Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Silence in the Library/ Forest of the Dead

If it's a skeleton inside,
what's filling out the suit?
Two episodes (Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead)
First broadcast May 31 to Jun 7 2008
Average audience for story: 7.06m

REGULAR CAST

David Tennant (The Doctor) Born Apr 18 1971 Click here for David Tennant's entry on The Parting of the Ways

Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) Born Dec 5 1969 Click here for Catherine Tate's entry on Doomsday

GUEST CAST

Joshua Dallas (Node) Born Dec 19 1978
Career highlights
American Joshua debuted in Ultimate Force (2006), then appeared in 80 Minutes (2008), The Boxer (2009), The Descent: Part 2 (2009), Ghost Machine (2009), Hawaii Five-0 (2010), Thor (2011) and Trigger Point (2012). However, he will be best known for playing David Nolan/ Prince Charming in 134 episodes of the series Once Upon a Time (2011-18) and Ben Stone in the series Manifest (2018-22).
Facts
Between 2007-12 Josh was married to actress Lara Pulver; his second wife is his Once Upon a Time co-star Ginnifer Goodwin. Here he is on Twitter.

Mark Dexter (Dad) Born Apr 21 1973
Doctor Who credits
Played: Dad in Silence in the Library/ Forest of the Dead (2008)
Played: Charles Babbage in Spyfall (2020)
Career highlights
Mark debuted in the children's show Your Mother Wouldn't Like It (1987-88), aged 14, then found roles in Dramarama: Peter (1987), Palace Hill (1988-91), Phoenix Hall (1990), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1998), The Cazalets (2001), From Hell (2001), Spooks (2002), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Heartbeat (2004), Mile High (2004), Space Race (2005), I Shouldn't Be Alive (2006), She Stoops to Conquer (2008), Moving Wallpaper (2009), Coronation Street (2010), Red Dwarf (2012), Ripper Street (2012/16), Mr Selfridge (2013), The Assets (2014), 24: Live Another Day (2014), Coalition (2015, playing UK Prime Minister David Cameron), The Exception (2016), Flack (2019), The Crown (2019), The Midwich Cuckoos (2022) and Industry (2020-22). Recurring roles include Matt Hinckley in The Bill (2006-07), Samuel Tuffley in Crusoe (2008-09) and Timothy Gray in The Bletchley Circle (2012/14).
Facts
Mark is a craft beer aficionado and blogs about it here. Here's Mark on Twitter.

O.T. Fagbenle (Other Dave) Born Jan 22 1981
Career highlights
Debuted in EastEnders (2002), then Casualty (2004), As If (2004), Grownups (2006), The Last Detective (2007), Quarterlife (2008), Consuming Passion (2008), FM (2009), The Reeds (2010), Material Girl (2010), Thorne (2010), Quick Cuts (2013), Pat and Cabbage (2013), NW (2016), Maxxx (2020), Black Widow (2021), WeCrashed (2022) and The First Lady (2022, as Barack Obama). He also regularly played Frank in Looking (2014-16), Ash in The Interceptor (2015) and Danny Kenwood in The Five (2016), but his most prolific role is playing Luke Bankole in The Handmaid's Tale (2017-21). O-T also wrote and directed the series Maxxx.
Facts
O.T.'s brothers are Luti Fagbenle, the award-winning music video producer for artists such as One Direction, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West and Snoop Dogg, and Daps, music video director for artists such as Stormzy, Iggy Azalea and Kendrick Lamar. The O.T. in his name stands for Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun ("wealth comes again" in the Nigerian Yoruba language). O.T. is also a musician, and composed several songs for NBC drama Quarterlife; he also co-wrote the track Storm for Tyga's Black Thoughts Vol 2 mixtape. He made history when he became the first person to write, direct, compose, executive produce and star in the opening episode of a TV series on a major US network (Maxxx on Hulu). Here he is on Twitter.

Alex Kingston (River Song) Born Mar 11 1963
Doctor Who credits
Played: River Song in Silence in the Library/ Forest of the Dead (2008), The Time of Angels/ Flesh and Stone (2010), The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang (2010), The Impossible Astronaut/ Day of the Moon (2011), A Good Man Goes to War (2011), Let's Kill Hitler (2011), Closing Time (2011), The Wedding of River Song (2011), The Angels Take Manhattan (2012), The Name of the Doctor (2013), The Husbands of River Song (2015)
Career highlights
Alex made her screen acting debut at the age of 17 in Grange Hill (1980), playing Jill Harcourt, then took roles in Henry's Leg (1986), Hannay (1989), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989), Soldier Soldier (1993), Crocodile Shoes (1994), The Knock (1996), The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996, for which she was BAFTA-nominated), Croupier (1998), Warrior Queen (2003), Alpha Dog (2006), Lost in Austen (2008), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008), Sordid Things (2009), Hope Springs (2009), Ben Hur (2010), FlashForward (2009-10), Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (2009-10, spookily playing Miranda Pond!), Marchlands (2011), Upstairs Downstairs (2012), NCIS (2012), Chasing Shadows (2014), Bukowski (2015), Blue Bloods (2016), Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016), Shoot the Messenger (2016), The Widow (2019) and Transference (2019). Alex also played Dr Elizabeth Corday in 160 episodes of ER (1997-2004/09), Dinah Lance in Arrow (2013-16) and Sarah Bishop in A Discovery of Witches (2018-21).
Facts
Alex appeared in a TV commercial for QC sherry in 1990. Alex's first husband was actor Ralph Fiennes between 1993-97, whom she met at drama school. In an interview she said she considered committing suicide following her separation from Fiennes, which was triggered by him having an affair with actress Francesca Annis (Fiennes and Annis stayed together for 11 years). Alex's third husband is director/ producer Jonathan Stamp.

