Martha Ross
{{Short description|British actress and radio presenter (1939–2019)}}
{{For|the American oral historian|Martha J. Ross}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Martha Ross
| image = Martha Ross.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|3|24|df=y}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|1|14|1939|3|24|df=y}}
| death_place = Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
| nationality = British
| occupation = Actress and radio presenter
| spouse = {{marriage|Tony Phillips|1992}}
| children = 6, including Jonathan and Paul}}
Martha Ross (24 March 1939{{snd}}14 January 2019){{Cite news|url=http://www.familynotices24.co.uk/com/view/4660626/martha-rossphillips|title=Martha Ross-Phillips obituary|date=24 January 2019|work=The Comet (UK)|via=familynotices24.co.uk}} was a British actress and radio presenter.
Family
Ross had six children, including television presenters Jonathan and Paul Ross.{{cite news | title =The magic ingredient of Channel X | work = The Independent | date = 31 October 1990 }}{{cite news | last = Ross | first = Paul | author-link = Paul Ross | title =What it feels like...to grow up five to a room | work = The Sunday Times | date = 20 May 2012 }} She married actor Tony Phillips in 1992.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecomet.net/comet-life/tony-takes-a-look-at-the-end-of-an-era-1-284927|title=Tony takes a look at the end of an era|website=The Comet|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}}
Career
Ross worked as an extra in EastEnders from its inception{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/haveyoursay/yourquestions/yourq_content/yourq_martha_ross.shtml|title= Is Jonathan Ross's mum in the show?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050930210342/http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/haveyoursay/yourquestions/yourq_content/yourq_martha_ross.shtml|archive-date=30 September 2005 |publisher=BBC|access-date=14 January 2010 }} until November 2006, when her contract was terminated because she told her son Paul an EastEnders Christmas storyline, which he leaked on his LBC radio show.{{Cite news|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2/eastenders/news/a39563/jonathan-rosss-mum-fired-after-enders-leak.html|title= Jonathan Ross's mum fired after 'Enders leak|publisher=Digital Spy|first=Kris|last=Green|date=18 November 2006|access-date=14 January 2010}}
She also appeared in Grange Hill, The Sean Hughes Show, Space Virgins and Barrymore, and hosted a current affairs show on Liberty Radio. Ross wrote a weekly agony aunt column for Real People magazine. She appeared in many theatre roles, including The Last Game, Atlantis, The Firm's Big Night Out and Stained Glass.
In her later years, she lived in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
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Category:English television actresses
Category:British radio presenters
Category:British women radio presenters
Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:21st-century English actresses
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