Louise Jameson
- You may be looking for her DWU counterpart or the parodical character.
Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951[1]) played Leela, the leather-clad warrior companion of the Fourth Doctor, from The Face of Evil to The Invasion of Time. She later reprised the role for the anniversary special, Dimensions in Time, and for several Big Finish Productions audio adventures.
She has also appeared as Patricia Haggard in four direct-to-video adventures of the investigating organisation P.R.O.B.E., with Caroline John as Liz Shaw.
Jameson has also appeared on Emmerdale (as Sharon Crossthwaite), The Omega Factor (as Dr. Anne Reynolds), Tenko (as Blanche Simmons), Bergerac (as Susan Young) and EastEnders (as Rosa di Marco). Fellow EastEnders cast member Leslie Grantham, who appeared in Resurrection of the Daleks, has credited Jameson with inspiring him to pursue a career in drama while he was serving time in prison.
Jameson attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with her successor on Doctor Who, Mary Tamm, and spent two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and Blithe Spirit. Other stage appearances include the first production of Passion Play.
In the early 1980s, Jameson modelled for photographs for one of Lalla Ward's knitting books, wearing some of Ward's designs.
Louise is the subject of MJTV's The Actor Speaks Volume 5, in which she discusses herself, her acting career and the various roles in which she has appeared.
She is married to actor David Warwick.
In 2013, she partnered up with Frazer Hines in the Doctor Who edition of Pointless Celebrities. Seven years later, she went on the show again (in a Sci-Fi edition), this time partnered with Matthew Waterhouse.
In the DWU
Louise Jameson portrayed herself in the webcast Home Assistant, of which she was the main protagonist.
Actor credits
As Leela
Television
Doctor Who
- The Face of Evil
- The Robots of Death
- The Talons of Weng-Chiang
- Horror of Fang Rock
- The Invisible Enemy
- Image of the Fendahl
- The Sun Makers
- Underworld
- The Invasion of Time
Mini-episodes
Audio
Doctor Who Main Range
Special Releases
The Lost Stories
The Fourth Doctor Adventures
- Destination: Nerva
- The Renaissance Man
- The Wrath of the Iceni
- Energy of the Daleks
- Trail of the White Worm / The Oseidon Adventure
- The King of Sontar
- White Ghosts
- The Crooked Man
- The Evil One
- Last of the Colophon
- Destroy the Infinite
- The Abandoned (also writer)
- Zygon Hunt
- The Exxilons
- The Darkness of Glass
- Requiem for the Rocket Men
- Death Match
- Suburban Hell
- The Cloisters of Terror
- The Fate of Krelos / Return to Telos
- The Sons of Kaldor
- The Crowmarsh Experiment
- The Mind Runners / The Demon Rises
- The Shadow of London
- The Bad Penny
- Kill the Doctor! / The Age of Sutekh
- Shadow of the Sun
- The World Traders
- The Day of the Comet
- The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook
- The Primeval Design
- Ice Heist!
- Antillia the Lost
Philip Hinchcliffe Presents
Dalek Universe
The Fifth Doctor Adventures
Ravenous 3
The War Doctor
Tenth Doctor Classic Companions
Classic Doctors, New Monsters
The Companion Chronicles
Short Trips
- Death-Dealer
- Chain Reaction - narrator
- The Wondrous Box - narrator
- The Old Rogue - narrator
- The Ghost Trap
- Black Dog
- The Revisionists
- #HarrySullivan - narrator
Gallifrey
- Weapon of Choice
- Square One
- The Inquiry
- A Blind Eye
- Lies
- Spirit
- Pandora
- Insurgency
- Imperiatrix
- Fractures
- Warfare
- Appropriation
- Mindbomb
- Panacea
- Reborn
- Disassembled
- Annihilation
- Forever
- Emancipation
- Evolution
- Arbitration
- Extermination
- Renaissance
- Ascension
- Enemy Lines
Gallifrey: Time War
Gallifrey: War Room
Jago & Litefoot
- The Ruthven Inheritance
- Dead Men's Tales
- The Man at the End of the Garden
- Swan Song
- Chronoclasm
- Jago in Love
- Beautiful Things
- The Lonely Clock
- The Hourglass Killers
- Jago & Litefoot Forever
The Eighth of March
Other Roles
Direct-to-video
P.R.O.B.E.
Webcasts
The Collection
Audio
Doctor Who Main Range
- Zagreus - Rassilon
- Shield of the Jötunn - The Völva
Novel Adaptations
The War Doctor
- The Shadow Squad - Robo-pilot
- Temmosus - Soldier (uncredited)
- Rewind - Jeneca Abel
The Companion Chronicles
Doctor Who Unbound
Jago & Litefoot
The Robots
Torchwood
Audiobook Readings
Target Novelisations
- Doctor Who and the Face of Evil
- Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock
- Doctor Who and the Robots of Death
- Doctor Who and the Sunmakers
- Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl
- Doctor Who and the Underworld
- Doctor Who and the Face of Evil
- The Romans
Doctor Who Audio Annuals
Dalek Audio Annuals
Iris Wildthyme and Friends
Time Hunter Novels
Documentary
- Doctor Who's Who's Who
- The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
- K9 Unleashed
- The Story of Doctor Who
- I Get a Side-Kick Out of You
- A Matter of Time
- Dreams and Fantasy
- Out of Time
- After Image
- The Last Hurrah
- Running from the Taxman
- The Sandmine Murders
- Girls! Girls! Girls!
- Into the Wild
- The Doctors Revisited - The Fourth Doctor
- Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
Other
Director credits
Doctor Who Main Range
The War Doctor
The Companion Chronicles
The Robots
The Eighth of March
Writer credits
The Fourth Doctor Adventures
- The Abandoned (with Nigel Fairs)
