The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith)
in The Eleventh Hour

One episode (The Eleventh Hour)
First broadcast Apr 3 2010
Average audience for story: 10.08m + 2.24m iPlayer = 12.32m

REGULAR CAST

Matt Smith (The Doctor) Born Oct 28 1982 Click here for Matt Smith's entry on The End of Time

Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) Born Nov 28 1987 Click here for Karen Gillan's entry on The Fires of Pompeii

Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams) Born Jun 17 1982
Doctor Who credits
Played: Rory Williams in The Eleventh Hour, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, The Hungry Earth/ Cold Blood, The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang, A Christmas Carol, Space/ Time, The Impossible Astronaut/ Day of the Moon, The Curse of the Black Spot, The Doctor's Wife, The Rebel Flesh/ The Almost People, A Good Man Goes to War, Let's Kill Hitler, Night Terrors, The Girl Who Waited, The God Complex, Closing Time, The Wedding of River Song, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Pond Life, Asylum of the Daleks, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy, The Power of Three, The Angels Take Manhattan (2010-12)
He also provided the voice for Rory Williams in The Doctor Who Adventure Games (2011) and played Rory in the various Night and the Doctor shorts on the Series 6 DVD.
Career highlights
Arthur made his screen debut in He Kills Coppers (2008), followed by Little Dorrit (2008), Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010), Robin Hood (2010), Pelican Blood (2010), The Paradise (2012), The White Queen (2013), Danny and the Human Zoo (2015), Sticky (2018), World on Fire (2019) and Unprecedented (2020). He also played Reverend Paul Coates in Broadchurch (2013-17) and Rip Hunter in 35 episodes of Legends of Tomorrow (2016-21).
Facts
Arthur's mother Ellie is also an actress, as well as a puppeteer, and was the voice behind Why Bird in children's series Playdays in the late 1980s (here she is on Twitter). His father Nigel is a member of Ricky Cool and the In Crowd and has in the past played keyboards and performed backing vocals for the likes of Duane Eddy, Edwin Starr, the Fine Young Cannibals and Ruby Turner. Arthur is also a singer and songwriter and has written scores for stage shows such as Artefacts (2007) and The Frontline (2008); in 2009 he co-wrote a musical with Che Walker called Been So Long, and in 2013 The Lightning Child (in October 2012, Arthur lost all the music for the play's score in a house burglary and had to start from scratch). He was also a member of the band Edmund in his teenage years (named after the CS Lewis character Edmund Pevensie). Arthur, who collects taxidermy, is also on Twitter.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Arthur here.

GUEST CAST

Perry Benson (Ice cream man) Born Apr 9 1961
Career highlights
Perry debuted in What Next? (1974), followed by Where's Johnny (1974), Grange Hill (1978), Scum (1979), Rainbow (1981), Going Out (1981), The Black Adder (1983), The Young Ones (1984), Prospects (1986), Sid and Nancy (1986), Hi-De-Hi! (1987), Eurocops (1989), The Real McCoy (1991), Brighton Belles (1984), Last Resort (2000), 15 Storeys High (2002), Top Buzzer (2004), Alien Autopsy (2006), Reggie Perrin (2009), Misfits (2009), Anuvahood (2011), Vinyl (2012), Man Down (2013), Get Santa (2014), Accident Man (2018), Lee and Dean (2018), Don't Forget the Driver (2019), The Kemps: All True (2020) and Me, Myself and Di (2021). Perry's recurring roles include Henry Livingstone in You Rang, M'Lord? (1988-93), Ralph in Oh Doctor Beeching! (1995-97), Bones in Operation Good Guys (1997-2000), Meggy in This is England (2006), This is England '86 (2010), This is England '88 (2011) and This is England '90 (2015), and Clive Dyke in Benidorm (2014-15).
Facts
Perry's acting sister is Kim Benson, best remembered as moody plumber's mate Christine in 1990s sitcom 2point4 Children. Here's Perry on Twitter.

Caitlin Blackwood (Amelia Pond) Born Jun 23 2000
Doctor Who credits
Played: Amelia Pond in The Eleventh Hour (2010), The Big Bang (2010), Let's Kill Hitler (2011), The God Complex (2011), The Angels Take Manhattan (2012, uncredited), The Time of the Doctor (2013, uncredited)
Career highlights
Caitlin's other acting work includes Cops and Monsters (2014), Sundown (2018) and Lost at Christmas (2020).
Facts
Caitlin is actress Karen Gillan's cousin in real life, but the first time they ever met was on set for Doctor Who. Here she is on Twitter.

Olivia Colman (Mother) Born Jan 30 1974
Career highlights
Olivia made her debut playing various roles in Bruiser (2000), then made appearances in The Mitchell and Webb Situation (2001), People Like Us (2001), Rescue Me (2002), The Office (2002), Gash (2003), Black Books (2004), Swiss Toni (2004), Look Around You (2005), Murder in Suburbia (2005), Confetti (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), The Time of Your Life (2007), Hancock and Joan (2008), That Mitchell and Webb Look (2006-08), Skins (2009), Mister Eleven (2009), Tyrannosaur (2011), Exile (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), The Thirteenth Tale (2013), Cuban Fury (2014), Mr Sloane (2014), Pudsey the Dog: The Movie (2014), London Road (2015), The Night Manager (2016), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Flowers (2016-18), The Favourite (2018), Les Miserables (2019), Fleabag (2016-19), The Father (2020), Mothering Sunday (2021), Landscapers (2021) and Wonka (2023). Recurring roles include Harriet Schulenburg in Green Wing (2004-06), Debbie Doonan in Beautiful People (2008-09), Sophie Chapman in Peep Show (2003-10), Sally Owen in Twenty Twelve (2011-12) and W1A (2014), Alex Smallbone in Rev (2010-14), Ellie Miller in Broadchurch (2013-17) and Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown (2019-20). She also provides the voice of Marion in the children's series Thomas and Friends (2014-21).

Awards

2011: British Independent Film Award for Best Actress (Tyranosaur)

2012: British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress (Hyde Park on Hudson)

2013: BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme (Twenty Twelve)

2013: BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress (Accused)

2013: Royal Television Society Award for Actor - Female (Accused)

2014: Royal Television Society Award for Actor - Female (Broadchurch)

2014: BAFTA TV Award for Best Leading Actress (Broadchurch)

2015: British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Lobster)

2017: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture for for Television (The Night Manager)

2018: British Independent Film Award for Best Actress (The Favourite)

2019: BAFTA TV Award for Best Leading Actress (The Favourite)

2019: Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (The Favourite)

2019: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy (The Favourite)

2019: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama

2020: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama (The Crown)

2021: Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (The Crown)

Facts
Olivia is married to writer/ producer Ed Sinclair.

Arthur Cox (Mr Henderson) Apr 7 1934 to Apr 9 2021
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cully in The Dominators (1968)
Played: Mr Henderson in The Eleventh Hour (2010)
Career highlights
Northern Ireland born Arthur's first credit was Four for Solitaire (1958), followed by Hereward the Wake (1965), Love Story (1966), The Avengers (1967/68), Fraud Squad (1969), UFO (1970), The Fortunes of Nigel (1974), Killers (1976), The Sweeney (1978), Yes, Minister (1980-81, as Jim Hacker's driver George), Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime (1983-84, as Inspector Marriott), Personal Services (1987), Terry and June (1987), Bread (1987), The New Statesman (1989), She-Wolf of London (1990-91, as Dad Matheson), French and Saunders (1993), Coronation Street (1994), Harbour Lights (1999), Midsomer Murders (2000), Heartbeat (2002), Jane Eyre (2006), Sold (2007) and Shuttlecock (2020).

Annette Crosbie (Mrs Angelo) Born Feb 12 1934
Career highlights
Annette made her debut in The Bridal Path (1959), then Probation Officer (1962), The Plane Makers (1963), Gypsy Girl (1965), Long After Summer (1967), The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), Callan (1970), Shadows of Fear (1971), The Edwardians (1973), Rooms (1975), Edward the King (1975), Lillie (1978), Hawk the Slayer (1980), The Member for Chelsea (1981), Ordeal By Innocence (1984), Paradise Postponed (1986), Taggart (1987), Take Me Home (1989), Colin's Sandwich (1990), Leon the Pig Farmer (1992), Jonathan Creek (1997), Shooting Fish (1997), Underworld (1997), Waking the Dead (2001), Calendar Girls (2003), Viva Blackpool (2006), Little Dorrit (2008), Hope Springs (2009), Into the Woods (2014), The Vicar of Dibley (2015), Dad's Army (2016), Henry IX (2017), Call the Midwife (2019) and After Life (2020). She played Janet MacPherson in 27 episodes of Doctor Finlay (1993-96) and Edith Sparshott in An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1997-2001), but will forever be remembered as Margaret Meldrew in the sitcom One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000).

Awards

1971: BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress (The Six Wives of Henry VIII)

1976: BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress (Edward the Seventh)

1977: Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress (The Slipper and the Rose)

1998: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama
Facts
Annette's daughter is actress Selina Griffiths (perhaps best known for playing Janet in sitcom The Smoking Room). Annette started to lose her hearing in the mid-1990s, and has been almost deaf in both ears since 2000; she now wears hearing aids (she speaks about the wearing of hearing aids in this 2010 newspaper article).

