Her husband Alan Scarfe announced earlier this week that March passed away at the age of 65 following a battle with cancer:
My beloved Barbara, my partner in all things for more than forty years, passed through eternity's gate yesterday evening after a cruel battle with cancer. She was wise and compassionate and beautiful and her brilliance, kindness and perspicacity touched many.
Her stage performances as the Duchess of Malfi at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Isabella in Measure for Measure at Canada's Stratford Festival, Desdemona, Titania, Lady Macbeth, Ruth in The Homecoming and Rowena in The Gayden Chronicles were without equal and a vast audience will continue to marvel at her portrayal of Lursa of the House of Duras on Star Trek.
She was also an accomplished author, artist and poet. Her screen adaptation of her novella The Copper People will soon, I hope, be produced, as will her plays, The Razing of Charlotte Bronte (also available in Italian in a fine translation by Chandani Alesiani) and a comic satire, Pinteresque. She was a fountain of original ideas and possessed a unique depth of understanding.
Tosia and Rick and Jon and I and all her family and friends will miss her terribly. But now, I know, she is truly free to dance.Looking back at IMDb, it's hard to realize that Lursa only appeared five times on the various "Star Trek" programs and movies. She was a very iconic character, in large part due to the talented actress who brought her to life.