 lalla ward (born sarah ward; 28 june 1951) is an english actress and author. she is known for her role as romana in the bbc television series doctor who. ==family== sarah ward is the daughter of edward ward, 7th viscount bangor, and his fourth wife, marjorie alice banks; as such, she is entitled to use the courtesy title "the honourable". her father was the bbc's war correspondent in finland at the beginning of world war ii, while her mother was a writer and bbc producer specialising in dramatised documentaries.. her mother committed suicide in july 1991. she has a brother, edward, two years her junior; and a half-brother, william, who is the 8th viscount bangor, three years her senior. through her father she is descended from george plantagenet, 1st duke of clarence, brother of edward iv and richard iii, and from john mordaunt, 1st earl of peterborough, john, 1st viscount mordaunt, and bernard ward, 1st viscount bangor. her great-grandmother mary ward was an illustrator and amateur scientist, and is documented as the first person in the world to die in a motor vehicle accident. ==career== ===early career=== ward's stage name, "lalla", comes from her attempts as a toddler to pronounce her own name. she le
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