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Melanie Jayne "Mel" Martin is an English actor. Her breakthrough role was as the star of LWT's Love For Lydia (1977), adapted from the novel by H E Bates. She has appeared in British television programmes beginning with Special Branch (1969), Mystery and Imagination: Sweeney Todd (1970), then The Pallisers, Love for Lydia, Bergerac, Cover Her Face, Lovejoy, Cadfael, When the Boat Comes In, as well as films such as Quincy's Quest (1979), Business As Usual (1987), White Hunter Black Heart (1990) and Tom's Midnight Garden (1999).
Birth Name
Mary C Martin
Born
Wednesday, 01 January 1947
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Second Sight: Hide and Seek | Frances Ingham | 2008 |
The Alan Clark Diaries | Valerie Harkess | 2004 |
Rosemary & Thyme | Dorothy Huber | 2003 |
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde | Rachel Carew | 2003 |
Born and Bred | Mildred Smithers | 2002 |
Doctors | Sylvie Campbell | 2000 |
Tom's Midnight Garden | Alice Long | 1999 |
Holby City | Anthea Sanders / Georgina Fletcher | 1999 |
Noah's Ark | Laura Nichols | 1997 |
Cold Feet | Heather Childs | 1997 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Second Sight: Hide and Seek | Frances Ingham | 2008 |
The Alan Clark Diaries | Valerie Harkess | 2004 |
Rosemary & Thyme | Dorothy Huber | 2003 |
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde | Rachel Carew | 2003 |
Born and Bred | Mildred Smithers | 2002 |
Doctors | Sylvie Campbell | 2000 |
Tom's Midnight Garden | Alice Long | 1999 |
Holby City | Anthea Sanders / Georgina Fletcher | 1999 |
Noah's Ark | Laura Nichols | 1997 |
Cold Feet | Heather Childs | 1997 |
Midsomer Murders | Kate Frears | 1997 |
Poldark | Demelza | 1996 |
Dalziel and Pascoe | Penny Highsmith | 1996 |
Silent Witness | Virginia Hutton | 1996 |
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Dawn Langley | 1996 |
Mystery!: Cadfael | Astola | 1994 |
Unnatural Causes | Deborah Riscoe | 1993 |
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris | 1992 | |
A Touch of Frost | Jane Fanshawe / Deputy Editor | 1992 |
Heartbeat | Stella Redford / Emily Merryweather | 1992 |
The Storyteller: Greek Myths | Persephone | 1991 |
The Darling Buds of May | Freda Battersby | 1991 |
White Hunter Black Heart | Mrs. MacGregor | 1990 |
Summer's Lease | Rosie Fortinbras | 1989 |
Screen One | Cicely Hancock | 1989 |
Poirot | Charlotte Davenheim | 1989 |
Game, Set, and Match | Fiona Samson | 1988 |
Melba | Mrs. Otway | 1988 |
Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Jennifer Creevey | 1987 |
Inspector Morse | Rosemary Henderson | 1987 |
Business as Usual | Joan Sankey | 1987 |
Casualty | Mrs. Jackson / Madeline Aires | 1986 |
Boon | Jessica Marston | 1986 |
Lovejoy | Susan Lovejoy | 1986 |
A Royal Night of One Hundred Stars | 1985 | |
Cover Her Face | Deborah Riscoe | 1985 |
Bergerac | Angela Marshall | 1981 |
Only Fools and Horses | Beverley | 1981 |
Quincy's Quest | Rebecca | 1979 |
Minder | Caroline Selby | 1979 |
Hazell | Fiona | 1978 |
Love for Lydia | Lydia Aspen / Lydia | 1977 |
When the Boat Comes In | Jane Martin | 1976 |
Father Brown | Janet Druce | 1974 |
The Pallisers | Violet Effingham / Violet Chiltern | 1974 |
Beryl's Lot | Miss Grant | 1973 |
New Scotland Yard | Fiona Cooper | 1972 |
The Organization | Jenny | 1972 |
A Family at War | Barbara | 1970 |
Special Branch | Barbara Cartwright | 1969 |
ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Adele | 1969 |
Mystery and Imagination | Charley / Charlotte | 1966 |
BBC Play of the Month | Nancy Holmes | 1965 |
Thirty-Minute Theatre | Lynda Jackson | 1965 |
This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |