Susan travelled with the Doctor between An Unearthly Child and The Dalek Invasion of Earth.

She was the Doctor's 15 year-old granddaughter, but nobody knew how or why they came to be travelling together, how they arrived on Earth or where they came from. She was attending school in London when two of her teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, intrigued by her unusual intelligence and strange manner, investigated her mysterious home life. The Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS rather tham allow them to reveal what they had discovered.

Susan was fiercely loyal to her grandfather, and formed a close bond with Barbara as the strong female role model in her life. Two years after the first adventure, now aged 17, the TARDIS landed in London in 2164, in the midst of a Dalek invasion. Susan fell in love with young freedom fighter, David Campbell. She had decided to leave him, though, because she wanted to stay with her grandfather. He took the decision to lock her out of the TARDIS and make her stay with the man who could give her a steady future.

Carole Ann 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, Inadmissible 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 films include Sarah (about the life of Sarah Bernhardt), Hiding Place, The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, Mix Me a Person and the part of the blind French girl Bettina in the science fiction film The Day of the Triffids. She also worked as a glamour model in the late 1950s.

In addition to Doctor Who, her television appearances include Suspense (in the play Man on a Bicycle), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Public Eye, Emergency Ward 10, Attorney General, Moonstrike, Compact, Probation Officer, and Dial M for Murder. According to the documentary Doctor Who: Origins, it was an appearance on Z-Cars that led to Ford being tested for her role in Doctor Who.

Playing the granddaughter of the Doctor, she was one of the original companions to appear in the show in 1963. She left the series in an emotional farewell scene in 1964 at the conclusion of The Dalek Invasion of Earth, but briefly returned for the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors in 1983 and also appeared in the 30th anniversary charity special Dimensions in Time and the independent Doctor Who spin-off film Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans. She has also appeared on Juke Box Jury, numerous quiz shows, and done a multitude of voiceovers, dubbing, post synching and audio tapes.

Carole Ann Ford is married with two daughters. She is currently teaching voice and presentation skills and dialogue coaching to politicians, businessmen, after dinner speakers and actors. She has also reprised the role of Susan in two Doctor Who Unbound audio plays by Big Finish Productions, Auld Mortality and A Storm of Angels.

Film and TV

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993) (TV) .... Susan Foreman
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983) (TV) .... Susan Foreman
An Unearthly Child (23 November 1963) - Susan Foreman
The Cave of Skulls (30 November 1963) - Susan Foreman
The Forest of Fear (7 December 1963) - Susan Foreman
The Firemaker (14 December 1963) - Susan Foreman
The Dead Planet (21 December 1963) - Susan Foreman
The Survivors (28 December 1963) - Susan Foreman
The Escape (4 January 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Ambush (11 January 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Expedition (18 January 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Ordeal (22 January 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Rescue (1 February 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Edge of Destruction (8 February 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Brink of Disaster (15 February 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Roof of the World (22 February 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Singing Sands (29 February 1964) - Susan Foreman
Five Hundred Eyes (7 March 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Wall of Lies (14 March 1964) - Susan Foreman
Rider from Shang-Tu (21 March 1964) - Susan Foreman
Mighty Kublai Khan (28 March 1964) - Susan Foreman
Assassin at Peking (4 April 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Sea of Death (11 April 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Velvet Web (18 April 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Screaming Jungle (25 April 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Snows of Terror (2 May 1964) - Susan Foreman
Sentence of Death (9 May 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Keys of Marinus (16 May 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Temple of Evil (23 May 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Warriors of Death (30 May 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Bride of Sacrifice (6 June 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Day of Darkness (13 June 1964) - Susan Foreman
Strangers in Space (20 June 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Unwilling Warriors (27 June 1964) - Susan Foreman
Hidden Danger (11 July 1964) - Susan Foreman
A Race Against Death (18 July 1964) - Susan Foreman
Kidnap (25 July 1964) - Susan Foreman
A Desperate Venture (1 August 1964) - Susan Foreman
A Land of Fear (8 August 1964) - Susan Foreman
Guests of Madame Guillotine (15 August 1964) - Susan Foreman
A Change of Identity (22 August 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Tyrant of France (29 August 1964) - Susan Foreman
A Bargain of Necessity (5 September 1964) - Susan Foreman
Prisoners of Concergerie (12 September 1964) - Susan Foreman
Planet of Giants (31 October 1964) - Susan Foreman
Dangerous Journey (7 November 1964) - Susan Foreman
Crisis (14 November 1964) - Susan Foreman
World's End (21 November 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Daleks (28 November 1964) - Susan Foreman
Day of Reckoning (5 December 1964) - Susan Foreman
The End of Tomorrow (12 December 1964) - Susan Foreman
The Waking Ally (19 December 1964) - Susan Foreman
Flashpoint (26 December 1964) - Susan Foreman

Soul's Ark (1999) (V) .... Stella Grant
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (1994) (V) .... Zorelle
"Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?" .... Valerie (1 episode, 1974)
The Man Outside (1967) .... Cindy
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) .... Albertine
"Public Eye" (1 episode, 1965)
"Suspense" .... Jacky (1 episode, 1963)
Mix Me a Person (1962) .... Jenny
"Z Cars" .... Rita (1 episode, 1962)
"Crying Down the Lane" (1962) (mini) TV Series .... Jenny
The Day of the Triffids (1962) (as Carol Ann Ford) .... Bettina
"Dixon of Dock Green" .... Helen Layton (1 episode, 1961)
The Ghost Train Murder (1959) .... Girl On Ghost Train
The Last Load (1948)