Lady Naomi Gordon-Lennox (formerly Lady Naomi Burke from marriage until divorce, Naomi Gordon-Lennox, prior to 2004 born Naomi Anna March on 3 March 1962, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey), known as Nimmy March, is a British actress.
Her biological parents were a black South African father from Lesotho and a white English mother. As an illegitimate child, the mother abandoned her, and she was adopted and brought up by Earl and Countess of March and Kinrara, now the Duke and Duchess of Richmond. She married Gavin Burke in 1999 (now divorced); they have three children Khaya (born 1999), Malachy (born 2001), and Carlotta (born 2005). Her four siblings include another adopted daughter, who is also mixed-race. When she turned 11, her adoptive parents sent her to an all-white school. There, she experienced racism. Her mother taught her that racism was the fault of the perpetrator, not herself, and she grew up with the belief. When she was 19, she was raped in broad daylight by a stranger and went through the emotional and mental torment brought on by the experience. She moved to Bedales, an exclusive Hampshire school where she developed a liking for making people laugh as a way to feel that she belonged.
Her television screen credits include Albion Market, Goodnight Sweetheart, Casualty, William and Mary, Doctors, Strictly Confidential, and The Bill. She narrated the 2008 TV serial, Last Voices of World War 1 on the History Channel. Also, she is Buddhist.
