Boom

Ruby and the Doctor decide 
whether to bother going out today

One episode (Boom)

First broadcast: May 18 2024
Audience for story: 3.58m

REGULAR CAST

Ncuti Gatwa (The Doctor) Born Oct 15 1992 Click here for Ncuti Gatwa's entry on The Giggle

Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday) Born Jun 19 2004 Click here for Millie Gibson's entry on The Church on Ruby Road

GUEST CAST

Joe Anderson (John Francis Vater) Born Mar 26 1982

Career highlights

Debuted aged five in Cause Celebre (1987), followed by Creep (2004), Midsomer Murders (2005), Afterlife (2005), Becoming Jane (2007), Across the Universe (2007), Control (2007), The Ruins (2008), The 27 Club (2008), Love Happens (2009), The Crazies (2010), The Grey (2011), The River (2012), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012), Horns (2013), Hercules (2014), The Divide (2014), Hannibal (2015), Outsiders (2016-17), Backdraft 2 (2019), Brave New World (2020), The Reckoning (2020), Soulmates (2020) and The Last Front (2024).

Facts

Joe's father is actor Miles Anderson, while his mother is talent agent Lesley Duff and his brother is streetboard world champion Max Anderson. You can see Joe as part of the cast of Control in the Killers' music video for their cover of Joy Division's Shadowplay. Joe is also a musician, having sung various Beatles songs in Across the Universe, played guitar as Joy Division's Peter Hook in Control, wrote and performed the theme song for The 27 Club, and played trumpet in Horns.

Bhav Joshi (Canterbury James Olliphant)

Career highlights

Bhav (a Scottish actor of Indian origin) started out in the short film War Letters (2014), followed by roles in Cuckoo (2019), Traces (2019), Deadwater Fell (2020), Shakespeare & Hathaway (2020), Falling for Figaro (2020), Dead Pixels (2021), Vigil (2021), Guilt (2021), The Baby (2022), Tetris (2023), The Diplomat (2023) and Granite Harbour (2022-24).

Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy (Carson) Born Jan 5 1990

Career highlights

Majid - aka Luke Jerdy - has also appeared in The Turing Enigma (2011), Doctors (2011), Act/Or (2015), Chosen (2016), Indigo Children (2018) and The Shape of Things (2023). He will be best remembered for playing Jesse Donovan in 249 episodes of Hollyoaks between 2016-20.

Facts

Majid's wife is fellow actor and singer Daisy Wood-Davis.

Varada Sethu (Mundy Flynn) Born May 12 1992

Doctor Who credits

Played: Mundy Flynn in Boom (2024)

Played: ??? in Series 15 (2025)

Career highlights

Indian-born Varada's earliest credit was the short film Impressions (2010), followed by Sket (2011), English: An Autumn in London (2012), Doctors (2015), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016), New Blood (2016), Doctor Foster (2017), Hard Sun (2018), Hanna (2019), Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), I Came By (2022), Annika (2023) and Mrs Sidhu Investigates (2023). Varada also played Manisha Chetri in 17 episodes of Strike Back (2017-20) and Cinta Kaz in eight episodes of the Star Wars series Andor (2022).

Facts

Her birth name is Varada Sethumadhavan. In 2010 she won the Miss Newcastle contest. At university she studied first veterinary medicine, and then physiology.

Caoilinn Springall (Splice Alison Vater) Born 2013

Career highlights

Further work includes The Midnight Sky (2020), Citadel (2023) and Stopmotion (2023).

Susan Twist (Ambulance) Born c.1957 Click here for Susan Twist's entry on Wild Blue Yonder

CREW

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

Julie Ann Robinson (director)

Doctor Who credits

Directed: Space Babies (2024), Boom (2024)

Career highlights

Julie's earliest directing work was on three episodes of daytime soap Doctors (2000-01), followed by work on Cutting It (2003), Blackpool (2004), Holby City (2001-05), Coming Down the Mountain (2007), Grey's Anatomy (2006-09), Big Love (2009), Pushing Daisies (2009), The Last Song (2010), Pan Am (2011), Weeds (2007-12), Parks and Recreation (2013), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-14), Scandal (2013-14), Nurse Jackie (2015), Orange is the New Black (2015), Masters of Sex (2016), Losing It (2017), The Good Place (2018), Bridgerton (2020) and History of a Pleasure Seeker (2022).

Facts

Julie lives with her husband in Pasadena, USA. In 2017, she and actor Sean Maguire organised a Syrian refugee benefit in Los Angeles.