The Time of the Doctor

Farewell to the Eleventh Doctor
(Matt Smith). And his clothes...

One episode (The Time of the Doctor)
First broadcast Dec 25 2013
Average audience for story: 11.14m + 1.89m iPlayer = 13.03m

REGULAR CAST

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

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

GUEST CAST

Ken Bones (Voice of the General) Born Jun 11 1947
Doctor Who credits
Played: The General in The Day of the Doctor (2013), The Time of the Doctor (2013, voice only), Hell Bent (2015)
Career highlights
Ken made his credited debut in 1977's Jubilee, followed by roles in Fox (1980), Spearhead (1981), Frankie and Johnnie (1986), Bellman and True (1987), London's Burning (1988), Jack the Ripper (1988), Seekers (1993), Cutthroat Island (1995), Crime Traveller (1997), Cold Feet (1998), In Deep (2002), Hustle (2004), Troy (2004), The Virgin Queen (2006), Doctors (2007), Law and Order UK (2009), Any Human Heart (2010), The Hour (2011), Upstairs Downstairs (2012), Da Vinci's Demons (2013), The World's End (2013), Tyrant (2015), Medici (2016), Versailles (2018), Baghdad in My Shadow (2019), Des (2020) and A Discovery of Witches (2018-22). He regularly played Melas in Atlantis (2013-15) and Annas in A.D. The Bible Continues (2015).

Orla Brady (Tasha Lem) Born Mar 28 1961
Career highlights
Irish born Orla made her acting debut on screen in So You Think You've Got Troubles (1991), then Minder (1993), Absolutely Fabulous (1994), Dangerfield (1995), Pie in the Sky (1996), Out of the Blue (1995-96), The Vicar of Dibley (1996), Noah's Ark (1997), Pure Wickedness (1999), Fogbound (2002), Servants (2003), Proof (2004-05), Revelations (2005), Protect and Serve (2007), Shark (2007-08), Wallander (2008), The Deep (2010), Fringe (2010-12), Eternal Law (2012), Jo (2013), The Price of Desire (2015), Banished (2015), Odyssey (2015), Collateral (2018), A Girl from Mogadishu (2019), American Horror Story (2019), The South Westerlies (2020), Death in Paradise (2022) and Star Trek: Picard (2020-22). She also regularly played Siobhan Dhillon in Mistresses (2008-10) and Lydia in Into the Badlands (2015-19).
Facts
Orla is married to director and photographer Nicholas Brandt, who has directed music videos for Michael Jackson (including the Grammy-nominated Earth Song), Moby, Jewel, XTC and Badly Drawn Boy. In the 1980s Orla was a model for a series of photographic figure studies, one of which was used by artist Jack Vettriano as the basis for the woman in the red dress in his painting The Singing Butler (1992). Here she is on Twitter.

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

Mark Anthony Brighton (Colonel Albero) Born 1971
Career highlights
Debuted in The Bill (2000), then My Hero (2002), Ready When You Are, Mr McGill (2003), Casualty (2005), The Golden Hour (2005), Missing (2010), The Tunnel (2013), Not Going Out (2014), Kidz Time TV (2015), Doctor Strange (2016) and The Lady of Heaven (2021).

James Buller (Clara's dad) Born Apr 4 1970
Career highlights
Debuted in EastEnders (1996), followed by Strange But True? (1996), Grafters (1998), Babes in the Wood (1998-99), Sunburn (1999-2000), Sea of Souls (2004), The Grid (2004), Doctors (2006), Jonathan Creek (2013), The Coroner (2015), The Head Hunter (2016) and Coronation Street (2022).

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

Aidan Cook (Cyberman)

Doctor Who credits
Played: The Mummy in The Rings of Akhaten (2013)
Played: The Crooked Man in Hide (2013)
Played: Cyberman in Nightmare in Silver (2013), The Time of the Doctor (2013)
Played: Zygon in The Day of the Doctor (2013), The Zygon Invasion/ The Zygon Inversion (2015)

Played: The Vlinx in The Giggle (2023), The Legend of Ruby Sunday/ Empire of Death (2024)
Career highlights
Aidan started out as one of the animatronics operators on children's series Fimbles in 2002, for which he also provided voice work. He was also movement director on the 2009 adaptation of The Day of the Triffids, and was the children's acting coach on the 2011 film Horrid Henry (he also provided various voices for the TV series (2006-19)). Further acting work includes Jackanory (1982/84), Mack the Knife (1989), ChuckleVision (1998), Sir Gadabout, the Worst Knight in the Land (2002), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Warrioress (2011), Restless (2012), Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (2013), Star Wars: Rogue One (2016), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Andor (2022) and Willow (2022).

