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| role          = [[Romana II]]
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'''Lalla Ward''' (born '''Sarah Ward''' on [[28 June (people)|28 June]] [[1951 (people)|1951]]<ref>[[REF]]: ''[[Who-ology: The Official Miscellany]]''</ref>) played [[Romana II]] from ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'' to ''[[Warriors' Gate (TV story)|Warriors' Gate]]'', later again returning to the role on audio for [[Big Finish Productions]].
'''Lalla Ward''' (born '''Sarah Jill Ward''' on [[28 June (people)|28 June]] [[1951 (people)|1951]]<ref>[[REF]]: ''[[Who-ology: The Official Miscellany]]''</ref>) played [[Romana II]] from ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'' to ''[[Warriors' Gate (TV story)|Warriors' Gate]]'', later again returning to the role on audio for [[Big Finish Productions]].


She previously played [[Astra of Atrios|Princess Astra]] in ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]''. Lalla Ward is also a noted illustrator and audio book narrator and the former wife of Fourth Doctor actor, [[Tom Baker]].
She previously played [[Astra of Atrios|Princess Astra]] in ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]''. She is also a noted illustrator and audio book narrator and the former wife of Fourth Doctor actor, [[Tom Baker]].


== Genealogy ==
== Genealogy ==
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== Acting ==
== 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 {{w|Hammer horror}} film {{wi|Vampire Circus}}, and played the teenage daughter of {{wi|The Duchess of Duke Street}} 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 Lord|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.
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 {{w|Hammer horror}} film {{wi|Vampire Circus}}, and played the teenage daughter of {{wi|The Duchess of Duke Street}} 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 Lord|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 (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'' in 1979.


== Marriages ==
== Marriages ==
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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 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 (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'', a [[Adventures in a Pocket Universe|pair of audio dramas]] produced by [[BBV Productions]], and in the 2003 webcast version of ''[[Shada (webcast)|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 (audio series)|Gallifrey]]'' and ''[[Fourth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'' ranges.
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 (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'', a [[Adventures in a Pocket Universe (series)|pair of audio dramas]] produced by [[BBV Productions]], and in the 2003 webcast version of ''[[Shada (webcast)|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 (audio series)|Gallifrey]]'' and ''[[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'' ranges.


She has also recorded audio books, including {{w|Steven Pinker}}'s {{wi|The Language Instinct}} and Dawkins' {{wi|The Ancestor's Tale}}, {{wi|The God Delusion}}, and {{wi|The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution|The Greatest Show on Earth}}.
She has also recorded audio books, including {{w|Steven Pinker}}'s {{wi|The Language Instinct}} and Dawkins' {{wi|The Ancestor's Tale}}, {{wi|The God Delusion}}, and {{wi|The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution|The Greatest Show on Earth}}.
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== In the DWU ==
== In the DWU ==
Lalla Ward is mentioned as being one of the guests at a party in the novel ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]''.
[[Lalla Ward (The Dying Days)|Lalla Ward]] is mentioned as being one of the guests at a party in the novel ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]''.


== Credits ==
== Credits ==
=== Television ===
=== Television ===
==== ''Doctor Who'' ====
==== Doctor Who ====
* ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'' (as [[Astra of Atrios|Princess Astra]])
* ''[[The Armageddon Factor (TV story)|The Armageddon Factor]]'' (as [[Astra of Atrios|Princess Astra]])
* ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]''
* ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]''
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* ''[[Warriors' Gate (TV story)|Warriors' Gate]]''
* ''[[Warriors' Gate (TV story)|Warriors' Gate]]''


===== Mini-episodes =====
==== Mini-episodes ====
* ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]''
* ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]''


=== Webcast ===
=== Webcasts ===
* ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]''
* ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]''


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* ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'': DVD release
* ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'': DVD release


=== Audio dramas ===
=== Audio ===
==== Big Finish Monthly Range ====
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]''
* ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]''
* ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]''
* ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]''
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* ''[[The Chaos Pool (audio story)|The Chaos Pool]]'' (also as [[Astra of Atrios|Princess Astra]])
* ''[[The Chaos Pool (audio story)|The Chaos Pool]]'' (also as [[Astra of Atrios|Princess Astra]])


==== Big Finish Special Releases ====
==== Special Releases ====
* ''[[Shada (audio story)|Shada]]''
* ''[[Shada (audio story)|Shada]]''
* ''[[The Worlds of Doctor Who (audio anthology)|The Worlds of Doctor Who]]''
* ''[[The Worlds of Doctor Who (audio anthology)|The Worlds of Doctor Who]]''
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** ''[[Collision Course (audio story)|Collision Course]]''
** ''[[Collision Course (audio story)|Collision Course]]''


==== Fourth Doctor Adventures ====
==== The Lost Stories ====
* ''[[The Doomsday Contract (audio story)|The Doomsday Contract]]''
 
==== The Fourth Doctor Adventures ====
* ''[[Wave of Destruction (audio story)|Wave of Destruction]]''
* ''[[Wave of Destruction (audio story)|Wave of Destruction]]''
* ''[[The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (audio story)|The Labyrinth of Buda Castle]]''
* ''[[The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (audio story)|The Labyrinth of Buda Castle]]''
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* ''[[Babblesphere (audio story)|Babblesphere]]''
* ''[[Babblesphere (audio story)|Babblesphere]]''


