Marian McLoughlin  Marian McLoughlin is a British actor best known for her role as Marina Bonnaire in the BBC soap opera "Doctors". She also played the role of Brenda Jacks in the BBC series "Home Time" in 2009 and Julia in "Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me" in 2011. In 2013, she appeared in one episode of "Truckers". Born of Irish descent from a large Irish family of five brothers; her mother was a cleaner and her father a labourer. Her family immigrated to England in the 1940s. After training to be a French teacher, she graduated from Newman College, and later took a postgraduate diploma in Drama at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre work includes: "Henry V", "After the Fall" and "Bartholomew Fair" at the Royal National Theatre, "Edmund" at the Royal Court, and numerous rep companies. TV work includes: series regular in "French Fields", "Doctors", "Home Time", "Born to Run", "Thin Ice", "Castles"; period drama "Nicholas Nickleby"; plus roles in "The Impressions Show", "EastEnders" and "The Bill", and many other productions. In 1997, she starred in the BBC drama "Born to Run". In 2017 she played Marie in "The Girls" at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End. She lives with her writer husband and her two children in West London.