This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.Find sources: "Marion Barron" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.Find sources: "Marion Barron" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Marion Barron
Born
Marion Barron

(1958-03-28) 28 March 1958 (age 65)
OccupationActress
Years active1987–present
Spouse
Simon Fuller
(m. 1982)
Children2

Marion Barron (born 28 March 1958) is a Scottish actress. She is best known for playing the vicar's wife in the successful BBC sitcom, Keeping Up Appearances from 1990 to 1995.[1] Other notable works include Don't Wait Up (1983) and Screen Two (1985).

Early life

Marion Barron was born on 28 March 1958 in British Nigeria. She grew up Dumfries, Scotland.

Career

Barron's first screen credit was as a hotel receptionist in the successful sitcom Don't Wait Up, starring Nigel Havers, Tony Britton and Dinah Sheridan, and was produced and directed by Harold Snoad, but her best known role was as the timid yet fiery vicar's wife alongside Patricia Routledge, Josephine Tewson, Clive Swift and Judy Cornwell in the BBC's hit sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (also produced and directed by Harold Snoad) from 1990 to 1995. She has also appeared in Screen Two[2] and The Bill.

Television roles

Year Title Role Notes
1987 Don't Wait Up Hotel receptionist
1990 Screen Two Sister
1990-1995 Keeping Up Appearances The Vicar's Wife
1991 The Bill Nurse
1997 Holding the Baby Libby
2019 This Time with Alan Partridge Val
2020 We Hunt Together Vicar

Personal life

Marion is married to Simon Fuller and they have two children.

References

  1. ^ "Marion Barron". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Screen Two: Children Crossing". The Radio Times. No. 3458. 22 March 1990. p. 29. ISSN 0033-8060. Retrieved 15 April 2020.

Marion Barron at IMDb