Martha Ross (24 March 193914 January 2019) was a British actress and

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presenter.

Family

Ross was the mother of television presenters Jonathan and

Paul Ross Paul Ross (born 31 December 1956) is an English television and radio presenter, journalist and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross. Early life Growing up in outer east London, Ross was educa ...

. She also had three other sons named Simon, Miles and Adam, and a daughter named Liza, who works in the media. She married actor Tony Phillips in 1992.

Career

Ross worked as an

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in '' EastEnders'' from its inception until November 2006, when her contract was terminated because she told her son Paul an ''EastEnders'' Christmas storyline, which he leaked on his

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radio show. She also appeared in ''

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'', '' The Sean Hughes Show'', ''Space Virgins'' and '' Barrymore'', and hosted a current affairs show on Liberty Radio. Ross wrote a weekly agony aunt column for ''Real People'' magazine. She appeared in many

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roles, including ''The Last Game'', ''Atlantis'', ''The Firm's Big Night Out'' and ''Stained Glass''. In her later years, she lived in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

References

1939 births 2019 deaths English television actresses British radio presenters British women radio presenters

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