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| Novice Hame (Anna Hope) looks the cat's whiskers |
First broadcast Apr 15 2006
Average audience for story: 8.62m
REGULAR CAST
David Tennant (The Doctor) Born Apr 18 1971 Click here for David Tennant's entry on The Parting of the Ways
Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) Born Sep 22 1982 Click here for Billie Piper's entry on Rose
GUEST CAST
Adjoa Andoh (Sister Jatt) Born Jan 14 1963
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sister Jatt in New Earth (2006)
Played: Francine Jones in Smith and Jones, The Lazarus Experiment, 42, The Sound of Drums/ Last of the Time Lords (all 2007), The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End (2008)
Career highlights
Adjoa's earliest credit was playing Karen in soap EastEnders (1990), after which she developed an impressive CV in productions like Waiting for God (1992), The Brittas Empire (1994), The Tomorrow People (1995), Peak Practice (1997), Jonathan Creek (1999), Dalziel and Pascoe (2005), Chopratown (2005), The Shadow in the North (2007), Adulthood (2008), Invictus (2009), Scott and Bailey (2011), Chasing Shadows (2014), Wizards vs Aliens (2014), The Life of Rock with Brian Pern (2014), Broadchurch (2015), Cucumber (2015), New Tricks (2015), Line of Duty (2016), Brotherhood (2016), Acceptable Risk (2017), Death in Paradise (2018), Fractured (2019), Ghost Seekers (2020) and Bridgerton (2020-21). Recurring roles include Sister Beth Williams in the sitcom Health and Efficiency (1993-95), Colette Griffiths in almost 100 episodes of Casualty (2000-03), DCI Lauren Ford in Missing (2009-10), Head of MI9 in MI High (2008-11), Lilly in Law and Order UK (2011-14) and the voice of Colonel Casey in the rebooted Thunderbirds Are Go! (2015-20).
Facts
In 2009, Adjoa was licensed as a lay preacher in the Church of England. She is married to author Howard Cunnell. Adjoa and Howard's son Liam is transgender, having been born a girl but who felt from a young age that he was in the wrong body.
Played: Francine Jones in Smith and Jones, The Lazarus Experiment, 42, The Sound of Drums/ Last of the Time Lords (all 2007), The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End (2008)
Career highlights
Adjoa's earliest credit was playing Karen in soap EastEnders (1990), after which she developed an impressive CV in productions like Waiting for God (1992), The Brittas Empire (1994), The Tomorrow People (1995), Peak Practice (1997), Jonathan Creek (1999), Dalziel and Pascoe (2005), Chopratown (2005), The Shadow in the North (2007), Adulthood (2008), Invictus (2009), Scott and Bailey (2011), Chasing Shadows (2014), Wizards vs Aliens (2014), The Life of Rock with Brian Pern (2014), Broadchurch (2015), Cucumber (2015), New Tricks (2015), Line of Duty (2016), Brotherhood (2016), Acceptable Risk (2017), Death in Paradise (2018), Fractured (2019), Ghost Seekers (2020) and Bridgerton (2020-21). Recurring roles include Sister Beth Williams in the sitcom Health and Efficiency (1993-95), Colette Griffiths in almost 100 episodes of Casualty (2000-03), DCI Lauren Ford in Missing (2009-10), Head of MI9 in MI High (2008-11), Lilly in Law and Order UK (2011-14) and the voice of Colonel Casey in the rebooted Thunderbirds Are Go! (2015-20).
Facts
In 2009, Adjoa was licensed as a lay preacher in the Church of England. She is married to author Howard Cunnell. Adjoa and Howard's son Liam is transgender, having been born a girl but who felt from a young age that he was in the wrong body.