David de Keyser (Atraxi voice) Aug 22 1927 to Feb 20 2021

Doctor Who credits

Played: Voice of the Atraxi in The Eleventh Hour (2010)

Played: Voice of the Cybermen in The Eternity Clock (2012, videogame)
Career highlights
David secured his earliest credit in Box Thirteen (1955), then The Case of Dr Crippen (1956), William Tell (1959), Having a Wild Weekend (1965), Separation (1968), The Vengeance of She (1968), Leo the Last (1970), Irresistible (1971), Diamonds are Forever (1971), The Strauss Family (1972), A Touch of Class (1973), The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974), The Hiding Place (1975), The New Avengers (1976), Valentino (1977), Dick Turpin (1980), A Woman Called Golda (1982), Yentl (1983), Robin of Sherwood (1984), London Embassy (1987), Confessional (1989), Leon the Pig Farmer (1992), The House of Eliott (1991-92), Under the Hammer (1994), Goodnight Sweetheart (1995/97), Sunshine (1999), Believe Nothing (2002), New Tricks (2005), Casualty 1909 (2009), Closer to the Moon (2014), Suspects (2014) and Lucky Man (2016).
Facts
David was a prolific voiceover artist, often providing voices for films and TV without credit, as well as narration for documentaries and movie trailers; he was also the distinctive narrator of the Pathe Pictorial reports in the 1960s. He was married for a time to the South African anti-Apartheid campaigner Ethel de Keyser. His son was Alexei de Keyser, who worked as a script editor and producer on series such as May to December, Casualty and Waking the Dead, before passing away in 2004, aged just 36.

Tom Hopper (Jeff) Born Jan 28 1985
Career highlights
Debuted in Casualty (2007), then Saxon (2007), Kingdom (2008), Tormented (2009), Good Cop (2012), Northmen - A Viking Saga (2014), Barbarians Rising (2016), Kill Ratio (2016), Game of Thrones (2017), SAS: Red Notice (2021), The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021), Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) and Love in the Villa (2022). He also played Sir Percival in 26 episodes of Merlin (2010-12), Billy Bones in 34 episodes of Black Sails (2014-17), and Luther Hargreeves in 30 episodes of The Umbrella Academy (2019-22).
Facts
In June 2015 Tom was inundated with messages on Twitter from angry Leicester City fans who mistook him for the Tom Hopper who played for the football team and was involved in a controversial sex tape and racism scandal. If you've ever wanted to see Tom posing shirtless with his Merlin co-stars, click here! Tom's wife is fellow actor Laura Hopper.

Marcello Magni (Barney Collins) May 23 1959 to Sep 18 2022
Career highlights
Italian Marcello debuted in Burning Ambition (1988), then Anything for a Quiet Life (1990), Maria's Child (1993), The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), The Lake (2002), The Virgin Queen (2006), Doctors (2006), The Tudors (2007), Nine (2009), Mr Turner (2014) and Unprecedented (2020). He also voiced several characters in the children's series Pingu (2004-06, including Pingu himself), and wrote an episode in 2006.
Facts
Marcello was also a theatre director and choreographer and founded the theatre company Complicite. He was married to actor and director Kathryn Hunter.

Eden Monteath (Child) Born Feb 5 1999
This is Eden's only screen acting credit, although she did play Clara (not that one!) in the Big Finish audio The Man at the End of the Garden (2011). Eden's headmaster Mr Bromley taught Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith when he was at school in Northampton. Her mother is actress Lindsay Cooper, her father is actor and voiceover artist David Monteath, while her grandfather Alec Monteath is probably best known for playing Dougal Lachlan in Scottish soap Take the High Road (1980-91), as well as providing continuity announcements for Scottish TV in the 1960s. Here's Eden's Twitter feed.

Merin Monteath (Child) Born 2001
This is Merin's only acting credit. Her mother is actress Lindsay Cooper, her father is actor and voiceover artist David Monteath, while her grandfather Alec Monteath is probably best known for playing Dougal Lachlan in Scottish soap Take the High Road (1980-91), as well as providing continuity announcements for Scottish TV in the 1960s.

Patrick Moore (Patrick Moore) Mar 4 1923 to Dec 9 2012
Career highlights
Patrick was one of the most respected and eminent personalities in astronomy, making his first TV appearance in a debate about the existence of aliens in the 1950s. He presented the first episode of the BBC's monthly astronomy programme The Sky at Night in April 1957 and presented more than 700 editions prior to his death. He also presented the TV series Apollo (1968-69) which followed the Apollo 8 and 11 missions to the moon, and appeared as himself on countless TV shows over his career. He may also be remembered as the face and voice of the GamesMaster in the video gaming series of the same name (1992-98).

Awards

1968: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to science and broadcasting

1988: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to science and broadcasting

2001: Knight of the order of the British Empire for services to science and broadcasting

2001: BAFTA Special Award for services to television
Facts
By the age of 14, Patrick was running an observatory in East Grinstead, and at the age of 16 began wearing his trademark monocle after he was told one eye was weaker than the other. He was wearing a full set of dentures by the age of 19. He never married: his only fiancee was a nurse called Lorna who was killed when a bomb fell on her ambulance in 1943 (this mentally scarred Moore for the rest of his life, to the extent that he became staunchly anti-German). Patrick was an eccentric polymath - his other talents included playing the xylophone, piano, chess, cricket and golf; composing operettas; and writing many books. Patrick believed he was the only man to have met the first man to fly (Orville Wright), the first man in space (Yuri Gagarin) and the first man on the moon (Neil Armstrong).
This is Your Life: Patrick was the subject of Thames TV's This is Your Life on February 13th, 1974, surprised by host Eamonn Andrews dressed as an astronaut.

Nina Wadia (Dr Ramsden) Born Dec 18 1968
Career highlights
Born in India, Nadia debuted in 2point4 Children (1991), then Casualty (1997), The Vicar of Dibley (1999), We Know Where You Live (2001), Perfect World (2000-01), Chambers (2001), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), White Teeth (2002), New Tricks (2005), West 10 LDN (2008), Skins (2007-08), Keith Lemon: The Film (2012), Citizen Khan (2014), Holby City (2000/15), Hank Zipzer (2016), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016), The Last Dragonslayer (2016), Hetty Feather (2017), Coconut (2017), Champions (2018), Origin (2018), Trollied (2018), Aladdin (2019), Death in Paradise (2020), Maxxx (2020), Too Close (2021), Hitmen (2021) and The Outlaws (2021). She also played Rupinder in 16 episodes of All About Me (2003-04), Mrs Hussein in 22 episodes of Still Open All Hours (2013-18), Joy Stickler in 20 episodes of Danny and Mick (2019), and Fate Mother in 11 episodes of The Sandman (2022). However, she will be best known as Zainab Masood in more than 450 episodes of EastEnders (2007-13). She was also a regular member of the team for sketch show Goodness Gracious Me (1998-2000/2014).

Awards

2009: British Soap Award for Best Comedy Performance (EastEnders)

2009: British Soap Award for Best On-Screen Partnership (EastEnders) - with Nitin Ganatra

2021: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to entertainment and charity
Facts
Nina's husband is composer Raiomond Mirza. In 2021, Nina was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, and was the first celebrity to be voted out. Here she is on Twitter.

CREW

Steven Moffat (writer) Born Nov 18 1961 Click here for Steven Moffat's entry on The Empty Child

Adam Smith (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Eleventh Hour (2010), The Time of Angels/ Flesh and Stone (2010)
Career highlights
Adam's other work includes Skins (2007), Little Dorrit (2008), Desire (2013) and World on Fire (2019). Adam also directed the Chemical Brothers' concert film Don't Think (2012), and has directed video footage for Wiley (Wot Do U Call It?), Goldie Lookin' Chain (Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do and You Knows I Love You), Lady Sovereign (9-5), Jamie T (Sheila), Madness (Dust Devil) and The Streets (Give Me My Lighter Back, Too Much Brandy, All Got Our Runnings, Don't Mug Yourself, Fit But You Know It Remix, Banquet Bloc Party Remix, When You Wasn't Famous, Never Went to Church, The Irony of It All and Blinded By the Lights) - this last association might explain Mike Skinner's unexpected cameo in The Time of Angels.
Facts
Adam's partner is furniture and lighting designer Martha Freud (she is named after psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's wife, and is journalist Clement Freud's granddaughter).

Tracie Simpson (producer) Click here for Tracie Simpson's entry on Planet of the Dead

Lindsey Alford (script editor) Click here for Lindsey Alford's entry on Daleks in Manhattan

The End of Time

Farewell Ten(nant)

Two episodes (Part One, Part Two)
First broadcast Dec 25 2009 to Jan 1 2010
Average audience for story: 11.68m

REGULAR CAST

David Tennant (The Doctor) Born Apr 18 1971 Click here for David Tennant's entry on The Parting of the Ways

GUEST CAST

Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) Born Mar 20 1979 Click here for Freema Agyeman's entry on Army of Ghosts

Krystal Archer (Nerys) Born 1984
Doctor Who credits
Played: Nerys in The Runaway Bride (2006), The End of Time Part Two (2010)
Career highlights
Krystal has also appeared in Genie in the House (2006), and various musical stage productions, as well as being a stunt double in The Mummy Returns (2001). She is also a DJ (she was one of the first female DJs at Ministry of Sound) and dancer, and has appeared in TV commercials and even a music video for Goldie Lookin' Chain!

