Ysanne Churchman

Ysanne Churchman
Birth date:	14 May 1925
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Alpha Centauri, Eight Legs
Stories:	The Curse of Peladon, The Monster of Peladon, Planet of the Spiders, Empress of Mars
Main time period active:	1972, 1974, 2017
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Planet Patrol,, The Railway Children, The Twelve Tasks of Asterisk, Softly, Softly, Play for Today, Pitfall
IMDb profile

Ysanne Churchman (born 14 May 1925 in Sutton Coalfield) voiced Alpha Centauri in the Doctor Who stories The Curse of Peladon, The Monster of Peladon and Empress of Mars, and an Eight Legs in the Doctor Who story Planet of the Spiders.

She retired from acting in 1999 at the age of seventy-four. Despite this, she returned to the role of Alpha Centauri in 2017, at nearly the age of 92. She is the oldest actor to work on modern televised Doctor Who at the time of their involvement in production.

External links

• Ysanne Churchman at the Internet Movie Database