The Woman Who Fell to Earth

The Time Lady who fell to Earth

One episode (The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
First broadcast: Oct 7 2018
Average audience for story: 11.46m

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

Doctor Who credits

Played: Yasmin Khan in Series 11, Resolution, Series 12, Revolution of the Daleks, Flux, Eve of the Daleks, Legend of the Sea Devils, Centenary Special (2017-22)
Career highlights
Mandip's first screen role was playing Phoebe McQueen in 242 episodes of the soap Hollyoaks between 2012-15, after which she secured roles in Cuckoo (2016), Doctors (2016), The Good Karma Hospital (2017), Casualty (2017), Love, Lies and Records (2017), The Flood (2018) and Suspicion (2022).
Facts
Here's Mandip on Twitter.

Tosin Cole (Ryan Sinclair) Born Jul 23 1992

Doctor Who credits

Played: Ryan Sinclair in Series 11, Resolution, Series 12, Revolution of the Daleks (2017-21)

Career highlights
Tosin made his debut as Noah Achebe in The Cut (2010), followed by roles in EastEnders: E20 (2010-11), Holby City (2013), Gone Too Far (2013), Second Coming (2014), Honeytrap (2014), Lewis (2015), Versailles (2015), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Burning Sands (2017), Unlocked (2017), The Souvenir (2019), The Souvenir II (2021), Pirates (2021), 61st Street (2022) and Till (2022). He played Neil Cooper in 89 episodes of the soap Hollyoaks and its spin-off Hollyoaks Later (2011-12).
Facts
Here's Tosin on Twitter.

Bradley Walsh (Graham O'Brien) Born Jun 4 1960
Doctor Who credits
Played: Odd Bob/ Elijah Spellman/ Pied Piper in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Day of the Clown (2008)
Played: Graham O'Brien in Series 11, Resolution, Series 12, Revolution of the Daleks, The Power of the Doctor (2017-22)
Career highlights
Bradley's first TV job was in Rock with Laughter (1993), after which he appeared in Lock, Stock... (2000), The Thing About Vince (2000), Hotel! (2001 - alongside two Doctors, Paul McGann and Peter Capaldi!), Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001), MIT: Murder Investigation Team (2003), The Basil Brush Show (2003), Murder City (2004), Torn (2007), The Old Curiosity Shop (2007), The Spa (2013), SunTrap (2015), Mike Bassett: Interim Manager (2016), The Missing Crown Jewels (2017) and The Larkins (2021). He is best remembered for his long-running roles as Woody Dexter in 37 episodes of the soap Night & Day (2002-03), Danny Baldwin in 293 episodes of soap Coronation Street (2004-06), and Ronnie Brooks in 53 episodes of crime series Law and Order: UK (2009-14). Bradley also had the original idea for the game show Cash Trapped (2016-17, which he also hosted). He's also hugely well known for presenting the quiz show The Chase since 2009, but he has also presented series such as The National Lottery (1994), Wheel of Fortune (1997), Win, Lose or Draw (1998), The Big Stage (1999-2000), Must See TV (2005), The British Soap Awards (2006), National Television Awards (2010), Odd One In (2010-11), Crime Connections (2012), Come On Down! The Game Show Story (2014), The Crime Thriller Club (2013-14), Keep It in the Family (2014-15), Sunday Night at the Palladium (2015-16) and The Nightly Show (2017).
Awards
2006: British Soap Award for Best Dramatic Performance (Coronation Street)
Facts
In 1978, aged 18, Bradley became a professional football player with Brentford FC reserves. An ankle break in the early 1980s put paid to a promising career in football while he was on loan to Dunstable Town. Bradley also played on loan for Barnet, Tring Town, Boreham Wood and Chalfont St Peter. He then became a Pontins bluecoat entertainer in Morecambe before moving into acting and presenting. Bradley once appeared on a celebrity version of Stars in Their Eyes as Tony Bennett singing I Left My Heart in San Francisco (he lost to Lee Otway's Richard Marx). In 2016, he released his first album, Chasing Dreams, a collection of jazz standards which reached number 10 in the UK album chart, selling over 111,000 copies to make it the biggest-selling debut album by a British star that year (beating Zayn Malik!). He released a second album, When You're Smiling, the following year (peaking at number 11). He is married to Donna Derby, a former dancer and performer on The Russ Abbot Show and The Kenny Everett Show, and later judge and choreographer for the Miss World contest.