Allister Bain (Winston Katusi) Born Jan 1 1935
Career highlights
Born in Grenada, Allister debuted in Knight Errant Limited (1961), then took roles in Theatre 625 (1964), Dixon of Dock Green (1969), Quiller (1975), Love Thy Neighbour (1976), The Professionals (1977), The Chiffy Kids (1978), Empire Road (1978-79), World's End (1981), Dream Stuffing (1984), Black Silk (1985), Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), Vanity Fair (1987), Us Girls (1992), Bugs (1996) and The Bill (1986/94/2005).
Facts
Allister moved to the UK in 1958, after having taught actress Dorothy Dandridge to limbo dance for the film Island in the Sun (1957). Before becoming an actor he led his own dance troupe called the Bee Wee Ballet of Grenada, who were among the first to perform at what became the Notting Hill Carnival (they performed at the Caribbean Carnival in January 1959 at St Pancras town hall). Allister is also a playwright.

Teresa Banham (Governor) Born 1964
Career highlights
Debuted in The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986), then After the War (1989), Frankenstein's Baby (1990), Ghosts (1995), Coogan's Run (1995), Roughnecks (1994-95), Gentleman's Relish (2001), Trust (2003), Vincent (2006), Robin Hood (2009), Casualty (2012), Utopia (2013), Vera (2014), Call the Midwife (2016), The Good Karma Hospital (2018), The Crown (2019) and No One Gets Out Alive (2021).

John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness) Born Mar 11 1967 Click here for John Barrowman's entry on The Empty Child

Max Benjamin (Teenager)
Max's only other credit is Living It (2006).

Claire Bloom (The Woman) Born Feb 15 1931
Career highlights
Debuting aged 17 in 1948's The Blind Goddess, Claire became one of British cinema's shining starlets, later taking roles in Martine (1952), Limelight (1952), Innocents in Paris (1953), Alexander the Great (1956), The Brothers Karamazov (1958), Look Back in Anger (1959), Anna Karenina (1961), The Haunting (1963), The Outrage (1964), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1964), The Match Game (1967), Charly (1968), The Illustrated Man (1969), A Doll's House (1973), A Legacy (1975), Backstairs at the White House (1979), Clash of the Titans (1981), Brideshead Revisited (1981), Shadowlands (1985), Intimate Contact (1987), The Lady and the Highwayman (1989), The Camomile Lawn (1992), Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), The Book of Eve (2002), The Chatterley Affair (2006), New Tricks (2008), The King's Speech (2010), Doc Martin (2013), Midsomer Murders (2015), Miss Dali (2018) and Summer of Rockets (2019).

Awards

1953: BAFTA Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer (Limelight)

1986: BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress (Shadowlands)

2013: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama

Facts
Between 1959-69 Claire was married to actor Rod Steiger, with whom she had a daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger; her second husband was producer and talent scout Hillard Elkins (1969-72); and her third was author Philip Roth (1990-95). She also had an affair, and lost her virginity to, Richard Burton between 1949-57. Her brother is the film editor John Bloom (who won an Oscar in 1982 for his work on Gandhi). In his book The Writer's Tale, Russell T Davies revealed that his intention was that The Woman is actually the Doctor's mother (presumably the one who bought him up, rather than Tecteun).

Lacey Bond (Serving woman)
Career highlights
Other work includes The Calcium Kid (2004), The Shadow Within (2007), Whitechapel (2010), Call the Midwife (2012), Law and Order UK (2014), EastEnders (2015), The Krays: Dead Man Walking (2018), Above the Clouds (2018) and To Nowhere (2020).
Facts
Lacey is a former member of the band Toto Coelo, who had a number 8 UK hit single in 1982 with I Eat Cannibals Part 1. They had further singles, and an album, but could not reproduce this initial success. Here she is on Twitter.

Brid Brennan (Visionary) Born 1955
Career highlights
Debuted in Excalibur (1981), then Maeve (1982), Anne Devlin (1984), Who Bombed Birmingham? (1990), South of the Border (1990), Ghostwatch (1992), Guinevere (1994), Cracker (1995), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Topsy-Turvy (1999), The Clinic (2004), South Riding (2011), The Escape Artist (2013), Quirke (2014), Brooklyn (2015), The Truth Commissioner (2016), Peaky Blinders (2016-17), Unforgotten (2018), Dalgliesh (2021) and Hope Street (2021-22). In the 1980s she played Lorna Martin in a series of three Play for Todays written by Graham Reid and made by BBC Northern Ireland - Too Late to Talk to Billy (1982), A Matter of Choice for Billy (1983) and A Coming to Terms for Billy (1984), plus the 1987 TV movie Lorna.

Awards

1992: Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Dancing at Lughnasa)

1999: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Female Role (Dancing at Lughnasa)

2013: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress - Film (Shadow Dancer)

Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Judoon) Born Sep 29 1961 Click here for Nicholas Briggs' entry on Rose

Lachele Carl (Reporter [Trinity Wells]) Born Apr 29 1960 Click here for Lachele Carl's entry on Aliens of London

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

Karl Collins (Shaun Temple) Born 1971

Doctor Who credits

Played: Shaun Temple in The End of Time (2009-10), The Star Beast (2023), The Giggle (2023)
Career highlights
Karl debuted at the age of 12 in the 1983 Dramarama Because I Say So (credited as Carl Myers), then made appearances in the children's series Your Mother Wouldn't Like It (1985), Hard Cases (1988), As Time Goes By (1992), EastEnders (1992), Metrosexuality (1999), Grease Monkeys (2004), Silent Witness (2008), Shelfstackers (2010), Come Fly With Me (2011), Attack the Block (2011), Twenty Twelve (2011), The Fades (2011), The Slammer (2011), Black Mirror (2011), Blackout (2012), Our Zoo (2014), Transporter: The Series (2014), The Driver (2014), Transporter: The Series (2014), Midsomer Murders (2019) and The Larkins (2021). He has also had two regular roles, as DC Danny Glaze in The Bill (1999-2003) and Louis Loveday in more than 220 episodes of soap Hollyoaks (2015-19).
Facts
Karl's brother is fellow actor Johann Myers. Here he is on Twitter.

Brian Cox (Voice of Elder Ood) Born Jun 1 1946
Career highlights
Brian is one of the UK's most prestigious and experienced actors, debuting in 1965's A Knight in Tarnished Armour, then Redcap (1966), Z Cars (1969), Doomwatch (1970), Manhunt (1970), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), The Master of Ballantrae (1975), Rooms (1977), The Devil's Crown (1978), The House on the Hill (1981), Jemima Shore Investigates (1983), Scotland's Story (1984), Manhunter (1986), Perfect Scoundrels (1990), The Lost Language of Cranes (1991, for which he was BAFTA nominated), The Cloning of Joanna May (1992), Iron Will (1994), Grushko (1994), Rob Roy (1995), Braveheart (1995), Chain Reaction (1996), The Glimmer Man (1996), Kiss the Girls (1997), Rushmore (1998), Nuremberg (2000, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Primetime Emmy), The Affair of the Necklace (2001), Frasier (2002), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Ring (2002), X-Men 2 (2003), Troy (2004), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Match Point (2005), Deadwood (2006), Zodiac (2007), The Water Horse (2007), Trick 'r Treat (2007), Tell Tale (2009), The Day of the Triffids (2009), Ironclad (2011), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), The Straits (2012), Bob Servant Independent (2013-14), Blumenthal (2013), Anna (2013), The Anomaly (2014), The Game (2014), The Slap (2015), Forsaken (2015), War and Peace (2016), Penny Dreadful (2016), Medici (2016), Churchill (2017), Good Omens (2019), The Bay of Silence (2020), The Simpsons (2021), Succession (2018-21), Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021-22) and Unsinkable (2022). He has also provided the voice of Scolar Visari in the Killzone video game franchise (2004-11).
Awards
1984: Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play (Rat in the Skull)

1984: Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor (Strange Interlude; Rat in the Skull)

1987: Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor (The Taming of the Shrew; Titus Andronicus; Fashion)
1988: Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival (Titus Andronicus)
2001: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie (Nuremberg)
2002: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama
2004: BAFTA Scotland Award for Outstanding Achievement
2008: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Acting Performance in a Film (The Escapist)

2020: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama (Succession)
Facts
Brian has an actor son named Alan (best known for playing Watson in 1985's Young Sherlock Holmes).

Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott) Dec 29 1928 to Jul 27 2022 Click here for Bernard's entry on Voyage of the Damned

Timothy Dalton (Lord President [Rassilon]) Born Mar 21 1946 (some sources claim 1944)
Career highlights
Timothy debuted in Troilus and Cressida (1966), followed by Sat'day While Sunday (1967), Wuthering Heights (1970), Cromwell (1970), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Executioner (1975), The Man Who Knew Love (1978), Centennial (1978-79), Charlie's Angels (1979), Flash Gordon (1980), Jane Eyre (1983), Mistral's Daughter (1984), The Doctor and the Devils (1985), Sins (1986), Hawks (1988), The Rocketeer (1991), Framed (1992), Scarlett (1994), Cleopatra (1999), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Hot Fuzz (2007), The Tourist (2010), Chuck (2010-11) and Doom Patrol (2019-21). He has provided the voice of Mr Pricklepants in the Toy Story franchise since 2010, and regularly played Sir Malcolm Murray in Penny Dreadful (2014-16), but he is best known for his two cinema outings as 007 James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989).
Facts
Timothy was always destined to play Bond: he was first offered the part in 1968 when Sean Connery left, but he turned it down as he believed he was too young at 24 (he probably was!). He was offered it again in 1980 but said no as he disliked the comedic direction the franchise had taken. He was offered it a third time in 1985 when Roger Moore announced he was leaving the role, but declined due to other commitments. Pierce Brosnan was then offered the role, but couldn't get out of his Remington Steele contract, so Timothy was offered it a second time, by which point he was free to take it up - almost 20 years after first being asked! In the end, Brosnan took over from Timothy with 1995's GoldenEye. Here's Timothy in a Bond-themed commercial for Lark cigarettes. Timothy was the partner of actress Vanessa Redgrave between 1971-86; in 1997 he had a son, Alexander, with Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva. In March 2015, the 17-year-old Alexander threw a raucous party at his father's Hollywood home resulting in the Los Angeles police being called out.

