The British actress won an Emmy for her performance as the prim and proper parlormaid Rose Buck on the acclaimed ITV drama.

During her life, Jean Marsh was also a writer and a passionate advocate for women's roles in the arts. On top of co-writing Upstairs, Downstairs, she published several novels and worked behind the ...

Upstairs, Downstairs was a groundbreaking show that ... Marsh was not only a talented actress but also a passionate advocate for women's voices in the arts. Marsh was appointed Officer of ...

Then finally I was so old that they cast a really old woman ... the rich upstairs,” she said in a 1998 interview. “So you would see the beautiful people and then you would go downstairs ...

Jean Marsh, the creator and star of the beloved 1970s series “Upstairs, Downstairs,” died Sunday ... and sports (mostly women’s basketball) for over 15 years. Her experience includes The ...

Jean Marsh, the British actress who co-created the enduring serialized hit TV series "Upstairs, Downstairs," died ... rich food, beautiful clothes and we had chips on our shoulders, I suppose.

began developing the idea for “Upstairs, Downstairs.” Both women had working-class roots — Ms. Marsh had grown up in run-down north London flats, sharing a bed with her older sister — and ...

By Anita Gates Jean Marsh, the striking British-born actress who was both the co-creator and a beloved Emmy-winning star of “Upstairs, Downstairs,” the seminal 1970s British drama series about ...

A drama about two young women aspiring to be fashion designers in 1920s London, it was a modest success. They also worked together on the 2010-12 “Upstairs, Downstairs,” a sequel of sorts to ...