History Creator / JackieLane

* DawsonCasting: This was a feature of her entire acting career; she was generally cast as teenagers despite bineg in her 20s. This continued right up to her final role as teenaged schoolgirl Dodo Chaplet, and her frustration with this led her to leave the acting profession.
* StageName: She was credited under the name "Jackie Lenya" for most of her (brief) acting career, to avoid confusion with the American actress Jocelyn Lane who went by the stage name "Jackie Lane". For Series/DoctorWho, which was her final acting role, she was credited under real name as the American actress had reverted to using ''her'' real name.

Jackie Lane (10 July 1941 – 7 June 2021) was an English actress, best known for playing Series/DoctorWho companion Dodo Chaplet in 1966 alongside Creator/WilliamHartnell's [[Characters/DoctorWhoFirstDoctor First Doctor]].

''Doctor Who'' would prove to be Lane's final credit, as she left acting thereafter. After spending several years out of the entertainment industry altogether, Lane later set up a voiceover agency, which counted the Creator/TomBaker ([[Characters/DoctorWhoFourthDoctor Fourth Doctor]]) among its clients. While running the agency, Lane got her own back on Creator/InnesLloyd, who asked her to represent him. Lane reminded Lloyd that he had abruptly sacked her from ''Doctor Who'' and turned him down.

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Jackie Lane was notoriously publicity-shy, and declined to engage much with the ''Doctor Who'' community for the remainder of her life. She gave almost no interviews, never attended conventions, never participated in DVD extras or commentaries, and was the only companion actor who was still alive when AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho started producing audio dramas in 1999 who never reprised her role for them.

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Despite this, her death in 2021 was met with great sadness from the ''Doctor Who'' community, who recognised that she had been unfairly treated while she was on the show and respected her efforts while she was there.

Lane began her career as an actress in the early 1960s, including an gueset appearance in ''Series/CoronationStreet''. She was cast in ''Series/DoctorWho'' in February 1966 by producer Creator/JohnWiles, who had been unable to find a permant female companion since firing Creator/MaureenOBrien three months earlier.

''Doctor Who'' would prove to be Lane's final credit, as she left acting thereafter. After spending several years out of the entertainment industry altogether, Lane later set up a voiceover agency, which counted the Creator/TomBaker ([[Characters/DoctorWhoFourthDoctor Fourth Doctor]]) among its clients. While running the agency, Lane got her own back on Creator/InnesLloyd, who asking her to represent him. Lane reminded Lloyd that he had abruptly sacked her from ''Doctor Who'' and turned him down.

''Doctor Who'' would prove to be Lane's final credit, as she left acting thereafter. After spending several years out of the entertainment industry altogether, Lane later set up a voiceover agency, which counted the Creator/TomBaker ([[Characters/DoctorWhoFourthDoctor Fourth Doctor]]) among its clients.

Jackie Lane was famously publicity-shy, and declined to engage much with the ''Doctor Who'' community for the remainder of her life. She gave almost no interviews, never attended conventions, never participated in DVD extras or commentaries, and was the only companion actor who was still alive when AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho started producing audio dramas in 1999 who never reprised her role.

''Doctor Who'' would prove to be Lane's final credit, as she left acting thereafter. After spending several years out of the entertainment industry altogether, Lane later set up a voiceover agency, which counted the Creator/TomBaker ([[Characters/DoctorWhoFourthDoctor Fourth Doctor]]) among its clients.

''Doctor Who'' would prove to be Lane's final credit, as she left acting thereafter. After spending several years out of the entertainment industry altogether, Lane later set up a voiceover agency, which counted the [[Characters/DoctorWhoFourthDoctor Fourth Doctor]], Creator/TomBaker, among its clients.

Jackie Lane (10 July 1941 – 7 June 2021) was an English actress, best known for playing Series/DoctorWho companion Dodo Chaplet in 1966 alongside Creator/WilliamHartnell's First Doctor.

''Doctor Who'' would prove to be Lane's final credit, as she left acting thereafter.

''Doctor Who'' would prove to be Lane's final on-acting credit, as she left the business thereafter.

After only four full serials, new producer Creator/InnesLloyd decided that Lane was surplus to requirements; he felt that the show, which was suffereing declining ratings, needed to become more in tune with the "Swinging Sixties" and that a young adult woman would be more suited to this than a teenaged schoolgirl. As Lane's contract expired halfway through the next serial, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" he ordered that Lane be written out after the second of its four episodes; her character Dodo simply disappears from the story without even receiving a goodbye scene.

Lane joined the show in the final episode of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E5TheMassacre The Massacre]]", playing a teenage schoolgirl from the 1960s ([[DawsonCasting despite being 24 at the time]]) who accidentally wandered into the TARDIS. In her initial appearance, she had a Northern accent, which quickly became a Cockney accent, then just as quickly Received Pronunciation due to an edict from the BBC higher-ups that it was unacceptable for show regulars to talk in a regional or working-class accent.

Her tenure on the show was brief; she joined the show in the final episode of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E5TheMassacre The Massacre]]", playing a teenage school girl from the 1960s ([[DawsonCasting despite being 24 at the time]]) who accidentally wandered into the TARDIS. In her initial appearance, she had a Northern accent, which quickly became a Cockney accent, then just as quickly Received Pronunciation due to an edict from the BBC higher-ups that it was unacceptable for show regulars to talk in a regional or working-class accent.

Jackie Lane (10 July 1941 – 7 June 2021) was an English actress, best known for playing Series/DoctorWho companion Dodo Chaplet in 1966 alongside Creator/WilliamHartnell's First Doctor.