GUEST CAST

Philip Abiodun (Dean) Born 1976
Career highlights
Philip's only other credited screen work is in Life (2020).

Sharon D Clarke (Grace O'Brien) Born Aug 12 1966
Doctor Who credits
Played: Grace O'Brien in The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Arachnids in the UK (2018), It Takes You Away (2018), Can You Hear Me? (2020), Revolution of the Daleks (2021)
Career highlights
Sharon's screen debut came playing the Night Nurse in The Singing Detective (1986), followed by roles in Tumbledown (1988), Children's Ward (1990), Between the Lines (1993), Beautiful People (1999), Secret Society (2000), Waking the Dead (2003), Sugarhouse (2007), The Bill (2010), The Shadow Line (2011), Psychobitches (2013), The Darkest Universe (2016), Unforgotten (2017), Silent Witness (2018), Informer (2018), Rocketman (2019), Rocks (2019), La Fortuna (2021) and Showtrial (2021). She was also the narrator and singer for children's series Boo! (2004/07), and played Lola Griffin in 112 episodes of Holby City (2005-08/19), as well as in Casualty @ Holby City (2005), Casualty (2005) and Holby Blue (2008). Sharon also served as a judge on the talent show Last Choir Standing (2008).
Awards

2014: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (The Amen Corner)

2017: Member of the order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to drama

2019: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Caroline, or Change)

2019: Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress (Death of a Salesman)

2020: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress (Death of a Salesman)
Facts
The D stands for Delores. Sharon used to be the singer in dance/ house act Nomad, reaching number 2 in the UK singles chart in 1990 with (I Wanna Give You) Devotion, and number 16 with Just a Groove in 1991. In 1989, Sharon provided vocals for FPI Project's Rich in Paradise (Going Back to My Roots), which peaked at number 9. In 2000 Sharon formed part of the band Six Chix, which was runner-up in the selection to represent the UK in that year's Eurovision Song Contest (the song was Only the Women Know). Sharon has also played lead roles in various West End musicals, including Guys and Dolls, Rent, Fame, The Lion King, Chicago, The Wiz and We Will Rock You. Sharon is married to theatre writer and director Susie McKenna.

Jonny Dixon (Karl Wright) Born Aug 10 1988

Doctor Who credits

Played: Karl in The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Eve of the Daleks (2022)
Career highlights
After making his uncredited debut at the age of six in Heartbeat (2005), Jonny rose to prominence playing Mathew "Mooney" Humphries in 44 episodes of Grange Hill (2003-07) before securing his most high profile role to date, as Darryl Morton in more than 200 episodes of soap Coronation Street (2007-09). Later credits include Casualty (2010/12), All at Sea (2013), Boy Meets Girl (2015-16), Loaded (2017), The Feed (2019), Thick as Thieves (2020) and The Rising (2022).

Asif Khan (Ramesh Sunder)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sgt Ramesh Sunder in The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Spyfall (2020)
Career highlights
Asif's other credits include Dalziel and Pascoe (2006), Bradford Riots (2006), Going Postal (2010), Spooks (2011), The Dumping Ground (2014) and Man Down (2016).
Facts
Asif has his own theatre company called AIK Productions. Here he is on Twitter.

Asha Kingsley (Sonia) Born Dec 29 ????
Career highlights
Asha debuted in Paradox (2009), then Coronation Street (2011/13), Line of Duty (2017), Hollyoaks (2018), Cold Feet (2019) and Emmerdale (2021).
Facts
Asha is also a keen cellist. Here she is on Twitter.

Stephen MacKenna (Dennis) Born Jan 2 1944
Career highlights
Debuted in Masquerade (1974), then Village Hall (1974), Birth of the Beatles (1979), The Professionals (1982), Coronation Street (1986), Robin of Sherwood (1986), Boon (1987), Piece of Cake (1988), Birds of a Feather (1991), In Suspicious Circumstances (1994), Band of Gold (1995), Hollyoaks (1996), EastEnders (2000), Yasmin (2004), Cracker (2006), Accused (2010), South Riding (2011), Bedlam (2012), eight episodes of soap Emmerdale (2003/09/12) and Gentleman Jack (2019).

