Elisabeth Sladen

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

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.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Liverpool, England, UK

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

01 February 1946, 79 years old

Known For

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS

Silver Dream Racer

Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

Doctor Who: Robot

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter

Self (archive footage)

2025

Doctor Who: Downtime

Sarah-Jane Smith

2025

Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death

Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)

2024

Talking Doctor Who

Self / Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)

2023

Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen

Self (archive footage)

2020

The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years

2017

Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS

Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage)

2013

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2

Sara Jane Smith (archive footage)

2010

The Sarah Jane Adventures: From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love

Sarah Jane Smith

2009

The K-9 Files

2008

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)

2008

Five Doctors, One Studio

2008

David Tennant's Video Diary

Self

2007

A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil

2007

Are Friends Electric?

2007

Hitler: The Comedy Years

Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)

2007

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane

Sarah Jane Smith

2007

Built for War: The Sontaran Story

2006

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

2006

Serial Thrillers

2004

The Story of Doctor Who

2003

Chronotrip

2002

K9 Unleashed

2000

Adventures in Space and Time

Herself

1999

Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

1997

Downtime

Sarah Jane Smith

1995

The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

1995

30 Years in the TARDIS

Herself

1993

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

Sarah Jane Smith

1993

Summer Session

Self

1992

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)

1984

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Sarah Jane Smith

1983

K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend

Sarah Jane Smith

1981

Doctor Who: Logopolis

Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)

1981

Name for the Day

1980

Silver Dream Racer

Bank Secretary

1980

Betzi

Countess Bertrand

1978

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

Sarah Jane Smith

1976

Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora

Sarah Jane Smith

1976

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom

Sarah Jane Smith

1976

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

Sarah Jane Smith

1976

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

Sarah Jane Smith

1975

Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

Sarah Jane Smith

1975

Doctor Who: Planet of Evil

Sarah Jane Smith

1975

Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

Sarah Jane Smith

1975

Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen

Sarah Jane Smith

1975

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

Sarah Jane Smith

1975

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

Sarah Jane Smith

1975

Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

Sarah Jane Smith

1975

Doctor Who: Robot

Sarah Jane Smith

1975

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

Sarah Jane Smith

1974

Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon

Sarah Jane Smith

1974

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

Sarah Jane Smith

1974

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

Sarah Jane Smith

1974

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

Sarah Jane Smith

1974

Ferry Cross the Mersey

1965