Fear Her

Its chameleon circuit may have broken
but the TARDIS still fits right in

One episode (Fear Her)
First broadcast June 24 2006
Average audience for story: 7.14m

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

Abisola Agbaje (Chloe) Born 1995
This is Abisola's sole acting credit to date. She was found by the casting director in an after-school drama club. Her sister is playwright Bola Agbaje, who in 2008 won an outstanding achievement Olivier Award for her debut play Gone Too Far!

Edna Doré (Maeve) May 31 1921 to Apr 11 2014 (emphysema)
Career highlights
Edna's acting debut on screen came at the age of 37 in Starr and Company (1958), followed by Jungle Street Girls (1960), The Citadel (1960), The Old Curiosity Shop (1963), Sherlock Holmes (1968), Doctor at Large (1971), The Liver Birds (1974), Open All Hours (1976), Terry and June (1982), Tenko (1984), Tickets for the Titanic (1988), High Hopes (1988), Hard Cases (1989), Streets Apart (1988-89), Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992), Love Hurts (1993), Westbeach (1993), No Bananas (1996), Nil By Mouth (1997), The Canterville Ghost (1997), Peak Practice (2000), Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001), Weak at Denise (2001), Time Gentlemen Please (2000-02), Roger Roger (2003), Eyes Down (2003-04), All About George (2005), Minder (2009), Gavin and Stacey (2008-09), Shameless (2010) and Midsomer Murders (2011). It is for her role as Mo Butcher in 125 episodes of soap EastEnders (1988-90) that she may be most remembered.

Awards

1989: European Film Award for Best Supporting Performance (High Hopes)
Facts
Edna's husband was fellow actor and writer Alexander Doré. Edna specialised in characters affected by the onset of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, which she portrayed to much acclaim in EastEnders, High Hopes and Gavin and Stacey. When she was picking up her European Film award in Paris, she was called up to the stage as "Edna Door" (her surname had an accent over the "e"). As she left clutching her prize, she muttered: "You'd think that at least in Paris they'd pronounce my bloody name right."

Huw Edwards (Commentator) Born Aug 18 1961

Career highlights

Huw was one of the UK's foremost current affairs broadcasters, starting out as a news trainee for the BBC in 1984 before joining BBC Wales as parliamentary correspondent in 1986. Between 1999-2003 he was presenter of the BBC Six O'Clock News and in 2003 became the main anchor for the BBC News at Ten. He also acted as the BBC's anchor for major news events such as Remembrance Day, Trooping the Colour, state ceremonies and elections. He has also presented a number of documentary series on subjects such as Welsh politics, classical music, religion and Welsh history. He can also be seen reading the news in Psychoville (2009), Casualty (2010) and Skyfall (2012).

Awards

2001: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best On-screen Presenter

2002: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best On-screen Presenter

2003: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best On-screen Presenter (The Exchange)

2004: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best On-screen Presenter (The Story of Welsh)

2005: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best On-screen Presenter

2010: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best On-screen Presenter (The Prince and the Plotter)

Facts

Huw's father was author Hywel Teifi Edwards, a research professor for Welsh language literature at the University of Swansea. In 2023, Huw was suspended from the BBC after tabloids revealed he had paid a teenager more than £35,000 since they were 17 for "sordid pictures". While representatives of the teenager stated nothing untoward happened (the teenager was estranged from their mother and stepfather, who made the allegations), the scandal resulted in Huw being submitted to hospital for treatment for depression. In 2024, the BBC edited Huw out of the Doctor Who episode Fear Her after he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, some in the age seven-to-nine age category.

Erica Eirian (Neighbour) Born Aug 24 1956

Career highlights

Erica has also appeared in Body Beautiful (1991), The Bench (2001), Coronation Street (2008/12), and 14 episodes of The Indian Doctor as Sian Davies (2010-13). She has also worked extensively in Welsh language TV and theatre since 1979.

Tim Faraday (Tom's dad) Born 1966

Career highlights
Debuted uncredited in City of Joy (1992), followed by roles in London Bridge (1996), Wycliffe (1997), Silent Witness (1998), Killer Net (1998), Bugs (1998), Forgotten (1999), Do Not Disturb (1999), Bad Girls (2001), Murphy's Law (2004), My Dad's the Prime Minister (2004), North and South (2004), Secret Smile (2005), Rome (2007), Torn (2007), The Inbetweeners (2008), Primeval (2008-09), The Ghost Writer (2010), Call the Midwife (2012), Scar Tissue (2013), Jonathan Creek (2014), Ripper Street (2014), Critical (2015), Harvest of the Dead (2015), Marley's Ghosts (2016), Witless (2017-18), Trollied (2018), Killer Weekend (2018), Room Mates (2018), Are We Dead Yet (2019), Britannia (2019), Skullz (2020), Devil in the Woods (2021) and Lawrence After Arabia (2021). He also played Black Martin in Da Vinci's Demons (2013-14).

