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| Rose (Billie Piper) connects with the Dalek |
First broadcast Apr 30 2005
Average audience for story: 8.63m
REGULAR CAST
Christopher Eccleston (The Doctor) Born Feb 16 1964 Click here for Christopher Eccleston's entry on Rose
Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) Born Sep 22 1982 Click here for Billie Piper's entry on Rose
Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) Born Sep 22 1982 Click here for Billie Piper's entry on Rose
GUEST CAST
Steven Beckingham (Polkowski) Born Nov 6 1978
Career highlights
Steven debuted in Doctor Who, then secured roles in Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005), Heartbeat (2006), Working It Out (2010), Grimm (2012), Leverage (2012), Intruder (2015) and The Wonderland Murders (2018).
Facts
Steven is now an acting tutor at West Linn High School, Oregon, USA.
Steven Beckingham (Polkowski) Born Nov 6 1978
Career highlights
Steven debuted in Doctor Who, then secured roles in Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005), Heartbeat (2006), Working It Out (2010), Grimm (2012), Leverage (2012), Intruder (2015) and The Wonderland Murders (2018).
Facts
Steven is now an acting tutor at West Linn High School, Oregon, USA.
Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Daleks) Born Sep 29 1961 Click here for Nicholas Briggs' entry on Rose
Jana Carpenter (De Maggio) Born Jan 26 1971
Career highlights
American Jana debuted in The Bill (1994), followed by Manchild (2003), Murder Prevention (2004), Superstorm (2007), New Tricks (2012) and Trying Again (2014).
Facts
Jana is married to TV writer and director Julian Simpson, who directed The Rebel Flesh/ The Almost People in 2011. Jana is the lead singer and guitarist of country-folk harmony band Piefinger, as well as the experimental rock band Sweet Billy Pilgrim, whose album Twice Born Men was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2009 (they lost to Speech Debelle). Here she is on Twitter.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Jana here.
Career highlights
American Jana debuted in The Bill (1994), followed by Manchild (2003), Murder Prevention (2004), Superstorm (2007), New Tricks (2012) and Trying Again (2014).
Facts
Jana is married to TV writer and director Julian Simpson, who directed The Rebel Flesh/ The Almost People in 2011. Jana is the lead singer and guitarist of country-folk harmony band Piefinger, as well as the experimental rock band Sweet Billy Pilgrim, whose album Twice Born Men was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2009 (they lost to Speech Debelle). Here she is on Twitter.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Jana here.
Barnaby Edwards (Dalek operator) Born Aug 20 1969
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dalek operator in Thirty Years in the TARDIS (1993), Dalek (2005), Bad Wolf/ The Parting of the Ways (2005), Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday (2006), Daleks in Manhattan/ Evolution of the Daleks (2007), The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End (2008), Victory of the Daleks (2010), The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang (2010), Asylum of the Daleks (2012), The Day of the Doctor (2013), The Time of the Doctor (2013), Into the Dalek (2014), The Magician's Apprentice/ The Witch's Familiar (2015), Revolution of the Daleks (2021), The Power of the Doctor (2022)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dalek operator in Thirty Years in the TARDIS (1993), Dalek (2005), Bad Wolf/ The Parting of the Ways (2005), Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday (2006), Daleks in Manhattan/ Evolution of the Daleks (2007), The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End (2008), Victory of the Daleks (2010), The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang (2010), Asylum of the Daleks (2012), The Day of the Doctor (2013), The Time of the Doctor (2013), Into the Dalek (2014), The Magician's Apprentice/ The Witch's Familiar (2015), Revolution of the Daleks (2021), The Power of the Doctor (2022)
Played: Voice of Caldera in Shada (2003, audio)
Played: Voice of Krarg Commander in Shada (2003, audio)
Played: Hooded figure in Asylum of the Daleks prequel (2012, uncredited)
Played: Krarg in Shada (2017, DVD)
Career highlights
Barnaby has worked a lot in the world of Doctor Who apart from operating Daleks, including providing a number of voices for the Doctor Who Adventure Games (2010-11). Non-Doctor Who work includes The Giblet Boys (2005), Children of Men (2006), The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011), Shadows of a Stranger (2014), Hollyoaks (2015) and It's a Sin (2021).
Facts
Barnaby has also been an actor, writer and director for Big Finish Productions since the early days of Doctor Who audios, having directed (among others) Exotron, Doctor Who and the Pirates, Frozen Time and The Chimes of Midnight; he has written stories such as The Bride of Peladon, The Wreck of the Titan and The Beast of Orlok. Barnaby is also an exhibited artist, as well as an art history lecturer.
