Jane Slavin


Jane Slavin is an English actress and novelist. Slavin was the winner of the 1989 BBC Radio Drama Carleton Hobbs Award.
She has appeared on television in Lewis, Doctors, Peak Practice, Always and Everyone, Coronation Street and the Doctor Who full-cast radio drama The Paradise of Death. Regular in The Bill, Wycliffe, Maigret, Clocking Off, Casualty and Heartbeat.
More recently she has recorded several Big Finish productions of Doctor Who with the fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, playing the role of companion Ann Kelso. The stories were released in January 2019.
Her theatre roles include Poopay in Alan Ayckbourn's at the Savoy Theatre, and All Things Considered. She was Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in a world tour for the and famously fell off the balcony at the first preview.
Her novel Writing on the Water was published in 2003 by Transworld/Black Swan.
She has been appearing in Coronation Street as Wendy Neeson.

Personal life

Born in Salford, Lancashire, the daughter of two teachers. Her sister is writer She lives in Hoxton, London with her daughter. She trained at the and the .