Joe Dixon (Chancellor) Born Oct 10 1965
Career highlights
Debuted in The Bill (1989), then The Manageress (1990), Comics (1993), Little Napoleons (1994), Holding On (1997), Always and Everyone (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001), Rise of the Footsoldier (2007), Criminal Justice (2008), 32 Brinkburn Street (2011), Atlantis (2013), Lewis (2014), A.D: The Bible Continues (2015), The Carrier (2015), The Coroner (2016), Midsomer Murders (2017) and Us (2020).
Facts
Between 2000-04, Joe was married to fellow actor Lesley Manville. Here's his Twitter feed.

David Harewood (Joshua Naismith) Born Dec 8 1965
Career highlights
Debuted in South of the Border (1988), then Minder (1991), Anna Lee (1993), Medics (1993), Spatz (1991-93), Harnessing Peacocks (1993), Hearts and Minds (1995), Agony Again (1995), Ballykissangel (1998), Always and Everyone (1999-2001), Babyfather (2001), Silent Witness (2004), New Street Law (2006), Blood Diamond (2006), The Palace (2008), Gunrush (2009), Mrs Mandela (2010), The Body Farm (2011), Anatomy of Violence (2013), The Wrong Mans (2013), Selfie (2014), Spooks: The Greater Good (2015), SuperBob (2015), Grimsby (2016), The Night Manager (2016), Madiba (2017), Tulip Fever (2017), The Man in the High Castle (2019) and The Abominable Snow Baby (2021). He played Joe Robinson in 28 episodes of The Vice (1999-2003), Max Robertson in Fat Friends (2004-05), Tuck in Robin Hood (2009) and David Estes in 24 episodes of Homeland (2011-12). More recently he has played the character of J'onn J'onzz/ Martian Manhunter across the DC superhero franchise, in The Flash (2017/19), Legends of Tomorrow (2020), Arrow (2020) and over 120 episodes of Supergirl (2015-21).

Awards

2012: Member of the order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to drama

2023: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama and charity

Facts
David has spoken of his struggle with alcohol and mental health in the past, having once been sectioned under the Mental Health Act, spending time on a psychiatric ward and prescribed anti-psychotic drugs. Here he is on Twitter.

Barry Howard (Oliver Barnes) Jul 9 1937 to Apr 28 2016 (blood cancer)
Career highlights
Barry debuted in Terry and June (1979), then Kelly Monteith (1981), You Rang, M'Lord? (1990), The House of Windsor (1994), Dad (1997) and Beautiful People (2009). He will forever be remembered as ballroom dancer Barry Stuart-Hargreaves in 46 episodes of the sitcom Hi-De-Hi! (1980-86).
Facts
For many years Barry was the partner, and fellow pantomime dame, of actor John Inman (from Are You Being Served?).

Jessica Hynes (Verity Newman) Born Oct 30 1972
Doctor Who credits
Played: Joan Redfern in Human Nature/ The Family of Blood (2007)
Played: Verity Newman in The End of Time Part Two (2010)
Career highlights
Jessica (real first name Tallulah) went by her maiden name of Jessica Stevenson until 2007. She debuted in Swing Kids in 1993, followed by The House of Eliott (1994), Six Pairs of Pants (1995), Crown Prosecutor (1995), Asylum (1996), Staying Alive (1996-97), The Armstrong and Miller Show (1997), Harry Enfield and Chums (1997), People Like Us (1999), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000), Bob and Rose (2001), Black Books (2002), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), According to Bex (2005), Confetti (2006), Son of Rambow (2007), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Lizzie and Sarah (2010), Burke and Hare (2010), Skins (2011), The Hour (2011), Moone Boy (2012), Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger (2012), Blandings (2013), Pudsey the Dog: The Movie (2014), Winter (2015), Cider with Rosie (2015), Swallows and Amazons (2016), Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), Hooten and the Lady (2016), Paddington 2 (2017), Songbird (2018), Nativity Rocks! (2018), Years and Years (2019), There She Goes (2018-20) and Roald and Beatrix (2020). Jessica's breakthrough role was as Daisy Steiner in the sitcom Spaced (1999-2001); other recurring roles include Cheryl Carroll in The Royle Family (1998-2010), Siobhan Sharpe in Twenty Twelve (2011-12) and its spin-off W1A (2014-17), and Margaret in Up the Women (2013-15). She is also a screenwriter, having put pen to paper for Six Pairs of Pants, Asylum, Spaced, Learners (2007), Lizzie and Sarah (which she also produced), Common Ground (2013), Up the Women (also producer) and The Fight (2018).

Awards

1999: British Comedy Award for Best Female Comedy Newcomer

2001: British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actress (Spaced)

2013: Royal Television Society Award for Comedy Performance (Twenty Twelve)

2015: BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme (W1A)

2019: BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme (There She Goes)
Facts
In 1995, she appeared in a TV commercial for Kodak cameras. Here she is on Twitter.

Tracy Ifeachor (Abigail Naismith) Born Feb 13 1985
Career highlights
Debuted in Casualty (2009), then Blooded (2011), Strike Back (2012), Crossbones (2014), Hawaii 5-0 (2014), The Originals (2015), Spark (2016), Quantico (2016-17), Legends of Tomorrow (2017-18), Treadstone (2019), Confetti (2020) and Showtrial (2021).
Facts
Tracy's Twitter feed.

Paul Kasey (Ood Sigma) Born Aug 5 1973 Click here for Paul Kasey's entry on Rose

Sinead Keenan (Addams) Born Dec 27 1977
Career highlights
Irish Sinead made her debut playing Farrah Phelan in the soap Fair City between 1998-2003. Further work includes Sunburn (1999), The Cassidys (2001), Murder City (2004), Trouble with Sex (2005), Doctors (2008), Moving Wallpaper (2008-09), Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas (2009), Silent Witness (2011), Lip Service (2012), London Irish (2013), Uncle (2015), Little Boy Blue (2017), Married to a Paedophile (2018), Porters (2019), Deep Water (2019), My Left Nut (2020), Three Families (2021) and Showtrial (2021). She also played Nina in Being Human between 2009-11.

Awards

2018: Royal Television Society Award for Female Actor (Little Boy Blue)
Facts
Sinead's sister and brother are actors too - Grainne and Rory Keenan. She is 5ft 1.5in tall, and allergic to chocolate! Here she is on Twitter.

Jacqueline King (Sylvia Noble) Click here for Jacqueline's entry on The Runaway Bride

Tommy Knight (Luke Smith) Born Jan 22 1993
Doctor Who credits
Played: Luke Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane, The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 1-5 (2007-11), The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End (2008), The End of Time (2010)

Career highlights
Debuted in TV to Go (2002), then The Impressionists (2006), Doctors (2006), Sorted (2006), Casualty (2005/08), Myths (2009), The Bill (2006/10), Stitches (2012), Glue (2014-15), Closets (2015), The Hippopotamus (2017), Ghost Seekers (2020) and A Suburban Fairytale (2021). He also played Kevin Chalk in 52 episodes of Waterloo Road (2012-15).
Facts
As from 2014, Tommy's professional name has been Tommy Lawrence Knight. Here he is on Twitter.

Pete Lee-Wilson (Tommo) Born Mar 28 1956
Career highlights
Debuted in Shoestring (1979), then Dick Turpin (1980), Metal Mickey (1980), Maybury (1981), Big Jim and the Figaro Club (1981), The Bounty (1984), CATS Eyes (1985), Strike It Rich (1987), Drummonds (1987), The Paradise Club (1989), She-Wolf of London (1990), Moon and Son (1992), Joseph in Egypt (1995), Our Friends in the North (1996), Bugs (1996), Newborn (2000), Blade II (2002), Down to Earth (2003), Spooks (2007), Spiders (2013), Downton Abbey (2013), Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) and Cursed (2020).

Julie Legrand (Partisan)
Career highlights
Julie's earliest credit is on Angels (1980), followed by Water (1985), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Coasting (1990), Turbulence (1991), Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992), Bad Girls (2000), Night and Day (2002), Doctors (2009), Edge of Heaven (2014), Holby City (1999/2010/2014), Call the Midwife (2018) and Flack (2020). She also played Jeanette Dunkley in 17 episodes of Footballers' Wives and spin-off Footballer$' Wives: Overtime (2002-06).
Facts
Julie is married to sound recordist Simon Clark (who worked on 2013's An Adventure in Space and Time).

Lawry Lewin (Rossiter) Born Nov 28 1985
Career highlights
Debuted aged three in Grange Hill (1988-89), then Extras (2006), Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor (2006-07), The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007), Zimbani (2010), Borrowed Time (2012), Mr Sloane (2014), Some Girls (2014), Horrible Histories (2003-15) and the Horrible Histories Movie (2019).
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Lawry here.

Ruari Mears (Elder Ood) Born 1975 Click here for Ruari Mears' entry on The Doctor's Daughter

Alexandra Moen (Lucy Saxon) Born 1978
Doctor Who credits
Played: Lucy Saxon in The Sound of Drums/ Last of the Time Lords (2007), The End of Time Part One (2009)
Career highlights
Italian born Alexandra made her screen acting debut in Foyle's War (2004), then Falling (2005), Whatever Love Means (2005), Tripping Over (2006), Waking the Dead (2008), Doctors (2010), Bert and Dickie (2012), Luther (2013), Not Alone (2015), Into the Badlands (2018), A Private War (2018), The Spanish Princess (2019), Dublin Murders (2019) and Industry (2020). She also regularly played Emily James in Hotel Babylon (2008-09), Kerry Stonebridge in Strike Back (2010-12), Frances Barbary in Dickensian (2015-16) and Petra Bergen in Fortitude (2015-18).

Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) Born Sep 22 1982 Click here for Billie Piper's entry on Rose

Dwayne Scantlebury (Ginger)
Career highlights
Debuted in Father and Son (2009), then Doctors (2010), Lost Christmas (2011), Prisoners' Wives (2012) and Scott and Bailey (2014).

Facts

After leaving acting, Dwayne studied business management and later found work as an account manager for AO.

Sylvia Seymour (Miss Trefusis)
Career highlights
Other work includes Non People (2004), Clive Hole (2008), The Maid (2014), The Milky Way (2015) and The Watcher Self (2016).

John Simm (The Master) Born Jul 10 1970 Click here for John Simm's entry on Utopia

Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) Feb 1 1946 to Apr 19 2011 (pancreatic cancer) Click here for Elisabeth Sladen's entry on The Time Warrior

Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) Born Dec 5 1969 Click here for Catherine Tate's entry on Doomsday

Simon Thomas (Mr Danes)
Career highlights
Simon debuted in Bigga Than Ben (2008), then The 7th Dimension (2009), Into the Woods (2011), Jonathan Creek (2014), Badults (2014), The Royals (2015), Holby City (2015), Life in Squares (2015), Drifters (2015) and The Royals (2015-16).
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Russell Tovey (Midshipman Frame) Born Nov 14 1981
Doctor Who credits
Played: Midshipman Alonso Frame in Voyage of the Damned (2007), The End of Time Part Two (2010)
Narrated: Doctor Who Confidential (2010-11)
Career highlights
Russell's acting debut came aged 12 playing Bill in Mud (1994-95), followed by Look and Read: Spywatch (1996), The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (1998), Ultimate Force (2002), Servants (2003), My Family and Other Animals (2005), Annually Retentive (2007), Ashes to Ashes (2008), Little Dorrit (2008), Gavin and Stacey (2007-08), Mike the Knight (2011-12), Sherlock (2012), In Love with Wilde (2012), Tower Block (2012), What Remains (2013), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Pride (2014), Blackwood (2014), Banished (2015), The Night Manager (2016), Queers (2017), The Flash (2017), DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2017), Years and Years (2019), Flesh and Blood (2020), The Understudy (2020) and The Sister (2020). His recurring roles include George Sands in Being Human (2008-12), Steve in Him & Her (2010-13), Karl Lyndhurst in The Job Lot (2013-15), Kevin Matheson in Looking (2014-16), Harry Doyle in Quantico (2016-18) and the title role in Shane the Chef (2018).

Awards

2012: Royal Television Society Award for Comedy Performance (Him & Her) - shared with Sarah Solemani
Facts
Russell, who is an avid collector of contemporary art, can be found on Twitter here.

June Whitfield (Minnie Hooper) Nov 11 1925 to Dec 29 2018
Career highlights
June is one of the UK's best loved comedy actors, having made her uncredited debut in 1946's Quiet Weekend. She then appeared in The Passing Show (1951), Love from Judy (1953), Fast and Loose (1954-55), The Tony Hancock Show (1956-57), Hancock's Half Hour (1957), Before Your Very Eyes (1955-58), Whack-O! (1958/59), Friends and Neighbours (1959), The Arthur Askey Show (1961), Hancock (1961), Benny Hill (1961-68), The Rag Trade (1962), Steptoe and Son (1964), Frankie Howerd (1966), Hancock's (1967), Father Dear Father (1968), According to Dora (1969), The Goodies (1971), Bless This House (1972/73), The Pallisers (1974), The Dick Emery Show (1969-74), Bernie (1980), It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1980), Minder (1984), Cluedo (1990), Terry and Julian (1992), Jude (1996), Out of Sight (1997), Friends (1998), The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000), New Tricks (2007), Kingdom (2009), Coronation Street (2010), Jonathan Creek (2014), Boomers (2014) and EastEnders (2015). June's most high profile roles include Rose Garvey in Beggar My Neighbour (1966-68), Mabel Pollard in The Best Things in Life (1969-70), various characters in Scott On... (1968-74), June Fletcher in 40 episodes of Happy Ever After (1974-79), June Medford in 65 episodes of Terry and June (1979-87), Nelly in 43 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine (2005-10) and, perhaps most famously, Mother in Absolutely Fabulous (1992-2012) and its 2016 film spin-off. She also appeared in four Carry On films (Nurse, Abroad, Girls and Columbus, 1958/72/73/92).

Awards

1985: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama

1994: British Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement

1998: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama

2017: Dame Commander of the order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama and entertainment
Facts
June's daughter is actress Suzy Aitchison.
This is Your Life: June was twice the subject of Thames TV's This is Your Life, firstly on April 14th, 1976, surprised by host Eamonn Andrews at her home in Wimbledon, and secondly by Michael Aspel on March 8th, 1995 at BBC TV Centre. Three Doctor Who actors were guests for the first tribute (Lynda Baron, Colin Jeavons and Peter Butterworth), while Honor Blackman was a guest for the second tribute. Link to The Big Red Book entry.

and introducing...

Matt Smith (The Doctor) Born Oct 28 1982
Doctor Who credits
Played: The Doctor in The End of Time, The Eleventh Hour, The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Time of Angels/ Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, The Hungry Earth/ Cold Blood, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang, The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor, A Christmas Carol, The Impossible Astronaut/ Day of the Moon, The Curse of the Black Spot, The Doctor's Wife, The Rebel Flesh/ The Almost People, A Good Man Goes to War, Let's Kill Hitler, Night Terrors, The Girl Who Waited, The God Complex, Closing Time, The Wedding of River Song, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Asylum of the Daleks, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy, The Power of Three, The Angels Take Manhattan, The Snowmen, The Bells of Saint John, The Rings of Akhaten, Cold War, Hide, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, The Crimson Horror, Nightmare in Silver, The Name of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor, The Time of the Doctor (2010-13). Return appearance in Deep Breath (2014)
Matt also played the Doctor in Doctor Who: The Adventure Games (2010-11), various video games (2010-12), Space/ Time (2011), Night and the Doctor (2011), Good as Gold (2012), Pond Life (2012), An Adventure in Space and Time (2013) and various other cameo appearances and DVD extras between 2010-13.
Career highlights
Matt made his debut playing Jim Taylor opposite Billie Piper in The Ruby in the Smoke (2006), a role he reprised for 2007's The Shadow in the North. Other work includes Party Animals (2007), Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007, again with Billie Piper), The Street (2007), Moses Jones (2009), Together (2009), Clone (2010), Christopher and His Kind (2011), Bert and Dickie (2012), Lost River (2014), Terminator: Genisys (2015), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), Mapplethorpe (2018), Patient Zero (2018), His House (2020), Last Night in Soho (2021), The Forgiven (2021) and Morbius (2022). He also played HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh in The Crown (2016-17), and Daemon Targaryen in Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon (2022). He also directed an episode of Playhouse Presents called Cargese in 2013.

Awards

2012: National Television Award for Most Popular Male Drama Performance (Doctor Who)

2014: National Television Award for Most Popular Drama Performance (Doctor Who)

Facts
Matt was discovered by acting agent Wendy Padbury (who played companion Zoe in Doctor Who 1968-69)). In May 2012, Matt carried the Olympic Torch through Cardiff, an honour the Tenth Doctor has in the TV episode Fear Her (2006). Matt's sister Laura Jayne was a dancer in the music video for Eric Prydz's 2004 song Call On Me, while Matt himself appeared in the 2021 music video for We're on Our Way Now by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

CREW

Russell T Davies (writer) Born Apr 27 1963 Click here for Russell T Davies' entry on Rose

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

Tracie Simpson (producer) Click here for Tracie Simpson's entry on Planet of the Dead

Gary Russell (script editor) Born Sep 18 1963
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: Torchwood: Dead Man Walking (2008), Torchwood: A Day in the Death (2008), Torchwood: Something Borrowed (2008), Torchwood: Fragments (2008), Music of the Spheres (2008), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Enemy of the Bane (2008), The Waters of Mars (2009), The End of Time (2009-10)

Wrote: Real Time (2002, audio), Shada (2003, audio)
Directed: Real Time (2002, audio), The Infinite Quest (2007, animation), Dreamland (2009, animation)
Career highlights
Lifelong Doctor Who fan Gary started out as a child actor, appearing in The Phoenix and the Carpet (1976-77), then The Famous Five (1978-79), Look and Read: Dark Towers (1981), Schoolgirl Chums (1982) and Octopussy (1983, uncredited). His achievements in the Doctor Who universe are legion - apart from working on the series itself, as well as its spin-offs, Gary edited Doctor Who Magazine between 1992-95, and has written several novels, including Virgin New and Missing Adventures, BBC Eighth and Past Doctor books, and books for the new series of Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. He has also written Doctor Who and Torchwood comic strips, and was producer for the Big Finish audio adventures from their inception in 1998 until 2006. Beyond Doctor Who he has written books about The Lord of the Rings, Frasier and The Simpsons (the latter two as Warren Martyn). After leaving the BBC in 2011, Gary moved to Australia to become executive producer of the Planet 55 animation company, the firm responsible for the animated reconstructed episodes of The Tenth Planet and The Moonbase on DVD. More recently he has overseen animated reconstructions of missing stories such as Galaxy 4 and Fury from the Deep.

