Louise Jameson

Louise Jameson
Birth date:	20 April 1951
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Leela
Main jobs:	Actor
Main time period active:	1977-1978 1994-1996 2003-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Z-Cars, Emmerdale, Space: 1999, The Omega Factor, Tenko, Bergerac, Casualty, EastEnders, The Bill, River City, Judge Dredd, Dark Shadows, Doc Martin, Pulling Faces, In Conversation with an Acid Bath Murderer, Cleaning Up, Blake's 7, The Tractate Middoth, Survivors, King Lear, ATA Girl, Shilling & Sixpence Investigate, The Madness of George III
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Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951) 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 three "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.

Actor credits

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

• Dimensions in Time

Direct-to-video

P.R.O.B.E.

As Patricia Haggard

• The Zero Imperative
• The Devil of Winterborne
• Unnatural Selection
• Ghosts of Winterborne

Audio dramas

Big Finish Monthly Range

• Zagreus
• Shield of the Jötunn - Major Vincent Da Costa / Herger / the Völva
• Time in Office

Big Finish Special Releases

• The Light at the End
• Night of the Stormcrow
• The Worlds of Doctor Who
  • Second Sight
• The Eighth of March
  • Emancipation

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

The Lost Stories

• The Foe from the Future
• The Valley of Death

Philip Hinchcliffe Presents

• The Ghosts of Gralstead
• The Devil's Armada
• The Genesis Chamber
• The Helm of Awe

The War Doctor

• The Lady of Obsidian
• The Enigma Dimension

Companion Chronicles

• The Catalyst
• Empathy Games
• The Time Vampire
• The Child
• Dumb Waiter - Leela / Mrs De Winter

Short Trips

• Death-Dealer
• Chain Reaction
• The Wondrous Box
• The Old Rogue
• The Ghost Trap
• Black Dog
• The Revisionists

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
• Celestial Intervention
• The Devil You Know

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
• The Night of 1000 Stars
• Jago & Litefoot Forever

Big Finish Torchwood

• The Victorian Age - Emily

Audiobook Readings

• The Winning Side
• 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

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

• Children in Need 1985
• Pointless Celebrities: Doctor Who Special
• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Director credits

Big Finish

Big Finish Monthly Range

• Shield of the Jötunn

Companion Chronicles

• Ghost in the Machine

Writer credits

Big Finish

Fourth Doctor Adventures

• The Abandoned (with Nigel Fairs)

External links

• Louise Jameson at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website
• Official Twitter account