Sheila Reid

Sheila Reid
Birth date:	21 December 1937
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Clara Oswald's gran
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1985, 2013-14, 2017
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Z-Cars, Othello, Three Sisters, Owen, M.D., Moll Flanders, Flickers, The Dresser, Brazil, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, American Friends, Taggart, Still Crazy, The Bill, Doctors, Casualty, Benidorm, Psychobitches, Troilus and Cressida, All About Eve
IMDb profile

Sheila Reid (born 21 December 1937) played Etta in the Doctor Who television story Vengeance on Varos. Nearly 30 years later, she played Clara Oswald's gran in The Time of the Doctor and Dark Water.

Reid also voiced a Dalek duplicate of Claire Summerfield, the mother of companion Bernice Summerfield, in Good Night, Sweet Ladies and Janaiya in The Middle.

Due to these appearances, she is one of the very few actors to have appeared in all of the major production "regimes" of Doctor Who — the "classic" television series (1963-89), the revived BBC Wales series (2005 onwards), and for Big Finish Productions.

Career

Outside of the DWU, Reid has appeared in the feature film Brazil, and also TV series such as Call the Midwife, and Sea of Souls. She is perhaps best known for playing Madge in Benidorm.

DWU Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• Vengeance on Varos - Etta
• The Time of the Doctor - Clara Oswald's gran
• Dark Water - Clara Oswald's gran

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Middle - Janaiya

Bernice Summerfield

• Good Night, Sweet Ladies - Claire

External links

• Sheila Reid at the Internet Movie Database