Marian McLoughlin (born 1953) 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.