Elisabeth Sladen
Biography
Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen (1 February 1946 - 19 April 2011) was an English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who. She was a regular cast member from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprised the role many times in subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures.
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Acting History
2025
Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter as Self (archive footage)
2025Doctor Who: Downtime as Sarah-Jane Smith
2024Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023Tales of the Tardis as Sarah Jane Smith
2023Talking Doctor Who as Self / Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
2020Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen as Self (archive footage)
2017The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
2013Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS as Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage)
2010Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2 as Sara Jane Smith (archive footage)
2010Sarah Jane's Alien Files as Sarah Jane Smith
2010The National Television Awards Backstage Live
2009Doctor Who Greatest Moments as Self
2009The Sarah Jane Adventures: From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love as Sarah Jane Smith
2008The K-9 Files
2008The Ties That Bind Us as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
2008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008Five Doctors, One Studio
2007David Tennant's Video Diary as Self
2007A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil
2007The Sarah Jane Adventures as Sarah Jane Smith
2007Are Friends Electric?
2007Hitler: The Comedy Years as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane as Sarah Jane Smith
2006Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2006TMi
2006Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
2006Totally Doctor Who as Self
2005Doctor Who as Sarah Jane Smith
2005Doctor Who Confidential
2004Serial Thrillers
2003The Story of Doctor Who
2002Chronotrip
2000K9 Unleashed
1999Adventures in Space and Time as Herself
1997Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised
1995Downtime as Sarah Jane Smith
1995The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
199330 Years in the TARDIS as Herself
1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time as Sarah Jane Smith
1993Peak Practice as Dr. Pat Hewland
1993GMTV as Self
1992Summer Session as Self
1985Dempsey and Makepeace as Mrs. Barrett
1984The Bill as Mrs Preston
1984Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks as Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983Doctor Who: The Five Doctors as Sarah Jane Smith
1982Gulliver in Lilliput as Lady Flimnap
1981K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend as Sarah Jane Smith
1981K-9 and Company as Sarah Jane Smith
1981Doctor Who: Logopolis as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)
1980Name for the Day as Jo
1980Silver Dream Racer as Bank Secretary
1979Take My Wife as Josie Hall
1978Betzi as Countess Bertrand
1976Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear as Sarah Jane Smith
1976Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora as Sarah Jane Smith
1976Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom as Sarah Jane Smith
1976Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius as Sarah Jane Smith
1975Doctor Who: The Android Invasion as Sarah Jane Smith
1975Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars as Sarah Jane Smith
1975Doctor Who: Planet of Evil as Sarah Jane Smith
1975Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons as Sarah Jane Smith
1975Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen as Sarah Jane Smith
1975Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks as Sarah Jane Smith
1975Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment as Sarah Jane Smith
1975Doctor Who: The Ark in Space as Sarah Jane Smith
1975Doctor Who: Robot as Sarah Jane Smith
1974Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders as Sarah Jane Smith
1974Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon as Sarah Jane Smith
1974Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks as Sarah Jane Smith
1974Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs as Sarah Jane Smith
1974Doctor Who: The Time Warrior as Sarah Jane Smith
1973Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1970Play for Today as Jo
1970Doomwatch as Sarah Collins
1965Ferry Cross the Mersey
1965Public Eye as Policewoman
1963Doctor Who as Sarah Jane Smith
1962Z-Cars as Valerie Hollingsworth
1962Z-Cars as Rose Milton
1960Coronation Street as Anita Reynolds