His long-term partner is fellow Dalek operator Nicholas Pegg. Here he is on Twitter.
Barnaby has worked a lot in the world of Doctor Who apart from operating Daleks, including providing a number of voices for the Doctor Who Adventure Games (2010-11). Non-Doctor Who work includes The Giblet Boys (2005), Children of Men (2006), The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011), Shadows of a Stranger (2014), Hollyoaks (2015) and It's a Sin (2021).
Facts
Barnaby has also been an actor, writer and director for Big Finish Productions since the early days of Doctor Who audios, having directed (among others) Exotron, Doctor Who and the Pirates, Frozen Time and The Chimes of Midnight; he has written stories such as The Bride of Peladon, The Wreck of the Titan and The Beast of Orlok. Barnaby is also an exhibited artist, as well as an art history lecturer.
His long-term partner is fellow Dalek operator Nicholas Pegg. Here he is on Twitter.
Corey Johnson (Henry van Statten) Born May 17 1961
Career highlights
New Orleans born Corey made his credited debut in Never the Sinner (1990), then The Innocent (1993), Casualty (1995), Over Here (1996), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Mummy (1999), Nash Bridges (2001), Band of Brothers (2001), Celeb (2002), Hellboy (2004), Spooks (2005), United 93 (2006), The Contract (2006), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009), Kick-Ass (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011), Beaver Falls (2011), The Bourne Legacy (2012), Captain Phillips (2013), 24: Live Another Day (2014), Blood Moon (2014), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Ex Machina (2015), Asylum (2015), Jackie (2016), Bounty Hunters (2017), Strike Back (2017-18), The City and the City (2018), Deep State (2018), The Trader (2019), The Windsors (2017/20) and Enemy Lines (2020). He has also provided voices for several video games, including Shadow Man (1999), Reign of Fire (2002) and Xenoblade Chronicles (2017/18).
Facts
Corey was married to actress Lucy Cohu between 1994-2005.
Career highlights
New Orleans born Corey made his credited debut in Never the Sinner (1990), then The Innocent (1993), Casualty (1995), Over Here (1996), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Mummy (1999), Nash Bridges (2001), Band of Brothers (2001), Celeb (2002), Hellboy (2004), Spooks (2005), United 93 (2006), The Contract (2006), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009), Kick-Ass (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011), Beaver Falls (2011), The Bourne Legacy (2012), Captain Phillips (2013), 24: Live Another Day (2014), Blood Moon (2014), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Ex Machina (2015), Asylum (2015), Jackie (2016), Bounty Hunters (2017), Strike Back (2017-18), The City and the City (2018), Deep State (2018), The Trader (2019), The Windsors (2017/20) and Enemy Lines (2020). He has also provided voices for several video games, including Shadow Man (1999), Reign of Fire (2002) and Xenoblade Chronicles (2017/18).
Facts
Corey was married to actress Lucy Cohu between 1994-2005.
Bruno Langley (Adam Mitchell) Born Mar 21 1983
Doctor Who credits
Played: Adam Mitchell in Dalek, The Long Game (2005)
Career highlights
Bruno's stand-out role was playing Todd Grimshaw in over 730 episodes of soap Coronation Street between 2000-17. Other work includes Linda Green (2001-02), The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005), Dalziel and Pascoe (2006) and Halal Harry (2006). In 2003, he appeared on Star in Their Eyes to impersonate Robbie Williams.
Facts
Bruno is also very musical, having grown up playing the cello and piano. In 2010, he formed his own band, Bruno Langley and the Wonderland Band. In 2016, he released an EP called Jump, and in 2020 a track called Collide. In 2017, Bruno pleaded guilty to two sexual assaults on two women in a Manchester nightclub, and was sentenced to a 12-month community order, including 40 days of rehabilitation activity, and was ordered to wear an electronic tag, observe a curfew and pay £250 compensation to his victims. He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders' register until 2022. Bruno's contract with Coronation Street was terminated following an internal inquiry before the case reached court. He has more recently been working as a portrait photographer.
Joe Montana (Commander)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Commander in Dalek (2005)
Played: Worker 1 in Daleks in Manhattan (2007)
Career highlights
Dutchman Joe debuted in Saracen (1989), followed by Lovejoy (1993), Hububb (1999), A Touch of Frost (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Gladiatress (2004), ChuckleVision (2007), Stagknight (2007), Spooks (2007), Hotel Babylon (2008), Tezz (2012) and The Numbers Station (2013). He has also appeared in a great number of Dutch productions, including Westenwind (2000) and Flikken Maastricht (2012).
