Carole Ann Ford

Carole Ann Ford (born 16 June 1940), or Carol Ann Ford as she is sometimes credited, played companion Susan Foreman from "The Pilot Episode" to The Dalek Invasion of Earth and again in the stories The Five Doctors and An Earthly Child. She also made a brief cameo as Susan in the first movie.

Prior to Doctor Who
Ford has had a long and varied acting career. Her theatrical work includes many comedies, dramas and musicals such as The Jungle Book, Stranger in the House, Bakerloo to Paradise, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Rumpus, Pride and Prejudice, Inadmissable Evidence, Enrico, Expresso Bongo, Sleeping Beauty, You Never Can Tell, Ned Kelly, Mother, MacBett, The Boy Friend, Have You Seen Manchester and Private Lives.

Her film appearances include Sarah (about the life of French actress Sarah Bernhardt), The Day of the Triffids (1962) as the blind French girl Bettina, Mix Me a Person (1962),  her television appearances include Suspense (in the episode "Man on a Bicycle"),

Work on Doctor Who
According to the documentary Doctor Who: Origins, an appearance on Z-Cars prompted Ford's screen test for the role of Susan in Doctor Who in 1963. Playing the granddaughter of the Doctor, Ford was one of the three original companions to accompany William Hartnell's incarnation of the Time Lord. According to Ford, Susan was originally intended to be a character similar to those in The Champions, with telepathic abilities as well as the skills to fly the TARDIS, but in the series she was made to be far more ordinary. Her character departed from the series at the conclusion of the 1964 serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth, but returned briefly for the series's 20th-anniversary TV special, The Five Doctors

Ford made a few brief cameos as Susan in the television story An Earthly Child. In 2003 she made a brief cameo in Doctor Who.

After Doctor Who
After leaving the show Ford's other television and film roles included  The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966), and The Hiding Place (1975). Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (in the episode "Affairs and Relations"), Public Eye, Emergency Ward 10, Attorney General, Moonstrike, Compact, Probation Officer and Dial M for Murder.

Ford appeared on Juke Box Jury and various quiz shows, and has performed many voice-overs and voice dubs.

Personal life
Ford remained close friends with William Hartnell after leaving Doctor Who and was devastated by his death in 1975.

Ford mostly stopped acting following an illness in 1977 which led to a dramatic weight reduction and the loss of her voice, (it recovered later).

She is older than Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Richard Griffiths, Michael French, Richard E. Grant, Anthony Head Paterson Joseph, David Suchet and Samantha Bond all of whom play her on-screen grandparent.

Ford is married with two daughters. She is currently teaching voice, presentation skills and dialogue coaching to politicians, businessmen, after dinner speakers and actors.

Selected Credits
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As Susan Campbell

 * An Earthly Child
 * An Unearthly Child
 * Marco Polo
 * Planet of Giants
 * The Aztecs
 * The Daleks
 * The Dalek Invasion of Earth
 * The Edge of Destruction
 * The Five Doctors
 * The Keys of Marinus
 * The Name's Shakespeare, William Shakespeare (archive footage)
 * The Reign of Terror
 * The Sensorites
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2003

 * Doctor Who
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