Twice Upon a Time

Mark Gatiss as the Captain, with Peter
Capaldi and David Bradley as
the Doctors

One episode (Twice Upon a Time)
First broadcast: Dec 25 2017
Audience for story: 8.28m

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

Nikki Amuka-Bird (Helen Clay) Born Feb 27 1976
Doctor Who credits
Played: Beth in Torchwood: Sleeper (2008)
Played: Helen Clay in Twice Upon a Time (2017)
Career highlights
Nikki made her screen debut in The Bill (1999), followed by roles in Grafters (1999), Doctors (2000), Bad Girls (2003-04), Afterlife (2005), Cargo (2006), The Line of Beauty (2006), The Omen (2006), Robin Hood (2006), Five Days (2007), The Disappeared (2008), Survivors (2008-10), Sinbad (2012), Luther (2011-13), Death in Paradise (2014), Jupiter Ascending (2015), Inside No.9 (2015), Quarry (2016), The Children Act (2017), Hard Sun (2018), The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), Gold Digger (2019), Avenue 5 (2020), The Outfit (2022) and Persuasion (2022). She also played the recurring character of Moji Muzenda in Casualty, Holby City and Casualty @ Holby City in 2005.
Facts
Nigerian born Nikki grew up in the UK and Antigua and abandoned her dancing aspirations after injuring her back. She was once married to the actor Geoffrey Streatfeild.

David Bradley (The Doctor) Born Apr 17 1942
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of Shansheeth Blue in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor (2010)
Played: Solomon in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (2012)
Played: William Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
Played: The Doctor in The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon a Time (both 2017)
Career highlights
David made his debut in the sitcom Nearest and Dearest (1971), then secured the role of Colin Woodcock in A Family at War the same year. After that, he found work in The Professionals (1978), The Frisco Kid (1979), One By One (1985), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Between the Lines (1992), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Martin Chuzzlewit (1994), Our Friends in the North (1996), Cracker (1996), Reckless (1997-98), Our Mutual Friend (1998), Tom's Midnight Garden (1999), Shades (2001), The Intended (2002), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), Blackpool (2004), Red Mercury (2005), Sweeney Todd (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), The Color of Magic (2008), Ideal (2006-08), Ashes to Ashes (2009), Harry Brown (2009), Waking the Dead (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Benidorm (2012), Broadchurch (2013), Prisoners' Wives (2012-13), The World's End (2013), The Young Messiah (2016), Medici (2016), The Lodgers (2017), Await Further Instructions (2018), Les Miserables (2018-19), Gangs of London (2020), Jolt (2021) and The Responder (2022). His most memorable roles include Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film franchise (2001-11), Old Jake in Wild West (2002-04), Charlie in Mount Pleasant (2012-14), Abraham Setrakian in The Strain (2014-17), Druid Quane in Britannia (2018-21), Tony's Dad in Afterlife (2019-22) and of course, the much reviled Walder Frey in Game of Thrones (2011-17).

Awards

1991: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (King Lear)

2014: BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actor (Broadchurch)

2021: British Short Film Award for Best Actor (Roy)
Facts
David can be seen in the music video for Louise and the Pins' Bell Jar (2012). Since 2018 David has played his version of the First Doctor for Big Finish audios.

Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Dalek) Born Sep 29 1961 Click here for Nicholas Briggs' entry on Rose

Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) Born Apr 27 1986 Click here for Jenna Coleman's entry on Asylum of the Daleks

Jared Garfield (Ben) Born Dec 14 1990
Career highlights
Debuted in Midsomer Murders (2005), then Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup (2006), Boy A (2007) and To Be Someone (2020). He played Nathan Nightingale in 123 episodes of soap Hollyoaks (2015-17).
Facts
Jared (middle name Rene) is co-founder and co-artistic director of Protocol Dance Company. He started out as a dancer, working as a popper and moving into choreography. Here he is on Twitter.

Mark Gatiss (The Captain [Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart]) Born Oct 17 1966 Click here for Mark Gatiss's entry on The Unquiet Dead

Lily Travers (Polly) Born Sep 11 1990
Career highlights
Lily debuted in a 2013 episode of Doctors, then took roles in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), The Royals (2015), Golden Years (2016), Brussel (2017), Still Star-Crossed (2017), Victoria (2019) and Misbehaviour (2020).
Facts
Lily is the granddaughter of actors and wildlife campaigners Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. They founded the Born Free Foundation in 1984, which Lily's father Will Travers now runs. Lily has also modelled for Tatler magazine. Here's Lily on Twitter.

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

Jodie Whittaker (The Doctor) Born Jun 17 1982
Doctor Who credits
Played: The Doctor in Twice Upon a Time, The Woman Who Fell to Earth, The Ghost Monument, Rosa, Arachnids in the UK, The Tsuranga Conundrum, Demons of the Punjab, Kerblam!, The Witchfinders, It Takes You Away, The Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos, Resolution, Spyfall, Orphan 55, Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, Fugitive of the Judoon, Praxeus, Can You Hear Me?, The Haunting of Villa Diodati, Ascension of the Cybermen/ The Timeless Children, Revolution of the Daleks, Flux, Eve of the Daleks, Legend of the Sea Devils, The Power of the Doctor (2017-22). Return appearance in The Reality War (2025)

Jodie also played the Doctor in four video and virtual reality games (2019-21), the immersive attraction Time Fracture (2021) and the radio adventure Redacted (2022)
Career highlights
Jodie's first screen credit was the Afternoon Play The Last Will and Testament of Billy Two-Sheds (2006), followed by roles in Doctors (2006), Venus (2006), Dalziel and Pascoe (2006), This Life + 10 (2007), St Trinian's (2007), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008), Wired (2008), White Wedding (2009), St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009), Cranford (2009), The Kid (2010), Accused (2010), Marchlands (2011), Attack the Block (2011), The Night Watch (2011), One Day (2011), Black Mirror (2011), The Smoke (2014), The Assets (2014), Get Santa (2014) and Trust Me (2017). She also played Beth Latimer in 24 episodes of Broadchurch (2013-17).

Awards

2007: Royal Television Society Award for Best Actress (The Afternoon Play)
Facts
Jodie - whose middle name is Auckland, and is named after the American actress Jodie Foster - is married to fellow actor Christian Contreras. She shares her birthday with fellow Broadchurch star (and former Doctor Who companion) Arthur Darvill. Jodie was the aunt of the late child actor Harry Whittaker, who appeared as baby Leo Goskirk in soap Emmerdale between 2011-14. Harry had Down's Syndrome, and tragically died of a chronic lung infection aged three. Jodie performed a cover of Coldplay's A Sky Full of Stars in Harry's memory on Children in Need in 2020. As a big fan of Coldplay, Jodie had already performed a cover of the track Yellow for the 2019 Children in Need album Got It Covered (other Doctor Who luminaries on the album include Olivia Colman, Shaun Dooley, Jim Broadbent, Suranne Jones and David Tennant).

CREW

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

Rachel Talalay (director) Born Aug 16 1958 Click here for Rachel Talalay's entry on Dark Water

Peter Bennett (producer) Click here for Peter Bennett's entry on The Beast Below

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

World Enough and Time/ The Doctor Falls

The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) meets the
original Cybermen again!

Two episodes (World Enough and Time; The Doctor Falls)
First broadcast: Jun 24 to Jul 1 2017
Average audience for story: 5.2m

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

Rosie Boore (Gazron) Born Nov 28 2000
Career highlights
Rosie made her screen debut as Josette in The Collection (2016), then appeared in So Awkward (2016-17), To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters (2016), The Children Act (2017) and Thunderbirds are Go (2017).

