Maggie Stables

Maggie Stables (died 26 September 2014https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/evelyn-smythe-maggie-stables-rests-in-peace) was a voice actor for Big Finish Productions. She appeared in the spinoff audio dramas The Choice and Just War and the first Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama The Sirens of Time before being cast as the Sixth Doctor companion Evelyn Smythe, the first companion to be created by Big Finish.
== Career ==
Maggie Stables turned to acting as a second career after retiring from a longtime position as a French teacher. After some experience in musical theatre, she acted in a 1991 production of with Nicholas Briggs. This led to Briggs casting Stables as Ruthley in The Sirens of Time and as Evelyn the following year. Real Time interview
By 2013 Stables had retired from acting due to long-term illness.Nicholas Briggs interview, Doc Oho Reviews She passed away in her sleep on Friday 26 September 2014.http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/evelyn-smythe-maggie-stables-rests-in-peace
A tribute to Stables, including excerpts from a 2003 interview she gave to Kenny Smith for his fanzine The Finished Product, was published in VOR 68.
== Credits ==
As Evelyn Smythe
=== Webcasts ===
* Real Time
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* The Marian Conspiracy
* The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
* The Apocalypse Element
* Bloodtide
* Project: Twilight
* The Sandman
* Jubilee
* Doctor Who and the Pirates
* Project: Lazarus
* Arrangements for War
* Medicinal Purposes
* Thicker Than Water
* Pier Pressure
* The Nowhere Place
* 100
* Assassin in the Limelight
* A Death in the Family (with the Seventh Doctor)
* The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
* The Feast of Axos
* Industrial Evolution
==== Special Releases ====
* Real Time
==== The Companion Chronicles ====
* A Town Called Fortune
Other roles
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* The Sirens of Time - Ruthley
* Zagreus - The Great Mother
==== Bernice Summerfield ====
* Just War - Ma Doras
==== Sarah Jane Smith ====
* The Tao Connection - Mrs Lythe
==== BBV Productions ====
* The Choice - Lenora
== External links ==
== Footnotes ==
Category:Doctor Who webcast actors
Category:Big Finish Sarah Jane Smith voice actors
Category:Big Finish Bernice Summerfield voice actors
Category:Doctor Who vocalists
Category:BBCi actors
Category:The Companion Chronicles voice actors
Category:Bonus Releases voice actors
Category:Main Range voice actors
Category:Big Finish regular cast
Category:Actors who portrayed companions of the Doctor
Category:Adventures in a Pocket Universe voice actors