Mel Martin
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Mel Martin (born Melanie Jayne Martin) in 1947 is an English actress. Her father was the painter Frank Martin.
She has appeared in many British television programmes and films including The Pallisers, Love for Lydia, Bergerac, Cover Her Face, Inspector Morse, Lovejoy (where she played Lovejoy's ex-wife Susan), Cadfael and Midsomer Murders . She also starred as Fiona Samson, the double agent and wife of Bernard Samson (played by Ian Holm) in the television adaptation of Len Deighton's trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match (broadcast as Game, Set, and Match). She also portrayed Vivien Leigh opposite Anthony Higgins' as Laurence Olivier in the Australian TV biopic Darlings of the Gods.
[edit] Personal life
She was married to Paul Ridley from 1980 to 1982. She is currently married to John Duttine, whom she met while filming the TV adaptation of Ruth Rendell's Talking to Strange Men.
