Wendy Padbury
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Wendy Padbury (born 7 December 1947) is a British actress from Warwickshire, England. She is most famous for her involvement in various Doctor Who projects.
Padbury came to prominence as an actor in 1966, when she joined the cast of the long-running ATV soap opera Crossroads. She played the role of Stephanie "Stevie" Harris, foster daughter to the show's main character, Meg Mortimer (Noele Gordon).
She was cast as the Second Doctor's new companion, Zoe Heriot, in Doctor Who in 1968. She became very close to her co-stars Frazer Hines and Patrick Troughton, the latter who played the title role. Padbury tells many fond stories about the practical jokes they would play on each other during rehearsals.
Her connection with Doctor Who, after she left the programme (at the same time as Hines and Troughton) was not quite over. She appeared in Doctor Who and the Daleks in the 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 then made a cameo appearance, again with Hines and Troughton in Doctor Who's 20th anniversary story, The Five Doctors.
Other roles include co-presenter of the second series of Score With The Scaffold. She was also in Freewheelers in which she played Sue. She made a series of appearances in the British soap opera Emmerdale (then known by its original title Emmerdale Farm) coincidentally opposite Frazer Hines, one of the major stars of that show.
In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, Padbury explained that she no longer appears at Doctor Who conventions, nor does she speak about her time on the programme, as she feels she no longer has anything new to say about her time in the show. Though this attitude may have changed as she was listed as a guest of the United Fan Con 2007.
She is now a theatrical agent. Nicholas Courtney, Colin Baker and Mark Strickson, all former Doctor Who actors, are among her clients.
Padbury was for a time married to Melvyn Hayes.
