Born: 22nd July 1937
Died: 6th October 1997 (aged 60 years)
Episodes Broadcast: 1965

Born in Plymouth, Devon, Adrienne Hill lived all over the British Isles during her childhood. She trained to become an actor at the Bristol Old Vic, and spent the late Fifties and early Sixties treading the boards. Hill moved into both television and radio in 1964; her first recurring role came on the radio soap opera The Dales, while her initial appearance on the small screen was a bit part in Compact. However, when Compact was replaced by 199 Park Lane in 1965, Hill became a regular -- only for the programme to be cancelled after less than two months.

At the start of 1965, Hill was a candidate to play Joanna in The Crusade, a Doctor Who serial directed by Douglas Camfield. Following the end of 199 Park Lane, Camfield instead cast Hill as the Trojan handmaiden Katarina in The Daleks' Master Plan. The character had been devised as a new companion, but the production team had quickly recognised that Katarina's origins in antiquity would present an insurmountable obstacle for writers. As such, she would be killed off partway through The Daleks' Master Plan and, in fact, the first scene Hill recorded for Doctor Who was Katarina's demise. Only subsequently did she tape her character's introduction in the preceding serial, The Myth Makers.

Doctor Who marked the end of Hill's brief television career, but she continued to find work on radio, including two years on the soap opera Waggoner's Walk. In 1967, she married marketing consultant Denis Wrattan; daughter Samantha was born in 1968, followed by son Benjamin in 1971. Hill stopped acting when her husband's work required relocations first to the Netherlands and then to the United States. However, she returned to London in the late Seventies after her marriage ended. Hill became a drama teacher, often working with disadvantaged youth, until her death from cancer on October 6th, 1997.