1. Sophie Aldred was born on 20 August 1962 and is an English actress and television presenter.
19 Facts About Sophie Aldred
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Sophie Aldred has worked extensively in children's television as a presenter and voice artist.
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Sophie Aldred played the Seventh Doctor's companion, Ace, in the television series Doctor Who during the late 1980s, becoming the final companion in the series' first run.
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Sophie Aldred then enrolled as a drama student at the University of Manchester.
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Sophie Aldred graduated in 1983 and embarked on a career in children's theatre.
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In 1987, Sophie Aldred was cast as Ace in Doctor Who, initially for Dragonfire, the final story of the twenty-fourth season.
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Sophie Aldred has presented and sung in several BBC Schools Radio series, including Singing Together, Music Workshop, Time and Tune and Music Box.
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Sophie Aldred has performed on radio and in the theatre.
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Sophie Aldred has reprised her role as Ace in the 1993 thirtieth-anniversary charity special Dimensions in Time and, since 2000, the Doctor Who audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions.
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Sophie Aldred co-wrote with Mike Tucker the hardcover nonfiction book Ace, The Inside Story of the End of An Era, published by Virgin Publishing in 1996.
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Sophie Aldred provided voices for the 2009 series Dennis and Gnasher, including that of title character Dennis the Menace.
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Since 2012 Sophie Aldred has provided the voice of Tom in Tree Fu Tom, a CBeebies series.
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In 2018, Sophie Aldred reprised the role of Ace in an audio drama set during the first season of Class.
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In 2019, Sophie Aldred reprised the role of Ace in a special announcement trailer for the Doctor Who Season 26 Blu-ray box set.
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In 2020, Sophie Aldred released the novel Doctor Who: At Childhood's End, where an older Ace meets the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions while investigating an alien satellite.
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Sophie Aldred reprised the role in the series Tales of the TARDIS.
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Sophie Aldred was in a relationship with fellow Manchester University student Tim Booth of the band James in the mid-1980s.
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Sophie Aldred had a relationship with comedian Les Dennis during his first marriage, which Dennis documented in his autobiography.
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Sophie Aldred married television presenter and actor Vince Henderson on 12 July 1997.