David Bradley (The Doctor) Born Apr 17 1942
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of Shansheeth Blue in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor (2010)
Played: Solomon in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (2012)
Played: William Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
Played: The Doctor in The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon a Time (both 2017)
Career highlights
David made his debut in the sitcom Nearest and Dearest (1971), then secured the role of Colin Woodcock in A Family at War the same year. After that, he found work in The Professionals (1978), The Frisco Kid (1979), One By One (1985), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Between the Lines (1992), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Martin Chuzzlewit (1994), Our Friends in the North (1996), Cracker (1996), Reckless (1997-98), Our Mutual Friend (1998), Tom's Midnight Garden (1999), Shades (2001), The Intended (2002), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), Blackpool (2004), Red Mercury (2005), Sweeney Todd (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), The Color of Magic (2008), Ideal (2006-08), Ashes to Ashes (2009), Harry Brown (2009), Waking the Dead (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Benidorm (2012), Broadchurch (2013), Prisoners' Wives (2012-13), The World's End (2013), The Young Messiah (2016), Medici (2016), The Lodgers (2017), Await Further Instructions (2018), Les Miserables (2018-19), Gangs of London (2020), Jolt (2021) and The Responder (2022). His most memorable roles include Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film franchise (2001-11), Old Jake in Wild West (2002-04), Charlie in Mount Pleasant (2012-14), Abraham Setrakian in The Strain (2014-17), Druid Quane in Britannia (2018-21), Tony's Dad in Afterlife (2019-22) and of course, the much reviled Walder Frey in Game of Thrones (2011-17).

Awards

1991: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (King Lear)

2014: BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actor (Broadchurch)

2021: British Short Film Award for Best Actor (Roy)
Facts
David can be seen in the music video for Louise and the Pins' Bell Jar (2012). Since 2018 David has played his version of the First Doctor for Big Finish audios.

Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Cybermen) Born Sep 29 1961 Click here for Nicholas Briggs' entry on Rose

Paul Brightwell (Surgeon)
Career highlights
After debuting as Uriah Heep in a 1986 adaptation of Dickens' David Copperfield, Paul went on to appear in Hard Cases (1988), El CID (1990), Maigret (1992), Between the Lines (1992), Staggered (1994), Titanic (1997), Sliding Doors (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Grange Hill (2000), Hornblower (2001), Bad Girls (2004), The Commander (2003-08), Blackbeard (2006), The Bible (2013), Son of God (2014), The Infiltrator (2016), Outlander (2017), Berlin Station (2019) and Last Night in Soho (2021).
Facts
Here's Paul on Twitter.

Simon Coombs (Rexhill)
Career highlights
Simon's other work includes Mouth to Mouth (2009), Holby City (2010/12) and Doctors (2016).

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

Stephanie Hyam (Heather) Born 1990
Doctor Who credits
Played: Heather in The Pilot, The Doctor Falls (both 2017)
Career highlights
Stephanie debuted in Murdered By My Boyfriend (2014), followed by roles in Jekyll & Hyde (2015), Sherlock (2016), Peaky Blinders (2016), Their Finest (2016), Bodyguard (2018), Wasteland (2018), A Confession (2019) and Hullraisers (2022).
Facts
Here she is on Twitter!

Oliver Lansley (Jorj) Born 1981
Career highlights
Debuted in EastEnders (2001), then took roles in Holby City (2003), Doctors (2006), FM (2006/09), Whites (2010), Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story (2012), The Wrong Mans (2013), Misfits (2013), Sherlock (2014), Endeavour (2014), Agatha Raisin (2014), Lewis (2015), The Aliens (2016), Requiem (2018), Vanity Fair (2018), Flack (2020) and Vigil (2021). Oliver is also a writer, having worked on FM, Whites, Beaver Falls (2011), Mr Sloane (2014), Flack (2019-20) and Maxxx (2020). He is also a producer on Whites and Flack.
Facts
Oliver is co-founder of the theatre company Les Enfants Terribles, which was behind (among other projects) the immersive production Alice's Adventures Underground in 2017. This is his Twitter.

Alison Lintott (Nurse) Born 1967
Career highlights
Debuted in Kavanagh QC (1998), then Underground (1998), Casualty (2003), Wire in the Blood (2008), Psychoville (2009), The Tudors (2010), Sherlock (2010), Campus (2009-11), Line of Duty (2012), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Hunderby (2015), Loaded (2017), Apple Tree House (2017-19), The Spanish Princess (2019) and We Hunt Together (2022).

Briana Shann (Alit) Born 2005
Career highlights
Briana's other screen work includes I, Daniel Blake (2016) and 10 episodes of Holby City as Mia Barron (2017-21).

John Simm (The Master) Born Jul 10 1970 Click here for John Simm's entry on Utopia

Samantha Spiro (Hazran) Born June 20 1968
Career highlights
Samantha debuted in The Bill (1994), then found roles in Beyond Bedlam (1994), Guru in Seven (1998), From Hell (2001), Cold Feet (2001), Tomorrow La Scala! (2002), MIT: Murder Investigation Team (2003), After You've Gone (2007), Rock & Chips (2011), Panto! (2012), Bad Education (2013), London Spy (2015), Plebs (2016/19), Game of Thrones (2016), Tracey Ullman's Show (2016-18), Tracey Breaks the News (2017-18), Doc Martin (2017), Semi-Detached (2019-20), Ridley Road (2021), Ragdoll (2021), Dodger (2022) and The Pentaverate (2022). Samantha also regularly played Auntie Liz in Grandma's House (2010-12), played various roles in Psychobitches (2012-14), Maureen Groff in Sex Education (2019-21) and, due to her striking resemblance, has twice played actress Barbara Windsor on TV, in Cor, Blimey! (2000) and Babs (2017), and on stage in 1998's Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick.
Awards
2001: Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Merrily We Roll Along)
2010: Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Hello Dolly!)
2010: British Comedy Award for Best Female Comedy Breakthrough Artist (Grandma's House)
Trivia
Samantha is married to actor Mark Leadbetter. Here she is on Twitter.

CREW

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

Rachel Talalay (director) Born Aug 16 1958 Click here for Rachel Talalay's entry on Dark Water

Peter Bennett (producer) Click here for Peter Bennett's entry on The Beast Below

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

The Eaters of Light

Not sure about the
latest BBC1 ident

One episode (The Eaters of Light)
First broadcast: June 17 2017
Audience for story: 4.73m

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

Sam Adewunmi (Vitus) Born 1994
Career highlights
Sam debuted in The Missing (2014), then took parts in Prime Suspect 1973 (2017), The Hatton Garden Job (2017), Lucky Man (2018), The Last Tree (2019), The Watch (2020-21), Angela Black (2021) and You Don't Know Me (2021). He also played Benedict in 40 episodes of online teen series Dixi (2016).

Awards

2019: British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer (The Last Tree)
Facts
Here's Sam on Twitter.

Rebecca Benson (Kar) Born Apr 24 1990
Career highlights
Debuted in You Instead (2011), followed by Holby City (2012), Vera (2013), Shetland (2014), Game of Thrones (2016), The Crown (2016), The White Princess (2017), Year of the Rabbit (2019) and Flack (2019-20).
Facts
Rebecca is related to Scottish celebrity photographer Harry Benson. Here's Rebecca on Twitter.

Jocelyn Brassington (Judy)
Jocelyn's only other screen credit is Tomorrow Might be the Day (2018).

