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