The Ghost Monument

Art Malik as the
holographic Ilin

One episode (The Ghost Monument)
First broadcast: Oct 14 2018
Audience for story: 9.81m

REGULAR CAST

Jodie Whittaker (The Doctor) Born Jun 17 1982 Click here for Jodie Whittaker's entry on Twice Upon a Time

Mandip Gill (Yasmin Khan) Born Jan 5 1988 Click here for Mandip Gill's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth

Tosin Cole (Ryan Sinclair) Born Jul 23 1992 Click here for Tosin Cole's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth

Bradley Walsh (Graham O'Brien) Born Jun 4 1960 Click here for Bradley Walsh's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth

GUEST CAST

Shaun Dooley (Epzo) Born Mar 30 1974
Career highlights
Shaun made his screen debut in the short film Groove on a Stanley Knife (1997), after which he appeared in The Grand (1998), Coronation Street (1997-98), Casualty (1997-98), Peak Practice (1999), Shackleton (2002), POW (2003), Foyle's War (2004), New Tricks (2005), Vincent (2005), The Street (2006), The Mark of Cain (2007), Mobile (2007), Eden Lake (2008), Red Riding (2009), Five Days (2010), Married Single Other (2010), South Riding (2011), The Awakening (2011), The Borrowers (2011), Great Expectations (2011), The Woman in Black (2012), Benidorm (2012), The White Queen (2013), Blood Moon (2014), Wolfblood (2014), The Game (2014), Broadchurch (2015), Cuffs (2015), DCI Banks (2016), Jamestown (2017), Gunpowder (2017), The Corrupted (2019), The Stranger (2020), It's a Sin (2021), Innocent (2021), Grantchester (2021), The Witcher (2019-21) and Gentleman Jack (2019-22). He also regularly played Rev Tom Stuart in EastEnders (2001-04) and Greg in Misfits (2012-13). Shaun is also a prolific documentary narrator.
Facts
Shaun's wife is former casting director Polly Dooley (nee Cameron), who is actor Joss Ackland's granddaughter, while Shaun's sister is actor Stephanie Dooley, wife of actor/ singer Darren Day. In 2019, Shaun and Polly produced a charity album for Children in Need called Got It Covered, which featured Doctors Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant; Shaun himself covered Taylor Swift's Never Grow Up. Here's his Twitter feed.

Ian Gelder (Voice of the Remnants) Born Jun 3 1949
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mr Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth (2009)
Played: Voice of the Remnants in The Ghost Monument (2018)
Played: Zellin in Can You Hear Me? (2020)
Career highlights
Debuted in New Scotland Yard (1972), then Edward the King (1975), State of Emergency (1975), Spearhead (1978), Rumpole of the Bailey (1980), I Thought You'd Gone (1984), Little Dorrit (1987), Blackeyes (1989), Van der Valk (1991), King Ralph (1991), The Day Today (1994), Skallagrigg (1994), Absolutely Fabulous (1995), Fist of Fun (1995), Bugs (1995), Brass Eye (1997), McCallum (1998), My Dad's the Prime Minister (2004), Holby City (2006), Robin Hood (2009), Pope Joan (2009), Psychoville (2011), Mr Selfridge (2013), Ripper Street (2016), Snatch (2017), Queers (2017), His Dark Materials (2019) and Surge (2020). He will be best known as Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones (2011-16).
Facts
Ian's partner since 1993 is fellow actor Ben Daniels. Here he is on Twitter.

Susan Lynch (Angstrom) Born Jun 5 1971
Career highlights
Debuting in The Bill in 1991, Susan's CV includes parts in Cracker (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1993), Ivanhoe (1997), Downtime (1997), Deceit (1999), Nora (2000), Beautiful Creatures (2000), From Hell (2001), Mapmaker (2001), Bodies (2004), Dalziel and Pascoe (2005), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Hard Times (2009), The Scouting Book for Boys (2009), Marple (2010), Great Expectations (2011), The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012), Monroe (2011-12), National Treasure (2016), Apple Tree Yard (2017), Save Me (2018-20), Ready Player One (2018), Killing Eve (2018), Downton Abbey (2019), Sex Education (2020), Cold Blow Lane (2020), Bloodlands (2021), Close to Me (2021) and Happy Valley (2016/22).
Awards
2000: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress (Nora)
2001: British Independent Film Award for Best Actress (Beautiful Creatures)
2003: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama (Any Time Now)
2003: British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress (16 Years of Alcohol)
2004: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film/ TV (16 Years of Alcohol)
Facts
Susan is the sister of fellow actors John Lynch and Pauline Lynch, and is married to actor Craig Parkinson (who appeared in Flux), although they split up in 2019.

Art Malik (Ilin) Born Nov 13 1952
Career highlights
Pakistani-born Art debuted in the sitcom Mixed Blessings (1978), followed by Arabian Adventure (1979), Richard's Things (1980), The Gentle Touch (1982), Bergerac (1983), The Far Pavilions (1984), The Jewel in the Crown (1984, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA), A Passage to India (1984), The Living Daylights (1987), Cluedo (1990), Turtle Beach (1992), Year of the Comet (1992), True Lies (1994), Peak Practice (1996), Unfinished Business (1998-99), Life Support (1999), Hotel! (2001), Messiah (2001-03), Fakers (2004), The Path to 9/11 (2006), Franklyn (2008), The Wolfman (2010), Sex and the City 2 (2010), John Carter (2012), Upstairs, Downstairs (2010-12), Diana (2013), Indian Summers (2016), Cold Feet (2016), Sherlock (2017), The Woman in White (2018), Silent Witness (2019), Man Like Mobeen (2020), Homeland (2014/20) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022). He also regularly played Zubin Khan in Holby City (2003-05) and Francesc Gacet in Borgia (2011-14).
Facts
Art - born Athar ul-Haque Malik - is married to fellow actor Gina Rowe. After his 1980s success, Art admitted that he went off the rails, drinking heavily and falling into severe debt (by 1993 he had debts amounting to £87,000). In 1996, Art's wife Gina was fined £350 after she admitted growing cannabis plants at their home. In 2002, Art's daughter Jessica held a 21st birthday party at his house, only for tragedy to strike when her boyfriend Dan Williams was found drowned in the outdoor swimming pool.

CREW

Chris Chibnall (writer) Born Mar 21 1970 Click here for Chris Chibnall's entry on 42

Mark Tonderai (director) Born Jul 16 1974
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Ghost Monument (2018), Rosa (2018), The Church on Ruby Road (2023)
Career highlights
Mark's earliest directing work was on the 1996 documentary The A Force, followed by stints on Friday Night's All Wright (1998), Uncut Funk (1999), Hush (2008), House at the End of the Street (2008), 12 Monkeys (2015), The Five (2016), Paranoid (2016), Time After Time (2017), Lucifer (2018), Black Lightning (2018), Gotham (2017-19), Nightflyers (2018), The Passage (2019), Castle Rock (2019), The Mysterious Benedict Society (2021) and Locke & Key (2020-21). He has also worked in front of the camera, in Comedy Nation (1998), Kevin and Perry Go Large (2000), Dog Eat Dog (2001), The Four Feathers (2002) and Holby City (2003).
Facts
Between 1993-98 Mark was a DJ on BBC Radio 1, with his own show.