Who is elisabeth sladen

In the script, the formerly-heroic Sarah Jane had lived out her 30s, 40s and 50s as a lonely single woman, no man ever being able to live up to what happened to her when she worked with the man in the blue box.

The popularity of the episode resulted in her being given her own series, The Sarah Jane Adventures, in which Sarah Jane guided a band of local children including her own, adopted clone son in their weapon-free fight against aliens. This article is more than 10 years old. Reuse this content.

She had been battling cancer, according to a BBC statement. Kind and gentle and clever; and a ferociously talented actress, of course, but in that perfectly English unassuming way. Sladen began playing The Doctor's companion in , when Jon Pertwee held the long-running show's title role. The universe was lucky to have Sarah Jane Smith; the world was lucky to have Lis.

They weren't thinking of Lis Sladen. She seemed invincible. The same woman who enchanted my childhood, enchanted my time on Doctor Who and enchanted generations who have watched her and fallen in love with her - just like I did. She was extraordinary. For four series she did battle with teatime-friendly aliens alongside her teenage sidekicks, including a cloned alien boy genius she adopted as her son. The series was a huge success, and latterly was graced with cameos from the later Doctors David Tennant and Matt Smith, and, in his final TV appearance, Nicholas Courtney , another favourite as the imperturbable Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

In the parent series, Sladen joined Tennant for the finale and his departure from the role on 1 January Sladen was a popular convention guest and contributor to the enhanced versions of programmes that appeared on DVD. When she learned that Letts was very ill, she persuaded the producers to reunite her with him for the commentary on his favourite story, Planet of Spiders, which had been Pertwee's swansong and also featured Courtney.

Elisabeth Sladen obituary.