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

Ben Hunter (Thracius) Born 1998

Career highlights

Further work includes The Rebel (2017), Doctors (2020) and Gentleman Jack (2019-22).
Facts
Ben, who secured an Olivier-nominated role in Gary Barlow's musical The Girls in 2017, is on Twitter.

Daniel Kerr (Ban) Born Apr 27 2000
Career highlights
Daniel has also appeared in The Wee Man (2013), Great Night Out (2013), Being Human (2013), Outlander (2014-15) and No Offence (2018). His regular roles include Eli Grant in 70 episodes of 4 O'Clock Files/ Club (2014-19) and James Coulter in 22 episodes of Doctors (2018). He also wrote, directed and starred in the short film Norm (2022).
Awards
2013: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor (The Wee Man)
Facts
Daniel is the youngest actor ever to win a Scottish BAFTA.

Lewis McGowan (Judy's brother) Born 2004
Career highlights
Lewis debuted in Scottish Mussel (2015), then Houdini and Doyle (2016), Rillington Place (2016), Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (2017), Blue Christmas (2017) and The Alienist (2018).
Facts
Lewis starred in the 2011 John Lewis Christmas commercial, the advert which started an annual tradition.

Billy Matthews (Cornelius)
Career highlights
Debuted in One Night (2012), then The Hollow Crown (2012), Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul (2012), The Hooligan Factory (2014) and Killing Eve (2018).
Facts
Here's Billy on Twitter.

Rohan Nedd (Simon)

Career highlights

After debuting in Doctor Who, Rohan went on to appear in Safe (2018), Blue Story (2019), Midsomer Murders (2019), Whitstable Pearl (2021) and Harry Wild (2022).

Aaron Phagura (Marc) Born Jun 17 ????
Career highlights
Debuted in Suburban Dracula (2015), then Him (2016), The Coroner (2016), Unforgotten (2017), Doctors (2018), Informer (2018) and Blinded by the Light (2019).
Facts
Here's Aaron on Twitter.

Brian Vernel (Lucius) Born Dec 29 1990
Career highlights
Debuted in The Field of Blood (2011, as Tom Vernel), then appeared in Offender (2012), Prey (2014), Grantchester (2014), The Casual Vacancy (2015), The Last Kingdom (2015), The Missing (2016), Dunkirk (2017), Papillon (2017), The Tunnel (2017-18), This Thing of Darkness (2020), Gangs of London (2020) and Slow Horses (2022). He may be best recognised as Bala-Tik in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

CREW

Rona Munro (writer) Born Sep 7 1959
Doctor Who credits
Writer: Survival (1989), The Eaters of Light (2017)
Career highlights
Rona has been writing for film, TV, stage and radio since 1981, her screen work including Biting the Hands (1989), Casualty (1990), Ladybird Ladybird (1994), Men of the Month (1994), Bumping the Odds (1997), Aimee and Jaguar (1999), I'm the Father (2002), Rehab (2003), Almost Adult (2006) and Oranges and Sunshine (2010).
Awards
1991: London Critics' Circle Drama Theatre Award for Most Promising New Playwright (Bold Girls)

2014: Evening Standard Award for Best Play (The James Plays)

2014: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Play (The James Plays)
Facts
In 2013 she appeared on Newsnight to discuss Doctor Who in the 1980s.

Charles Palmer (director) Born 1965 Click here for Charles Palmer's entry on Smith and Jones

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

Empress of Mars

The Empress of Mars!

One episode (Empress of Mars)
First broadcast: June 10 2017
Audience for story: 5.02m

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

Richard Ashton (Friday) Born Oct 2 1965
Career highlights
6ft 7in Richard made his screen acting debut in Keeping Up Appearances (1990), followed by roles in Don't Tell Father (1992), Bunch of Five (1992), Monster Cafe (1994), Space Precinct (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), Dark Ages (1999), Starforce (2000), Calendar Girls (2003), Genie in the House (2009), Dracula: The Dark Prince (2013), Vikings (2014), Outlander (2015), The Saint (2016), Bitter Harvest (2017), Last Laugh (2017), The Outpost (2018) and Andy and the Band (2020). He also played Little John in The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1997-99), and Mr Little in the Christmas Prince franchise (2017-19).
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Richard here.

Ian Beattie (Jackdaw) Born Mar 3 1965
Career highlights
After debuting in The Hanging Gale (1995), Ian went on to work on Space Truckers (1996), Alexander (2004), Closing the Ring (2007), The Tudors (2009), Mo (2010), Keith Lemon: The Film (2012), A Belfast Story (2013), Line of Duty (2014), Blandings (2014), Farr (2015), Vikings (2015), Barbarians Rising (2016), The Journey (2016), Prime Suspect 1973 (2017), Papillon (2017), Quantico (2018), Hayfields (2018), Gangs of London (2020), The Spectacular (2021), Mandrake (2022) and Blackbird (2022). He also regularly played Ser Meryn Trant in Game of Thrones (2011-15).
Facts
When he was a child, Ian toured Northern Ireland in a circus with his father. Here's his Twitter feed.

Anthony Calf (Godsacre) Born May 4 1959
Doctor Who credits
Played: Charles in The Visitation (1982)
Played: Godsacre in Empress of Mars (2017)
Career highlights
Doctor Who was Anthony's big break, after which he appeared in Beau Geste (1982), To Catch a King (1984), Drummonds (1985-87), The Monocled Mutineer (1986), Fortunes of War (1987), My Family and Other Animals (1987), Great Expectations (1991), Diana: Her True Story (1993), The Madness of King George (1994), Pride and Prejudice (1995), My Night with Reg (1997, Celeb (2002), Judge John Deed (2003), The Murder Room (2005), The Good Samaritan (2007), Dalziel and Pascoe (2007), Material Girl (2010), Call the Midwife (2013), Dracula (2013), Noel Coward's Private Lives (2014), Home Fires (2015-16), Power Monkeys (2016), Riviera (2017), Poldark (2019), Domina (2021), Anne (2022) and Suspicion (2022). More recently he will be known as playing Michael Beauchamp in Holby City (2005-06) and Robert Strickland in 64 episodes of New Tricks (2005-15).
Facts
Anthony is married to actress Caroline Harker, whose sister is actress Susannah Harker (former wife of actor Iain Glen, who was in The Time of Angels/ Flesh and Stone, and partner of Eighth Doctor Paul McGann).
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Anthony here.

Ysanne Churchman (Voice of Alpha Centauri) May 14 1925 to Jul 4 2024
Doctor Who credits
Played: Alpha Centauri (voice) in The Curse of Peladon (1972), The Monster of Peladon (1974), Empress of Mars (2017)
Played: Spider voice in Planet of the Spiders (1974)
Career highlights
Ysanne made her debut aged 13 in Gallows Glorious (1938), followed by roles in Craven House (1950), Murder in the Cathedral (1951), The Railway Children (1951 & 1957), Sara and Hoppity (1962), Space Patrol (1964), Swizzlewick (1964), Rainbow City (1967), Z Cars (1968), Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975), Madame Bovary (1975), Beasts (1976), 1990 (1978), Artemis 81 (1981), Ghost in the Water (1982), Alice in Wonderland (1986), Starlings (1988), Lipstick on Your Collar (1993) and Oliver Twist (1999). She is a prolific voice artiste best known for playing Grace Archer in radio soap The Archers (1952-55), as well as being the voice for Children's Hour on BBC Radio.

