Jane Merrow

Jane Merrow is an English actress who was born in Hertfordshire in 1941 and has worked in Britain and the United States since the 1960s. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was active in the National Youth Theatre. She took the lead in a 1963 BBC adaptation of Lorna Doone. She played Julia in a 1965 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four and a mind reader in a 1967 episode of The Prisoner. She was considered to replace Diana Rigg on The Avengers, though the role went to Linda Thorson. She starred in Night of the Big Heat (1967), then played Alais in The Lion in Winter (1968), earning a 1969 Golden Globe nomination for supporting actress. She appeared as the blind Laura in Hands of the Ripper (1971). After moving to the US, she guest-starred in numerous American television series. In 2009 she returned to the stage as Emilia in The Comedy of Errors.