Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Deep Breath

The Twelfth Doctor
(Peter Capaldi)
arrives
One episode (Deep Breath)
First broadcast Aug 23 2014
Average audience for story: 9.17m + 2.06m iPlayer = 11.24m

REGULAR CAST

Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) Born Apr 14 1958 Click here for Peter Capaldi's entry on The Fires of Pompeii

Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) Born Apr 27 1986 Click here for Jenna Coleman's entry on Asylum of the Daleks

GUEST CAST

Graham Duff (Waiter) Born Apr 13 1964
Career highlights
Graham made his screen acting debut in Dr Terrible's House of Horrible (2001), followed by parts in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2 (2010-11, as a Death Eater), Hunderby (2012), Hebburn (2012-13) and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (2012/16). He also played Brian in 50 episodes of the sitcom Ideal (2005-11), and contributed to the writing and production of Dr Terrible's House of Horrible, Ideal, Hebburn and The Nightmare Worlds of H G Wells (2016).
Facts
In the 1980s Graham performed with the performance art groups Theatre of the Bleeding Obelisk and Wax Cabinet, and also worked as an assistant editor at Ikon, the video arm of Factory Records. In the 1990s he was a member of the comedy group Fish-heads, and contributed sketches for BBC Radio.

Peter Ferdinando (Half-Face Man) Born 1974
Career highlights
Peter debuted in The Bill (1989), followed by Between the Lines (1992), Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1993), Casualty (1993), Soldier Soldier (1996), Bodywork (2001), My Family (2004), Hustle (2006), Holby Blue (2007), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Ripper Street (2014), A Field in England (2013), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Safe House (2015), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), Hanna (2019), Muscle (2019), The Letter for the King (2020) and The Curse (2022).
Facts
Peter is a regular collaborator with director Ben Wheatley, and is also the cousin of singer songwriter Matt Johnson from rock band The The, and film director Gerard Johnson. Here's Peter on Twitter.

Ellis George (Courtney Woods) Born Aug 30 1998
Doctor Who credits
Played: Courtney Woods in Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, The Caretaker, Kill the Moon (all 2014)
Career highlights
Further work includes Small Axe (2020), Blood Rites (2022) and Grace (2022).

Michelle Gomez (Missy) Born Nov 23 1966
Doctor Who credits
Played: Missy in Deep Breath (2014), Into the Dalek (2014, uncredited), The Caretaker (2014, uncredited), Flatline (2014), In the Forest of the Night (2014), Dark Water/ Death in Heaven (2014), The Magician's Apprentice/ The Witch's Familiar (2015), Extremis (2017), The Lie of the Land (2017), Empress of Mars (2017), The Eaters of Light (2017), World Enough and Time/ The Doctor Falls (2017)
Career highlights
Michelle made her debut in the 1989 TV movie First and Last, followed by roles in The Acid House (1998), Taggart (1992/99), Highlander: The Raven (1999), The Escort (1999), Offending Angels (2000), Rebus (2001), My Family (2002), Manchild (2003), Murder in Suburbia (2005), Carrie & Barry (2004-05), Feel the Force (2006, which she also sang the theme tune for), Oliver Twist (2007), Bad Education (2012-13), Psychobitches (2013-14), The Brink (2015), Gotham (2015/16), The Two Princes (2019-20), Doom Patrol (2021) and The Flight Attendant (2020-22). She also played Janice McCann in The Book Group (2002-03), Sue White in Green Wing (2004-06) and Mary Wardwell in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-20).
Facts
Michelle has been married to fellow actor Jack Davenport since 2000.

Peter Hannah (Policeman [PC Stanmore]) Born 1988
Career highlights
Peter also appeared in Mr Turner (2014), Above the Clouds (2018), I Hate Suzie (2020), Unforgotten (2021) and Casualty (2022).
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Paul Hickey (Inspector Gregson)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Inspector Gregson in Vastra Investigates (2012, uncredited), Deep Breath (2014)
Career highlights
Debuted in Cardiac Arrest (1994), then The Governor (1995), Father Ted (1996), Moll Flanders (1996), Michael Collins (1996), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000), Murder City (2004), Sunshine (2008), Whitechapel (2009), Noble (2014), Critical (2015), Bitter Harvest (2017), War Machine (2017), Catherine the Great (2019) and Angela Black (2021). He also had a recurring role as Lafferty in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2005-07), and Sgt Johno O'Riorodan in Red Rock (2016-20).

