Liza Goddard

Last updated 09 January 2020

Liza Goddard
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Louise E Cobham née Goddard

Born: Friday 20th January 1950 (age: 74)

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Liza Goddard  is an English television and stage actress

She is best known to Doctor Who fans for her performance as Kari in the 1983 story Terminus and for being the first wife of the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker.

Goddard is best remembered in Australia for her role as Clarissa "Clancy" Merrick in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. After returning to the UK in 1969 as an adult, she appeared as Victoria in Take Three Girls (1969), and then its sequel Take Three Women(1982). She also had a supporting role in the 1972 movie Ooh: You Are Awful. Her career breakthrough was as April in The Brothers (1972-76), which also featured her first husband, Colin Baker. 

A comedy role alongside Donal Donnelly in Yes, Honestly (1976-77), by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham followed, as did a role, with Christopher Biggins, in an unsuccessful BBC1 sitcom Watch This Space (1980), by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe. This was followed by Pig in the Middle (1980-83) with Joanna Van Gyseghem. 

After her marriage to Colin Baker, she then married Alvin Stardust and later the producer and director David Cobham (who died in 2018).