*1947 GB
Barbara Marten (Born 3 January 1947) is a British actress.Barbara went to drama school as a teenager and says that it actually put her off becoming an actress. She trained as a teacher and taught for two years before being drawn back to the stage. After becoming involved with a theatre group in Coventry, Barbara joined a newly formed theatre group in Doncaster. They toured South Yorkshire, performing plays about various subjects, including the St Leger, and another about battered wives. In 1996, Marten appeared at the National Theatre in Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.