The Lie of the Land

One episode (The Lie of the Land)
First broadcast: June 3 2017
Audience for story: 4.82m

REGULAR CAST

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

Matt Lucas (Nardole) Born Mar 5 1974 Click here for Matt Lucas's entry on The Husbands of River Song

Pearl Mackie (Bill Potts) Born May 29 1987 Click here for Pearl Mackie's entry on The Pilot

GUEST CAST

Beatrice Curnew (Group Commander) Born Jul 1 1980
Career highlights
Debuted in Emmerdale (2009), then How We Invented the World (2012), Skyfall (2012), Top Boy (2013), The Christmas Candle (2013), Black Mirror (2014), The Last Panthers (2015), EastEnders (2012/14/16), Patrick Melrose (2018), Casualty (2018) and They Came Like Swallows (2020).
Facts
Beatrice, who also appears in the music video for George Michael's White Light (2012), can be found on Twitter. She wrote a blog about the day she discovered she'd been cast in The Lie of the Land.

Athena Droutis (Girl) Born Jul 21 2007
Career highlights
Other work includes Flinch (2014), Wolf Hall (2015), Urban Hymn (2015) and The People Next Door (2016).

Michelle Gomez (Missy) Born Nov 23 1966 Click here for Michelle Gomez's entry on Deep Breath

Emma Handy (Mother) Born Mar 24 1974
Career highlights
Emma made her debut in Velvet Goldmine (1998), then took roles in Black Cab (2000), Iris (2001), Vacuums (2003), William and Mary (2004), Silent Witness (2004), Threesome (2011), Fast Girls (2012), Doctors (2010/2015), The Coroner (2016), The Worst Witch (2017-18), Doc Martin (2015-19), EastEnders (2019/20) and The Beaker Girls (2021). She also played DC Paula McIntyre in Wire in the Blood (2003-08).

Jamie Hill (Monk)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Silent in The Impossible Astronaut/ Day of the Moon (2011, uncredited), Closing Time (2011, uncredited), The Time of the Doctor (2013, uncredited)

Played: The Foretold in Mummy on the Orient Express (2014)
Played: Monk in Extremis, The Pyramid at the End of the World, The Lie of the Land (all 2017)

Played: Ice Warrior in Empress of Mars (2017, uncredited)

Played: Mondasian Cyberman in World Enough and Time/ The Doctor Falls (2017, uncredited)
Career highlights
Jamie also performed as the mummy on the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular tour in 2015, as well as a Silent at the 2013 Doctor Who Prom. Other work includes Good Omens (2019).

Solomon Israel (Richard)
Career highlights
Solomon debuted in the 2006 short Growing, then Diary of a Tired Black Man (2008), Brothers With No Game (2013-14), Holby City (2014), Josh (2015), I Live with Models (2017), Lovesick (2018), In the Long Run (2020) and Doctors (2020).
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Rosie Jane (Bill's mum) Born 1995

Career highlights

Rosie also appeared in Free Bird (2018), Psyched! (2022) and Ghosted (2022). She also appeared uncredited as Bill's mum in photographic form in the episodes The Pilot, Knock Knock and Oxygen (all 2017). Here's her Twitter feed.

Stewart Wright (Alan) Born Jan 12 1974
Career highlights
Stewart's earliest appearance was in Fierce Creatures in 1997, after which he landed roles in Chalk (1997), People Like Us (1999), The Vicar of Dibley (2000), My Hero (2000), Smack the Pony (2000), Black Books (2000), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), World of Pub (2001), Coupling (2001), Rescue Me (2002), Celeb (2002), Wild West (2002-04), A Good Year (2006), Bonkers (2007), Incendiary (2008), Love and Marriage (2013), The Nightmare Worlds of H G Wells (2016), I Want My Wife Back (2016), Marley's Ghosts (2016), Housebound (2020) and Jungle Cry (2022). He also regularly played PC Mark Mylow in Doc Martin (2004-19).
Facts
Stewart once landed a place in the England Rugby Under-18s reserve team, but left through injury. Here he is on Twitter.

CREW

Toby Whithouse (writer) Born Jul 5 1970 Click here for Toby Whithouse's entry on School Reunion

Wayne Yip (director) Born 1981
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Class: Detained (2016), Class: The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did (2016), The Lie of the Land (2017), Empress of Mars (2017), Resolution (2019)
Career highlights
Wayne (sometimes credited as Wayne Che Yip) did his first work as a director on the 2008 short Samantha, followed by Coming Up (2010), Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2011), Utopia (2013), Misfits (2011-13), Tatau (2015), Salem (2016), Imposters (2017), Preacher (2017-18), Into the Badlands (2019), Doom Patrol (2019), Treadstone (2019), The Wheel of Time (2021) and The Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power (2022). Wayne has also worked as a producer on series such as Tatau and The Lord of the Rings.
Facts
Wayne has also co-directed a number of music videos, including Groove Armada's Drop the Tough (2009).

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

Nick Lambon (script editor) Click here for Nick Lambon's entry on Under the Lake