Lesley Ewen (Coolidge)
Career highlights
Lesley debuted in Fire with Fire (1986), then Danger Bay (1986), Backfire (1988), Mom P.I (1990), Bird on a Wire (1990), Look Who's Talking Too (1990), The Crush (1993), Magic in the Water (1995), Sliders (1996), The X Files (1993/94/95/97), The Net (1998), Viper (1999), The Sentinel (1996-99), Millennium (1999), The Outer Limits (1995/99), So Weird (2000), The Twilight Zone (2002), Stargate SG-1 (2006), The L Word (2007), V (2011), Arrow (2012), Eve of Destruction (2013) and The Witcher (2021).
Facts
Lesley appeared in the pilot episode of The X Files, and played the first character that Gillian Anderson's Scully speaks to. More recently, Lesley has concentrated on her career in live art, as well voice coaching, acting tutorship, photography, directing and video installations.

Bayo Gbadamosi (Vincey) Born 1991
Career highlights
Bayo has also appeared in The Swarm (2011), Casualty (2017) andThis Time with Alan Partridge (2019). Recurring roles include Kariem Gat Wich Machar in The War of the Worlds (2019-21) and Arkady in The Great (2020-21).
Facts
Bayo studied law at university and then took a Masters in business before becoming an actor. Here's his Twitter feed.

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

Ian Hughes (Knibbs) Born 1965
Doctor Who credits
Played: Finch in Torchwood: Miracle Day - The Gathering (2011)
Played: Knibbs in Empress of Mars (2017)
Career highlights
Ian debuted in Bright Young Things (2003), then Doom (2005), Foyle's War (2008), Gavin and Stacey (2008), Robin Hood (2009), Doctors (2007/11), Stella (2014), Ransom (2017) and Shakespeare and Hathaway (2018).

Facts
Ian is also a communication coach and keynote speaker. He was the first recipient of the Royal National Theatre/ Ian Charleson Award in 1990, presented to him by Alec Guinness. Here he is on Twitter.

Ferdinand Kingsley (Catchlove) Born Feb 13 1988
Career highlights
Debuted in The Last Legion (2007), then The Hollow Crown (2012), Ripper Street (2013), The Whale (2013), Borgia (2014), Dracula Untold (2014), Still Star-Crossed (2017), Mank (2020) and Wool (2023). Regular roles include Mr Francatelli in Victoria (2016-19) and Hob Gadling in The Sandman (2022).
Facts
Ferdinand is the son of actor Sir Ben Kingsley and theatre director Alison Sutcliffe, while his brother is actor Edmund Kingsley. He can also be seen in the 2012 music video for The Crookes' Dance in Colour. Ferdy also occasionally works as a music producer under the name FK. Here he is on Twitter.

Adele Lynch (Iraxxa)
Career highlights
Adele's only other screen work is in three episodes of The Bill in 1999 and 2000.
Facts
The Blue Room, a stage play by David Hare, caused a stir in 2003 as it featured the actors in the nude, one of whom was Adele. The people of Dorchester were apparently outraged when the play visited Dorchester Arts Centre.

Glenn Speers (Sergeant Major Peach) Born 1967
Career highlights
Glenn debuted in School Without Walls (2008), then Perrier's Bounty (2009), Fedz (2013), Ripper Street (2013), Orthodox (2015), The Few (2016), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2017), Home Alone (2017) and Doctors (2018).
Facts
Glenn only started acting when he was 40 years old, before which he was an aircraft engineer in the Royal Navy. He was also in a rock band called The Rhino's Horn.

CREW

Mark Gatiss (writer) Born Oct 17 1966 Click here for Mark Gatiss's entry on The Unquiet Dead

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

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.

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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

The Pyramid at the End of the World

Bill (Pearl Mackie) and Nardole (Matt
Lucas) feel a little blue

One episode (The Pyramid at the End of the World)
First broadcast: May 27 2017
Average audience for story: 5.79m

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

Tim Bentinck (Voice of the Monks) Born Jun 1 1953
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of the Monks in Extremis, The Pyramid at the End of the World (both 2017)

Played: Body double for the Doctor in Shada (2017, uncredited)
Career highlights
Australian-born Tim debuted in North Sea Hijack (1980), followed by Tales of the Unexpected (1980), Smuggler (1981), Man-Eaters of India (1986), Boon (1987), Three Up Two Down (1989), Made in Heaven (1990), Sharpe's Rifles (1993), Strike Force (1995), The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1998), Enigma (2001), Deserter (2002), Born and Bred (2003), Murder in Suburbia (2004), Shadow Play (2004), Broken News (2005), Absolute Power (2005), The Thick of It (2005/07), Lead Balloon (2008), Kingdom (2009), The Hour (2011), The Royal Bodyguard (2011-12), Doctors (2006/12), Fast Girls (2012), The Politician's Husband (2013), EastEnders (2013), Dracula (2013), Lucan (2013), The Game (2014), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Rillington Place (2016), Quacks (2017), Augury (2018), Good Omens (2019), The Crown (2019), Flack (2020), The Nevers (2021), Gentleman Jack (2022) and Survive This (2022). Tim has also had recurring roles in series such as By the Sword Divided as Tom Lacey (1983-85), Square Deal as Nigel Barrington (1988-89), Grange Hill as Greg Mitchell (1995-97) and A Prince Among Men as Mark Fitzherbert (1997-98). Tim is a prolific voice artist, especially for video games, and in 2000 provided the voice of James Bond for the 007 game The World is Not Enough. Tim has also been playing David Archer in the BBC Radio soap The Archers since 1982.

Awards

2018: Member of the order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to drama

Facts
As well as being an actor, Tim is also Count Bentinck, the 12th Earl of Portland (a title he inherited in 1997). Although Tim took his seat in the House of Lords, he did not speak there before losing the right to do so under the House of Lords Act 1999. In 1732, Tim's ancestor William Bentinck (Baron Bentinck of the Duchy of Guelders) was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, a title still held by Tim but which cannot be used in the UK. Tim's wife is Judy Bentinck, a one-time costume designer for the Royal Shakespeare Company and now a bespoke milliner. Tim's sister Anna Bentinck is also an actor, while his father Henry Bentinck (the 11th Earl of Portland) worked for a time as a TV producer (including for the BBC's Today programme), and claimed to have coined the "Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes" advertising catchphrase. Tim and Judy's son William (Viscount Woodstock) is a social entrepreneur who founded Levantine Links and Ragged University. Tim appeared on Celebrity Mastermind in 2013 with the specialist subject of Winnie the Pooh, while his voice may also be familiar to Londoners saying "Mind the gap" on the Underground's Piccadilly line! Here's Tim on Twitter.

Andrew Byron (Ilya) Born Aug 10 1971
Career highlights
Andrew first appeared in the short Be Me (2004), then Experiment (2005), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Bigga Than Ben (2008), Silent Witness (2008), Waking the Dead (2009), Spooks (2011), RED 2 (2013), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), The Monuments Men (2014), The Assets (2014), Catastrophe (2015), Genius (2016), Mum's List (2016), Another Mother's Son (2017), War Machine (2017), Killing Eve (2018), Victoria (2019), Dracula (2020), Black Widow (2021) and The Undeclared War (2022).
Facts
Multilingual Andrew can speak English, French, Russian, German, Spanish and Chinese.

