Lisa Bowerman is a British

United Kingdom

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 actress.

Bowerman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and was a regular in the first two series of BBC medical drama Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

playing Sandra Mute, the show's first female paramedic. Her other television work includes: Dodgem, The Count of Solar, Grange Hill

Grange Hill

Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...

, The Vision Thing, Doctors, McCallum

McCallum

McCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions .Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead character, played by John Hannah. McCallum was a forensic pathologist who traveled by Triumph Motorcycle, and solved murders...

, Bad Girls

Bad Girls (TV series)

Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...

and Night and Day

Night and Day (TV series)

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. In 2007 she guest-starred as the Home Secretary

Home Secretary

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's PA

Personal assistant

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 in Spooks

Spooks

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, and returned to Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

 for a one-episode cameo role as a patient.

She has recorded many plays for BBC Radios 3 & 4, and has worked extensively in theatre.

Bowerman played the role of Karra in Survival

Survival (Doctor Who)

-Writing:Writer Rona Munro approached script editor Andrew Cartmel at a BBC scriptwriting workshop and said that she'd "kill to write for Doctor Who." The story Munro developed incorporated themes including the morals of hunting...

, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who

Doctor Who

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 in 1989. Since 1998, she has played companion

Companion (Doctor Who)

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 Bernice Summerfield

Bernice Summerfield

Bernice Surprise Summerfield is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures...

 in the Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions

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' Doctor Who audio plays. She also appears in two Doctor Who audio plays opposite Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy

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 as the Seventh Doctor and Sophie Aldred

Sophie Aldred

Sophie Aldred is an English actress and television presenter, best known for her portrayal of The Doctor's companion Ace in the television series Doctor Who during the late 1980s.-Early life:...

 as Ace

Ace (Doctor Who)

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, as well as in over 50 audio plays based solely on Bernice. Other audio play characters include Ruby in the Sapphire and Steel stories Water Like a Stone

Water Like a Stone

Water Like a Stone is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the popular British science fiction television series Sapphire & Steel.-Plot:...

, Cruel Immortality

Cruel Immortality

Cruel Immortality is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the popular British science fiction television series Sapphire & Steel.-Cast:*Steel — David Warner*Sapphire — Susannah Harker*Mrs P — Muriel Pavlow*Enid — Daphne Oxenford...

and Second Sight

Second Sight (Sapphire and Steel)

Second Sight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the popular British science fiction television series Sapphire & Steel.-Cast:*Steel — Blair McDonough*Sapphire — Anna Skellern*Ruby — Lisa Bowerman*Mary — Patience Tomlinson...

, and Murash in I, Davros: Guilt

I, Davros: Guilt

I, Davros: Guilt is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It stars Terry Molloy reprising his role as Davros, the twisted creator of the Dalek race. "Guilt" is the final part of the mini-series exploring Davros' early...

and Ellie in 'Jago & Litefoot'. She has also directed many other Big Finish audio dramas. She also voiced Saruba Velak in Dreamland

Dreamland (Doctor Who)

Dreamland is the second animated Doctor Who serial to air on television...

 for the BBC.

Bowerman is also a professional photographer, the House Committee Chair Denville Hall

Denville Hall

Denville Hall is a retirement home for professional actors, situated in Northwood, Hillingdon, London, which was designed by Founded in 1925 as a charity for actors by Alfred Denville, impresario, actor-manager and MP, he dedicated the Hall to the acting profession, in memory of his son Jack, who...

 the retirement home for actors, and a trustee of The Actors' Charitable Trust.

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