Marsha Thomason
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| Born | January 19, 1976 Moston, Manchester, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Marsha Thomason (born January 19, 1976 in Moston, Manchester, England) is an English actress, who is best known in the U.S. for playing Nessa Holt in the first two seasons of NBC's series Las Vegas, and for playing the recurring role of Naomi Dorrit in Lost.
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[edit] Early life
Thomason was born to an English father, Peter Thomason (aka Thomo), and a Jamaican mother who is called Phyllis Thomason . She attended Holy Trinity Primary School in Blackley, then went onto North Manchester High School for Girls, before attending Oldham Sixth Form College to study for A levels in Media Studies, Theatre Studies and Performing Arts. Thomason attended the Manchester Metropolitan University to study a BA in English.
[edit] Career
Thomason first came to prominence on British television in the series Playing the Field and Where The Heart Is, as well as in the first series of the BBC Three drama Burn It. In the U.S., she also acted in Disney's The Haunted Mansion, playing Eddie Murphy's wife, played Brandy in the movie My Baby's Daddy, and played Victoria in Black Knight. She also played the character Vicki in Pure. Marsha starred on the US television series Las Vegas as Nessa Holt in seasons 1 and 2, a total of 47 episodes.
On 21 October 2004 she was a guest on the radio show Love Line. In January 2008, she appeared in Messiah V: The Rapture, alongside Marc Warren.
Marsha supports Manchester City FC.
[edit] Lost
Most recently, Thomason was a recurring character on the television show Lost as Naomi Dorrit. Being a friend of Dominic Monaghan's (who played Charlie Pace on the series), she was a huge fan of the show and excited to be cast. She also found the lack of character transparency to be refreshing: "That’s kind of difficult as an actor, but also freeing in a way, because you just have to play the scenes as they’re written. And then if you find out if you’re a big villain or whatever, then you play that... You know when that worked really brilliantly? On 24 with Nina Myers. She didn’t have a clue – Sarah [Clarke], the actress – and that made it really brilliant, because she played Nina honestly. Really honestly. And then she was a villain. Genius. That was such a great one." [1]
She first appeared in the third season episode "Catch-22," which aired on April 18, 2007, and continued to appear in all the remaining episodes of the season (coincidentally in the season finale, former Las Vegas co-star James Lesure also made a cameo appearance). The character was knifed in the back in the third season's finale and succumbed to her injuries in the first episode of season 4.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | Safe | Wendy | TV Movie |
| 1994 | Priest | Nurse | |
| 1996 | Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment | Janice Lafferty | |
| Brazen Hussies | Stripper with fire | TV Movie | |
| 2001 | Swallow | Tina Harford | TV Movie |
| Black Knight | Victoria the Chambermaid / Nicole | ||
| 2002 | Long Time Dead | Lucy | |
| Pure | Vicki | ||
| 2003 | The Haunted Mansion | Sara Evers | |
| 2004 | My Baby's Daddy | Brandy | |
| 2005 | The Nickel Children | Beatrice | |
| 2006 | The Package | Melissa | Short film |
| Caffeine | Rachel | ||
| The Fast One | Lucy | Comedic short | |
| The Tripper | Linda | ||
| Tug of War | Sam | Comedic short | |
| 2007 | LA Blues | Carla | |
| 2008 | Messiah V: The Rapture | Mel Palmer | TV Movie |
[edit] Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1997 | Pie in the Sky | Sally | 8 Episodes |
| 1998 | Playing the Field | Sharon 'Shazza' Pearce | |
| Where the Heart Is | Jacqui Richards | 3 Episodes: "The Final Curtain", "The Healing Game" & "Fresh" | |
| 1999 | Love in the 21st Century | Louise | Episode: "Threesome" |
| 2001 | Table 12 | Denie | Episode: "Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner" |
| 2003 | Burn It | Tina | |
| 2003-2005 | Las Vegas | Nessa Holt | 47 Episodes |
| 2007 | Cane | Miranda Sanfilipino | Episode: "Family Business" |
| 2007-2008 | Lost | Naomi Dorritt | 10 episodes |
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| NAME | Thomason, Marsha |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | English actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976-01-19 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester, England, UK |
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