Night Terrors

Caught in the act... a peg doll

One episode (Night Terrors)
First broadcast Sep 3 2011
Average audience for story: 7.07m + 1.14m iPlayer = 8.21m

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 Click here for Arthur Darvill's entry on The Eleventh Hour

GUEST CAST

Sophie Cosson (Julie) Born May 1986
Career highlights
Sophie's other work includes Call the Midwife (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Downton Abbey (2014) and Casualty (2015).

Emma Cunniffe (Claire) Born Jul 3 1973
Career highlights
Debuted in Woof! (1994), then Cracker (1994), The Upper Hand (1995), A Touch of Frost (1996), Life After Birth (1996), Maisie Raine (1998), The Lakes (1997-99), Great Expectations (1999), Blue Murder (2000), Clocking Off (2002), Flesh and Blood (2002), Place of Execution (2008), Good Cop (2012), Southcliffe (2013), Coronation Street (2014), Waterloo Road (2015), Lewis (2015), Unforgotten (2017), Doctors (2019), Miss Marx (2020), Roadkill (2020), The Irregulars (2021) and Grantchester (2022).
Facts
Emma was once in a production of the pantomime Little Red Riding Hood with Take That singer Gary Barlow.

Leila Hoffman (Elsie Rossiter) Born Jun 11 1934
Career highlights
Leila's earliest acting credit on screen was 1980's The Dybbuk, followed by The Fools on the Hill (1986), Vanity Fair (1987), The Witches (1990), Roger Roger (1996), One Foot in the Grave (2000), Grass (2003), According to Bex (2005), Magnolia (2006), Skins (2009), Pusher (2012), Bad Education (2012), Doctors (2013), Drifters (2014), Prevenge (2016), Bad Move (2017), Flowers (2016-18), Speechless (2018), Catastrophe (2019), EastEnders (2017/19), Code 404 (2020) and inVERSE (2021). She also had a recurring role as Mrs Treacher in the sitcom How Not to Live Your Life (2008-11).

Facts

Leila's acting husband is Arthur Hoffman.

Daniel Mays (Alex) Born Mar 31 1978
Career highlights
Daniel debuted in Fist of Fun in 1996, then appeared in EastEnders (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001), Manchild (2002), All or Nothing (2002), Top Buzzer (2004), Vera Drake (2004), Funland (2005), Atonement (2007), The Bank Job (2008), Plus One (2009), Red Riding (2009), The Firm (2009), Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Ashes to Ashes (2010), Made in Dagenham (2010), Outcasts (2011), Treasure Island (2012), Byzantium (2012), Mrs Biggs (2012), The Great Fire (2014), Victor Frankenstein (2015), Dad's Army (2016), Line of Duty (2016), Star Wars: Rogue One (2016), Born to Kill (2017), Swimming with Men (2018), Fisherman's Friends (2019), Porters (2019), Good Omens (2019), 1917 (2019), White Lines (2020), Des (2020), Temple (2019-21), Magpie Murders (2022) and Code 404 (2020-22).
Facts
Daniel can be seen in The Streets' video for When You Wasn't Famous (2006) and Feeder's Idaho (2012). Daniel originally wanted to become a footballer, but after seeing Michael Jackson live at Wembley in 1988, he decided showbiz was the path for him.

Jamie Oram (George) Born Dec 4 2002
Career highlights
Jamie's earliest credit was providing the voice of Freddy Fox in the children's series Peppa Pig (2010-16), after which he provided the voice of Henry for Ella Bella Bingo (2013-15) and Ooo Ooo in Raa Raa the Noisy Lion (2011-12). He also played the young Prince Ferdinand of Habsburg in Borgia (2011/13), Joe in Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (2012), Woolly in Woolly and Tig (2012-14), Umbrella in Sarah and Duck (2013-15) and voiced Mr Hoopla in Ricky Zoom (2019-20). He also provided the voice of Charlie in the Doctor Who Adventure Game The Gunpowder Plot (2011).

Andrew Tiernan (Jim Purcell) Born Nov 30 1965
Career highlights
Andrew made his screen acting debut in 1989's Nice Work, then appeared in Dead Cat (1989), Prime Suspect (1991), Edward II (1991), As You Like It (1992), Prime Suspect 2 (1992), Cracker (1993), Middlemarch (1994), 99-1 (1994), Space Precinct (1994), Interview with the Vampire (1994), 10x10 (1996), Thief Takers (1997), Jonathan Creek (1999), In a Land of Plenty (2001), The Bunker (2001), The Pianist (2002), Richard III (2005), The Rotters' Club (2005), The Quatermass Experiment (2005), Spooks (2005), Life on Mars (2006), Survivors (2008), Murderland (2009), Luther (2010), Whitechapel (2010), Prisoners' Wives (2012), Merlin (2012), Ripper Street (2013), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Automata (2014), The Great Fire (2014), No Offence (2015), Us & Them (2017), Bounty Hunters (2017), Marcella (2018), Burning Men (2019), Innocent (2021) and Code of Silence (2021). Andrew has also written, directed and produced a number of short and feature length productions, including 2015's Dragonfly and 2019's Break Clause.

CREW

Mark Gatiss (writer) Born Oct 17 1966 Click here for Mark Gatiss's entry on The Unquiet Dead

Richard Clark (director) Born Aug 21 1947
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Gridlock (2007), The Lazarus Experiment (2007), The Doctor's Wife (2011), Night Terrors (2011)
Career highlights
Richard's earliest directing work was on My Dead Buddy in 1997, after which he found work on Shockers: The Dance (1999), Life on Mars (2007), The Whistleblowers (2007), Whitechapel (2012), Silent Witness (2013), The Musketeers (2014), The Crimson Field (2014), Outlander (2015), Midwinter of the Spirit (2015), Versailles (2018) and War of the Worlds (2019-21).

Awards

2012: Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) (Doctor Who) - shared with Neil Gaiman
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Sanne Wohlenberg (producer) Born Aug 9 1968
Doctor Who credits
Produced: A Christmas Carol (2010), The Doctor's Wife (2011), Night Terrors (2011)
Career highlights
German Sanne was first credited as a line producer on Men Only in 2001, then became producer on Lucky Jim (2003, as Sanne Craddick), Murphy's Law (2003, as Sanne Craddick), Funland (2005), The Whistleblowers (2007), Mad Dogs (2013), Wallander (2010-15), Vikings (2016-17), Black Mirror (2016-17), Chernobyl (2019) and Andor (2022, as executive producer).

Awards

2019: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series (Chernobyl) - shared with production team

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