Jane Slavin (born 11 March 1970) is an English actress and novelist. Slavin was the winner of the 1989 BBC Radio Drama Carleton Hobbs Award. She has appeared on television in ''
Lewis'', ''
Doctors
Doctor or The Doctor may refer to:
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* Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree
* A medical practitioner, including:
** Physician
** Surgeon
** Dentist
** Veterinary physician
** Optometrist
*Other roles
** ...
'' as
Gayle Buckley,
''
Peak Practice'', ''
Always and Everyone'', ''
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford.
Origi ...
'' and the ''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
'' full-cast radio drama ''
The Paradise of Death''. Slavin has also been a series regular in ''
The Bill'', ''
Wycliffe Wycliffe (and other similar spellings) may refer to:
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*John Wycliffe (and other spellings) (c.1320s – 1384), English theologian and Bible translator
* Wycliffe (name), includes a list of other people with the name
Places
* Wycliffe, Count ...
'', ''
Maigret'', ''
Clocking Off'', ''
Casualty'' and ''
Heartbeat
A heartbeat is one cardiac cycle of the heart.
Heartbeat, heart beat, heartbeats, and heart beats may refer to:
Computing
*Heartbeat (computing), a periodic signal to indicate normal operation or to synchronize parts of a system
*Heartbeat, clus ...
''.
She has also recorded several Big Finish productions of ''Doctor Who'' with the fourth Doctor,
Tom Baker, playing the role of companion Ann Kelso. The stories were released in January 2019. Her theatre roles include Poopay in
Alan Ayckbourn
Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2021, more than eighty full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of ...
's ''Communicating Doors'' at the
Savoy Theatre (in London's West End), and ''All Things Considered'' (
Hampstead Theatre). She was Juliet in ''
Romeo and Juliet
''Romeo and Juliet'' is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetim ...
'' in a world tour for the
English Shakespeare Company directed by
Michael Bogdanov and famously fell off the balcony at the first preview. Her novel ''Writing on the Water'' was published in 2003 by Transworld/Black Swan.
[''Writing on the Water'': Amazon reviews]
amazon.com; accessed 17 August 2015.
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1970 births
Living people
Actresses from Salford
English stage actresses
English television actresses
21st-century English novelists
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
English radio actresses
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