Stephanie Bidmead (29 January 1929 – 22 September 1974) was a British stage and television actress.

[1] 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.

[3][4] In the Doctor Who serial Galaxy 4 she played the Drahvin leader Maaga.

[6] She had two sons with Moravian theatre designer Henry Bardon.

[7][8] She was diagnosed with anterior horn cell myelitis and died on 22 September 1974 at the age of 45.