\nShe was funny and cheeky and clever and just simply wonderful. The universe was lucky to have Sarah Jane Smith, the world was lucky to have Lis\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
End Quote<\/span> Russell T Davies<\/span> Sarah Jane Adventures creator<\/span><\/div>\nJohn Barrowman, who co-starred with Sladen when she returned to Doctor Who in 2006, paid tribute to the star via micro-blogging site Twitter.<\/p>\n
“I loved my time on the Tardis with her. I am proud to have worked with such an icon of the sci-fi world,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
“Your Doctor Who family are very sad and will miss you and your beautiful smile. She was a delight. Can’t tell you how sad I am.”<\/p>\n
Russell T Davies, creator of The Sarah Jane Adventures, said: “I absolutely loved Lis. She was funny and cheeky and clever and just simply wonderful. The universe was lucky to have Sarah Jane Smith, the world was lucky to have Lis.”<\/p>\n
Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat said she had been a “ferociously talented actress”.<\/p>\n
”’Never meet your heroes’, wise people say. They weren’t thinking of Lis Sladen,” he added.<\/p>\n
“Sarah Jane Smith was everybody’s hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are in stories.<\/p>\n
“But many years later when I met the real Sarah Jane – Lis Sladen herself – she was exactly as any child ever have wanted her to be. Kind and gentle and clever and a ferociously talented actress, of course, but in that perfectly English unassuming way.”<\/p>\n
Sladen began her career as an assistant stage manager at the Liverpool playhouse.<\/p>\n
Her first role on stage was playing a corpse, and she made her screen debut in the 1965 film Ferry Cross the Mersey as an extra.<\/p>\n
Her first role leading role was Desdemona in Othello, before the actress landed the role of a barmaid in Coronation Street for six episodes.<\/p>\n
She has also appeared in several other hit TV shows, including Z-Cars, Public Eye, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em and Special Branch.<\/p>\n
But it was her role in Doctor Who that gained her the most recognition.<\/p>\n
Sladen first appeared as Sarah Jane alongside the third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, and stayed for three-and-a-half series, also working with Pertwee’s successor, Tom Baker.<\/p>\n
Her character, a journalist, was renowned for being inquisitive and stronger than some of the Doctor’s other assistants.<\/p>\n
After her time in the Tardis, Sladen returned to her native Liverpool where she worked in theatre.<\/p>\n
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Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\nShe reprised her Doctor Who role on several occasions over the years and was given her own spin-off series on CBBC in 2007, in which she appeared with the most recent two Doctors, David Tennant and Matt Smith.<\/p>\n
In 2006, ahead of rejoining Doctor Who, Sladen said of the show: “I think it has lovely layers and I’d defend the programme to anyone.<\/p>\n
“I’m very emotionally part of that programme and I think a lot of the people who worked on it are. You used to love going to work every day.”<\/p>\n
‘Brilliant presence’<\/span><\/p>\nCBBC controller Damian Kavanagh said he was “deeply saddened and shocked by the news of Lis’s untimely death”.<\/p>\n
“Lis brought joy, excitement and a sense of wonder to her many fans in her role as Sarah Jane Smith. She was adored by our young audience and I know all of them will miss her as much as I will,” he said.<\/p>\n
Keith Jones, the director of BBC Wales, which makes The Sarah Jane Adventures, said: “The Sarah Jane Adventures has been one of the most successful children’s programmes on television in recent years – and without Elisabeth Sladen it would not have happened.<\/p>\n
“A brilliant presence on screen and on set, she brought the excitement and energy of the Doctor Who family of programmes, of which we are very proud at BBC Wales, to a whole new generation. She will be missed by all at BBC Wales who worked with her.”<\/p>\n
Sladen’s agent Roger Carey described her as a “dear friend”.<\/p>\n
He said: “She was so positive about life and her natural energy was intoxicating. She couldn’t believe her luck when her career was resurrected in her own series.”<\/p>\n
Doctor Who returns on Saturday and a spokeswoman for the show said that “something suitable is being planned” as a tribute to the late actress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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