Facts

Before becoming an actor, Tim was a trained paramedic.

Stephen Marzella (Police officer) Born Oct 29 1959

Doctor Who credits

Played: Police officer in Fear Her (2006)

Played: Dave Penn in Torchwood: From Out of the Rain (2008)

Career highlights

Stephen debuted in Chariots of Fire in 1981, and secured his first on-screen credit in Sorry! (1987). Further work includes Harry Enfield and Chums (1994), Game On (1995), EastEnders (1997), High Hopes (2007), Mistresses (2008), A Bit of Tom Jones? (2009), Mr Nice (2010), Da Vinci's Demons (2013-14), The Windsors (2016), Cold Feet (2016) and Get Even (2020).

Richard Nichols (Driver)

Career highlights

Other work includes Lucky Bag (1999, which he also wrote for), My Family (2003/04), High Hopes (2003/07), Mind Games (2011), Living a Lie (2016) and Age of Outrage (2020).

Abdul Salis (Kel) Born Jul 6 1979

Career highlights

Debuted in The Hidden City (2002), then Love Actually (2003), Trevor's World of Sport (2003), Sahara (2005), Flyboys (2006), MI High (2008), Mid Life Christmas (2009), Outnumbered (2010), Strike Back (2011), Doctors (2013), Trendy (2017), Urban Myths (2018) and The Wheel of Time (2021). He played Curtis Cooper in over 60 episodes of Casualty (2008-09).

Nina Sosanya (Trish) Born Jun 6 1969
Career highlights
Nina debuted in The Bill (1992), then appeared in Prime Suspect 2 (1992), Hercules and the Amazon Women (1994), Jonathan Creek (2000), Urban Gothic (2000), The Jury (2002), Code 46 (2003), Love Actually (2003), Nathan Barley (2005), Casanova (2005), Sorted (2006), Wide Sargasso Sea (2006), Meadowlands (2007), Bonekickers (2008), FM (2009), Five Days (2010), Silk (2011), Vera (2012), Wizards vs Aliens (2012-13), Shetland (2014), Asylum (2015), You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), Marcella (2016), Juliet, Naked (2018), Strike Back (2017-18), Red Joan (2018), Women on the Verge (2018), Killing Eve (2019), Good Omens (2019), Brave New World (2020), Little Birds (2020), His Dark Materials (2019-20) and Staged (2020-21). She also had recurring roles as Jenny Paige in Teachers (2001-02), Kate in Last Tango in Halifax (2012-15) and Lucy Freeman in W1A (2014-17), and provided voices for Moon and Me (2019) and Hilda (2018-20).

CREW

Matthew Graham (writer) Born 1968
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Fear Her (2006), The Rebel Flesh/ The Almost People (2011)
Career highlights
Matthew started out writing for children's drama Byker Grove (1992), then put pen to paper for This Life (1996-97), Thief Takers (1997), City Central (1998), The Last Train (1999), The Gentleman Thief (2001), Impact (2002), EastEnders (1992-2002), Spooks (2003), POW (2003, which he also created), Hustle (2004-05), Life on Mars (2006-07, which he also created), Bonekickers (2008, also creator), Ashes to Ashes (2008-10, also creator), Eternal Law (2012, also creator), Childhood's End (2015), Redwater (2017), Electric Dreams (2017) and The Spanish Princess (2019-20).

Awards

1997: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for TV - Original Drama Serial (This Life) - shared with production team

2007: Broadcasting Press Guild Award (Life on Mars) - shared with Tony Jordan and Ashley Pharoah
Facts
When he was 11, Matthew read Laurence Kasdan's script for The Empire Strikes Back. Little did he know that years later he would be one of several successful writers (along with Chris Chibnall) invited to George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch to help develop a series of scripts for a live-action Star Wars TV series called Underworld. The programme was eventually abandoned when Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, but many of the ideas and themes were later fed into The Mandalorian.

Euros Lyn (director) Born Mar 1971 Click here for Euros Lyn's entry on The End of the World

Phil Collinson (producer) Born Aug 26 1970 Click here for Phil Collinson's entry on Rose

Simon Winstone (script editor) Born 1973 Click here for Simon Winstone's entry on Attack of the Graske