The Waters of Mars

Tarak (Chook Sibtain) had been
in the shower too long

One episode (The Waters of Mars)
First broadcast Nov 15 2009
Average audience for story: 10.32m

REGULAR CAST

David Tennant (The Doctor) Born Apr 18 1971 Click here for David Tennant's entry on The Parting of the Ways

GUEST CAST

Lily Bevan (Emily Brooke)
Career highlights
Lily's other credits include How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000), Sweet Revenge (2001), Silent Witness (2020) and Wallflower (2020).
Facts
Lily is a founding member of the London Collective theatre group. She also writes and directs for the stage, and has worked as a researcher for actress Emma Thompson. Here she is on Twitter.

Max Bollinger (Mikhail Kerenski) Born Nov 29 1974
Career highlights
Russian Max debuted in The Cramp Twins (2003), then Holby City (2004), The Bill (2004), Space Race (2005), Ghostboat (2006) and The Crossing (2010).

Gemma Chan (Mia Bennett) Born Nov 29 1982
Career highlights
Debuted in When Evil Calls (2006), then Exam (2009), Pimp (2010), Shanghai (2010), Sherlock (2010), Submarine (2010), Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2011), Fresh Meat (2011), Bedlam (2012), Shetland (2013), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), The Game (2014), Brotherhood (2015), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Stratton (2017), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Captain Marvel (2019) and Eternals (2021). She also played a character called Mia in 24 episodes of the series Humans (2015-18).
Facts
In 2006, Gemma was one of three models to reach the final of the Sky 1 reality series Project Catwalk (she lost to Jessica Roffey). However, Gemma has plenty of experienced as a model, having posed for Elle, Cosmopolitan and the Sunday Times Style magazine to help fund her drama training. In October 2012, Gemma was a witness to the murder of homeless man Colin Hammond outside a tube station in London. She gave evidence at the trial of Frederic Russell at the Old Bailey in September 2013, where it was revealed that Gemma stayed with the dying man until medics arrived. Between 2011-17 Gemma dated comedian Jack Whitehall, and since 2018 has been dating actor Dominic Cooper. Here's Gemma on Twitter.

Charlie De'Ath (Adelaide's father) Born May 24 1968
Career highlights
Debuted in Fatherland (1994), then ID (1995), A Touch of Frost (1997), Sunburn (1999), Urban Gothic (2000), Emmerdale (1999-2000), As If (2001), A is for Acid (2002), Mile High (2003), Bonkers (2007), Moving On (2009), Secret State (2012), The List (2013), Our Zoo (2014), That Day We Sang (2014), The Five (2016), Hollyoaks (2015-17), The War of the Worlds (2019), Vera (2020) and Help (2021). He has had regular roles as DS Pimlott in The Last Detective (2003-07) and Sergeant Sidney Felton in WPC 56 (2013-15).
Facts
Charlie's father is former BBC journalist Wilfred De'Ath, who worked for the Corporation in the 1960s and 70s. However, by the 1990s Wilfred was living homeless in France and appeared in court more than 30 times for petty thefts. In 2012, Wilfred was arrested in connection with the Metropolitan Police's Operation Yewtree investigations, which looked into the Jimmy Savile child abuse allegations. He was released without charge after the complainant withdrew her charges. Charlie's sister is TV/ Open University producer Emma De'Ath.

Lindsay Duncan (Adelaide Brooke) Born Nov 7 1950
Career highlights
Lindsay debuted in Further Up Pompeii! (1975), followed by The New Avengers (1977), Muck and Brass (1982), The Brief (1984), Dead Head (1986), Kit Curran (1986), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Traffik (1989), Colin's Sandwich (1988/90), TECX (1990), GBH (1991), A Year in Provence (1993), Jake's Progress (1995), Get Real (1998), The Phantom Menace (1999), Mansfield Park (1999), Oliver Twist (1999), Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), Starter for 10 (2006), Spooks (2005/06), Frankenstein (2007), Lost in Austen (2008), Margaret (2009), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Christopher and His Kind (2011), Black Mirror (2011), Absolutely Fabulous (2012), White Heat (2012), Merlin (2011/12), About Time (2013), Sherlock (2014/17), The Honourable Woman (2014), Birdman (2014), Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), Close to the Enemy (2016), Carnage (2017), The Leftovers (2017), Blackbird (2019), Inside No 9 (2021) and Around the World in 80 Days (2021). She also played Servilia of the Junii in Rome (2005-07) and Ysabeau De Clermont in A Discovery of Witches (2018-21).
Awards
1986: Olivier Award for Best Actress (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)

1988: Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Performance by an Actress (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
2002: Olivier Award for Best Actress (Private Lives)
2002: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (Private Lives)
2009: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama

2013: British Independent Film Award for Best Actress (Le Week-End)
Facts
Lindsay appeared in a TV commercial for Head and Shoulders shampoo in 1979, when she was 29 years old. Lindsay's husband is actor Hilton McRae. Lindsay originally auditioned for the role of Anakin Skywalker's mother in The Phantom Menace; she didn't get the part, but did provide the voice of droid TC-14.

Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Maggie Cain) Born Feb 8 1976
Career highlights
Debuting aged 15 in 2point4 Children (1991), Sharon's other credits include Grange Hill (1992), Backup (1995), Maisie Raine (1998), Babyfather (2002), Coming Up (2007), A Deal is a Deal (2008), Blooded (2011), The Bible (2013), The Mimic (2013-14), Cucumber (2015), Cuffs (2015), Star Wars: Rogue One (2016), The Boy with the Topknot (2017), Years and Years (2019), Sex Education (2019-20), Intergalactic (2021), Dune (2021) and The Swarm (2022). She may be best remembered as Crystal Gordon in 44 episodes of prison drama Bad Girls (1999-2002), as well as Trina Johnson in EastEnders (2009) and Lisa in Top Boy (2011-13). She also provided the voice of Scratchy in the children's series Rastamouse (2011-15), and played Cat Hunter in the video games FIFA 17-19 (2016-18).
Facts
Here's Sharon on Twitter. When Sharon played Senator Pamlo in Rogue One, she became the first black woman to have a human speaking role in a Star Wars film.

Rachel Fewell (Young Adelaide)
This is Rachel's only acting work to date.

Michael Goldsmith (Roman Groom)
Career highlights
Michael's other work includes Gotham (2015), Irrational Man (2015) and NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2021). He also provided the voice of Gray in Carmen Sandiego (2019-21).

Paul Kasey (Ood Sigma) Born Aug 5 1973 Click here for Paul Kasey's entry on Rose

Aleksandar Mikic (Yuri Kerenski)
Career highlights
Serbian Aleksander debuted in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (2002), followed by Messiah 2 (2003), State of Play (2003), Ultimate Force (2003), Footballers' Wives (2006), Hotel Babylon (2007), Eastern Promises (2007), Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007), The Fixer (2008), Survivors (2010), Identity (2010), Gates (2012), EastEnders (2013), RED 2 (2013), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), The Legend of Tarzan (2016), Berlin Station (2019), The Black Forest (2019), Cobra (2020) and Stay Close (2021).

Peter O'Brien (Ed Gold) Born Mar 25 1960
Career highlights
Australian Peter made his acting debut in Starting Out (1983), followed by Carson's Law (1983), Prisoner: Cell Block H (1984), The Henderson Kids (1985), The Gift (1990), Cluedo (1992), Time Trax (1993), The All New Alexei Sayle Show (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Big Sky (1997), Minty (1998), See How They Run (1999), Queer as Folk (1999), The Knock (2000), Shades (2001), The Bill (2004), All Saints (2009), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Underbelly (2009-10), Dance Academy (2010-12), The Killing Field (2014), Winter (2015), Lake Alice (2018), Tidelands (2018), Wentworth Prison (2020), The Unusual Suspects (2021) and Darby and Joan (2022). One of his most memorable roles was as Shane Ramsay in more than 260 episodes of soap Neighbours (1985-87), but other recurring roles include Sam Patterson in 93 episodes of The Flying Doctors (1987-91), Cyril "Scissors" Smedley in Cardiac Arrest (1995-96), Carl in Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord (1997), Joe Hill in White Collar Blue (2002-03) and Theo "Stitch" Lambert in Casualty (2007).

Awards

1987: Silver Logie Award for Most Popular Actor (Neighbours)

2003: Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series (White Collar Blue)
Facts
Since 2003 Peter has been married to actress Miranda Otto, perhaps best known as Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings films (2002-03). He was previously married to actor Joanna Riding.

Alan Ruscoe (Andy Stone) Born Apr 14 1972 Click here for Alan Ruscoe's entry on Rose

Cosima Shaw (Steffi Ehrlich) Born Jul 20 1972
Career highlights
Cosima, who grew up in Berlin, made her acting debut in Sylter Geschichten (1993), followed by Second Nature (2003), Trevor's World of Sport (2003), Alfie (2004), Casanova (2005), V for Vendetta (2005), Harley Street (2008), Zen (2011), Pete Versus Life (2011), Toast of London (2013), Critical (2015), The Danish Girl (2015), Forget About Nick (2017), Mars (2016-18), Home (2019) and Treadstone (2019).

Awards

2010: British Independent Film Award for Best Actress (Ana Begins)
Facts
Before becoming an actor, Cosima worked as a model in Paris, New York and London. She has a daughter with actor Alexis Conran (best known for The Real Hustle). Cosima is behind the Our Stories Now project, which aims to bring primary school children closer to their grandparents. Here's Cosima on Twitter.

