Maggie Stables
Maggie Stables (died 26 September 2014[1]) 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 Jane Eyre with Nicholas Briggs. This led to Briggs casting Stables as Ruthley in The Sirens of Time and as Evelyn the following year. [2]
By 2013 Stables had retired from acting due to long-term illness.[3] She passed away in her sleep on Friday 26 September 2014.[4]
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
Webcasts
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
The Companion Chronicles
Other roles
Audio
Doctor Who Main Range
- The Sirens of Time - Ruthley
- Zagreus - The Great Mother
Bernice Summerfield
Sarah Jane Smith
- The Tao Connection - Mrs Lythe
