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Jane Josephine Meirowsky (born 26 August 1941), known professionally as Jane Merrow is a British actress who has been active from the 1960s in both Britain and the United States.

Jane Merrow
Born	Jane Josephine Meirowsky (1941-08-26) 26 August 1941 (age 81) Hertfordshire, England
Years active	1960–present
Spouse	Richard Bullen (1970–?)

Early years

Merrow was born in Hertfordshire to an English mother and German refugee father. She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[1][2] She also was active in the British National Youth Theatre and won the Shakespeare Cup at the Kent Drama Festival.[3]

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, 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.[4]

Merrow starred in the British science fiction film Night of the Big Heat (1967) with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, prior to her most prominent role as Alais, the mistress of Henry II (played by Peter O'Toole) in The Lion in Winter (1968), for which she received a 1969 Golden Globe nomination in the category of actress in a supporting role,[5] losing to Ruth Gordon who won for Rosemary's Baby. She appeared in Adam's Woman with Beau Bridges in 1970. She also appeared as the blind Laura in the Hammer film Hands of the Ripper (1971).[1] She appeared in an episode ("Who Killed Cock Robin?", 1969) of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). In 1971, she played Anne Hepton in Hadleigh, becoming the romantic interest of the lead character.

Around this time, she moved to the U.S., where she guest-starred on television in dramas, mysteries and adventure programmes, including Mission: Impossible, Bearcats!, Mannix, Emergency!, Police Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Airwolf, MacGyver, Hart to Hart, Magnum, P.I., The Incredible Hulk, Once an Eagle, The Greatest American Hero, and The Magician.^{[citation needed]}

Later life

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,[6] and in 2008, she was a guest there for the annual convention for The Prisoner TV series organised by the Prisoner Appreciation Society.[7]

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.[8]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1961	Don't Bother to Knock	Girl in Gallery	Uncredited
1962	The Phantom of the Opera	Chorus Girl	Uncredited
1962	The Wild and the Willing	Mary Parker
1964	The System	Nicola	USA: The Girl-Getters
1965	Catacombs	Alice Taylor
1967	Night of the Big Heat	Angela Roberts
1968	Assignment K	Martine
1968	The Lion in Winter	Alais
1970	Adam's Woman	Bess
1971	Hands of the Ripper	Laura
1972	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Beryl Stapleton	TV movie
1973	The Horror at 37,000 Feet	Sheila O'Neill	TV movie
1974	A Time for Love	Janice
1975	Diagnosis: Murder	Mary Dawson
1981	The Appointment	Dianna
2016	Almosting It	Gladys
2020	The Haunting of Margam Castle	Edith Withers

Notes

External links

• Official website
• Jane Merrow at IMDb
• Jane Merrow website

На других языках

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- [en] Jane Merrow

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[ru] Мерроу, Джейн

Джейн Мерроу (англ. Jane Merrow, урождённая Джейн Джозефин Мейровски (англ. Jane Josephine Meirowsky), род. 26 августа 1941, Хартфордшир, Великобритания) — британская актриса.

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