Model and Doctor Who actor
Kismet Shahani was born in India and came to live in England when she was two, living in Shoreham and then Hove before working as a model at Brighton School of Art after the Second World War.
Kismet Shahani married Roger Delgado (the actor who portrayed the first Master in Doctor Who (1963) in 1957. She was married to him for 16 years until his death in Turkey on 18 June 1973. She starred in several TV programmes including Dr Who, The Three Princes, and Dixon of Dock Green.
In 1983 she married the actor William Marlowe and they lived in or near Cardigan, South Wales until his passing in 2003.