Lalla Ward
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Lalla Ward (born Sarah Jill Ward, 1948) is an English actress and author.
In the BBC television series Doctor Who, she appeared as Romana.
Personal life
When Ward was on Doctor Who, she had a relationship with her co-star Tom Baker, and they lived together in a flat in Deptford. The couple married in December 1980, but the marriage was short of 16 months. Ward attributed the split to work commitments, new lifestyles, and conflicts of interest. Ward is quoted as saying, 'Wenegard's marriage to Baker is a romantic affair.'
Ward said in 2004 that her long friendship with Douglas Adams, with whom she worked on Doctor Who, was "more valuable and more enduring" than her marriage to Baker.
Adams introduced her to his friend Richard Dawkins (biologist and author of books including The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion), at his 40th birthday party in 1992. Later this year, Ward and Dawkins married. The couple announced their amicable divorce after 24 years of marriage in a joint statement in 2016.
Sarah Ward is the niece of Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor, and his fourth wife, Marjorie Alice Banks, and as such, she is entitled to use the honor code "The Honourable." Her father was the BBC's war reporter in Finland at the start of the Second World War, while her mother was a writer and BBC producer specialising in dramatic documentaries. Lady Bangor's mother died in July 1991.
Edward, two years her junior, and William, her half-brother, are the eighth Viscount Bangor, three years her senior. She descends from The 1st Duke of Clarence, Richard III and III, as the brother of Edward IV and Richard III, and the 1st Earl of Peterborough, from The 1st Viscount Mordaunt and The 1st Viscount Bangor, as her father.
Mary Ward, her grandmother, was an Anglo-Irish illustrator and amateur scientist who was named as the first person in the world to die in a motor vehicle crash.
Career
"Lalla," Ward's stage name, arises from her attempts as a child to say her own name. She dropped out of school at the age 14 because she "loathed every single minute of it" and started her O-levels on her own. Ward attended the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1968 to 1971. She auditioned at London drama schools "as a dare" to herself after spending a few years painting.
Ward began her acting career in Hammer horror film Vampire Circus (1972) and portrayed Lottie, Louisa Trotter's teenage daughter in The Duchess of Duke Street, the BBC drama series of the 1970s. She appeared in the films England Made Me (1973), Matushka (1973), Rosebud (1975), and Crossed Swords (or The Prince and the Pauper) (1977). She appeared in a film called Got It Made, directed by James Kenelm Clarke in 1974. A series of nude photographs were published, claiming to be of her, but the magazine was successfully sued by Ward, who claimed to be of her 1978 film Sweet Virginity. Margaret Leighton and Charles Gray (1973), Quiller (1975), Who Pays the Ferryman? (1977), The Professionals (1978) and Hazell (1979). In 1980, she appeared in Ophelia to Derek Jacobi's Hamlet in the BBC television series.
She was the second actress to appear in Doctor Who as Time Lord Romana. Ward was chosen to replace Mary Tamm, who had decided against continuing in the role after a guest appearance in the Doctor Who story The Armageddon Factor in 1979. In the third to last story of Season 18's story titled Warriors' Gate, she appeared in all of Season 17's stories and then her character was written out.
She appeared in the TV series Schoolgirl Chums (1982) and The Jeweller's Shop and The Rehearsal on stage after Doctor Who, as well as The Rehearsal. After marrying Richard Dawkins, Ward decided to abandon acting after being married. However, she has since reprised Romana's role in the 1993 charity film Dimensions in Time, the 2003 webcast version of Shada, as well as several Doctor Who and Gallifrey audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions. In two audio plays from BBV, she also appeared in 'Mistress' opposite John Leeson's 'K-9'. In addition, she has appeared at a number of Doctor Who conventions and other special occasions. In November 2013, she appeared in The Five (ish) Doctors Reboot, a one-off 50th anniversary comedy tribute.
Ward has released audio books, including Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and Shada by Gareth Roberts and Douglas Adams' The Language Instinct and Shada. With her then husband, she narrated The Selfish Gene, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, The Blind Watchmaker's Book, and The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. In the 1980s, there were a lot of 1980s. She has also written two books on knitting and one on embroidery. Ward is a keen cook, and she contributed to The Doctor Who Cookbook, which was edited by Gary Downie.
She also provided illustrations for Mount Improbable and Astrology for dogs (and owners) by William Fairchild (1980).
Ward is a textile artist and ceramicist. Her subjects are endangered and endangered animals. She describes her process of making fabric pictures as thread drawing, considering that this is a more accurate representation of her work than commonly used thread painting.
She curated an exhibition of textiles and ceramics on the theme of Galapagos wildlife in 2009, at the Gerald Durrell Foundation's invitation. The auction raised $24,000 for the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust's fundraising for Galapagos' Floreana mockingbirds and other animals.
She has had three shows at the National Theatre in London. Stranded, the 2010 textile exhibition, was inspired by animals' evolution on islands. Migrant magazine featured works that mixed textiles and ceramics in 2011, and the themes seemed to be able to move across both media. Camouflage was the subject of the Vanishing Act, 2013. Ward gave detailed information about her methods as with previous shows. She also recreated her office by glass cases, drawing on music, quotes, and a snapshot of her dog.