartsdesk.com. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  18. ^ Denis Gifford (editor) British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film, Volume 2, 1895-1994, p. 960, at Google Books
  19. ^ "2018 Nominees and Winners". www.dramadeskawards.com. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
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