- Born
- Height5′ (1.52 m)
- Wendy Padbury trained at the Aida Foster Stage School and made her TV debut on the BBC arts programme "Monitor" soon after starting the course. More TV work followed and, by the age of seventeen, she had landed a regular role in the ATV soap opera Crossroads (1964). Soon after this, she applied for the role of "Zoe" on Doctor Who (1963). After several rounds of auditions and a screen test at Lime Grove, she was given the job. Although the production team tried to persuade her to stay on at the end of season six and she was tempted to do so, she decided to leave at the same time as her co-stars, Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines. She then worked in the theatre and, in the early seventies, appeared in three seasons of the Southern TV children's series Freewheelers (1968). Since the mid-seventies, she has divided her time between raising a family and continuing her acting career.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpousesMelvyn Hayes(1974 - 1987) (divorced, 2 children)Simon John Gerard(? - present)
- Children
- She left acting in the early 1990s to become a London theatrical agent. She has fellow former Doctor Who (1963) actor Colin Baker (the Sixth Doctor) on her books; she also represented the late Nicholas Courtney (the Brigadier), and discovered and represented Matt Smith (the Eleventh Doctor).
- Mother of Joanna Hayes (b. 1974) and Charlie Hayes (b. 1977).
- In an interview, she once said that had she been taller, with a bigger chest, she would have qualified for the role of a 'Bond Girl'.
- She went to school with musical theatre singer and actress Elaine Paige, and they have remained close.
- To be perfectly honest, anything with David Tennant in is fine by me. I think he's absolutely gorgeous. I think he's a fantastic actor but he's absolutely gorgeous.
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