Louise Marion Jameson was born on 20 April 1951 and is an English actress with a wide variety of television and theatre credits.
15 Facts About Louise Jameson
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Louise Jameson was born in Wanstead, Essex and grew up in nearby Woodford Green.
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Louise Jameson attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from the ages of seventeen to nineteen and shared a flat with fellow drama students Sherrie Hewson and Sharon Maughan before spending two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Summerfolk, and Blithe Spirit.
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Louise Jameson appeared opposite Mike Raven in the low budget British horror film Disciple of Death.
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Louise Jameson came to widespread attention when she was cast by director Pennant Roberts as Leela, the leather-clad companion of the Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who.
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Louise Jameson left the series after nine serials, departing in The Invasion of Time, but has since reprised the role for the Big Finish audio series, starting with Zagreus.
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Louise Jameson has appeared in the spin-off audio series Gallifrey, in which she is one of the main protagonists, and Jago and Litefoot.
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Louise Jameson went on to appear in The Omega Factor as Dr Anne Reynolds.
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Louise Jameson later had a leading role as Blanche Simmons in the first two series of Tenko, before starring for five years in the late 1980s in Bergerac as Susan Young, Jim Bergerac's girlfriend.
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In 1998, Louise Jameson began a long run in the BBC soap EastEnders as Rosa di Marco, appearing in over 200 episodes over two and a half years until August 2000.
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Louise Jameson has appeared in documentaries and commentaries accompanying numerous BBC DVD releases of her Doctor Who serials.
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Louise Jameson is the subject of MJTV's The Actor Speaks Volume 5, where she discusses herself, her acting career and the various series she has been in.
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In 2007, Louise Jameson toured nationally in her one-woman show, Face Value.
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In 1990, Louise Jameson was married to Martin Bedford, an artist whom she had met while filming Bergerac in Jersey.
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Louise Jameson was a regular prison visitor, monitoring prisoners' welfare, during the first few years of her career; and, during the early 1970s, she met Leslie Grantham at Leyhill Prison in Gloucestershire, where he was serving 12 years of a life sentence for murder.