Daphne Cheung (Captain Xiaolian)
Career highlights
Daphne made her earliest appearance in Columbo (1990), followed by China Cry: A True Story (1990), Rich Girl (1991), Moon and Son (1992), Baywatch (1993), Nelson's Column (1995), The Bill (1997), Midnight Man (1997), Ali G Indahouse (2002), Spirit Warriors (2010), Psychoville (2010), Ashes (2012), Doctors (2013), Critical (2015), Casualty (2015), Love, Lies and Records (2017) and Chimerica (2019).
Facts
Daphne is married to fight arranger David Coatsworth. Here's Daphne on Twitter.

Rachel Denning (Erica) Born 1986
Career highlights
Other work includes Life's Too Short (2013), The Vote (2015), Call the Midwife (2017), Artemis Fowl (2020), Buffering (2021) and We Hunt Together (2022).
Facts
Rachel is 4ft 1in tall and is a member of the Reduced Height Theatre Company. Here she is on Twitter.

Tony Gardner (Douglas) Born Jan 10 1964
Career highlights
Tony made his screen debut in Drop the Dead Donkey (1994), then Lovejoy (1994), Joking Apart (1995), Grown Ups (1997), Sunnyside Farm (1997), Barking (1998), Holby City (2001), Cold Feet (2001), Jekyll (2007), MI High (2011), Cockneys vs Zombies (2012), Gates (2012), The Escape Artist (2013), Plebs (2014), Tripped (2015), Young Hyacinth (2016), Innocent (2017), Death in Paradise (2017), Tracey Ullman's Show (2016-18), Horrible Histories: The Movie (2019), The Larkins (2021), Not Going Out (2021-22) and Gentleman Jack (2022). He has enjoyed several recurring roles, including Brian Johnson in over 100 episodes of My Parents are Aliens (1999-2006), Michael in sitcom Lead Balloon (2006-11), Dan Miller in The Thick of It (2005-12), Lieutenant Colonel Smith in Bluestone 42 (2013-15), Professor Shales in Fresh Meat (2011-16), John in Last Tango in Halifax (2012-20) and Ivan Schloss in Stella (2016). He's also written episodes of My Parents are Aliens and contributed material to The Armstrong and Miller Show.
Facts
Tony qualified as a doctor in 1987, and as a GP in 1993, but does not practice. In the 1990s, he was one half of comedy duo Struck Off and Die with Phil Hammond, and in 2015 appeared in Wolf Alice's music video for Giant Peach. Tony sits on the national governing body of actors' union Equity. While filming Death in Paradise in Guadeloupe in the Caribbean in 2016, Tony caught the Zika virus from a mosquito bite. Here he is on Twitter.

Nigel Hastings (Commander) Born Apr 1963
Career highlights
Nigel debuted in Hanna's War (1988), followed by Resurrected (1989), A Bit of a Do (1989), Rumpole of the Bailey (1991), Covington Cross (1992), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Cadfael (1994), Soldier Soldier (1996), EastEnders (1997), McCallum (1998), Attachments (2000), A Touch of Frost (2003), Wire in the Blood (2005), Hustle (2006), The Shadow Line (2011), Peaky Blinders (2014), The Last Hours of Laura K (2015), Call the Midwife (2018), Right Now (2019), The Phantom of the Open (2021), The Ipcress File (2022) and Killer Bean (2023).

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).

Togo Igawa (Secretary General of the UN) Born Sep 26 1946
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dr Tanizaki in Torchwood: Cyberwoman (2006)
Played: Secretary General of the UN in The Pyramid at the End of the World (2017)
Career highlights
Japanese born Togo made his debut in Kagirinaku toumei ni chikai blue in 1979, after which he has appeared in many productions, including The Man Who Shot Christmas (1984), Gems (1985-86), Half Moon Street (1986), Never the Twain (1988), Forever Green (1989), Capital City (1989), Chancer (1990), Murder Most Horrid (1991), Class Act (1994), Bugs (1995), Karaoke (1996), Drop the Dead Donkey (1996), Thief Takers (1997), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Topsy-Turvy (1999), The Parole Officer (2001), Lexx (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Revolver (2005), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Primeval (2008), Speed Racer (2008), Wire in the Blood (2008), Night Train (2009), Ninja (2009), Johnny English Reborn (2011), Strike Back (2013), 47 Ronin (2013), Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist (2014, for which he was also a producer), Casualty (2014), Marco Polo (2016), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! (2018), Giri/ Haji (2019), The Crown (2019), Moley (2021) and Invasion (2021). He's also provided the voice of Hiro in the UK and US versions of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends since 2009.
Facts
After moving to the UK in 1983, Togo became the first Japanese member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 1986. His wife is potter and chef Adrienne Baba.

Eben Young (Colonel Don Brabbit)
Career highlights
Debuted in Moonshot (2009), then The Ghost Writer (2010), The Jury (2011), Red Lights (2012), Nixon's the One (2013), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), The Assets (2014), The Head Hunter (2016), Doctor Strange (2016), The Hunter's Prayer (2017), Patrick Melrose (2018), Traitors (2019) and Suspicion (2022).

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Peter Harness (writer) Born 1976
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Kill the Moon (2014), The Zygon Invasion/ The Zygon Inversion (2015), The Pyramid at the End of the World (2017)
Career highlights
Peter's writing career kicked off with A View from a Hill (2005), after which he worked on Heist (2008), City of Vice (2008), Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me (2008), 1066 (2009), Case Histories (2011/13), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015, which he also produced), Wallander (2012-15, also producer), McMafia (2018) and The War of the Worlds (2019, also producer).
Facts
Here's Peter on Twitter.
In 2016 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Peter here.

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

Daniel Nettheim (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: K9: Sirens of Ceres, K9: Dreameaters, K9: Oroborus, K9: Fall of the House of Gryffen (all 2010), The Zygon Invasion/ The Zygon Inversion (2015), Extremis (2017), The Pyramid at the End of the World (2017)
Career highlights
Australian Daniel made his directing debut with the 1995 shorts The Beat Manifesto and The Third Stroke, after which he found work on Driven Crazy (1998), Angst (2000), Love is a Four-Letter Word (2001), Fat Cow Motel (2003), White Collar Blue (2002-03), Last Man Standing (2005), The Secret Life of Us (2001-05), Headland (2005-06), The Elephant Princess (2008), Raggs (2007-09), All Saints (2007-09), Snake Tales (2009), Rush (2009-10), The Hunter (2011), Mr and Mrs Murder (2013), Whitechapel (2013), Dance Academy (2012-13), Humans (2015), Jack Irish (2016), Ripper Street (2016), Broadchurch (2017), Ash vs Evil Dead (2018), Tidelands (2018), Line of Duty (2014/21), The Tourist (2022) and The Twelve (2022).

Awards

1995: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay in a Short Film (The Beat Manifesto) - shared with Tony McNamara and Mathew Schulz

1995: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Short Fiction Film (The Beat Manifesto) - shared with Shilo T McClean

2010: Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a TV Drama Series (Rush)

2013: Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in Children's Television (Dance Academy)

2014: Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a Children's TV Programme (Dance Academy)
Facts
Daniel's brother Matt is an on-set feature films stills photographer, while his uncle David Nettheim was an actor, who appeared in The Enemy of the World (1967-68). Here's Daniel on Twitter.

Peter Bennett (producer) Click here for Peter Bennett's entry on The Beast Below

Lindsey Alford (script executive) Click here for Lindsey Alford's entry on Daleks in Manhattan

Extremis

Jamie Hill as a crimson Monk

One episode (Extremis)
First broadcast: May 20 2017
Average audience for story: 5.53m

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

Ronke Adekoluejo (Penny)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Penny in Extremis (2017), The Pyramid at the End of the World (2017, uncredited)
Career highlights
Ronke debuted in Suspects (2014), then found work in Chewing Gum (2016), Josh (2016), Cold Feet (2016), NW (2016), Sick Note (2017), Been So Long (2018), Black Earth Rising (2018), The Big Other (2020), Soulmates (2020) and Ear for Eye (2021). She also regularly played Jack Starbright in Alex Rider (2020-21). Ronke was also a story consultant on I May Destroy You (2020).
Facts
Here's Ronke on Twitter.