Barnaby Edwards (Dalek operator) Born Aug 20 1969 Click here for Barnaby Edwards' entry on Dalek

Tom Gibbons (Young man)
Career highlights
Debuted in Coronation Street (2010), then Scott and Bailey (2011), The Body Farm (2011), Emmerdale (2014), The Driver (2014), Residue (2015), Funny Cow (2017) and Time Away (2018). He also played Ryan in Young Dracula (2011-12).

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

Sonita Henry (Colonel Meme) Born Jan 23 1977
Career highlights
Sonita debuted in The Fifth Element (1997), then Out of the Darkness (2001), Garden Party (2008), Star Trek (2009), NCIS (2009), Cold Case (2010), Chuck (2011), Law and Order LA (2011), Young Dracula (2014), Olympus (2015), Motherland (2016), The Good Karma Hospital (2018), Vera (2019), Chimerica (2019), Krypton (2018-19), Breeders (2020), Absentia (2020), The Chelsea Detective (2022) and Surfside Girls (2022).
Facts
Sonita has also worked in motion capture for various video games, and has performed in a plethora of TV commercials for everything from XBox, Land Rover and M&Ms to Burger King, Red Baron Pizza and Hyundai. Sonita has her own special feature on the Star Trek DVD showing her transformation for the role of the Starfleet doctor who delivers baby James T Kirk. Here she is on Twitter.

Jack Hollington (Barnable) Born Jul 2 2001
Career highlights
Jack's other work includes Casualty (2014), The Go-Between (2015), Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (2016), Brimstone (2016) and Fearless (2017).

Rob Jarvis (Abramal) Born 1965
Career highlights
Debuted in Call Red (1996), then The Brittas Empire (1996), Among Giants (1998), Ultraviolet (1998), The Darkest Light (1999), Heartlands (2002), The Last King (2003), Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2003-04), Grownups (2006), Lead Balloon (2008), New Tricks (2009), Luther (2010), Monroe (2012), Hunted (2012), Southcliffe (2013), Endeavour (2014), Vera (2015), Father Brown (2016), Marcella (2016), David Brent: Life on the Road (2016), Guerrilla (2017), Save Me (2018), Sanditon (2019), Emmerdale (2021), Anne (2022) and Anatomy of a Scandal (2022). He also played Eddie in 47 episodes of Hustle (2004-12).
Facts
Rob also works as one of the principal continuity announcers for the National Geographic channel in the UK.

Ross Mullan (Silent) Born Jan 5 1967
Doctor Who credits
Played: Silent in The Time of the Doctor (2013)
Played: The Teller in Time Heist (2014)
Played: Wraith in Hell Bent (2015)
Career highlights
Canadian Ross, who is 6ft 4in, debuted in the 2002 short film Blow Job, followed by work in Clash of the Titans (2010), When the Lights Went Out (2012), Bloody Cuts (2014-15), Howl (2015), Il Sonnambulo (2016), Charismata (2017), Zoo-Head (2019) and A Pocketful of Bread (2022). He also played a White Walker in Game of Thrones (2012-14), and is the puppeteer and voice of Neville in 77 episodes of Bear Behaving Badly (2007-10) and the Numbertaker in Numberjacks (2008-09).
Facts
Here's Ross on Twitter.

Kayvan Novak (Voice of Handles) Born Nov 23 1978
Career highlights
Kayvan got his first credit in The American Embassy in 2002, after which he appeared in Judge John Deed (2002), Holby City (2004), Spooks (2004), Syriana (2005), Be More Ethnic (2007), The Blue Tower (2008), Four Lions (2010), Sirens (2011), Hacks (2012), Full English (2012), Skins (2013), Inside No.9 (2014), Cuban Fury (2014), Puppy Love (2014), Paddington (2014), Asylum (2015), SunTrap (2015), Top Coppers (2015), Prevenge (2016), Quacks (2017), The Day Shall Come (2019), Men in Black: International (2019), A Christmas Carol (2019), Cruella (2021) and Toast of Tinseltown (2022). He is also a prolific voice artist, having given his talent to Talented Mouse (2007), Headcases (2008), A Turtle's Tale (2010), The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012), Danger Mouse (2015-19), Thunderbirds Are Go (2015-20, as Brains), Counterfeit Cat (2016-17), Archer (2020-21) and Mickey Mouse Funhouse (2021-22). He will be best known, however, for his comedy series Fonejacker (2007-08) and Facejacker (2010-12), which he also wrote and directed, and for playing Nandor in the comedy series What We Do in the Shadows (2019-21).

Awards

2008: BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Programme (Fonejacker) - shared with production team

2010: British Comedy Award for Best British Comedy Performance in Film (Four Lions)

Facts

Kayvan is married to actor Talitha Stone.

