Wendy Padbury Information

Actor
France

Biography:
Cast as the Second Doctor's new companion, Zoe Heriot, in Doctor Who in 1968, Wendy Padbury became close to her co-stars Frazer Hines and Patrick Troughton throughout their time together on the series.

After leaving the series, Wendy appeared in Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday (1974), a stage play at the Adelphi Theatre London based on the television series, in which she played a companion named Jenny, opposite Trevor Martin as the Doctor. She made a cameo appearance, again opposite Hines and Troughton in Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary story, The Five Doctors.

Other roles include co-presenter of the second series of Score with the Scaffold, roles in TV shows Freewheelers and Emmerdale, and appearances in movies Charlie Bubbles and The Blood on Satan's Claw.

Wendy voiced Lorraine Baynes in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story Davros and the Time Eater in Jago & Litefoot audio story Chronoclasm. She has reprised the role of Zoe in several Big Finish audio plays and was also recently seen on-screen in "The Mind Robber" episode of the Doctor Who spin-off Tales of the TARDIS.