Rosa

Just one vowel away from being confused
with a blonde, Vinette Robinson plays Rosa

One episode (Rosa)
First broadcast: Oct 21 2018
Audience for story: 9.01m

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

Joshua Bowman (Krasko) Born Mar 4 1988
Career highlights
Joshua made his screen acting debut in 2007's Genie in the House, then secured roles in Myths (2009), Night Wolf (2010), Prowl (2010), Exteriors (2011), Make It or Break It (2011), The Last Keepers (2013), Level Up (2016), Lore (2018), Our Girl (2020) and Lakewood (2021). He also had regular roles as Scott James in Holby City (2009-10) and John Stevenson in Time After Time (2017), but will be best remembered as Daniel Grayson in 78 episodes of US drama Revenge (2011-15).
Facts
Joshua's sister is actor Scarlett Bowman. In 2006, Joshua was a member of English rugby union team Saracens FC. He briefly dated the late singer Amy Winehouse, but is now married to actor (and fellow Revenge star) Ellen VanCamp.

Morgan Deare (Arthur) Born Nov 19 1945
Doctor Who credits
Played: Hawk in Delta and the Bannermen (1987)
Played: Arthur in Rosa (2018)
Career highlights
American Morgan made his debut in The Tumour Principle (1980), then Scream for Help (1984), Star Cops (1987), Small World (1988), Jeeves and Wooster (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), Wing and a Prayer (1998), United 93 (2006), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), The Callback Queen (2013), Wild Oats (2015), Harley and the Davidsons (2016), Deep State (2018), Soulmates (2020) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022). He also provided the voice of the Editor/ Gorilla in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), meaning that the partnership of Hawk and Weismuller were sort of reunited in this film!
Facts
His wife is actress Mary Healey, who appeared in The Happiness Patrol. Morgan is an accomplished voiceover artist, having provided voices for various animations and perhaps most obscurely, dubbing British TV presenter Melvyn Bragg's English tones into an American accent for the Stateside broadcasts of The South Bank Show. Here he is in a TV commercial for Ikea.

David Dukas (Elias Griffin Jr) May 30 1970 to Jul 20 2021 (heart failure)
Career highlights
South African David debuted in Triptiek (1994), then had roles in Paradys (1994), Merchant of Death (1997), The Legend of the Hidden City (1997), Sweepers (1998), Africa (1999), The Gates of Cleveland Road (2000), Desert Diners (2000), Witness to a Kill (2001), Slash (2002), The Company You Keep (2003), Jozi Streets (2004), The Res (2005), Madam & Eve (2002-05), Zimbabwe (2008), District 9 (2009), Invictus (2009), Mrs Mandela (2010), Winnie Mandela (2011), Strike Back (2011), Isidingo: The Need (2012), The Wrong Mans (2014), Black Sails (2014-15), The Jakes are Missing (2015), Sterlopers (2016), My Father's War (2016), Skeem Saam (2017), Far from the Castle (2018), Trackers (2019), Bloodshot (2020) and Black Beauty (2020). David has also enjoyed regular roles as Johnny in soap Egoli: Place of Gold (2000-01), Mike Jennings in Backstage (2005-07), George in Binnelanders (2015), Andre Kurulenko in Generations the Legacy (2017) and Matt Atkins in 7de Laan (2017).

Richard Lothian (Mr Steele)
Career highlights
Debuted in Hilde (2009), then Amelia (2009), Infested! (2012), Zulu (2013), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013), Dominion (2014), Northmen - A Viking Saga (2014), Momentum (2015), Of Kings and Prophets (2016), Black Sails (2016), The Dark Tower (2017), Blood Drive (2017), The Widow (2019), Raised By Wolves (2022) and Abraham Lincoln (2022). Since 2019 Richard has also worked in casting, working on Bulletproof 2 (2020), Vagrant Queen (2020), The Mauritanian (2021), The Watch (2020-21), Raised By Wolves (2022) and Noughts + Crosses (2020-22).

Gareth Marks (Police Officer Mason) Born 1960
Career highlights
Debuted in Scramble (1970), followed by Who Do You Do (1976), The Kenny Everett Television Show (1986), Heil Honey I'm Home! (1990), The Widowmaker (1990), Minder (1991), Sam Saturday (1992), Civvies (1992), Witchcraft (1992), Bottom (1995), Crocodile Shoes (1996), Killer Net (1998), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and The Crown (2017). He also played Jean-Daniel Marcel in Bugs (1995-96).
Facts
Gareth is the son of actors Alfred Marks and Paddie O'Neil. He also works as a session singer, often dubbing singing voices onto film and TV productions.