Anna-Louise Plowman (Goddard) Born May 9 1972
Career highlights
Anna-Louise was born in New Zealand and made her credited debut in Faith in the Future (1995). After this she appeared in FairyTale: A True Story (1997), Flick (2000), The Adulterer (2000), The Foreigner (2003), Shanghai Knights (2003), Cambridge Spies (2003), He Knew He Was Right (2004), These Foolish Things (2005), Personal Affairs (2009), Candle to Water (2012), Father Brown (2015), The Eichmann Show (2015), Billionaire Ransom (2016), The Witcher (2019) and Your Honor (2020-21). She also had recurring roles as Dr Sarah Gardner/ Osiris in Stargate: SG-1 (2000-04), Annalese Carson in Holby City (2008-12) and Mrs Hudson in Black Sails (2016-17).
Facts
Anna-Louise is married to fellow actor Toby Stephens, which makes her the daughter-in-law of Dame Maggie Smith and the late Robert Stephens. This also makes her the sister-in-law of actor Chris Larkin, who appeared in The Shakespeare Code (2007).
Doctor Who credits
Played: Commander in Dalek (2005)
Played: Worker 1 in Daleks in Manhattan (2007)
Career highlights
Dutchman Joe debuted in Saracen (1989), followed by Lovejoy (1993), Hububb (1999), A Touch of Frost (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Gladiatress (2004), ChuckleVision (2007), Stagknight (2007), Spooks (2007), Hotel Babylon (2008), Tezz (2012) and The Numbers Station (2013). He has also appeared in a great number of Dutch productions, including Westenwind (2000) and Flikken Maastricht (2012).
Anna-Louise Plowman (Goddard) Born May 9 1972
Career highlights
Anna-Louise was born in New Zealand and made her credited debut in Faith in the Future (1995). After this she appeared in FairyTale: A True Story (1997), Flick (2000), The Adulterer (2000), The Foreigner (2003), Shanghai Knights (2003), Cambridge Spies (2003), He Knew He Was Right (2004), These Foolish Things (2005), Personal Affairs (2009), Candle to Water (2012), Father Brown (2015), The Eichmann Show (2015), Billionaire Ransom (2016), The Witcher (2019) and Your Honor (2020-21). She also had recurring roles as Dr Sarah Gardner/ Osiris in Stargate: SG-1 (2000-04), Annalese Carson in Holby City (2008-12) and Mrs Hudson in Black Sails (2016-17).
Facts
Anna-Louise is married to fellow actor Toby Stephens, which makes her the daughter-in-law of Dame Maggie Smith and the late Robert Stephens. This also makes her the sister-in-law of actor Chris Larkin, who appeared in The Shakespeare Code (2007).
John Schwab (Bywater) Born Sep 15 1972
Career highlights
Florida born John got his breakthrough gig (if you can call it that!) as the Voice Trumpet in the children's series Teletubbies (1997), but made his first proper acting credit in 2001's Hotel!, followed by My Dad's the Prime Minister (2003), Broken News (2005), Monarch of the Glen (2005), Hotel Babylon (2007), Clone (2008), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), The Fifth Estate (2013), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), The Assets (2014), The Program (2015), Undercover (2016), The Catcher Was a Spy (2018), Trust (2018), Dark Money (2019) and The Queen's Gambit (2020). John is a prolific voice artist for video games, having worked on Prisoner of War (2002), Killzone (2004), Crysis (2007), Alien: Isolation (2014), The Witcher 3 (2015-16) and Cyberpunk 2077 (2020). He is also a writer, director and producer of short films (including Out of Nowhere (2008) and Beast (2011)) and a prolific narrator of TV documentaries, such as Wife Swap (2004-10), Weaponology (2007-08) and Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (2015-17).
Facts
John, a producer for Poisson Rouge Pictures, is married to TV researcher Tamsin Schwab, who worked on ITV's An Audience with... series. He has the honour of being the first person to be exterminated by a Dalek in 21st century Doctor Who. In 2014, John told the Daily Mail of the time his three-year-old son almost died after eating just one cashew nut, and is now a campaigner for anaphylaxis awareness. Here he is, on Twitter.