Tim Bentinck (Voice of the Monks) Born Jun 1 1953
Doctor Who credits
Played: Voice of the Monks in Extremis, The Pyramid at the End of the World (both 2017)

Played: Body double for the Doctor in Shada (2017, uncredited)
Career highlights
Australian-born Tim debuted in North Sea Hijack (1980), followed by Tales of the Unexpected (1980), Smuggler (1981), Man-Eaters of India (1986), Boon (1987), Three Up Two Down (1989), Made in Heaven (1990), Sharpe's Rifles (1993), Strike Force (1995), The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1998), Enigma (2001), Deserter (2002), Born and Bred (2003), Murder in Suburbia (2004), Shadow Play (2004), Broken News (2005), Absolute Power (2005), The Thick of It (2005/07), Lead Balloon (2008), Kingdom (2009), The Hour (2011), The Royal Bodyguard (2011-12), Doctors (2006/12), Fast Girls (2012), The Politician's Husband (2013), EastEnders (2013), Dracula (2013), Lucan (2013), The Game (2014), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Rillington Place (2016), Quacks (2017), Augury (2018), Good Omens (2019), The Crown (2019), Flack (2020), The Nevers (2021), Gentleman Jack (2022) and Survive This (2022). Tim has also had recurring roles in series such as By the Sword Divided as Tom Lacey (1983-85), Square Deal as Nigel Barrington (1988-89), Grange Hill as Greg Mitchell (1995-97) and A Prince Among Men as Mark Fitzherbert (1997-98). Tim is a prolific voice artist, especially for video games, and in 2000 provided the voice of James Bond for the 007 game The World is Not Enough. Tim has also been playing David Archer in the BBC Radio soap The Archers since 1982.

Awards

2018: Member of the order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to drama

Facts
As well as being an actor, Tim is also Count Bentinck, the 12th Earl of Portland (a title he inherited in 1997). Although Tim took his seat in the House of Lords, he did not speak there before losing the right to do so under the House of Lords Act 1999. In 1732, Tim's ancestor William Bentinck (Baron Bentinck of the Duchy of Guelders) was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, a title still held by Tim but which cannot be used in the UK. Tim's wife is Judy Bentinck, a one-time costume designer for the Royal Shakespeare Company and now a bespoke milliner. Tim's sister Anna Bentinck is also an actor, while his father Henry Bentinck (the 11th Earl of Portland) worked for a time as a TV producer (including for the BBC's Today programme), and claimed to have coined the "Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes" advertising catchphrase. Tim and Judy's son William (Viscount Woodstock) is a social entrepreneur who founded Levantine Links and Ragged University. Tim appeared on Celebrity Mastermind in 2013 with the specialist subject of Winnie the Pooh, while his voice may also be familiar to Londoners saying "Mind the gap" on the Underground's Piccadilly line! Here's Tim on Twitter.

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

Jennifer Hennessy (Moira) Born 1970
Doctor Who credits
Played: Valerie in Gridlock (2007)
Played: Moira in The Pilot (2017), Extremis (2017)
Career highlights
Prolific character actress Jennifer made her debut in Pauline Calf's Wedding Video (1994), then took roles in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996), Undercover Heart (1998), Clocking Off (2000), Swallow (2001), Flesh and Blood (2002), The Office (2002), The Second Coming (2003), Emmerdale (2003), Conviction (2004), Green Wing (2006), Lilies (2007), Drop Dead Gorgeous (2006-07), The Cup (2008), Paradox (2009), Coronation Street (2009), Hollyoaks (2011), South Riding (2011), Marchlands (2011), Psychoville (2011), Shameless (2012), Foyle's War (2013), Wizards vs Aliens (2012-13), Utopia (2014), The Passing Bells (2014), Vera (2015), Rough and Ready (2015), Dickensian (2015-16), No Offence (2017), The A Word (2017), Roadkill (2020) and Rules of the Game (2022).
Facts
Jennifer was a member of the St Winifred's School Choir which scored a UK Christmas number one single in 1980 with There's No One Quite Like Grandma (warning: this link may make you ill).

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).

Corrado Invernizzi (Cardinal Angelo) Born Apr 25 1965
Career highlights
Italian-born Corrado debuted in 1997's Doctor Giorgia, followed by roles in Shooting the Moon (1998), Inspector Montalbano (1999/2001), Ladies of the Law (2002), Mafiosa (2006), Carabinieri (2007), Grand Star (2007), Requiem for a Killer (2011), The Young Montalbano (2012), Braquo (2014), The Face of an Angel (2014), Marco Polo (2014), Falco (2016), Genius (2017), The Name of the Rose (2019), Le Mans '66 (2019), Romulus (2020), Leonardo (2021) and The Catholic School (2021).

Facts

As well as being an actor, Corrado is also a tenor opera singer.

Ivanno Jeremiah (Rafando) Born 1989
Career highlights
Born in Uganda, Ivanno debuted in The Veteran (2011), followed by Injustice (2011), The Jury (2011), Julius Caesar (2011), Bottom Knocker Street (2013), The Hollow Crown (2016), Bees Make Honey (2017), Counterpart (2019), Cold Feet (2019-20), A Discovery of Witches (2022) and Lockwood and Co (2022). He may be best recognised as Max in 23 episodes of Humans (2015-18).
Facts
Here's Ivanno on Twitter.

Joseph Long (The Pope)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Rocco Colasanto in Turn Left (2008)
Played: The Pope in Extremis (2017)
Career highlights
Debuted in Widows (1985), then Magnum PI (1985), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), CATS Eyes (1987), London's Burning (1988), Capital City (1989), Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1990), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994), The Final Cut (1995), Trial and Retribution (1998), Casualty (2000), Where the Heart Is (2001), Daniel Deronda (2002), Little Britain (2003), The Mysti Show (2004), EastEnders (2003-04), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005), Genie in the House (2006), The Other Man (2008), Sherlock (2010), Zen (2011), Borgia (2013), Dracula Untold (2014), Transporter: The Series (2014), Killing Jesus (2015), The Collection (2016), Peaky Blinders (2017), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), We Die Young (2019), Waiting for the Barbarians (2019) and Pennyworth (2020). He may be best remembered as Luigi the barman in Ashes to Ashes (2008-10), or Abd Aziz in Tyrant (2016).
In 2017 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Joseph here.

Alana Maria (Pentagon woman)
Career highlights
American Alana's other acting work includes The Basil Brush Show (2004), Until Death (2007), The Commuter (2018), Deep State (2018), Avenue 5 (2020) and One Shot (2021). Alana also provides voicework for many video games, including The Division (2016) and Cyberpunk 2077 (2020).
Facts
Also known as Alana Simon, she enjoyed chart success in the 1990s with MK (aka Marc Kitchen), singing on the tracks Burning (1991), Always (1992), Love Changes (1993) and Surrender (1993). Always peaked at number 69 on the UK Singles Chart in 1995, and a Route 94 Remix peaked at number 12 in 2014. A new version of Burning peaked at number 44 in the UK in 1995. MK featuring Alana had greater success on the US Dance Club Chart, with both versions of Burning reaching number 7, and both Always and Love Changes hitting number 1.