Noel Clarke (Mickey Smith) Born Dec 6 1975 Click here for Noel Clarke's entry on Rose
Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler) Born Apr 18 1965 Click here for Camille Coduri's entry on Rose
Doña Croll (Matron Casp) Born Aug 29 1953
Career highlights
Jamaican born Dona made her screen debut in Gangsters in 1976, followed by Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), The Nation's Health (1983), The Real Eddy English (1989), The Paradise Club (1989), Troublemakers (1990), Spatz (1991), Rides (1992), Us Girls (1992), Chandler & Co (1995), The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (1999), Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999-2001, as the voice of Tom's agent Norma), William and Mary (2003), Girls in Love (2005), Time Trumpet (2006), EastEnders (2006), The Shadow in the North (2007), Mammoth (2009), Doctors (2002/07), Ice Cream Girls (2013), The Missing (2014), Sticky (2018), Been So Long (2018), The Long Song (2018), West of Liberty (2019), Creeped Out (2019) and Death in Paradise (2020). She regularly played Adele Beckford in Casualty (1993-94) and Pearl McHugh in the soap Family Affairs (1999-2002).
Facts
Doña has the honour of playing the first black Cleopatra on the British stage in Talawa Theatre's production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in 1991.
Michael Fitzgerald (Duke of Manhattan) Born 1951
Career highlights
Debuting in Moliere (1985), Michael went on to appear in Drowning By Numbers (1988), The Tall Guy (1989), The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990), Prime Suspect 2 (1992), The Choir (1995), Sharpe's Revenge (1997), Wilde (1997), Charlotte Gray (2001), Love Actually (2003), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Doctors (2009), Camelot (2011), Whitechapel (2013), Borgia (2011-14), The Marriage of Reason and Squalor (2015), The Last Panthers (2015) and The Bookshop (2017).
Debuting in Moliere (1985), Michael went on to appear in Drowning By Numbers (1988), The Tall Guy (1989), The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990), Prime Suspect 2 (1992), The Choir (1995), Sharpe's Revenge (1997), Wilde (1997), Charlotte Gray (2001), Love Actually (2003), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Doctors (2009), Camelot (2011), Whitechapel (2013), Borgia (2011-14), The Marriage of Reason and Squalor (2015), The Last Panthers (2015) and The Bookshop (2017).
Sean Gallagher (Chip) Born Sep 2 1965
Career highlights
Sean made his debut in The Guilty in 1992, followed by EastEnders (1993), Peak Practice (1993), Murder Most Horrid (1994), The House of Windsor (1994), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996), Noah's Ark (1997), Holding On (1997), Earth: Final Conflict (1998), Offending Angels (2000), Micawber (2001-02), Clocking Off (2002), Island at War (2004), Murder Prevention (2004), New Street Law (2006), Rock Rivals (2008), Death in Paradise (2011), Leaving (2012), Our Girl (2013-14), Midsomer Murders (2017), Father Brown (2019) and The Rest of Us (2019). He also regularly played Jimmy McKenzie in Linda Green (2001-02) and Paul Connor in more than 100 episodes of Coronation Street (2006-07).
Sean made his debut in The Guilty in 1992, followed by EastEnders (1993), Peak Practice (1993), Murder Most Horrid (1994), The House of Windsor (1994), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996), Noah's Ark (1997), Holding On (1997), Earth: Final Conflict (1998), Offending Angels (2000), Micawber (2001-02), Clocking Off (2002), Island at War (2004), Murder Prevention (2004), New Street Law (2006), Rock Rivals (2008), Death in Paradise (2011), Leaving (2012), Our Girl (2013-14), Midsomer Murders (2017), Father Brown (2019) and The Rest of Us (2019). He also regularly played Jimmy McKenzie in Linda Green (2001-02) and Paul Connor in more than 100 episodes of Coronation Street (2006-07).
Facts
In 2008, Sean appeared on a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to raise money for World Animal Protection's project to end bear dancing in India.
Anna Hope (Novice Hame) Born 1974
Doctor Who credits
Played: Novice Hame in New Earth TARDISode (2006), New Earth (2006), Gridlock (2007)
Career highlights
Anna debuted in Crime and Punishment (2002), then The Long Firm (2004), Love Me Still (2008), Waking the Dead (2011), Coronation Street (2011-12) and Zero Tolerance (2012).
