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Sophie Aldred (born August 20, 1962) is an English actress and television presenter. She portrayed the Doctor's companion Ace in the television series Doctor Who during the late 1980s.

In 1987, she was cast as Ace in Doctor Who, initially for "Dragonfire", the final story of the series' twenty-fourth season. Her tenure on the show spanned the last nine stories of the programme's original run, which ended in 1989.

In January 1992, she guested in More than a Messiah, one of the Stranger original videos starring Colin Baker, also formerly of Doctor Who.

Both before and since Doctor Who, Aldred has had a varied and busy television career, particularly in children's programming, where she has presented educational programmes such as Corners, Melvin and Maureen's Music-a-grams (which ran from 1992 to 1996), the BBC series Words and Pictures (since 1992), and also CITV paranormal show It's a Mystery in 1996. Wikipedia.

Find out more at sophiealdred.net/. Follow Sophie on Twitter.

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