Florida born John got his breakthrough gig (if you can call it that!) as the Voice Trumpet in the children's series Teletubbies (1997), but made his first proper acting credit in 2001's Hotel!, followed by My Dad's the Prime Minister (2003), Broken News (2005), Monarch of the Glen (2005), Hotel Babylon (2007), Clone (2008), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), The Fifth Estate (2013), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), The Assets (2014), The Program (2015), Undercover (2016), The Catcher Was a Spy (2018), Trust (2018), Dark Money (2019) and The Queen's Gambit (2020). John is a prolific voice artist for video games, having worked on Prisoner of War (2002), Killzone (2004), Crysis (2007), Alien: Isolation (2014), The Witcher 3 (2015-16) and Cyberpunk 2077 (2020). He is also a writer, director and producer of short films (including Out of Nowhere (2008) and Beast (2011)) and a prolific narrator of TV documentaries, such as Wife Swap (2004-10), Weaponology (2007-08) and Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (2015-17).
Facts
John, a producer for Poisson Rouge Pictures, is married to TV researcher Tamsin Schwab, who worked on ITV's An Audience with... series. He has the honour of being the first person to be exterminated by a Dalek in 21st century Doctor Who. In 2014, John told the Daily Mail of the time his three-year-old son almost died after eating just one cashew nut, and is now a campaigner for anaphylaxis awareness. Here he is, on Twitter.
Nigel Whitmey (Simmons) Born Feb 23 1963
Career highlights
Canadian Nigel debuted in Agatha Christie's Poirot (1990), followed by Josie (1991), Streetwise (1991), The Lost Language of Cranes (1991), Jeeves and Wooster (1993), Surviving Picasso (1996), Saving Private Ryan (1998), People Like Us (2001), Where the Heart Is (2001), Dark Realm (2001), Carrie's War (2004), Keen Eddie (2004), The Jacket (2005), The Booze Cruise III (2006), Kingdom (2008), Moonshot (2009), The Deep (2010), The Fifth Estate (2013), Strike Back (2013), 24: Live Another Day (2014), The Assets (2014), Sons of Liberty (2015), London Has Fallen (2016), Death in Paradise (2018), Black Earth Rising (2018), The Crown (2019) and The Liberator (2020). Nigel also regularly played Dan Wilder in Casualty (2003-04) and has performed voice work for many video games, such as Killzone: Liberation (2006) and Alien: Isolation (2014). He also provides the voice of Moose Roberts in the Fireman Sam children's series (2004-18).
Facts
Nigel is married to actress Abigail Thaw, daughter of the late actor John Thaw.
CREW
Robert Shearman (writer) Born Feb 10 1970
Career highlights
Robert's only other television writing credits are for Born and Bred (2003) and Static (2015), but he is most prolific as a stage and radio scriptwriter, having worked with Alan Ayckbourn and Francis Ford Coppola. He has been writing for the theatre since 1991's Dented Crowns and for radio since 2000's About Colin. He has also written books of short stories, such as Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical (2009) and They Do the Same Things Different There (2014). He has also been active in the Doctor Who audio world via Big Finish, penning The Holy Terror (2000), The Chimes of Midnight (2002), The Maltese Penguin (2002), Jubilee (2003, which inspired the TV episode Dalek) and Scherzo (2003).
Joe Ahearne (director) Born Nov 23 1963 (a perfect birthday!)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Dalek, Father's Day, Boom Town, Bad Wolf/ The Parting of the Ways (2005)
Career highlights
Irishman Joe is a writer and director for television, having worked in both capacities on This Life (1997), Ultraviolet (1998), Apparitions (2008, which he also created and executive produced), The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012), The Replacement (2013) and B&B (2017). He has also had writing duties on Da Vinci's Demons (2013), and directed for Dark Realm (2001), Strange (2003) and This Life +10 (2007).
Awards
2017: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Television (Scripted) (The Replacement) - shared with Nicole Cauverien, Andy Harries and Suzanne Mackie
Facts
Joe wrote the four-issue Fantastic Force Marvel mini-series in 2009 (a spin-off from Fantastic Four) and Fantastic Four Annual 32 in 2010.
Phil Collinson (producer) Born Aug 26 1970 Click here for Phil Collinson's entry on Rose
Helen Vallis (associate producer) Click here for Helen Vallis's entry on Rose
Helen Raynor (script editor) Born Mar 27 1972 Click here for Helen Raynor's entry on The Unquiet Dead
Facts
Joe wrote the four-issue Fantastic Force Marvel mini-series in 2009 (a spin-off from Fantastic Four) and Fantastic Four Annual 32 in 2010.
Phil Collinson (producer) Born Aug 26 1970 Click here for Phil Collinson's entry on Rose
Helen Vallis (associate producer) Click here for Helen Vallis's entry on Rose
Helen Raynor (script editor) Born Mar 27 1972 Click here for Helen Raynor's entry on The Unquiet Dead
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