==== Companion Chronicles ====
==== The Companion Chronicles ====
* ''[[The Beautiful People (audio story)|The Beautiful People]]''
* ''[[The Beautiful People (audio story)|The Beautiful People]]''
* ''[[The Pyralis Effect (audio story)|The Pyralis Effect]]''
* ''[[The Pyralis Effect (audio story)|The Pyralis Effect]]''
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* ''[[Luna Romana (audio story)|Luna Romana]]''
* ''[[Luna Romana (audio story)|Luna Romana]]''


==== ''Gallifrey'' ====
==== Gallifrey ====
* ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice]]''
* ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice]]''
* ''[[Square One (Gallifrey audio story)|Square One]]''
* ''[[Square One (Gallifrey audio story)|Square One]]''
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* ''[[Extermination (audio story)|Extermination]]''
* ''[[Extermination (audio story)|Extermination]]''
* ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]''
* ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]''
* ''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]''
* ''[[Ascension (Gallifrey audio story)|Ascension]]''
* ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]''
* ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]''
* ''[[Celestial Intervention (audio story)|Celestial Intervention]]''
 
* ''[[Soldier Obscura (audio story)|Soldier Obscura]]''
==== Gallifrey: Time War ====
* ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]''
* ''[[Time War: Volume One]]''
* ''[[Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures]]''
** ''[[Celestial Intervention (audio story)|Celestial Intervention]]''
* ''[[Havoc (audio story)|Havoc]]''
** ''[[Soldier Obscura (audio story)|Soldier Obscura]]''
* ''[[Partisans (audio story)|Partisans]]''
** ''[[The Devil You Know (audio story)|The Devil You Know]]''
* ''[[Collateral (audio story)|Collateral]]''
** ''[[Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures]]''
* ''[[Assassins (audio story)|Assassins]]''
* ''[[Time War: Volume Two]]''
* ''[[Hostiles (audio story)|Hostiles]]''
** ''[[Havoc (audio story)|Havoc]]''
* ''[[Nevernor (audio story)|Nevernor]]''
** ''[[Partisans (audio story)|Partisans]]''
* ''[[Unity (audio story)|Unity]]''
** ''[[Collateral (audio story)|Collateral]]''
** ''[[Assassins (audio story)|Assassins]]''
* ''[[Time War: Volume Three]]''
** ''[[Hostiles (audio story)|Hostiles]]''
** ''[[Nevernor (audio story)|Nevernor]]''
** ''[[Unity (audio story)|Unity]]''
* ''[[Time War: Volume Four]]''
** ''[[Dissolution (audio story)|Dissolution]]''
** ''[[Beyond (audio story)|Beyond]]''
** ''[[Homecoming (audio story)|Homecoming]]''
 
==== The Eighth of March ====
* ''[[Stolen Futures (audio story)|Stolen Futures]]''


=== Audiobook Readings ===
=== Audiobook Readings ===
==== Target Novelisations ====
* ''[[Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive]]''
==== BBC Novelisations ====
* ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]''
* ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]''
* ''[[Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive]]''
* ''[[City of Death (novelisation)|City of Death]]''
* ''[[City of Death (novelisation)|City of Death]]''


=== Documentary ===
=== Documentary ===
* ''[[Defining Shadows]]''
* ''[[Defining Shadows (documentary)|Defining Shadows]]''
* ''[[A Matter of Time]]''
* ''[[A Matter of Time (documentary)|A Matter of Time]]''
* ''[[The Vampire Lovers]]''
* ''[[The Vampire Lovers (documentary)|The Vampire Lovers]]''
* ''[[The Dreaming (documentary)|The Dreaming]]''
* ''[[The Dreaming (documentary)|The Dreaming]]''
* ''[[Lalla's Wardrobe]]''
* ''[[Lalla's Wardrobe: A Frockumentary (documentary)|Lalla's Wardrobe]]''
* ''[[All Aboard the Starliner (documentary)|All Aboard the Starliner]]''
* ''[[All Aboard the Starliner (documentary)|All Aboard the Starliner]]''
* ''[[Return to Skaro (documentary)|Return to Skaro]]''


=== Other ===
=== Other ===
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Latest revision as of 20:23, 3 November 2024

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Lalla Ward (born Sarah Jill Ward on 28 June 1951[1]) 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[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lalla is the daughter of Edward Ward, the 7th Viscount Bangor, 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 George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV, via John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough, John, 1st Viscount Mordaunt, and Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor.

Acting[[edit] | [edit source]]

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 Hammer horror film Vampire Circus, and played the teenage daughter of The Duchess of Duke Street 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[[edit] | [edit source]]

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 The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker, 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.[1] They then separated in 2016.

Other work[[edit] | [edit source]]

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 Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, and The Greatest Show on Earth.

Asteroid 8347 Lallaward is named after her.

In the DWU[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lalla Ward is mentioned as being one of the guests at a party in the novel The Dying Days.

Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]

Television[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

Mini-episodes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Webcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Direct-to-video[[edit] | [edit source]]

Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who Main Range[[edit] | [edit source]]

Special Releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Lost Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Fourth Doctor Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ravenous 3[[edit] | [edit source]]

Novel Adaptations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Destiny of the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Companion Chronicles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallifrey: Time War[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Eighth of March[[edit] | [edit source]]

Audiobook Readings[[edit] | [edit source]]

Target Novelisations[[edit] | [edit source]]

BBC Novelisations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Documentary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ REF: Who-ology: The Official Miscellany
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