Wendy Padbury

Wendy Padbury (born on 7 December 1947REF: Who-ology: The Official Miscellany in Warwickshire, England) played companion Zoe Heriot from The Wheel in Space to The War Games and again in The Five Doctors. She has reprised the role for Big Finish's audio adventures, where she also voiced several other characters.
== Career ==
Padbury came to prominence as an actor in 1966, when she joined the cast of the long-running soap opera Crossroads. She played the role of Stephanie "Stevie" Harris, foster daughter to the show's main character, ().
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. Padbury tells many fond stories about the practical jokes they played on each other during rehearsals; perhaps the most famous tale she told about this was when, in rehearsal, she fell asleep. As she was wearing a kilt, Patrick Troughton undid the clasp and then woke her up. Startled, she leaped up and the kilt fell off. In those days, the rehearsals for Doctor Who were held in a Church hall - the moment Wendy leaped up and screamed was the exact moment the Vicar walked into the hall. Wendy now says, very fondly of Patrick Troughton, that he had deliberately timed it so!
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 Seven Keys to Doomsday (1974), a stage play at the 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 Whos twentieth anniversary story, The Five Doctors.
Other roles include co-presenter of the second series of . She was also in , 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) co-incidentally opposite Frazer Hines, one of the major stars of that show.
Wendy voiced Lorraine Baynes in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story Davros and the Time Eater in Jago & Litefoot audio story Chronoclasm. She reprised the role of Zoe in several Big Finish audio plays: Fear of the Daleks, Legend of the Cybermen, Echoes of Grey, Prison in Space, Tales from the Vault, The Memory Cheats, The Uncertainty Principle, The Rosemariners, The Apocalypse Mirror, The Queen of Time, Lords of the Red Planet, The Dying Light, Second Chances, Last of the Cybermen, The Isos Network and The Integral.
In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, Padbury explained that, although she (at the time) no longer appeared at Doctor Who conventions, nor did she speak about her time on the programme, it is not because she was ungrateful or bitter towards the programme, but because she simply felt she no longer had anything new to say about her time in the show. Since her retirement, she has returned to the convention 'scene'.
She played Blotch, the sister of Jon Pertwee's character Spotty in SuperTed.
She is now retired and lives in France, having previously acted as a theatrical agent. Nicholas Courtney, Colin Baker and Mark Strickson, all former Doctor Who actors, were among her clients. She also helped to discover Matt Smith when he was at the National Youth Theatre.
== Personal life ==
Padbury was, for a time, married to Melvyn Hayes. They are the parents of fellow Big Finish actor Charlie Hayes.
== Credits ==
As Zoe Heriot
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* The Wheel in Space
* The Dominators
* The Mind Robber
* The Invasion
* The Krotons
* The Seeds of Death
* The Space Pirates
* The War Games
* The Five Doctors
=== Webcasts ===
==== Tales of the TARDIS ====
* The Mind Robber
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* Legend of the Cybermen
* Last of the Cybermen
==== Special Releases ====
* The Light at the End
==== The Lost Stories ====
* Prison in Space
* The Rosemariners
* The Queen of Time
* Lords of the Red Planet
==== The Early Adventures ====
* The Isos Network
* The Wreck of the World
* Daughter of the Gods
==== The Companion Chronicles ====
* Fear of the Daleks
* Echoes of Grey
* Tales from the Vault
* The Memory Cheats
* The Uncertainty Principle
* The Apocalypse Mirror
* The Dying Light
* Second Chances
* The Integral
* The Iron Maid
* The Tactics of Defeat
* The Prints of Denmark
* The Deepest Tragedian
==== Short Trips ====
* The British Invasion
Other Roles
=== Stage ===
* Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday - Jenny Wilson
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* Davros - Lorraine Baynes
==== Jago & Litefoot ====
* Chronoclasm - the Time Eaters
=== Documentary ===
* Myth Makers: Wendy Padbury
* Cybermen: The Early Years
* The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
* Adventures in Space and Time 
* The Fact of Fiction
* Evolution of The Invasion
* War Zone
* Shades of Grey
* Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour
* Tomorrow's Times
* Second Time Around
* The Doctors Revisited - The Second Doctor
* Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
* Lords of the Red Planet
* Behind the Sofa
=== Other ===
* Myth Runner
* Death Takes a Holiday
== External links ==
== Footnotes ==
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