Chook Sibtain (Tarak Ital) Born 1969
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mark Grantham in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Warriors of Kudlak (2007)
Played: Tarak Ital in The Waters of Mars (2009)
Career highlights
After debuting in Beck (1996), Chook secured the regular role of Jack in EastEnders (2000-01), then found work in Bad Girls (2002), Grease Monkeys (2003), Footballers' Wives (2005), Holby City (2006), Robin Hood (2009), Hustle (2011), Naachle London (2012), Ghost Recon: Alpha (2012), Houdini and Doyle (2016), Emerald City (2017), Maigret (2017), Hard Sun (2018), Marcella (2018), Safe (2018), Nightflyers (2018) and Invasion (2021). Since 2018, Chook's professional name has been Joplin Sibtain.
Facts
In a 2010 interview, he was asked what in his career he'd most like to forget: "I'd like to forget about Doctor Who because I was cold and wet for most of the time." Blink and you'll miss him in the music video for Sway and Jamie King's 2011 single This is the Life.

Anouska Strahnz (Ulrika Ehrlich)
This is Anouska's only acting work to date.

Zofia Strahnz (Lisette Ehrlich)
This is Zofia's only acting work to date.

CREW

Russell T Davies (writer) Born Apr 27 1963 Click here for Russell T Davies' entry on Rose

Phil Ford (writer)
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon (2007), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Lost Boy (2007), Torchwood: Something Borrowed (2008), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Last Sontaran (2008), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Day of the Clown (2008), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Enemy of the Bane (2008), Dreamland (animation, 2009), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Prisoner of the Judoon (2009), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap (2009), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge (2009), The Waters of Mars (2009), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Vault of Secrets (2010), Doctor Who: The Adventure Games (2010-11), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Sky (2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Curse of Clyde Langer (2011), Into the Dalek (2014)
Produced: The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 2 and 3 (2008-09)
Career highlights
Phil's writing work includes Taggart (1998), Heartbeat (1998), Footballers' Wives (2002), 21 episodes of Captain Scarlet (2005), 17 episodes of Bad Girls (1999-2006), Waterloo Road (2007) and Wizards vs Aliens (2012-13, which he also co-created and produced). He also wrote more than 50 episodes of Coronation Street (1997-2002).

Awards

2010: Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form (Doctor Who) - shared with Russell T Davies and Graeme Harper

2012: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Children's Television Script (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Graeme Harper (director) Born Mar 11 1945 Click here for Graeme Harper's entry on The Caves of Androzani

Nikki Wilson (producer) Click here for Nikki's entry on The Sontaran Stratagem

Gary Russell (script editor) Born Sep 18 1963
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: Torchwood: Dead Man Walking (2008), Torchwood: A Day in the Death (2008), Torchwood: Something Borrowed (2008), Torchwood: Fragments (2008), Music of the Spheres (2008), The Sarah Jane Adventures: Enemy of the Bane (2008), The Waters of Mars (2009), The End of Time (2009-10)

Wrote: Real Time (2002, audio), Shada (2003, audio)
Directed: Real Time (2002, audio), The Infinite Quest (2007, animation), Dreamland (2009, animation)
Career highlights
Lifelong Doctor Who fan Gary started out as a child actor, appearing in The Phoenix and the Carpet (1976-77), then The Famous Five (1978-79), Look and Read: Dark Towers (1981), Schoolgirl Chums (1982) and Octopussy (1983, uncredited). His achievements in the Doctor Who universe are legion - apart from working on the series itself, as well as its spin-offs, Gary edited Doctor Who Magazine between 1992-95, and has written several novels, including Virgin New and Missing Adventures, BBC Eighth and Past Doctor books, and books for the new series of Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. He has also written Doctor Who and Torchwood comic strips, and was producer for the Big Finish audio adventures from their inception in 1998 until 2006. Beyond Doctor Who he has written books about The Lord of the Rings, Frasier and The Simpsons (the latter two as Warren Martyn). After leaving the BBC in 2011, Gary moved to Australia to become executive producer of the Planet 55 animation company, the firm responsible for the animated reconstructed episodes of The Tenth Planet and The Moonbase on DVD. More recently he has overseen animated reconstructions of missing stories such as Galaxy 4 and Fury from the Deep.

Planet of the Dead

Professor Malcolm Taylor
(Lee Evans).

One episode (Planet of the Dead)
First broadcast Apr 11 2009
Average audience for story: 9.54m

REGULAR CAST

David Tennant (The Doctor) Born Apr 18 1971 Click here for David Tennant's entry on The Parting of the Ways

GUEST CAST

Victoria Alcock (Angela) Born May 13 1968
Career highlights
Victoria's breakthrough role was as Agnes Clarke in 26 episodes of The House of Eliott (1991-94); her other work includes Agatha Christie's Poirot (1991), Lovejoy (1992), Castles (1995), Grange Hill (1997), Coronation Street (1998), Locked Up Abroad (2009), Combat Kids (2010), Call the Midwife (2012), Whitechapel (2012), The Bletchley Circle (2014), Birds of a Feather (2015), The Musketeers (2016), Quacks (2017), People Just Do Nothing (2014-18), Doctors (2019) and Boys Don't Cry (2020). Her most memorable role was as Julie Saunders in almost 100 episodes of prison drama Bad Girls (1999-2006).

David Ames (Nathan) Born Aug 10 1983
Career highlights
Debuted in He Kills Coppers (2008), then The Telemachy (2012), and has been playing Dominic Copeland in Holby City since 2013 (over 300 episodes and counting). David also provided the voice of Thomas Percy in the Doctor Who Adventure Game The Gunpowder Plot in 2011.
Facts
David has posed for naked shoots in Attitude and Gay Times magazines. Here's David on Twitter.

Glenn Doherty (Sgt Dennison)
Career highlights
Glenn made his screen debut in Arrivederci Millwall (1990), after which he secured roles in Coasting (1990), Specials (1991), Paul's Lucky Day (2001), Liar (2005), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Being Human (2009), Five Daughters (2010), Silent Witness (2012), Byzantium (2012), Doctors (2013), The Great Fire (2014), Wallander (2015) and The Death of Stalin (2017).

Noma Dumezweni (Captain Magambo) Born Jul 28 1969
Doctor Who credits
Played: Captain Magambo in Turn Left (2008), Planet of the Dead (2009)
Career highlights
Born in Swaziland, Noma's earliest credit was The Knock (1999), followed by Dirty Pretty Things (2002), Mysterious Creatures (2006), After Thomas (2006), Shameless (2007), EastEnders (2007), The Colour of Magic (2008), Casualty (2012), Frankie (2013), Midsomer Murders (2015), The Incident (2015), Capital (2015), Black Earth Rising (2018), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Normal People (2020), The Undoing (2020), Made for Love (2021) and Pose (2021).

Awards

2006: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Play (A Raisin in the Sun)

2017: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)
Facts
Her surname means "famous in the world" in Xhosa. Noma arrived in the UK in 1977 as a refugee, with her sister and mother. In 2016-18 Noma played Hermione Granger in the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Here's Noma on Twitter.

Lee Evans (Professor Malcolm Taylor) Born Feb 25 1964
Career highlights
Lee is known principally as a stand-up comedian, making his debut in 1988 on After Ten with Tarbuck, then making appearances on Viva Cabaret (1993), The World of Lee Evans (1995), The Clive James Show (1998), Cardboard Boxers (1999), Lee Evans: So What Now? (2001), Just for Laughs (2005), as well as a number of stand-up videos and DVDs of his live shows since 1994. Acting work has included Clair de Lune (1995), Funny Bones (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Mousehunt (1997), There's Something About Mary (1997), The Martins (2001), Freeze Frame (2004), The History of Mr Polly (1997) and The Dinner Party (2007).

Awards

2011: Outstanding Contribution to Comedy at the British Comedy Awards
Facts
Throughout his stand-up career, former boxer Lee (who was born with a hole in his heart) referred to a character called Malcolm who works in various places, and is the centre of some of his comedy routines: Prof Taylor is obviously just another of those Malcolms! In 2014, Lee announced his retirement from stand-up following the sudden death of his manager.

Adam James (DI Macmillan) Born Sep 9 1972
Career highlights
Prolific Adam debuted in Sharpe's Regiment (1996), then Cold Lazarus (1996), The Bill (1996), Island (1997), Table 12 (2001), Band of Brothers (2001), As If (2004), Casualty (2005), The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006), Judge John Deed (2007), Waking the Dead (2007), Extras (2007), Ashes to Ashes (2008), Bonekickers (2008), Hustle (2009), A Touch of Frost (2010), Lewis (2010), Law and Order: LA (2011), Vexed (2012), Kilimanjaro (2013), Law and Order UK (2013), The Crimson Field (2014), Grantchester (2014), The Game (2015), Endeavour (2017), Doctor Foster (2015-17), Hunter Killer (2018), Home from Home (2016-18), Johnny English Strikes Again (2018), Deep State (2019), Belgravia (2020), The Harrowing (2020), Vigil (2021) and Hotel Portofino (2022).
Facts
Adam's godfather was Third Doctor Jon Pertwee, while his best friend is Tenth Doctor David Tennant. He is married to actor Victoria Shalet.

Daniel Kaluuya (Barclay) Born Feb 24 1989
Career highlights
Daniel debuted in Shoot the Messenger (2006), then The Whistleblowers (2007), Delta Forever (2008), Silent Witness (2008), Lewis (2009), FM (2009), Bellamy's People (2010), Chatroom (2010), Johnny English Reborn (2011), The Fades (2011), Black Mirror (2011), Welcome to the Punch (2013), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), Babylon (2014), Get Out (2017), Black Panther (2018), Queen and Slim (2019), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). Regular roles include Tealeaf in Psychoville (2009-11) and Posh Kenneth in Skins (2007-09). He also wrote two episodes of Skins (2008-09).