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

Mark Kempner (Cabbie) Born Jul 21 1957
Career highlights
Debuted in Tale of a Vampire (1992), then London Bridge (1995), Jackanory (1996, as Mr Floppy, the country dancing teacher!), Pie in the Sky (1996), Get Fit with Brittas (1997), EastEnders (2004), The Worst Week of My Life (2005), Little Dorrit (2008), Peep Show (2009), Kill List (2011), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2013), The World's End (2013), Stains of Staines (2014), This Country (2018), Not Going Out (2018) and Trying (2021).
Facts
Before becoming a professional actor, Mark worked as a farmer (both in the UK and Israel), an agricultural engineer, an industrial engineer at Gatwick Airport, and a lawnmower and horsebox repairman! He also performs as a Groucho Marx lookalike, runs a murder mystery event company, and edits talent showreels for other actors. His cousin is actor Teddy Kempner, while his son is actor Luke Kempner.

Neve McIntosh (Madame Vastra) Born Apr 9 1972
Doctor Who credits
Played: Alaya in The Hungry Earth/ Cold Blood (2010)
Played: Restac in Cold Blood (2010)
Played: Madame Vastra in A Good Man Goes to War (2011), The Great Detective (2012, uncredited), Vastra Investigates (2012, uncredited), The Snowmen (2012), The Battle of Demon's Run - Two Days Later (2013, uncredited), The Crimson Horror (2013), The Name of the Doctor (2013), Deep Breath (2014)
Neve also played Vastra at the 2013 Doctor Who Prom
Career highlights
Debuted in Renegade (1993), then The Leading Man (1996), Plunkett and Macleane (1999), Psychos (1999), Gormenghast (2000), The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002), The Trouble with Men and Women (2005), The Ghost Squad (2005), Low Winter Sun (2006), Sea of Souls (2007), Law and Order UK (2010), Single Father (2010), Lip Service (2012), Ripper Street (2013), Dracula (2013), Critical (2015), Death in Paradise (2016), Guerrilla (2017), Lucky Man (2018), The Small Hand (2019), Traces (2019-20), Tin Star (2020) and Shetland (2018-21). She also enjoyed the recurring role of Donna Rix in 17 episodes of Bodies (2004-06).
Facts
Neve (real name Carol) divorced her husband Xandy Sahla - a prolific TV and film cameraman - in 2009, after meeting on the set of Psychos in 1999. Here's Neve's Twitter account.

Brian Miller (Barney) Born Apr 17 1941
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dugdale in Snakedance (1983)
Played: Dalek voice in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
Played: Harry in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic (2009)
Played: Barney in Deep Breath (2014)
Career highlights
Brian started out on Compact in 1964, followed by Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life the year after, after which he appeared in Mr Rose (1968), The Dustbinmen (1970), Hey Brian! (1973), A Raging Calm (1974), Sam (1975), Out of Bounds (1977), The Devil's Crown (1978), Blake's 7 (1979), Ladykillers (1980), Angels (1981), Eh Brian! It's a Whopper (1984), Brazil (1985), Alice in Wonderland (1986), Strike It Rich! (1986-87), Grange Hill (1991), Stay Lucky (1993), The Ghost of Greville Lodge (2000), Line of Duty (2012), Wizards vs Aliens (2012) and Loose Ends (2017).
Facts
Brian was married to Doctor Who's very own Sarah Jane Smith, Elisabeth Sladen, from 1968 until her death in 2011. Their daughter Sadie Miller appeared as Natalie Redfern in Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith audio series, and wrote the book Moon Blink for Candy Jar's Lethbridge-Stewart series. Sadie also appeared, aged eight, with her mother in the 1993 documentary Thirty Years in the TARDIS, wearing a replica of her mum's costume as seen in The Hand of Fear.
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Brian here.

Maggie Service (Elsie)
Career highlights
Maggie debuted in Hyperdrive (2006-07, as a computer voice), then appeared in Foyle's War (2010), Miranda (2010), Call the Midwife (2015), London Road (2015), The Aliens (2016), Red Dwarf (2016), Three Girls (2017), Man Down (2017), Good Omens (2019), Quiz (2020) and Life (2020).
Facts
Here's Maggie on Twitter.