Facts
Anna is now a writer, having written the novels Wake, The Ballroom and Expectation. She was shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in the National Book Awards in 2014. In the Doctor Who world, Anna has also had success with another recurring character: Inspector Patricia Menzies in three Big Finish audio adventures (2008/11). Here's Anna on Twitter.
Doctor Who credits
Played: Novice Hame in New Earth TARDISode (2006), New Earth (2006), Gridlock (2007)
Career highlights
Anna debuted in Crime and Punishment (2002), then The Long Firm (2004), Love Me Still (2008), Waking the Dead (2011), Coronation Street (2011-12) and Zero Tolerance (2012).
Facts
Anna is now a writer, having written the novels Wake, The Ballroom and Expectation. She was shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in the National Book Awards in 2014. In the Doctor Who world, Anna has also had success with another recurring character: Inspector Patricia Menzies in three Big Finish audio adventures (2008/11). Here's Anna on Twitter.
Simon Ludders (Patient) Born 1968
Doctor Who credits
Played: Patient in New Earth (2006)
Played: Overseer in Thin Ice (2017)
Career highlights
Simon made his screen debut doing the voice of Roderigo in Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Othello (1994), followed by roles in Every Cloud (1996), Harpur and Iles (1997), Care (2000), The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002), The Basil Brush Show (2002), I'm Alan Partridge (2002), Calendar Girls (2003), Green Wing (2006), Wire in the Blood (2008), The Green Green Grass (2009), Baker Boys (2011), Becoming Human (2011), Broadchurch (2013), Doctors (2014), Stella (2016), The Dumping Ground (2017), Red Joan (2018), Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (2019), Silver Darlings (2019), Miss Scarlett and the Duke (2020), Bridgerton (2020) and The Irregulars (2021). Simon also played Sid the Source in 13 episodes of Scoop (2009), had various roles in Gigglebiz (2009-11) and played Renfield in 66 episodes of Young Dracula (2006-14). He's also a prolific scriptwriter, having worked on Lucky Bag (1999), TV to Go (2001), The Armstrong and Miller Show (2009-10), Gigglebiz (2011), Tati's Hotel (2011) and Stella (2013-16).
Facts
Here's Simon on Twitter.
Doctor Who credits
Played: Patient in New Earth (2006)
Played: Overseer in Thin Ice (2017)
Career highlights
Simon made his screen debut doing the voice of Roderigo in Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Othello (1994), followed by roles in Every Cloud (1996), Harpur and Iles (1997), Care (2000), The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002), The Basil Brush Show (2002), I'm Alan Partridge (2002), Calendar Girls (2003), Green Wing (2006), Wire in the Blood (2008), The Green Green Grass (2009), Baker Boys (2011), Becoming Human (2011), Broadchurch (2013), Doctors (2014), Stella (2016), The Dumping Ground (2017), Red Joan (2018), Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (2019), Silver Darlings (2019), Miss Scarlett and the Duke (2020), Bridgerton (2020) and The Irregulars (2021). Simon also played Sid the Source in 13 episodes of Scoop (2009), had various roles in Gigglebiz (2009-11) and played Renfield in 66 episodes of Young Dracula (2006-14). He's also a prolific scriptwriter, having worked on Lucky Bag (1999), TV to Go (2001), The Armstrong and Miller Show (2009-10), Gigglebiz (2011), Tati's Hotel (2011) and Stella (2013-16).
Facts
Here's Simon on Twitter.
Lucy Robinson (Frau Clovis) Born 1966
Career highlights
Debuted in 1991's Clarissa, then Heartbeat (1994), All Quiet on the Preston Front (1995), Emma (1996), The Thin Blue Line (1996), Get Real (1998), Nancherrow (1999), Beast (2000), Barbara (2002), Wire in the Blood (2002), Family Affairs (2004), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Donovan (2006), The Royal (2007), Doc Martin (2007), U Be Dead (2009), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Being Human (2012), Call the Midwife (2013), Coronation Street (2013), The Hollow Crown (2016) and London Kills (2019). Lucy regularly played Rachel Rattigan in Revelations (1994-95), Pam Draper in Suburban Shootout (2006-07) and Robyn Duff in Cold Feet (2003-20).
