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Judi Trott (born 11 November 1962) is an English actress and is best known for her portrayal of the Lady Marion of Leaford in the popular 1980s TV series Robin of Sherwood. Trott was born in Plymouth and started her career as a ballet dancer, having attended the Royal Ballet School.
MAID MY DAY... It was lovely to spend the morning with actress Judi Trott (Maid Marion, from 'Robin of Sherwood). As ethereal and ageless as ever. And Judi's not so bad either. Ahem. More news...
- Starting with Dick Turpin
- Finding The Money
- Subverting The Mythology of Robin
- Building Character
- Finding The Theme
- Finding Its Faith
- Praed Departs
- An Iconic Death
- Jason Joins
- Disaster Strikes
Before Robin, Carpenter was a man who had already developed a reputation for bringing semi-mythical figures to the TV screen. In 1979 he had worked with producer Paul Knight to bring the story of England’s most infamous highwayman to ITV. Dick Turpin, staring Richard O’Sullivan, would run for twenty-six episodes over three years, to positive reacti...
When Turpin finished Carpenter and Knight thus began to push the idea of bringing their own version of Robin Hood to the screen. It was a tough sell, given that both men were convinced that the only way to do the idea justice — and indeed to avoid the same fate as Wolfshead— was to deliver a series near-cinematic in its production values. For simil...
Carpenter now set about creating the mix of myth and reality that he had imagined. For the reality, he opted to follow the precedent set by Wolfsheadand place Robin in post-Norman-conquest Britain, more particularly in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, encompassing both the end of the reign of Richard the Lionheart and the beginning ...
Carpenter extended this principle on a smaller scale to his cast. The decision to keep Robin’s band of outlaws small was in part to help keep costs down (“If you had 300 extras on Robin’s side, we were gonna have to have 900 Normans for him to fight.”) but also because it allowed each of those outlaws to develop as a character. “I just wanted to ma...
Ryan also played a key part in how Robingained one of its most distinctive elements — the evocative and haunting soundtrack contributed by Celtic band Clannad. “We [Clive Mantle, Ray Winstone and Mark Ryan] had been driving around in my car and I was playing Clannad.” Ryan later explained. “We suggested to Paul Knight that Clannad should do the mus...
Even in the eighties, imbuing the series with Pagan and occult themes was a bold move on Carpenter’s part. Not only did it provoke controversy in some of the more conservative quarters of the British press, but it also risked overwhelming the efforts to provide a solid historical grounding to the series if handled badly. Carpenter felt it important...
As season two drew to a close, however, cast and crew were faced with a serious problem. Robin Hood himself, Michael Praed, had been offered a lead role in a Broadway musical version of The Musketeers. “I was placed in an intolerable situation,” he told Starlogin 1988, “and it’s not something that is easy to handle. If you’re an English person and ...
That death would come in the final episode of season two, The Greatest Enemy. Beautifully filmed, written and acted, it remains one of the finest episodes of any drama aired on British TV. What begins as a seemingly routine adventure becomes increasingly ominous as the godlike Herne warns Robin that a moment of reckoning is drawing near. Whatever t...
When season three debuted in 1986 that identity was finally revealed — the aforementioned Earl of Huntingdon, played by Jason Connery, called by Herne to take on the mantle of Robin Hood in the wake of Loxley’s death. Joining a cast already infamous within the world of TV for being as close off-camera as they were on it was always going to be a har...
Despite this, Robin of Sherwood remained both a popular and critical success and by the end of season three the new faces both in front of and behind the camera had found both their confidence and their voice. As Carpenter began to script a fourth and likely final season, however, disaster struck — Robin of Sherwoodwas cancelled. “Had I known a mon...
Aug 20, 2017 · Judi Trott was an intelligent, determined Marion who held her own fighting with the rest of the outlaws, with a pre-Raphaelite look that complemented Praed’s fey athleticism.
Judi Trott. Actress: Robin Hood. Judi Trott was born on 11 November 1962 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Robin Hood (1984), Circles in a Forest (1989) and Heaven's Gate (1980). She is married to Gary Spratling.
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Judi Trott (Marion of Leaford) Like a May Morning. Judi Trott was trained at the Royal Ballet School as a dancer and at the London Studio Centre as an actress. She is currenlty being a full-time mom.
Judi Trott as Marion. One of the most influential versions of the Robin Hood legend in recent times was the hugely successful TV series Robin of Sherwood (1984-1986).