Janine Mellor (Janey) Born May 3 1980
Career highlights
Janine debuted playing Mercedes in Fat Friends (2005), after which she found roles in South Riding (2011), Coronation Street (2011), The Trials of Jimmy Rose (2015) and Doctors (2019). She may be best remembered as Kelsey Phillips in 169 episodes of Casualty (2005-09), as well as Holby City (2005) and Casualty @ Holby City (2005).

Samuel Oatley (Tzim-Sha)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Tzim-Sha in The Woman Who Fell to Earth, The Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos (both 2018)
Career highlights
Debuted in No Sweat (1997), followed by roles in Foyle's War (2004), Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup (2006), Bad Girls (2006), Hush Your Mouth (2007), Little Devil (2007), Midsomer Murders (2008), Law and Order UK (2009), Endeavour (2014), New Tricks (2015), Witless (2016), Man Down (2017), Cursed (2020) and Small Axe (2020).
Facts
Samuel also works as a boxing agent and writer, and is a prolific poker player. Here he is on Twitter.

Amit Shah (Rahul) Born Apr 26 1981
Career highlights
Amit made his debut in the BBC play Are You Jim's Wife? (2006), then secured roles in Like Minds (2006), Lead Balloon (2007), The Palace (2008), Honest (2008), Benidorm (2009), Ingenious (2009), Hustle (2010), Whites (2010), Black Mirror (2011), The Facility (2012), Fresh Meat (2012), Lilyhammer (2013), The Smoke (2014), Silent Witness (2015), W1A (2015), Howl (2015), Jekyll & Hyde (2015), Crashing (2016), Midsomer Murders (2017), Hospital People (2017), Count Arthur Strong (2017), The Rebel (2016-17), Final Score (2018), History of Them (2018), Ordinary Love (2019), His Dark Materials (2019), The Witcher (2019), The Man in the Hat (2020), Grace (2021), The Long Call (2021), The Other One (2017-22) and Happy Valley (2022).

Awards

2022: British Independent Film Award for Best Actor (Big Ears)
Facts
In 2007, Amit was selected as one of the 50 Top British Actors by The Observer. Here he is on Twitter.

James Thackeray (Andy) Born Nov 23 1993
Career highlights
Further work includes Dreaming Whilst Black (2018), Doctors (2022) and Gentleman Jack (2022).
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Everal A Walsh (Gabriel) Born 1968
Doctor Who credits
Played: Gabriel in The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Can You Hear Me? (2020)
Career highlights
Everal is a seasoned voice actor, especially in video games, including Fuzion Frenzy (2001), Archangel (2002), Urban Freestyle Soccer (2003), The Witcher (2007), Venetica (2009), Arena of Fate (2014) and Sacred 3 (2014), as well as the Conflict series of games (2003-05). He has also appeared in Prime Suspect 5 (1996), Emmerdale (2003), Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere (2004), The Street (2006), Spooks: Code 9 (2008), Accused (2010), Screwed (2011), Coronation Street (2011), In the Dark (2017), The Favourite (2018) and Cold Call (2019).
Facts
Here's Everal on Twitter!

CREW

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

Jamie Childs (director) Born 1988
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Demons of the Punjab (2018), It Takes You Away (2018), The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (2018), as well as the Thirteenth Doctor's reveal trailer (2017)
Career highlights
Jamie started out (credited as Jamie Catchpole Childs) as a production coordinator on First Cut: How to Snare a Millionaire (2009), moving on to second unit director on The Seasoning House (2012) and Poldark (2015). Dropping the "Catchpole", he worked as director on Vera (2016-17), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2017), Next of Kin (2018), His Dark Materials (2019-20), The Sandman (2022) and Willow (2022). He is also an executive producer on The Sandman and Willow.
Facts
Jamie's career began when he won a competition to direct a trailer for Patricia Cornwell's novel Book of the Dead (2007), after which he directed several ad campaigns, including for the BBC (The White Queen, Strictly Come Dancing), ITV (Encore) and Dove soap's sponsorship of the Four Nations rugby tournament in 2016. In 2022, it was reported that Jamie was dating former Doctor Who companion Jenna Coleman after meeting on the set of The Sandman. Here's Jamie on Twitter.