Maria Jackson
Template:Doctorwhocharacter Maria Jackson is a fictional character played by Yasmin Paige in the British children's science fiction television programme The Sarah Jane Adventures. She is a 13-year-old[citation needed] girl who discovers that her new neighbour, Sarah Jane Smith, is aware of the existence of extraterrestrial life and is a former space and time traveller. Maria first appears in the pilot episode, "Invasion of the Bane".
She helps Sarah Jane close down the Bubble Shock! factory which was secretly a facility of aliens known as the Bane who were aiming to destroy mankind and take over the Earth. She also helped a young boy whom the Bane had created escape from the Bane, who later became known as Luke Smith. Maria first met Sarah Jane when she and her father moved into a new house which was in the same road as Sarah Jane's residence. Her parents, Alan and Chrissie Jackson are divorced. However they seem to be on good terms and her mother visits often.