Francesco Martino (Piero) Born Oct 25 1981
Career highlights
Italian-born Francesco debuted in Un difetto di famiglia (2002), followed by Facing Windows (2003), Don Gnocchi - L'angelo dei bimbi (2004), Black Arrow (2006), Aria (2009), Visions (2009), Krokodyle (2010), Parking Lot (2011), H+ (2012-13), Francesco (2014), Allegiance (2015), Point Break (2015), Bitter Years (2019) and A casa tutti bene - La serie (2021-22).
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Laurent Maurel (Nicholas) Born May 5 1972
Career highlights
Frenchman Laurent debuted in Vega (1999), followed by Comedie Classique (2002), CID (2005), Ladies of the Law (2006), Mafiosa (2007), Boulevard du Palais (2010), Backpackers (2013), War and Peace (2016), The Well (2016), Bright-eyed Revenge (2016-17), Babs (2017), The Coroner (2018), Tomorrow is Ours (2018-19), Candice Renoir (2020), The Devil's Leap (2021) and FBI: International (2022).

CREW

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

Daniel Nettheim (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: K9: Sirens of Ceres, K9: Dreameaters, K9: Oroborus, K9: Fall of the House of Gryffen (all 2010), The Zygon Invasion/ The Zygon Inversion (2015), Extremis (2017), The Pyramid at the End of the World (2017)
Career highlights
Australian Daniel made his directing debut with the 1995 shorts The Beat Manifesto and The Third Stroke, after which he found work on Driven Crazy (1998), Angst (2000), Love is a Four-Letter Word (2001), Fat Cow Motel (2003), White Collar Blue (2002-03), Last Man Standing (2005), The Secret Life of Us (2001-05), Headland (2005-06), The Elephant Princess (2008), Raggs (2007-09), All Saints (2007-09), Snake Tales (2009), Rush (2009-10), The Hunter (2011), Mr and Mrs Murder (2013), Whitechapel (2013), Dance Academy (2012-13), Humans (2015), Jack Irish (2016), Ripper Street (2016), Broadchurch (2017), Ash vs Evil Dead (2018), Tidelands (2018), Line of Duty (2014/21), The Tourist (2022) and The Twelve (2022).

Awards

1995: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay in a Short Film (The Beat Manifesto) - shared with Tony McNamara and Mathew Schulz

1995: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Short Fiction Film (The Beat Manifesto) - shared with Shilo T McClean

2010: Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a TV Drama Series (Rush)

2013: Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in Children's Television (Dance Academy)

2014: Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a Children's TV Programme (Dance Academy)
Facts
Daniel's brother Matt is an on-set feature films stills photographer, while his uncle David Nettheim was an actor, who appeared in The Enemy of the World (1967-68). Here's Daniel on Twitter.

Peter Bennett (producer) Click here for Peter Bennett's entry on The Beast Below

Lindsey Alford (script executive) Click here for Lindsey Alford's entry on Daleks in Manhattan

Oxygen

Dahh-Ren (Peter Caulfield) is
 feeling a little blue

One episode (Oxygen)
First broadcast: May 13 2017
Average audience for story: 5.27m

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

Kieran Bew (Ivan) Born Aug 18 1980
Career highlights
Kieran's debut came in the 2001 short Shotgun Wedding, followed by Bedtime (2002), Manchild (2003), Spooks (2003), Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale (2003), AVP: Alien vs Predator (2004), Hustle (2005), The Bill (2005-06), The Whistleblowers (2007), The Street (2007), 1234 (2008), Crusoe (2008-09), Waking the Dead (2011), Whitechapel (2012), WPC 56 (2013-14), Twisted (2017), Rellik (2017), Cold Feet (2017), Liar (2017-20) and Rules of the Game (2022). He also regularly played Alfonso, Duke of Calabria in Da Vinci's Demons (2014-15) and the title character in Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (2016). Kieran also lends his voice to narration, having worked on Cash in the Spare Room (2020) and Dales for Sale (2022).
Facts
As a young fencer, Kieran won the under-16 and under-17 British Epee titles, and placed 21st at the 1996 Cadet World Championships. As an adult, he also works as a fight choreographer. Here's his Twitter account.

Katie Brayben (Ellie) Born Sep 3 ????
Career highlights
Katie made her screen debut in This Love (2012), followed by This Way Out (2013), Vera (2015), The Alienist (2018), Luther (2019), War of the Worlds (2019), The Wheel of Time (2021) and Roslund & Hellstrom: Cell 8 (2022).
Awards
2015: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical)
Facts
Katie made a name for herself playing Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Here she is on Twitter.

Peter Caulfield (Dahh-Ren) Born Jun 13 1984
Career highlights
Peter debuted in Banana and Cucumber (both 2015), followed by Modus (2017), Strangeways Here We Come (2017), Absentia (2019) and The Mystery of D B Cooper (2020). However, his earliest appearance on TV was playing a "Baggy Trousers Schoolkid" at the 2003 Royal Variety Performance, as part of a routine from the West End musical Our House (featuring the music of Madness).
Facts
Peter is also an established stage actor, having appeared in drama and musical theatre such as Enron, One Man Two Guvnors, Jesus Christ Superstar and Into the Woods. He is also a member of The Imaginarium, a digital studio dedicated to the creation of characters via motion-capture. In 2014, Peter was one of the singers on the charity single We're All Human by The L Project, which raised awareness of LGBT people suffering abuse in Russia. Here he is on Twitter.

Mimi Ndiweni (Abby) Born Aug 31 1991
Career highlights
Debuted in Telling Tales (2012), then Cinderella (2015), The Legend of Tarzan (2016), The Last Dragonslayer (2016), Rellik (2017), Black Earth Rising (2018), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and In the Long Run (2019). She played Tilly Brockless in eight episodes of Mr Selfridge (2016) and Fringilla in 14 episodes of The Witcher (2019-21 - credited as Mimi M Khayisa).

Facts

Mimi's grandfather was Khayisa Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, a respected chief in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.

Justin Salinger (Tasker) Born 1969
Career highlights
Justin made his debut in Velvet Goldmine (1998), followed by roles in London's Burning (2000), Peaches (2000), Dark Realm (2001), Waking the Dead (2002), Trust (2003), Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003), Enduring Love (2004), The Line of Beauty (2006), He Kills Coppers (2008), New Tricks (2008), Being Human (2011), Dracula (2013), Ripper Street (2013), The Mill (2014), Everest (2015), Humans (2016), Rillington Place (2016), Dark Heart (2018), Once Upon a Time in London (2019), Grant (2020), Hanna (2019-21) and Alex Rider (2021).
Facts
Here's Justin on Twitter.

CREW

Jamie Mathieson (writer) Born 1970
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: Mummy on the Orient Express (2014), Flatline (2014), The Girl Who Died (2015), Oxygen (2017)
Career highlights
Jamie's other screenwriting credits include My Parents are Aliens (2005), Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009), Becoming Human (2011), Dirk Gently (2012), Being Human (2010-13) and Tripped (2015).

Awards

2012: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best TV Drama Series (Being Human) - with production team
Facts
Jamie is a former stand-up comedian who spoke to the Doctor Who production team in 2004 about writing for the series, but did not get a script successfully commissioned for another decade. Here he is on Twitter.
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Jamie, as well as Toby Whithouse, here.