Facts
Career highlights
Debuted in 1991's Clarissa, then Heartbeat (1994), All Quiet on the Preston Front (1995), Emma (1996), The Thin Blue Line (1996), Get Real (1998), Nancherrow (1999), Beast (2000), Barbara (2002), Wire in the Blood (2002), Family Affairs (2004), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Donovan (2006), The Royal (2007), Doc Martin (2007), U Be Dead (2009), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Being Human (2012), Call the Midwife (2013), Coronation Street (2013), The Hollow Crown (2016) and London Kills (2019). Lucy regularly played Rachel Rattigan in Revelations (1994-95), Pam Draper in Suburban Shootout (2006-07) and Robyn Duff in Cold Feet (2003-20).
Facts
Lucy is married to actor Nicholas Murchie, while her father was Robert Robinson, known in the UK for hosting Call My Bluff and Ask the Family on TV.
Struan Rodger (Voice of the Face of Boe) Born Sep 18 1946
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of the Face of Boe in New Earth (2006), Gridlock (2007)
Played: Clayton in The Woman Who Lived (2015)
Played: Voice of the Kasaavin in Spyfall (2020)
Career highlights
Struan's CV stretches right back to Hobson's Choice in 1967, after which he appeared in The Regiment (1972), Look and Read: Joe and the Sheep Rustlers (1973), Warship (1974), Les Miserables (1978), Return of the Saint (1979), Chariots of Fire (1981), Boys from the Blackstuff (1984), Cover Her face (1985), The Detective (1985), Edge of Darkness (1985), Yesterday's Dreams (1987), Imaginary Friends (1987), Game, Set and Match (1988), Who Bombed Birmingham? (1990), Afraid of the Dark (1991), Spender (1993), Prime Suspect 3 (1993), Chandler and Co (1994), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Madness of King George (1994), Richard II (1997), Young Adam (2003), Sea of Souls (2004), Stardust (2007), Moses Jones (2009), The Thick of It (2009), Kill List (2011), Endeavour (2014), Prey (2014), Grantchester (2014), Game of Thrones (2014-15, as the voice of the Three-Eyed Raven), The Enfield Haunting (2015), Shetland (2016), Vera (2017), Save Me (2018), Age Before Beauty (2018), The World We Knew (2020) and A Discovery of Witches (2021).
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of the Face of Boe in New Earth (2006), Gridlock (2007)
Played: Clayton in The Woman Who Lived (2015)
Played: Voice of the Kasaavin in Spyfall (2020)
Career highlights
Struan's CV stretches right back to Hobson's Choice in 1967, after which he appeared in The Regiment (1972), Look and Read: Joe and the Sheep Rustlers (1973), Warship (1974), Les Miserables (1978), Return of the Saint (1979), Chariots of Fire (1981), Boys from the Blackstuff (1984), Cover Her face (1985), The Detective (1985), Edge of Darkness (1985), Yesterday's Dreams (1987), Imaginary Friends (1987), Game, Set and Match (1988), Who Bombed Birmingham? (1990), Afraid of the Dark (1991), Spender (1993), Prime Suspect 3 (1993), Chandler and Co (1994), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Madness of King George (1994), Richard II (1997), Young Adam (2003), Sea of Souls (2004), Stardust (2007), Moses Jones (2009), The Thick of It (2009), Kill List (2011), Endeavour (2014), Prey (2014), Grantchester (2014), Game of Thrones (2014-15, as the voice of the Three-Eyed Raven), The Enfield Haunting (2015), Shetland (2016), Vera (2017), Save Me (2018), Age Before Beauty (2018), The World We Knew (2020) and A Discovery of Witches (2021).
