[1] Though born in Kenya, after her father's death and her mother's remarriage, Zena Moyra Marshall was brought up in Leicestershire, England.

Marshall attended St Mary's, Ascot, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

[1] Her film career began with a small role in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), with Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh.

[5] Marshall married bandleader Paul Adam in 1947[1] and later wed Alexander Ward,[6] before her final marriage to film producer Ivan Foxwell (1991–2002).

She was interred in St Thomas a Becket Churchyard, Skeffington, Harborough District, Leicestershire, England.