Mel Martin

[2] She has appeared in British television programmes beginning with Special Branch (1969) in which she played Barbara Cartwright, Mystery and Imagination: Sweeney Todd (1970), then The Pallisers, Love For Lydia, Bergerac, Cover Her Face, Lovejoy, Cadfael, When the Boat Comes In, Inspector Morse and The Men's Room (1991), as well as films such as Quincy's Quest (1979), Business As Usual (1987), White Hunter Black Heart (1990), and Tom's Midnight Garden (1999).

She portrayed Vivien Leigh opposite Anthony Higgins as Laurence Olivier in the TV biopic Darlings of the Gods.

[7] She has also appeared in the 1993 Christmas Special episode of Only Fools and Horses "Fatal Extraction" as Delboy's love interest Beverley.

Her second marriage is to actor John Duttine, whom she met while filming the TV adaptation of Ruth Rendell's Talking to Strange Men.

In April 2002, they played the prosecution and defence barristers at Little Mo's trial for the attempted murder of her husband Trevor in EastEnders.