Barbara Marten

Barbara Marten is a British actress, raised in County Durham. She trained as a teacher and taught for two years before returning to the stage, and worked with theater groups in Coventry and Doncaster. In 1996 she appeared at the National Theatre in a production of War and Peace. Her stage credits include Hamlet and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. On television she played nurse Eve Montgomery in Casualty from 1997 to 1999, then received acclaim for Bob & Rose and Fat Friends. She appeared in the film Between Two Women (2000) as Ellen, and later as Moira in A Passionate Woman (2010). She played Hannah Greg in The Mill and Elizabeth I in A Discovery of Witches. She has played Sylvia Chambers in The Devil's Hour since 2022 and began portraying Sister Avila in Dune: Prophecy in 2024. In 2018 she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for her featured role in People, Places and Things.