Wendy Padbury
- Actress
Wendy Padbury trained at the Aida Foster Stage School and made her TV
debut on the BBC arts programme "Monitor" soon after starting the
course. More TV work followed and, by the age of seventeen, she had
landed a regular role in the ATV soap opera
Crossroads (1964). Soon after
this, she applied for the role of "Zoe" on
Docteur Who (1963). After several
rounds of auditions and a screen test at Lime Grove, she was given the
job. Although the production team tried to persuade her to stay on at
the end of season six and she was tempted to do so, she decided to
leave at the same time as her co-stars,
Patrick Troughton and
Frazer Hines. She then worked in the
theatre and, in the early seventies, appeared in three seasons of the
Southern TV children's series
Freewheelers (1968). Since the
mid-seventies, she has divided her time between raising a family and
continuing her acting career.