Aki Omoshaybi (Fred Gray) Born 1987
Career highlights
Aki debuted in the 2014 short Coffee Cup Stories, then found roles in The Riot Club (2014), Kids in Love (2016), Stella Gets Her Wings (2017), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Sick of It (2018), Burning Men (2019), REAL (2019), Father Brown (2020), Midsomer Murders (2021) and Queens of Mystery (2021). He also acted in, wrote, produced and directed Spilt (2017) and REAL.
Facts
From the ages of 18 months to 19 years, Aki was one of hundreds of Nigerian children who were privately fostered by people in Leigh Park, Portsmouth, UK. In 2013, Aki was romantically linked to the model Cara Delevingne. Here he is on Twitter.

Jessica Claire Preddy (Waitress) Born 1989
Career highlights
Debuted in Not Fade Away (2012), then Crazy Love (2013), The First Musketeer (2014), Suspicion (2016), Charismata (2017), Outlander (2017), Greta (2018) and Heart of Darkness (2019).

Vinette Robinson (Rosa Parks) Born 1981
Doctor Who credits
Played: Abi Lerner in 42 (2007)
Played: Rosa Parks in Rosa (2018)
Career highlights
Vinette debuted in The Cops (1997), then City Central (1998), Cold Feet (1999), Children's Ward (1999), Fat Friends (2000), Between the Sheets (2003), Vera Drake (2004), Party Animals (2007), The Passion (2008), Hope Springs (2009), Waterloo Road (2009), Powder (2011), Vera (2013), The Red Tent (2014), Black Work (2015), Morgan (2016), Black Mirror (2016), Close to the Enemy (2016), Delicious (2016-17), Year Million (2017), The A Word (2016-17), The Dead Ones (2019), Frankie (2019), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), A Christmas Carol (2019), Say Your Prayers (2020), The Amazing Mr Blunden (2021) and The Lazarus Project (2022). She also played Sgt Sally Donovan in Sherlock (2010-14).

Awards

2021: British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress (Boiling Point)
Facts
In 2019, Vinette helped to make cinematic history as one half of an LGBT kiss in a Disney-produced film, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (although it was edited out in some less-enlightened territories). Here's Vinette on Twitter.

David Rubin (Raymond Parks) Born Feb 10 ????
Career highlights
David started out as a cast member of the children's Saturday morning TV show Number 73 (1987), then appeared as a presenter on Playdays (1993), followed by roles in Sitting Pretty (1993), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000), Walking with Cavemen (2003), Holby City (2004), The Passion (2008), Birds of a Feather (2016), Judy (2019), Vera (2020) and Midsomer Murders (2021).
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Ray Sesay (Martin Luther King) Born 1991
Career highlights
Ray (real name Adbul) debuted in Paper Boy (2011), then Love Freely But Pay for Sex (2013), Endeavour (2018), Doctors (2020), This is Hell (2021) and Cheaters (2022).

Trevor White (James Blake) Born Oct 26 1970
Career highlights
Canadian Trevor made his debut in 1996's A Kidnapping in the Family, followed by The Sentinel (1996), Madison (1997), The Vigil (1998), The Outer Limits (1999), Epicenter (2000), Da Vinci's Inquest (2001), Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002), Die Another Day (2002), Mindhunters (2004), The Line of Beauty (2006), Inside the Twin Towers (2006), The Path to 9/11 (2006), Judge John Deed (2007), Bonekickers (2008), Moonshot (2009), Godforsaken (2010), Downton Abbey (2011), Episodes (2012), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Hunted (2012), Burton and Taylor (2013), Jason Bourne (2016), X Company (2016-17), SS-GB (2017), American Assassin (2017), The Durrells (2018), Astral (2018), Rare Beasts (2019), I Hate Suzie (2020) and Industry (2020/22). He also had a recurring role in Millennium as Doug Scaife (1997-99) and is the voice of Eddie in the US version of the animated series Chuggington (2008-15).
Facts
Trevor is a prolific video game vocal artist and is proficient at dialects, as well as being able to speak three languages. He once sailed across the Pacific Ocean from the Galapagos to New Zealand. He is married to actor Eleanor Matsuura, who appeared in The Sontaran Stratagem/ The Poison Sky. Here's Trevor on Twitter.

CREW

Malorie Blackman (writer) Born Feb 8 1962
Career highlights
Malorie is an award-winning children's author with more than 60 titles to her name, who first trained as a computer programmer before publishing her first book, Not So Stupid, in 1990. Her other works include the Noughts and Crosses series, Hacker, Operation Gadgetman!, Whizziwig, Pig Heart Boy, Cloud Busting, the Betsey Biggalow stories, the Girl Wonder series, the Puzzle Planet adventures, plus the 2013 Doctor Who e-book The Ripple Effect. Malorie has also written TV scripts for The Frighteners (1996), Gadgetman (1996), Whizziwig (1998), Pig Heart Boy (1999), Whole New Heart (2000), Byker Grove (2004) and Jackanory Junior (2007).
Awards
2000: BAFTA Children's Award for Best Drama (Pig Heart Boy) - shared with Diana Kyle and Kate Cheeseman
2008: Member of the order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to children's literature
Facts
Between 2013-15, Malorie served as the UK Children's Laureate. Here's Malorie on Twitter.

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.