ACTOR

Elisabeth Sladen

1946 - 2011

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Elisabeth Clara Heath-Sladen (1 February 1946 – 19 April 2011) was an English actress. She became best known as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who, appearing as a regular cast member from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprising the role many times in subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-offs, K-9 and Company (1981) and The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011). Sladen was interested in ballet and theatre from childhood, and began to appear on stage in the mid-1960s, although she was more often a stage manager at this time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elisabeth Sladen has received more than 2,185,506 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Elisabeth Sladen is the 5,672nd most popular actor (down from 5,516th in 2019), the 4,243rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,185th in 2019) and the 647th most popular British Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Elisabeth Sladen ranks 5,672 out of 13,578. Before her are Clive Swift, Kal Penn, John Loder, Helge Schneider, Ricky Schroder, and Brandon deWilde. After her are Geoffrey Holder, Timothy Bottoms, Claudia Kim, Julián Gil, Dexter Fletcher, and Agnès Jaoui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Elisabeth Sladen ranks 589. Before her are Karen Silkwood, Daniel Carnevali, Naveen Patnaik, Ivan Rybkin, Vladimir Martynov, and Ramsey Campbell. After her are Klaus Wolfermann, Valery Muratov, Hiroshi Ochiai, Gailard Sartain, Marc Faber, and Valeria Bufanu. Among people deceased in 2011, Elisabeth Sladen ranks 372. Before her are Carlos Torres, Yrjö Hietanen, Barbara Kent, Joe Simon, Kuno Klötzer, and Hans Kalt. After her are Célestin Oliver, Waldemar Baszanowski, Žarko Nikolić, Wenche Foss, Irena Kwiatkowska, and Sun Axelsson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elisabeth Sladen ranks 4,243 out of 8,785. Before her are Clive Swift (1936), John Loder (1898), Robin Hill (1899), Peter Mark Roget (1779), G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), and John Morley (1838). After her are Mick Avory (1944), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Richard Overy (1947), Octavia Hill (1838), Dexter Fletcher (1966), and Owain Gwynedd (1100).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Elisabeth Sladen ranks 647. Before her are John Richardson (1934), Clive Dunn (1920), Amira Casar (1971), Roy Kinnear (1934), Clive Swift (1936), and John Loder (1898). After her are Dexter Fletcher (1966), Sadie Frost (1965), Michelle Dockery (1981), Frances O'Connor (1967), Michelle Ryan (1984), and Edward Alleyn (1566).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Sarah Jane Adventures
Sarah Jane Smith
A British science fiction television programme that was produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen. It was a spin-off of the long-running science fiction show Doctor Who and focused on the adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist who, as a young woman had numerous adventures across time and space with the Doctor.
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Doctor Who
Sarah Jane Smith
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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K-9 and Company
Sarah Jane Smith
A one-episode television pilot for a proposed 1981 spin-off of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features former series regulars Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist played by Elisabeth Sladen, and K9, a robotic dog voiced by John Leeson. Both characters had been companions of the Fourth Doctor but they had not appeared together before. The single episode, A Girl's Best Friend was broadcast by BBC1 as a Christmas special on 28 December 1981 but was not taken up for a continuing series.
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