Creator / Sophie Aldred

"I think my Dalek got what it deserved, actually..."

— Sophie Aldred, extemporizing on the subject of "My Dalek", at Gallifrey One 2008

Sophie Aldred (born 20 August 1962 in Greenwich, London) is an English actress who played Action Girl Ace on Doctor Who, perhaps best remembered for beating a Dalek with a baseball bat in "Remembrance of the Daleks". Since the end of her tenure as a companion, she has remained a member of the Who community, editing fan magazines and providing voices for Big Finish audio plays. A 2019 trailer for a box set of Season 26 (in which she featured) showed Aldred playing a much older and wiser Ace reminiscing about her time with the Doctor and teased at a possible return for the character in the current iteration of the show, which came to pass in 2022, when she reprised the role in the 2022 BBC Centenary Special episode "The Power of the Doctor".

She has appeared on several TV shows, such as Blue Peter, EastEnders, Bob the Builder, Dennis the Menace (UK), Corners, and Its A Mystery, and is currently starring alongside fellow Who-alum David Tennant in Tree Fu Tom. She married fellow actor and TV presenter Vince Henderson in 1997, and they have two sons.

The Blue Peter badges that she wore as Ace are her own, by the way - the first being received for a design for a rocket launcher!

Her roles include:

Live-Action TV

• Doctor Who: 32 episodes / 10 stories^{show list} "Dragonfire", "Remembrance of the Daleks", "The Happiness Patrol", "Silver Nemesis", "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", "Battlefield", "Ghost Light", "The Curse of Fenric", "Survival", "The Power of the Doctor" (1987-89, 2022) — Ace
• Eastenders: 2 episodes (1993) — Suzie
• Children in Need: "Dimensions in Time" (1993) — Ace
• Wimzie's House: 20 episodes (1995) — Wimzie
• ZZZap!: 41 episodes (1999-2001) — Minnie the Mini Magician
• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013) — Herself

Audio Play

• Big Finish Doctor Who:
  • Bernice Summerfield: "Beyond the Sun" (1998) — Miranda
  • Main Range: 48 releases^{show list} The Fearmonger, The Genocide Machine, The Shadow of the Scourge, Dust Breeding, Colditz, The Rapture, The Dark Flame, Zagreus, The Harvest, Dreamtime, LIVE 34, Night Thoughts, The Settling, No Man's Land, Nocturne, The Dark Husband, Forty-Five: False Gods / Order of Simplicity / Casualties of War / The Word Lord, The Magic Mousetrap, Enemy of the Daleks, The Angel of Scutari, Project: Destiny, A Death in the Family, Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge, Robophobia, Protect And Survive, Black And White, Gods And Monsters, 1963: The Assassination Games, Afterlife, Revenge of the Swarm, Mask of Tragedy, Signs & Wonders, You Are The Doctor and Other Stories, A Life of Crime, Fiesta of The Damned, Shadow Planet, World Apart, The High Price of Parking, The Blood Furnace, The Silurian Candidate, Red Planets, The Dispossessed, The Quantum Possibility Engine, Muse of Fire, An Alien Werewolf in London, Dark Universe, The Flying Dutchman/Displaced, The Grey Man of the Mountain (2000-2020) — Ace
  • Special Releases: 3 releases^{show list} "The Veiled Leopard", "The Light At The End", "The Split Infinitive" (2006-19) — Ace
  • The Companion Chronicles: "The Prisoner's Dilemma" (2009) — Ace
  • Short Trips: 9 releases^{show list} "Police and Shreeves", "Critical Mass", "The Riparian Ripper", "The Shadow Trader", "Dark Convoy", "Washington Burns", "Doctors and Dragons", "Dead Woman Walking", "Inside Story" (2010-22) — Ace
  • The Lost Stories: 4 releases^{show list} "Thin Ice", "Crime of the Century, "Animal, "Earth Aid" (2011) — Ace
  • Bernice Summerfield: "Many Happy Returns" (2012) — Dave Stone
  • UNIT: "Dominion" (2012) — Ace
  • Novel Adaptations: 4 releases^{show list} "Love and War", "Theatre of War", "All-Consuming Fire", "Nightshade" (2012-16) — Ace
  • Destiny of the Doctor: "Shockwave" (2013) — Ace
  • Iris Wildthyme: "Iris at the Oche" (2013) — Lady Bow'n
  • Bernice Summerfield: 6 releases^{show list} "Random Ghosts", "The Lights of Skaro", "The Pyramid of Sutekh", "The Vault of Osiris", "The Eye of Horus", "The Tears of Isis" (2014-15) — Ace
  • Gallifrey: 4 releases^{show list} "Intervention Earth", "Enemy Lines" "Celestial Intervention", "Soldier Obscura" (2015-18) — Ace
  • Class: The Audio Adventures: "In Remembrance" (2018) — Ace
  • The Eighth of March: "The Big Blue Book" (2019) — Ace
  • Torchwood: "The Red List" (2021) — Ace

Western Animation

• The Magic Key: (2000-2001) — Unspecified Role Credit
• Noddy In Toyland: 5 episodes (2009) — Lindy
• Bob the Builder: 11 episodes (2010-11) — Muck (US Dub)
• Bananas in Pyjamas: 4 episodes (2011-13) — Morgan (UK dub)
• Tree Fu Tom: 30 episodes (2012-14) — Tom

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