Marian McLoughlin

Marian McLoughlin is a British actor best known for her role as Marina Bonnaire in the BBC soap opera, Doctors. She also played the role of Brenda Jacks in the BBC series, Home Time in 2009 and Julia in Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me in 2011. In 2013, she appeared in one episode of Truckers. Born of Irish descent from a large Irish family of five brothers her mother was a cleaner and her father a labourer. Her family immigrated to England in the 1940s.

After training to be a French teacher, she graduated from Newman College, and later took a postgraduate diploma in Drama at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre work includes Henry V, After the Fall and Bartholomew Fair at the Royal National Theatre, Edmund at the Royal Court, and numerous rep companies. TV work includes series regular in Doctors, Home Time, Born to Run, Thin Ice, Castles period drama Nicholas Nickleby plus roles in The Impressions Show, EastEnders and The Bill, and many other productions. In 1997, she starred in the BBC drama Born to Run.

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