Awards

2018: BAFTA / EE Rising Star Award

2018: Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor (Get Out)

2018: London Critics' Circle Film Award for British/ Irish Actor of the Year (Get Out)

2018: National Film Award for Best Newcomer (Get Out)

2021: Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Judas and the Black Messiah)

2021: BAFTA Film Award for Best Supporting Actor (Judas and the Black Messiah)

2021: Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Facts
In 2013 it was reported that Daniel was suing the Metropolitan Police for £50,000 in the High Court for assault and false imprisonment after he was wrongly suspected of being a drug dealer in an incident in 2010. He was arrested and removed from a bus, taken into custody and strip-searched, which Daniel claimed was because officers had racially stereotyped him. When Daniel won his Oscar in 2021, he became the first black British actor to do so. Daniel's partner is Amandla Crichlow (sister of Lenora Crichlow, who appeared in Gridlock), and daughter of civil rights activist Frank Crichlow.

Paul Kasey (Sorvin) Born Aug 5 1973 Click here for Paul Kasey's entry on Rose

James Layton (Sgt Ian Jenner) Born Jan 11 1977
Career highlights
James's acting credits are relatively slight, having made a name for himself in the little-known cult film The Wolves of Kromer in 1998, and appearing in Irreparable (2009), Barry Brown (2009) and The Symmetry of Love (2010). However, James has made a much more prolific career for himself behind the cameras, operating cameras (often steadicams) on productions such as Strippers vs Werewolves (2012), Dates (2013), Skins (2013), Sherlock (2014), The Quiet Ones (2014), Atlantis (2014), Downtown Abbey (2014-15), Episodes (2015), Humans (2015), Strike (2018), A Discovery of Witches (2018), His Dark Materials (2019) and Invasion (2021). He also worked as a model for some time.

Awards

2018: British Society of Cinematographers' Operators Award for Television Drama (A Discovery of Witches)

2018: British Society of Cinematographers / Guild of British Camera Technicians' Operators Award for Television Drama (A Discovery of Witches)

Facts

James's father is veteran director of photography Vernon Layton, who worked on productions as varied as The Professionals, Poirot and Seed of Chucky.

Ruari Mears (Praygat) Born 1975 Click here for Ruari Mears' entry on The Doctor's Daughter

Keith Parry (Bus driver)
Career highlights
Keith debuted in The Journey Home (2008), followed by The Drummond Will (2010), Stranger Things (2010), The Jury (2011), Doctors (2012/18), Delicious (2013) and Bad Move (2017).
Facts
Keith trained as an actor in the 1960s but did not join the profession properly until decades later.

Michelle Ryan (Lady Christina de Souza) Born Apr 22 1984
Career highlights
Michelle made her debut in children's series The Worst Witch (2000), then secured the role of Zoe Slater in soap EastEnders, which she played in more than 530 episodes between 2000-05. Other work includes Brookside (2000), Cashback (2006), Mansfield Park (2007), I Want Candy (2007), Jekyll (2007), Bionic Woman (2007), Merlin (2008), Girl walks Into a Bar (2011), The Man Inside (2012), Covert Affairs (2013), Death in Paradise (2014), The Last Photograph (2017), True Horror (2018) and Dark Stories (2019-20).

Facts

In 2005, FHM magazine voted her the world's fourth sexiest woman. In 2017, Michelle reprised the role of Christina for the first in a series of Big Finish audio adventures.

Ellen Thomas (Carmen) Born Feb 3 1956 (or 1964, depends who you believe!)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Clockwork woman in The Girl in the Fireplace (2006)
Played: Carmen in Planet of the Dead (2009)
Career highlights
Born in Sierra Leone, Ellen debuted in the Sunday Night Thriller Dark Secret in 1981, then took roles in OTT (1982), Don't Wait Up (1983), Shroud for a Nightingale (1984), French and Saunders (1988), Grange Hill (1991), Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1996), London Bridge (1996), Holding On (1997), Ultraviolet (1998), South West 9 (2001), Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (2002), Strange (2003), Basic Instinct 2 (2006), Outnumbered (2007), Moses Jones (2009), Come Fly with Me (2011), Johnny English Reborn (2011), Man Down (2013), Critical (2015), Golden Years (2016), New Blood (2016), Midsomer Murders (2018), The Queen and I (2018), Dark Money (2019), After Ever After (2019), Death in Paradise (2020), In the Long Run (2017-20), Maxxx (2020), The Sandman (2020-21) and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (2022). Ellen has enjoyed regular roles as Rose in The Lenny Henry Show (1987-88), Sister Jackie Landers in Cardiac Arrest (1994-96), Liz Webb in Teachers (2001-04), the Principal in Coming of Age (2008-11), Adoha Onyeka in the sitcom Rev (2010-14) and Nana in Mount Pleasant (2015-17). She has had three recurring roles in soap EastEnders: Pearl Chadwick (1990), Grace Olubunmi (2010-11) and Claudette Hubbard (2015-16).

Facts
In 2014 it was reported that Carmen had been declared bankrupt over an unpaid tax bill, forced into insolvency by HM Revenue and Customs. Here's Ellen's Twitter feed.

Reginald Tsiboe (Lou) Born Sep 7 1950
Career highlights
Ghana-born Reginald's further work includes A Hymn from Jim (1977), The Thin End of the Wedge (1977), Love Brewed in the African Pot (1981), West of Paradise (1986), Gentlemen and Players (1988), After the War (1989), Escape from Kampala (1991), London Bridge (1996), Moses Jones (2009), Doctors (2011) and Black Earth Rising (2018).
Facts
Reginald started out as an actor before making a name for himself in the music industry, becoming a member of the disco group Boney M between 1982-86 and 1989-90 (originally replacing Bobby Farrell, but when Farrell rejoined in 1984, they became a quintet). Reggie appeared on Boney M's final three albums - Ten Thousand Light Years (1984), 16 Happy Songs (1984) and Eye Dance (1985), and sang lead vocals on their 1984 single Kalimba De Luna and Happy Song. However, before his Boney M fame he'd released his own single called Please Don't Bring Your Sister (1975) and written for the German band Love Generation, as well as been a member of the disco group Sugar Cane, which had a number 54 hit single in the UK in 1978 with Montego Bay.

CREW

Russell T Davies (writer) Born Apr 27 1963 Click here for Russell T Davies' entry on Rose

Gareth Roberts (writer) Born Jun 5 1968 Click here for Gareth Roberts' entry on Attack of the Graske

James Strong (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit (2006), Torchwood: Cyberwoman (2006), Torchwood: They Keep Killing Suzie (2006), Daleks in Manhattan/ Evolution of the Daleks (2007), Voyage of the Damned (2007), Partners in Crime (2008), Planet of the Dead (2009)
Career highlights
James's first directing work came with The Clothes Show in the late 1990s, after which he moved into drama on series such as Doctors (2000-01), Mile High (2003), Casualty (2004), Holby City (2002-05), Rocket Man (2005), Bonekickers (2008), Monty Python in Aberystwyth (2009), Silent Witness (2011), United (2011), Downton Abbey (2011), Hunted (2012), Gracepoint (2014), Broadchurch (2013-15), Code of a Killer (2015), 11.22.63 (2016), Vanity Fair (2018), Liar (2017-20) and Vigil (2021). He has also worked as a producer on productions such as Gracepoint, Broadchurch, Vanity Fair, Liar and Vigil.

Awards

2008: BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Director - Drama (Doctor Who)
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Tracie Simpson (producer)
Doctor Who credits
Production manager: Series 1, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, School Reunion, Rise of the Cybermen/ The Age of Steel, The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit, Love & Monsters, Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday, The Runaway Bride, Gridlock, The Lazarus Experiment, Human Nature/ The Family of Blood, The Sound of Drums/ Last of the Time Lords, Voyage of the Damned, Partners in Crime, The Fires of Pompeii, Turn Left (2005-08)
Produced: Planet of the Dead (2009), The End of Time (2009), The Eleventh Hour (2010), The Time of Angels/ Flesh and Stone (2010), Vampires of Venice (2010), Amy's Choice (2010), Vincent and the Doctor (2010), The Lodger (2010), Series 8 (2014), Last Christmas (2014), Series 9 (2015) - credited as line producer 2014-15

Production executive: The Husbands of River Song (2015), The Return of Doctor Mysterio (2016), The Pilot (2017), Smile (2017), The Doctor Falls (2017), The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Rosa (2018), The Tsuranga Conundrum (2018), Kerblam! (2018), Series 12 (2020), Flux (2021), Eve of the Daleks (2022), Legend of the Sea Devils (2022)

Awards

2020: BAFTA TV Award for Single Drama (The Left Behind) - shared with Alan Harris, Joseph Bullman and Aysha Rafaele
Career highlights
Tracie has also acted as production coordinator on Tiger Bay (1997), Jack of Hearts (1999) and Care (2000), and been a producer on The Bench (2001), Baker Boys (2011), Casualty (2011-13) and The Left Behind (2019).
Facts
It was Tracie's red-varnished hand seen picking up the Master's ring from the flames at the end of Last of the Time Lords (2007). She also made an uncredited cameo as a horrified party guest in 2007's The Lazarus Experiment.

Lindsey Alford (script editor) Click here for Lindsey Alford's entry on Daleks in Manhattan