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Jane Slavin

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Jane Slavin
Born (1970-03-11) 11 March 1970 (age 54)
OccupationActress
Years active1991–present

Jane Slavin (born 11 March 1970) is an English actress and novelist.[1] Slavin was the winner of the 1989 BBC Radio Drama Carleton Hobbs Award. She has appeared on television in Lewis, Doctors as Gayle Buckley,[2] Peak Practice, Always and Everyone, Coronation Street and in the Doctor Who full-cast radio drama The Paradise of Death alongside the third Doctor, Jon Pertwee. Slavin has also been a series regular in The Bill, Wycliffe, Maigret, Clocking Off, Casualty and Heartbeat.

She has also recorded several Big Finish productions of Doctor Who with the fourth Doctor, Tom Baker and the tenth Doctor, David Tennant, playing the role of companion Ann Kelso, later revealed to be Anya Kingdom, daughter of the late companion Sara Kingdom. The stories were released in January 2019.[3] Her theatre roles include Poopay in Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors at the Savoy Theatre (in London's West End), and All Things Considered (Hampstead Theatre). She was Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in a world tour for the English Shakespeare Company directed by Michael Bogdanov and famously fell off the balcony at the first preview.[4] Her novel Writing on the Water was published in 2003 by Transworld/Black Swan.[5]

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  1. ^ "Vince and Willie country winners". Toronto Star. 30 September 1993. p. E6. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  2. ^ "The Leaving Party". BBC. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  3. ^ "2.07. The Final Phase - Doctor Who - Fourth Doctor Adventures". Big Finish. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Juliet Falls For Romeo - 10 Feet Over The Balcony". Orlando Sentinel. 1 October 1993. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
  5. ^ Slavin, Jane (1998). Writing on the water. London: Black Swan. ISBN 978-0552997812. Writing on the Water: Amazon reviews, amazon.com; accessed 17 August 2015.
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