Dan Starkey (Strax) Born Sep 27 1977 Click here for Dan Starkey's entry on The Sontaran Stratagem

Catrin Stewart (Jenny) Born Jan 29 1988
Doctor Who credits
Played: Jenny Flint in A Good Man Goes to War (2011), The Snowmen (2012), The Crimson Horror (2013), The Name of the Doctor (2013), Deep Breath (2014)
Catrin also played Jenny in the minisodes The Great Detective (2012), Vastra Investigates (2012) and The Battle of Demon's Run - Two Days Later (2013)
Career highlights
Catrin's other work includes Hearts of Gold (2003), Crusade in Jeans (2006), All Shook Up! (2010), Misfits (2010-11), Frail (2012), The Library Suicides (2016), Lifelines (2020) and One for the Road (2021). She also played Emma in 34 episodes of Stella (2012-17) and DS Gina Jenkins in Bang (2017-20).

Tony Way (Alf) Born Oct 7 1978
Career highlights
Tony made his acting debut as various characters in The Fast Show in 1997, after which he appeared in Barking (1998), Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer (1999), Spaced (1999), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1999), Black Books (2000), Fun at the Funeral Parlour (2001-02), Ali G Indahouse (2002), Swiss Toni (2003), Finding Neverland (2004), Extras (2005), Saxondale (2006), Blunder (2006), Tittybangbang (2005-07), No Heroics (2008-09), London Boulevard (2010), Dick and Dom's Funny Business (2011), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Mongrels (2010-11), Sherlock (2012), Game of Thrones (2012-14), Derek (2014), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Pompidou (2015), Inside No.9 (2015), High-Rise (2015), Jekyll and Hyde (2015), The Life of Rock with Brian Pern (2014-17), Loaded (2017), Zapped (2016-17), Silent Witness (2018), Tracey Ullman's Show (2018), Giri/ Haji (2019), Mandy (2020), Des (2020), Britannia (2021), Cobra (2021), After Life (2019-22), Dodger (2022) and Avoidance (2022). Tony is also a comedy writer, and has contributed to Barking, The 11 O'Clock Show (1999), Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2009), Shooting Stars (2010) and Crackanory (2014-17).
Facts
Here's Tony on Twitter.

CREW

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

Ben Wheatley (director) Born May 1972
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Deep Breath, Into the Dalek (both 2014)
Career highlights
Ben's first directorial credit was on Modern Toss (2008), after which he worked on The Wrong Door (2008), Steve Coogan: The Inside Story (2009), Ideal (2009-10), Kill List (2011), Sightseers (2012), The ABCs of Death (2012), A Field in England (2013), High-Rise (2015), Free Fire (2016), Strange Angel (2018-19), Rebecca (2020) and In the Earth (2021). Ben is also a writer, and penned material for Time Trumpet (2006) and The Wrong Door, as well as films such as Kill List and A Field in England.
Awards
2011: Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer
2013: Evening Standard British Film Award Peter Sellers Award for Comedy (Sightseers)
Facts
Ben also directed the music video for The Editors' single Formaldehyde (2013). Here's his Twitter feed, and the blog he runs with his wife, Amy Jump.

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

Derek Ritchie (script editor) Born 1978
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Time of the Doctor (2013), Deep Breath (2014), Into the Dalek (2014), The Caretaker (2014). Derek also script edited the 50th anniversary sketch The Five(ish) Doctors (Reboot) (2013)
Produced: The Doctor's Meditation, Under the Lake/ Before the Flood, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived (all 2015), Class (2016). He also produced Strax's cinema introduction for Deep Breath (2014)
Career highlights
Derek first worked as a locations assistant on The Book Group (2003), and has also edited scripts for Wizards vs Aliens (2012-13). He also produced that series in 2014. As an assistant director he has worked on The Planman (2003), AfterLife (2003), Shoebox Zoo (2004), The Last King of Scotland (2006), Still Game (2002-07), Identity (2010), Frankenstein's Wedding... Live in Leeds (2011), Becoming Human (2011) and Being Human (2008-12). Production work includes Luther (2019), The Capture (2019) and Then You Run (2022).

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