Charles Palmer (director) Born 1965 Click here for Charles Palmer's entry on Smith and Jones

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

Knock Knock

Eliza (Mariah Gale) was feeling
rotten this morning

One episode (Knock Knock)
First broadcast: May 6 2017
Average audience for story: 5.73m

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

Sam Benjamin (Estate agent) Born May 15 1986
Career highlights
Sam made his debut in Andy McNab's Tour of Duty (2008), after which he secured roles in Doctors (2011), Implementation (2012), Old Jack's Boat (2013, as Young Jack), The Crimson Field (2014), The Smoke (2014), Hot Pepper (2015), Fresh Meat (2016), Peaky Blinders (2016), The Few (2016), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2017), Welcome to Curiosity (2017), The War of the Worlds (2019), Zach Snyder's Justice League (2021) and Devil's Right Hand (2022-23). Sam is also a scriptwriter and producer, having written several short films, including The Offender (2014), Double Cross (2015) and Cold Blood (2016), and six episodes of the miniseries The Few.
Facts
Sam was one of the dancers at Plan B's concerts in 2011. In 2018, he was interviewed about his role as Military Policeman #2 in Justice League, claiming his role was almost entirely cut from the original edit. He claims almost 30 minutes of footage he filmed was left on the cutting room floor. He can also be found on Twitter.

Mandeep Dhillon (Shireen) Born Dec 21 1990
Career highlights
Mandeep debuted in Tears of Kali (2004), followed by Some Dogs Bite (2010), The Thick of It (2012), Whitechapel (2013), 24: Live Another Day (2014), Wolfblood (2014), A Wonderful Christmas Time (2014), The Revolution Will Be Televised (2015), Nina Forever (2015), Fried (2014-15), Hospital People (2016-17), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2016), David Brent: Life on the Road (2016), Damned (2016-18), Finding Fatimah (2017), Songbird (2018), The City and the City (2018), The Good Karma Hospital (2018), Bulletproof (2018), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Red Dwarf (2020), After Life (2019-20), Adult Material (2020), Temple (2021), Avoidance (2022) and CSI: Vegas (2021-22). She also regularly played Saz Kaur in the series Some Girls (2012-14).
Facts
Here's Mandeep on Twitter.

Mariah Gale (Eliza) Born 1979
Career highlights
Mariah debuted in Oliver Twist (2007), then Skins (2008), The Diary of Anne Frank (2009), Frankie (2013), Death Comes to Pemberley (2013), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2016), The Hollow Crown (2016), Broadchurch (2017), Rare Beasts (2019) and I May Destroy You (2020).

Alice Hewkin (Felicity) Born Sep 10 1999
Career highlights
Debuted in Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007), followed by Game of Thrones (2014), Teacup Travels (2015), The Vote (2015), Stella (2015-16), Doctors (2016), Cuckoo (2016), Soul Broken Sky (2016), The Crown (2017), Sex Education (2019), The Athena (2018-19) and Emily in Paris (2020).
Facts
Here's Alice on Twitter.

Tate Pitchie-Cooper (Young Landlord) Born 2007

Career highlights

Tate's other work includes Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and The Alienist (2018).

Ben Presley (Paul)
Career highlights
After debuting in the short Reverb (2010), 6ft 5in Ben appeared in Outnumbered (2011), What We Did on Our Holiday (2014), Ashes (2015) and Float (2019-21). He also played the Jester in 14 episodes of Galavant (2015-16).
Facts
Here's Ben on Twitter.

Colin Ryan (Harry) Born Jun 23 1986
Career highlights
Colin's earliest screen credit was in Shelfstackers (2010), but he might be best recognised as either Barry/ Buck in children's sitcom Hounded (2010) or Lorenzo de Medici in 26 episodes of the series Leonardo (2011-12). Further work includes Finding Akira (2017), Ghost Seekers (2020) and Boundless (2022). Colin also provides the voice of Alphinaud in the Final Fantasy video game franchise (2015-21).
Facts
Here's Colin on Twitter.

Bart Suavek (Pavel)
Career highlights
Bart's other work includes New Blood (2016), No Offence (2017) and Strike (2020).
Facts
Bart was born in Poland and brought up in Cyprus. He's also an accomplished pianist and saxophonist. Here's Bart on Twitter.

David Suchet (Landlord) Born May 2 1946
Career highlights
David began his screen acting career with The Mating Machine (1970), then Public Eye (1971), The Protectors (1973), The Professionals (1978), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), Oppenheimer (1980), The Missionary (1982), Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), Freud (1984), Blott on the Landscape (1985), Iron Eagle (1986), Tales of the Unexpected (1988), The Secret Agent (1992), Executive Decision (1996), Solomon (1997), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997), Seesaw (1998), Murder in Mind (2001), The Way We Live Now (2001), The In-Laws (2003), Dracula (2006), Maxwell (2007), The Bank Job (2008), Going Postal (2010), Hidden (2011), Great Expectations (2011), Effie Gray (2014), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (2016), Decline and Fall (2017), American Assassin (2017), Press (2018) and Urban Myths (2018). He also had the regular role of DI John Borne in NCS Manhunt (2001-02), and gave voice to Kaisa in His Dark Materials (2019-22), but will forever be associated with the role of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in 70 episodes between 1989-2013, which he also co-produced from 2003 onwards.
Awards
1986: Royal Television Society Award for Best Male Actor (A Song for Europe; Blott on the Landscape; Freud)
2002: Royal Television Society Award for Best Male Actor (The Way We Live Now)
2002: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama
2008: International Emmy Award for Best Actor (Maxwell)
2011: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama

2020: Knight Bachelor of the the order of the British Empire (KBE) for services to drama and charity
Facts
David's wife is retired actor Sheila Ferris, while his younger brother is broadcaster John Suchet. David's father Jack was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who carried out research into the use of penicillin in the treatment of venereal disease, alongside Sir Alexander Fleming. David's father-in-law was James Jarche, a Fleet Street photographer who took the first photos of Edward VIII and the then-unknown Wallis Simpson, as well as illicit colour photos of Elizabeth II's coronation. David has played Poirot in adaptations of every novel and story written by Christie which features him. In 2009, David was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. Here he is on Twitter!

CREW

Mike Bartlett (writer) Born Oct 7 1980
Career highlights
Mike's TV writing debut came with The Town (2012), followed by Doctor Foster (2015-17, which he also created), King Charles III (2017), Trauma (2018, which he also created), Press (2018, which he also created), Cock (2020), Life (2020, which he also created) and The Broken News (2022). He was also producer on many of these productions. He is also a renowned and respected stage playwright and director, having written Comfort, My Child, Artefacts, Earthquakes in London, 13, Bull, Cock and many others.
Awards
2010: Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre (Cock)
2013: National Theatre Award for Best Play (Bull)
2015: Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play (King Charles III)
2015: Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre (Bull)

2016: National Television Award for New Drama (Doctor Foster) - shared with production team

2016: British Screenwriters' Award for Outstanding Newcomer for British TV Writing (Doctor Foster)

Facts

Mike is married to stage director Clare Lizzimore.

Bill Anderson (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Thin Ice (2017), Knock Knock (2017)
Career highlights
Bill's directing work began with The King of Jazz (1991), then Creatures of Light (1992), Guardians (1996), Melissa (1997), The Lakes (1999), Fields of Gold (2002), Spooks (2004), Lewis (2006-10), Taggart (2010), DCI Banks (2011), The Mill (2014), Mr Selfridge (2016) and Silent Witness (2018/22).
Facts
Bill joint-won the Edinburgh International Film Festival's Chaplin Award in 1992 for Best First Feature for Creatures of Light.

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