Lalla Ward

Lalla Ward (born Sarah Jill Ward on 28 June 1951REF: Who-ology: The Official Miscellany) played Romana II from Destiny of the Daleks to Warriors' Gate, later again returning to the role on audio for Big Finish Productions.
She previously played Princess Astra in The Armageddon Factor. She is also a noted illustrator and audio book narrator and the former wife of Fourth Doctor actor, Tom Baker.
== Genealogy ==
Lalla is the daughter of Edward Ward, the 7th , and his fourth wife, Marjorie Alice Banks. She has a brother, Edward Nicholas Ward, two years her junior, and a half-brother, William Maxwell David Ward, who is three years her senior and the 8th Viscount Bangor. Lalla Ward is herself more properly addressed as the Honourable Sarah Ward.
She is descended from , brother of , via , , and .
== Acting ==
She attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Her stage name, "Lalla", comes from her attempts as a toddler to pronounce her own name. She began her acting career in the film , and played the teenage daughter of in the popular BBC drama series of the 1970s. In 1980, she played Ophelia to Derek Jacobi's Hamlet in the BBC television production. She was the second actress to play the Time Lady Romana. She was chosen to replace Mary Tamm in the part, after a guest appearance in another role in the Doctor Who story The Armageddon Factor in 1979.
== Marriages ==
Following her exit from the series in 1981, she married her co-star, actor Tom Baker, that December, but the marriage lasted only sixteen months. (Once, when asked what her favourite monster on Doctor Who was, she quipped, "Tom Baker.")
Later, Douglas Adams, who had worked with her on Doctor Who, introduced her to his friend Richard Dawkins, biologist and author of such books as and , whom he had met after Dawkins sent him a fan letter. They met at Adams' fortieth birthday party in 1992 and married the same year. They then separated in 2016.
== Other work ==
Ward illustrates Dawkins' books. She also wrote two books on knitting in the 1980s, and one on embroidery (in one of these books, Louise Jameson models some of Ward's creations). She created the 1985 Shell Calendar, with embroidered pictures of sea birds.
Ward has seldom appeared on screen since her marriage to Dawkins. However, she reprised the character of Romana in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time, a pair of audio dramas produced by BBV Productions, and in the 2003 webcast version of Shada. Since Big Finish Productions acquired the Doctor Who license in 1999, Ward has starred in a multitude of Doctor Who audio dramas, primarily under the Gallifrey and The Fourth Doctor Adventures ranges.
She has also recorded audio books, including 's and Dawkins' , , and .
 is named after her.
== In the DWU ==
Lalla Ward is mentioned as being one of the guests at a party in the novel The Dying Days.
== Credits ==
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* The Armageddon Factor (as Princess Astra)
* Destiny of the Daleks
* City of Death
* The Creature from the Pit
* Nightmare of Eden
* The Horns of Nimon
* Shada
* The Leisure Hive
* Meglos
* Full Circle
* State of Decay
* Warriors' Gate
==== Mini-episodes ====
* Dimensions in Time
=== Webcasts ===
* Shada
=== Direct-to-video ===
* Shada: DVD release
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* The Apocalypse Element
* Neverland
* Zagreus
* The Chaos Pool (also as Princess Astra)
==== Special Releases ====
* Shada
* The Worlds of Doctor Who
** Second Sight
* The Legacy of Time
** Collision Course
==== The Lost Stories ====
* The Doomsday Contract
==== The Fourth Doctor Adventures ====
* Wave of Destruction
* The Labyrinth of Buda Castle
* The Paradox Planet / Legacy of Death
* Gallery of Ghouls
* The Trouble with Drax
* The Pursuit of History / Casualties of Time
* The Beast of Kravenos
* The Eternal Battle
* The Silent Scream
* Dethras
* The Haunting of Malkin Place
* Subterranea
* The Movellan Grave
* The Skin of the Sleek / The Thief Who Stole Time
* Purgatory 12
* Chase the Night
* The Planet of Witches
* The Quest of the Engineer
==== Ravenous 3 ====
* Companion Piece
==== Novel Adaptations ====
* The Romance of Crime
* The English Way of Death
* The Well-Mannered War
==== Destiny of the Doctor ====
* Babblesphere
==== The Companion Chronicles ====
* The Beautiful People
* The Pyralis Effect
* The Invasion of E-Space
* Luna Romana
==== Gallifrey ====
* Weapon of Choice
* Square One
* The Inquiry
* A Blind Eye
* Lies
* Spirit
* Pandora
* Insurgency
* Imperiatrix
* Fractures
* Warfare
* Appropriation
* Mindbomb
* Panacea
* Reborn
* Disassembled
* Annihilation
* Forever
* Emancipation
* Evolution
* Arbitration
* Extermination
* Renaissance
* Ascension
* Enemy Lines
==== Gallifrey: Time War ====
* Time War: Volume One
** Celestial Intervention
** Soldier Obscura
** The Devil You Know
** Desperate Measures
* Time War: Volume Two
** Havoc
** Partisans
** Collateral
** Assassins
* Time War: Volume Three
** Hostiles
** Nevernor
** Unity
* Time War: Volume Four
** Dissolution
** Beyond
** Homecoming
==== The Eighth of March ====
* Stolen Futures
=== Audiobook Readings ===
==== Target Novelisations ====
* Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive
==== BBC Novelisations ====
* Shada
* City of Death
=== Documentary ===
* Defining Shadows
* A Matter of Time
* The Vampire Lovers
* The Dreaming
* Lalla's Wardrobe
* All Aboard the Starliner
*Return to Skaro (archive footage)
*Darkness & Light (archive footage)
=== Other ===
* Prime Computer advertisement
* The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
== External links ==
== Footnotes ==
Category:Articles that were originally Wikipedia forks
Category:Doctor Who regular cast
Category:Actors who portrayed Romana
Category:The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot cast
Category:Doctor Who webcast actors
Category:Big Finish Gallifrey voice actors
Category:Pre-2005 Doctor Who cast reprising their roles at Big Finish
Category:BBC Audio audiobook readers
Category:Doctor Who actors that exist in the DWU
Category:BBCi actors
Category:Destiny of the Doctor voice actors
Category:Novel Adaptations voice actors
Category:The Companion Chronicles voice actors
Category:Bonus Releases voice actors
Category:Fourth Doctor Adventures voice actors
Category:Main Range voice actors
Category:Special Releases voice actors
Category:Big Finish regular cast
Category:Ravenous voice actors
Category:Adventures in a Pocket Universe voice actors
Category:The Legacy of Time voice actors
Category:The Lost Stories voice actors
Category:Actors interviewed on Swap Shop
Category:The Eighth of March voice actors