Barbara March


Barbara March was a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of the Star Trek character Lursa, one of the Duras sisters. She appeared as Lursa in ' |Redemption" and ", and Star Trek Generations.
Other credits included
Total Security, L.A. Law, The Portrait,
', Blood Ties, Kingsgate, Nightheat and Deserters for which she earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress.
March attended the University of Windsor, and began acting shortly after graduating. March was an accomplished stage performer and starred at Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, as well as in both New York and Los Angeles. She received critical acclaim as Isabella in
Measure for Measure, Desdemona in Othello, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the title heroine in The Duchess of Malfi, Ruth in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming and, on many occasions, Lady Macbeth.
March was also a playwright and novelist. Her play
The Razing of Charlotte Brontë is also available in Italian as Le riflessioni di Charlotte Brontë and she published a novel, The Copper People''.
March married Alan Scarfe in 1979 and they had a daughter named Antonia, who is a musician and composer.
She died of cancer on August 11, 2019 at the age of 65.

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