Elisabeth Sladen

Actor Feb 1 (died age 65) Liverpool, England, UK 1960–2025 (65 year career)

6.8 avg rating

Biography

Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen (1 February 1946 - 19 April 2011) was an English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who. She was a regular cast member from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprised the role many times in subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Known For

Film

Doctor Who

Sarah Jane Smith

Film

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Sarah Jane Smith

Film

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

Sarah Jane Smith

Film

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Sarah Jane Smith

Film

Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

Sarah Jane Smith

Film

Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS

Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage)

Film

Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

Sarah Jane Smith

Film

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2

Sara Jane Smith (archive footage)

Filmography

Acting (84)

Movies (59)

Doctor Who: Downtime

2025

as Sarah-Jane Smith

Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter

2025

as Self (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death

2024

as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.1

Talking Doctor Who

2023

as Self / Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)

5.0

Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen

2020

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years

2017

Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS

2013

as Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage)

7.1

My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen

2011

as Self (archive footage)

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2

2010

as Sara Jane Smith (archive footage)

6.5

Doctor Who: The End of Time

2010

as Sarah Jane Smith

The Sarah Jane Adventures: From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love

2009

as Sarah Jane Smith

The K-9 Files

2008

Five Doctors, One Studio

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

2008

Hitler: The Comedy Years

2007

as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.0

David Tennant's Video Diary

2007

as Self

9.3

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane

2007

as Sarah Jane Smith

7.3

Are Friends Electric?

2007

A Darker Side: The Making of Planet of Evil

2007

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

2006

8.0

Built for War: The Sontaran Story

2006

7.0

Serial Thrillers

2004

The Story of Doctor Who

Chronotrip

K9 Unleashed

Adventures in Space and Time

1999

as Herself

Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

1997

Downtime

1995

as Sarah Jane Smith

5.2

The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

1995

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

1993

as Sarah Jane Smith

4.6

30 Years in the TARDIS

1993

as Herself

7.5

Summer Session

1992

as Self

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

1984

as Sarah-Jane Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.9

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

1983

as Sarah Jane Smith

7.7

Doctor Who: Logopolis

1981

as Sarah Jane Smith (archive footage)

7.0

K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend

as Sarah Jane Smith

Silver Dream Racer

as Bank Secretary

Name for the Day

as Jo

Betzi

1978

as Countess Bertrand

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom

1976

as Sarah Jane Smith

8.8

Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora

1976

as Sarah Jane Smith

6.7

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

1976

as Sarah Jane Smith

8.1

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

1976

as Sarah Jane Smith

7.6

Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

as Sarah Jane Smith

Doctor Who: Robot

as Sarah Jane Smith

Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

1975

as Sarah Jane Smith

8.1

Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

1975

as Sarah Jane Smith

8.9

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

1975

as Sarah Jane Smith

5.8

Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

1975

as Sarah Jane Smith

7.4

Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

1975

as Sarah Jane Smith

8.8

Doctor Who: Planet of Evil

1975

as Sarah Jane Smith

6.9

Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen

1975

as Sarah Jane Smith

5.7

Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon

1974

as Sarah Jane Smith

5.3

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

1974

as Sarah Jane Smith

7.4

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

1974

as Sarah Jane Smith

7.4

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

1974

as Sarah Jane Smith

6.2

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

1974

as Sarah Jane Smith

6.8

Ferry Cross the Mersey

1965

6.1

Television (25)

Tales of the Tardis

2023

as Sarah Jane Smith

5.4

Sarah Jane's Alien Files

2010

as Sarah Jane Smith

The National Television Awards Backstage Live

2010

Doctor Who Greatest Moments

2009

as Self

7.0

The Sarah Jane Adventures

2007

as Sarah Jane Smith

7.1

The Sarah Jane Adventures

as Sarah Jane Smith

Totally Doctor Who

as Self

TMi

Doctor Who

as Sarah Jane Smith

Doctor Who Confidential

GMTV

as Self

Peak Practice

as Dr. Pat Hewland

Dempsey and Makepeace

as Mrs. Barrett

The Bill

as Mrs Preston

Gulliver in Lilliput

as Lady Flimnap

K-9 and Company

as Sarah Jane Smith

Take My Wife

as Josie Hall

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Play for Today

as Jo

Doomwatch

as Sarah Collins

Public Eye

as Policewoman

Doctor Who

as Sarah Jane Smith

Doctor Who

as Sarah Jane Smith

Z-Cars

as Valerie Hollingsworth

7.0

Coronation Street

1960

as Anita Reynolds

5.3