1. Caroline John played classical roles on the stage as well as several television roles.
17 Facts About Caroline John
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Caroline John is best known for playing Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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Caroline John was educated at St Joseph's Convent School, Crackley Hall in Kenilworth.
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Caroline John appeared in Juno and the Paycock in a 1966 production directed by Laurence Olivier, King Lear, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and The Merchant of Venice.
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Caroline John appeared as Hero in Franco Zeffirelli's 1965 National Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing.
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An extract including Caroline John was released by the BBC in 2016, with the play due to be repeated in its entirety for the first time on 28 December 2024.
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Caroline John played the role of the Doctor's companion in 1970 opposite Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor.
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Caroline John was recommended to then Doctor Who producer Peter Bryant by another BBC producer, James Cellan Jones, who sent Bryant and his associate Derrick Sherwin photographs of her.
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Caroline John reprised the role of Shaw, albeit as a phantom, in the anniversary episode "The Five Doctors", and appeared in the special episode Dimensions in Time, part of the BBC's annual Children in Need appeal.
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Caroline John later appeared in two Big Finish Productions' audio dramas based on Doctor Who; Dust Breeding, although playing a character other than Liz Shaw, and The Blue Tooth where, as Liz, she recounts in narrative form an adventure she once had with the Doctor and UNIT.
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Caroline John played the role of Laura Lyons in the BBC adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles, opposite Tom Baker.
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Caroline John returned to radio for Radio 3's Light in Distant Rooms.
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In 1987, John appeared in the BBC2 drama series A Dorothy L Sayers Mystery: Gaudy Night as Miss Burrows.
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Caroline John appeared in the BBC's adaptation of John le Carre's A Perfect Spy as Dorothy Pym.
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Caroline John appeared in several episodes of Casualty as recurring character Edith Hewlett.
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Caroline John appeared in a non-speaking, background role in the film Love Actually.
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In June 1970, Caroline John married actor Geoffrey Beevers, who later appeared in Doctor Who as The Master, in The Keeper of Traken.