{{Short description|British actress and radio presenter (1939–2019)}} {{For|the American oral historian|Martha J. Ross}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{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 | 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)<ref>{{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|archive-date=11 August 2019|access-date=31 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811012634/http://www.familynotices24.co.uk/com/view/4660626/martha-rossphillips|url-status=dead}}</ref> was a British actress and radio presenter.
==Family== Ross had six children, including television presenters Jonathan and Paul Ross.<ref name="inde">{{cite news | title =The magic ingredient of Channel X | work = The Independent | date = 31 October 1990 }}</ref><ref name="Sunday_Times">{{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 }}</ref> She married actor Tony Phillips in 1992.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
== Career == Ross worked as an extra in ''EastEnders'' from its inception<ref name="bbc">{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
She also appeared in ''Grange Hill'', ''The Sean Hughes Show'', ''Space Virgins'' and ''Barrymore'', and hosted a current affairs show on Liberty Radio.<ref name="bbc"/> 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''.<ref name="bbc"/>
In her later years, she lived in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
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