Stephanie Bidmead was a British stage and television actress. She was born in Kidderminster. She was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1950s, and played in Peter Brook's 1957 production of The Tempest and in 1959 played opposite Charles Laughton in King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She began to work in television during the 1960s, with credits in Doctor Who, and Adam Adamant Lives!. In the Doctor Who serial Galaxy 4 she played the Drahvin leader Maaga. In 1972 she played the lead role of Queen Elizabeth I in Robert Bolt's play Vivat! Vivat Regina! in the Birmingham Rep production. She had two sons with Moravian theater designer Henry Bardon. She was diagnosed with anterior horn cell demyelitis and died on September 22, 1974, at the age of 45. 

January 29th, 1929 in Birmingham  /  Died:   Sep 22nd, 1974