Yasmin Paige

Yasmin Paige played Maria Jackson during the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures. She left as a member of the regular cast at the start of series 2, but cameoed later that same series.

Prior to Sarah Jane, Paige had perhaps received her greatest exposure from co-starring with and Marc Warren in the 2007 film Ballet Shoes, produced by Piers Wenger. The TV adaptation of a popular book of the same name was broadcast in many English-speaking countries. It received a limited theatrical release in the United States. However, she was already known to regular viewers of the CBBC prior to Sarah Jane, thanks to her two-year stint on the Saturday morning hourly,. She had also appeared, in 2004, alongside Peter Davison in. Her first role was in the multi-award-winning 2003 film.

Following her departure from Sarah Jane, she was a regular in the 2009 serial, directed by Catherine Morshead, and was one of the stars of the 2010 film Submarine. In 2012, she returned to a regular role on the BBC — this time on the BBC Three comedy, under director Dan Zeff.

In 2014, her starring role in had her reunited with Tommy Knight, who also played a central character in the series.

In 2018 she read the short story Sarah Jane and the Temple of Eyes for the anthology The Day She Saved the Doctor.

The Sarah Jane Adventures
As Maria Jackson
 * Invasion of the Bane
 * Revenge of the Slitheen
 * Eye of the Gorgon
 * Warriors of Kudlak
 * Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
 * The Lost Boy
 * The Last Sontaran
 * The Day of the Clown
 * The Mark of the Berserker

The Day She Saved the Doctor

 * Sarah Jane and the Temple of Eyes - reading