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cassandra in The End of the World (2005), New Earth (2006)
Career highlights
New York born Zoe's acting career began with Turn of the Year: Sally for Keeps in 1971, after which she had roles in Between the Wars (1973), A Christmas Carol (1977), The Devil's Crown (1978), Baal (1982), Enemies of the State (1983), Edge of Darkness (1985), Paradise Postponed (1986), The Raggedy Rawney (1988), Inspector Morse (1991), Prime Suspect (1991), The Blackheath Poisonings (1992), The English Wife (1995), Wilde (1997), David Copperfield (1999), Gormenghast (2000), Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (2001), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Five Children and It (2004), Johnny and the Bomb (2006), The Old Curiosity Shop (2007), My Week with Marilyn (2011), Mr Selfridge (2015), Babs (2017), Inside No 9 (2018), Girlfriends (2018), Killing Eve (2019) and Worzel Gummidge (2019). She also played Tessa Carver in 30 episodes of Love Hurts (1992-94), Ariadne Oliver in a handful of Agatha Christie's Poirot episodes (2005-13), and Queen Antedia in Britannia (2017-19), but will be best known as Susan Harper in 116 episodes of the sitcom My Family (2000-11).
Awards
1979: Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival (Once in a Lifetime)
1998: Olivier Award for Best Actress (Electra)
2001: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama
Facts
Zoe's husband is the actor Gawn Grainger (who appeared in The Mark of the Rani in 1985) while her father was actor and director Sam Wanamaker (whose greatest professional achievement is probably reconstructing Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London). She became a British citizen in 2000 so that she could receive a CBE from the Queen. Here is Zoe's Twitter account.
In 2013 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Zoe here.
James Hawes (director)
Doctor Who credits
Director: The Empty Child/ The Doctor Dances (2005), The Christmas Invasion (2005), New Earth (2006), School Reunion (2006)
Career highlights
James's earliest directing work was The Earth in Balance (1990, featuring Prince Charles), followed by Against All Odds (1994), Staying Alive (1996), The Bill (1996-98), Holby City (1999), The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (2000), Sea of Souls (2004), The Chatterley Affair (2006), Miss Marie Lloyd (2007), Fanny Hill (2007), Merlin (2008), The 39 Steps (2008), DCI Banks (2010), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011), Mad Dogs (2012), The Mill (2013), Penny Dreadful (2014), Undercover (2016), The Mist (2017), Black Mirror (2016/19), Snowpiercer (2020), Raised By Wolves (2020) and Slow Horses (2021). However, he'd started out as a member of the production team on Crimewatch in the late 1980s, as well as producer on the series Did You See...?, and was also an executive producer on Snowpiercer.
Doctor Who credits
Director: The Empty Child/ The Doctor Dances (2005), The Christmas Invasion (2005), New Earth (2006), School Reunion (2006)
Career highlights
James's earliest directing work was The Earth in Balance (1990, featuring Prince Charles), followed by Against All Odds (1994), Staying Alive (1996), The Bill (1996-98), Holby City (1999), The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (2000), Sea of Souls (2004), The Chatterley Affair (2006), Miss Marie Lloyd (2007), Fanny Hill (2007), Merlin (2008), The 39 Steps (2008), DCI Banks (2010), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011), Mad Dogs (2012), The Mill (2013), Penny Dreadful (2014), Undercover (2016), The Mist (2017), Black Mirror (2016/19), Snowpiercer (2020), Raised By Wolves (2020) and Slow Horses (2021). However, he'd started out as a member of the production team on Crimewatch in the late 1980s, as well as producer on the series Did You See...?, and was also an executive producer on Snowpiercer.
Awards
2006: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Drama Director (Doctor Who)
2006: Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form (Doctor Who) - shared with Steven Moffat
2014: Royal Television Society Award for Best Single Drama (The Challenger) - shared with Kate Gartside, Mark Hedgecoe and Laurie Borg
Facts
James was originally announced as the producer on series one of Torchwood, but he backed out after deciding that directing was where his real passion lay. Here he is on Twitter.
Facts
James was originally announced as the producer on series one of Torchwood, but he backed out after deciding that directing was where his real passion lay. Here he is on Twitter.
Phil Collinson (producer) Born Aug 26 1970 Click here for Phil Collinson's entry on Rose
Helen Vallis (associate producer) Click here for Helen Vallis's entry on Rose
Helen Raynor (script editor) Born Mar 27 1972 Click here for Helen Raynor's entry on The Unquiet Dead
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