Tessa Peake-Jones (Marta) Born May 9 1957
Career highlights
Tessa first appeared in Fallen Hero in 1978, after which she took roles in Telford's Change (1979), The Danedyke Mystery (1979), Pride and Prejudice (1980), Bergerac (1983), Charters & Caldicott (1985), Tickets for the Titanic (1987), Hard Cases (1989), Anything More Would Be Greedy (1989), Fish (2000), The Lost World (2001), Marchlands (2011), Casualty (2012), Bonobo (2014), The Devil Went Down to Islington (2016) and After Louise (2019). Tessa has had various regular roles, including Maria in sitcom Up the Garden Path (1990-93), Sally Rokeby in sitcom So Haunt Me (1992-94), Mrs Hunter in The Demon Headmaster (1996-98), Sue Bond in Doctors (2009/11) and Mrs Maguire in Grantchester (2014-22), but she will be best known as Del Boy's partner Raquel in sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1988-03).
Facts
Between 1985-2013, Tessa's partner was the actor Douglas Hodge (who, awkwardly, played a grown-up version of her character's son Damien in Only Fools and Horses in 1996!). Look out for her in the video for Culture Club's 1982 single Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?

Nicholas Pegg (Dalek operator) Click here for Nicholas Pegg's entry on Bad Wolf

Sheila Reid (Clara's gran) Born Dec 21 1937
Doctor Who credits
Played: Etta in Vengeance on Varos (1985)
Played: Clara's gran in The Time of the Doctor (2013), Dark Water (2014)
Career highlights
Sheila's earliest TV credit was in Mr Nobody (1960), after which she appeared in The Alphabet Murders (1965), A Flea in Her Ear (1967), Three Sisters (1970), Justice (1973), Moll Flanders (1975), Flickers (1980), Get Lost! (1981), The Home Front (1983), Miracles Take Longer (1984), Brazil (1985), The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987), American Friends (1991), Oliver's Travels (1995), Where the Heart Is (1998), Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (2002), Sea of Souls (2006), Bones (2008), Holby City (2009), Psychoville (2009/11), Psychobitches (2012-14), Containment (2015), The Bad Education Movie (2015), Humans (2018), All About Eve (2019), The Man in the Hat (2020), Big Boys (2022) and Love Without Walls (2022). Her most memorable role is as mobility scooter driver Madge Harvey in 45 episode of the comedy drama Benidorm (2007-16), and she also played Mildred in the trilogy Murder on the Blackpool Express, Death on the Tyne and Dial M for Middlesbrough (2017-19).
Facts
Sheila's first husband was the actor Julian Curry, best known as Claude in Rumpole of the Bailey.

Elizabeth Rider (Linda) Born 1958
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mistress Ellen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time (2010)
Played: Linda in The Time of the Doctor (2013)
Career highlights
Elizabeth made her screen debut in Testament of Youth (1979), followed by Breakaway (1980), Sacred Hearts (1985), Hard Cases (1988), Civvies (1992), Dangerfield (1996), Where the Heart Is (1999), At Home with the Braithwaites (2001), Red Cap (2003), Sweet Medicine (2003), A Thing Called Love (2004), Hotel Babylon (2006), The Street (2007), Casualty (1995/2008-09), Law and Order UK (2010), Marchlands (2011), Lewis (2014), The Casual Vacancy (2015), Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015), Midsomer Murders (2016), Vera (2018), Informer (2018), Doc Martin (2019), Line of Duty (2019-21), Shadow and Bone (2021), True Things (2021) and Grace (2022). Elizabeth has enjoyed a handful of recurring roles too, including Sheila Thwaite in The Lakes (1997-99), two roles in Coronation Street (Ashley Peacock's biological mother Kathleen Gutteridge (1999) and Genna (2006)), two roles in EastEnders (Nurse Jill (2004) and Nurse Green (2007-08)), Maureen Smith in Waking the Dead (2009/11) and DCI Lynette Driver in more than 75 episodes of daytime soap Doctors (2005-17).

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

CREW

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

Jamie Payne (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Hide (2013), The Time of the Doctor (2013)
Career highlights
Jamie's earliest directing work was on the short film The Dance of Shiva (1998) and Rough Magik (2000), before graduating to series such as The Bill (2002), New Tricks (2004), Distant Shores (2005), Primeval (2007-08), Survivors (2008-10), Ashes to Ashes (2010), Outcasts (2011), Call the Midwife (2012), The Hour (2011-12), Da Vinci's Demons (2013), The Bletchley Circle (2014), Indian Summers (2015), Legends (2015), The White Princess (2017), The Alienist (2018), Luther (2019), Invasion (2021) and Outlander (2020-22). Jamie also conducted producer's duties on Legends, The White Princess and The Alienist.

Marcus Wilson (producer) Born Jul 4 1973 Click here for Marcus Wilson's entry on The Impossible Astronaut

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).