Barbara Marten

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.

Barbara Marten
Born	Barbara Mason[1] 3 January 1947 Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Other names	Barbara Kenny
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1985–present
Spouse(s)	Mike Kenny
Children	3

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'[2]) in Norton, then Stockton and Billingham Technical College (which has since been demolished[3]). She went to drama school at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art as a teenager for 3 years,[1] 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.[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

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. She played the lead role of Ellen in the British movie Between Two Women (2000), and then in "A Passionate Woman" (2010) as Moira. She appeared in the 2012 series Public Enemies.

She then played Hannah Greg in the period television drama series The Mill (between 2013-2014) which was about life at Quarry Bank Mill during the Industrial Revolution.[12][13]

Barbara and her husband, Mike Kenny,[14] (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,[15] when they were studying to become a teachers.[1] They have lived in York for 12 years since 2004,[1] before moving to Leeds.[7] The children have studied at the Steiner School at Fulford.[15]

Filmography

Television

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 1999)	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]

Film

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)
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

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.[19]

References

1. "From Bible reader to bohemian firebrand". The Northern Echo. 10 February 2004. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
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". scotsman.com. 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. Simcock, Georgia (21 June 2017). "York's women battle for equality in new community blockbuster show". YorkMix. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
8. 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". chesterchronicle. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
14. 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. "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.

External links

• interview
• Barbara Marten at IMDb