Jane Merrow

ActorWriterProducerProduction Aug 26 (age 85) Hertfordshire, England, UK 1960–2025 (65 year career)

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jane Merrow (born 26 August 1941) is a British actress, born in London to an English mother and German refugee, who was active in the 1960s and 1970s in England and the US. She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her most notable role was as Alais, the mistress of Henry II (played by Peter O'Toole) in The Lion in Winter (1968), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination in the category of actress in a supporting role, losing to Ruth G…

Known For

Film

The Lion in Winter

Alais

Film

Hands of the Ripper

Laura

Film

Sharpe's Waterloo

Duchess of Richmond

Film

Night of the Big Heat

Angela Roberts

Film

The Appointment

Dianna

Film

The Haunting of Margam Castle

Edith Withers

Film

The System

Nicola

Film

The Horror at 37,000 Feet

Sheila O'Neill

Filmography

Acting (65)

Movies (24)

In the Grip of Terror

2025

as Matron Margaret

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

2022

as Self

7.8

The Haunting of Margam Castle

2020

as Edith Withers

5.1

New Chilling Tales: The Anthology

2018

as Mrs. White / Woman ("The Monkey's Paw" "The Yellow Wallpaper")

2.0

UFO From Earth to the Moon

2016

as Self

10.0

The Yellow Wallpaper

2013

Beware of What You Wish For

2010

as Mrs White

Sharpe's Waterloo

1997

as Duchess of Richmond

7.3

The Appointment

1983

as Dianna

6.1

The Patricia Neal Story

1981

as Val Eaton

6.5

A Time for Love

1974

as Janice

Diagnosis: Murder

1974

as Mary Dawson

6.0

The Horror at 37,000 Feet

1973

as Sheila O'Neill

4.9

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Beryl Stapleton

Hands of the Ripper

as Laura

Adam's Woman

as Bess

The Lion in Winter

as Alais

Assignment K

as Martine

Night of the Big Heat

as Angela Roberts

Catacombs

as Alice Taylor

The World of George Orwell: 1984

1965

as Julia

The System

1964

as Nicola

6.2

Don't Bother to Knock

1961

as American Girl

4.8

Get Lost

as Anna (The White Queen)

Television (41)

Sharpe

1993

as Duchess of Richmond

Lovejoy

as Stella

MacGyver

as Dr. Natalya Petrovitsh

7.7

Airwolf

1984

as Mrs. Eleanor Haines

St. Elsewhere

as Landlady

Magnum, P.I.

as Vivien Brock Jones, Lady Wilkerson, Duchess of Whitt

7.3

Hart to Hart

1979

6.9

The Eddie Capra Mysteries

The Incredible Hulk

Once an Eagle

as Hallie Burns

The Six Million Dollar Man

1974

as Irina Leonova

7.3

The Magician

1973

as Carol Spain / Lorna Hackett

Emergency!

as Lady Rossman

Van der Valk

as Diane

Alias Smith and Jones

Bearcats!

as Samantha Burke

UFO

as Jo Fraser

Love, American Style

as Miranda / Jeannie Zambini

6.2

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

as Sandra Joyce

Hadleigh

as Anne Hepton

Strange Report

as Jill Crowley

Mannix

The Prisoner

as Alison / Number Twenty-Four

Man in a Suitcase

Mission: Impossible

as Lady Cora Weston

Mystery and Imagination

1966

as Carmilla Karnstein

5.5

BBC Play of the Month

as Sorel Bliss

Gideon's Way

as Lollo Romano

Theatre 625

as Julia

Detective

as Eve Gill

Story Parade

as Erika Hacker

Festival

as Susan

Jane Eyre

as Rosamund Oliver

The Human Jungle

as Penny Branch

Lorna Doone

The Saint

as Lois Norroy

Man of the World

as Nurse

Oliver Twist

Corrigan Blake

The Avengers

as Susan

Danger Man

as Susan Turnbull

Crew (6)

Movies (6)

New Chilling Tales: The Anthology

2018

Adaptation

2.0

The Damned Thing

2014

Writer

The Yellow Wallpaper

2013

Writer

The Tell-tale Heart

2011

Producer

Beware of What You Wish For

2010

Producer

The Cater Street Hangman

1998

Co-Executive Producer

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