Alex Midwood (Joshua)
Career highlights
Alex's only other credits are Southcliffe (2013) and Urban Myths (2019).
In 2015 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Alex, as well as A Fix with Sontarans' Gareth Jenkins, here.

Eve Newton (The Girl [Charlotte Lux])
This is Eve's only role.

Sarah Niles (Node) Born 1976
Career highlights
Debuted in A Touch of Frost (1999), then Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Peep Show (2008), Thorne (2010), Being Human (2011), Austenland (2013), Waterloo Road (2014), Catastrophe (2015-19), Spotless (2015), Lucky Man (2016), Marley's Ghosts (2016), Moving On (2018), Trust Me (2019), Dracula (2020), Trying (2020), I May Destroy You (2020), Viewpoint (2021) and Ted Lasso (2021). She also had the regular role of Reba in Beautiful People (2008-09).
Facts
Sarah's Twitter.

Harry Peacock (Proper Dave) Born August 1978
Career highlights
Debuted in The Life and Times of Henry Pratt (1992), then No Bananas (1996), Pie in the Sky (1997), Roger Roger (1999), Harry and Cosh (1999), Jonathan Creek (2000), Band of Brothers (2001), Keen Eddie (2003), Judas (2004), Kingdom (2007), Wire in the Blood (2008), Star Stories (2006-08), Grandma's House (2012), Dracula (2013), Up the Women (2015), Murder in Successville (2015), The Kennedys (2015), The Living and the Dead (2016), The Windsors (2017), Porridge (2017), High & Dry (2018) and Please Help (2021). He also played Ray Purchase in Toast of London (2012-20).
Facts
Harry's father is actor Trevor Peacock (best known as Jim Trott in sitcom The Vicar of Dibley), while his half-brother is actor and writer Daniel Peacock (who appeared in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy in 1988). Harry's wife is actress Katherine Parkinson. His middle names are Lemuel Xavier.

Steve Pemberton (Strackman Lux) Born Sep 1 1967
Career highlights
Steve is best known as one quarter of the comedy group The League of Gentlemen, alongside Mark Gatiss (prolific Doctor Who writer), Reece Shearsmith (who appeared in the 2015 story Sleep No More) and Jeremy Dyson. Steve debuted in Mash and Peas (1996), then In the Red (1998), Gormenghast (2000), The League of Gentlemen (1999-2017), Shameless (2004), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Blackpool (2004), The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005), Lassie (2005), Mr Bean's Holiday (2007), Minder (2009), Going Postal (2010), Psychoville (2009-11), Mr Stink (2012), Psychobitches (2013), Happy Valley (2014), Mapp and Lucia (2014), Inside No 9 (2014-22), Lewis (2016), Camping (2016), Good Omens (2019), Britannia (2019), Killing Eve (2020) and Worzel Gummidge (2019-21). Recurring roles include Edward Buchan in Whitechapel (2009-13) and Mick Garvey in Benidorm (2007-15). He has also written The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville, Inside No 9, Benidorm, Whitechapel and Mapp and Lucia, directed three Inside No 9 episodes, and produced Psychoville and Inside No 9.
Awards
1997: Perrier Award at Edinburgh Fringe Festival (as The League of Gentlemen)
2000: BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Programme or Series (The League of Gentlemen)
2009: British Comedy Award for Best New TV Comedy (Psychoville) - shared with Reese Shearsmith
2011: British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Drama (Psychoville) - shared with Reese Shearsmith
2012: BAFTA TV Award for New Media (Psychoville) - shared with Jon Aird, Reese Shearsmith and Justin Davies
2015: Royal Television Society Award for Comedy Performance (Inside No 9) - shared with Reese Shearsmith
2018: BAFTA TV Craft Award for Comedy Writer (Inside No 9) - shared with Reese Shearsmith
2018: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Situation TV Comedy (Inside No 9) - shared with Reese Shearsmith
2019: BAFTA TV Award Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme (Inside No 9)
2019: Royal Television Society Award for Male Comedy Performance (Inside No 9) - shared with Reese Shearsmith
2021: BAFTA TV Award for Scripted Comedy (Inside No 9) - shared with Adam Tandy, Reese Shearsmith, Matt Lipsey and Guillem Morales

Jason Pitt (Lee) Born 1966
Career highlights
Further work includes The Bill (1994/96), The Famous Five (1995), Animal Ark (1997), River City (2002), Doctors (2007) and providing voices in video games such as Dark Souls II (2014) and Lego The Hobbit (2014).
Facts
Jason joined the teaching staff at the University of Chichester in 2015, becoming senior lecturer in acting for film.

Eloise Rakic-Platt (Ella) Born May 24 2001
Career highlights
Other appearances include Jonathan Creek (2009), The Tomb Robbery Papyrus: Notes of a Past (2009) and Sex Ed (2018).
Facts
Eloise, who also goes by the name Lulu, has three acting siblings - Abby (who played Jackie Hopper in The Story of Tracy Beaker), Madeleine (who also appeared uncredited as Ella, and played Lilly Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth (2009)), and Jaime. Eloise can also be seen modelling in the children's activity book Make It! by Jane Bull. Here's Eloise on Twitter.

Talulah Riley (Miss Evangelista) Born Sep 26 1985
Career highlights
Debuted in Agatha Christie: Poirot (2003), then Pride and Prejudice (2005), Agatha Christie's Marple (2006), Nearly Famous (2007), Inception (2010), White Frog (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), The Bad Education Movie (2015), Submerged (2016), Bloodshot (2020) and Pistol (2022). She also played Annabelle Fritton in both St Trinian's (2007) and St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009), has acted in and written and directed Scottish Mussel (2015), and regularly played Angela in Westworld (2016-18).
Facts
In 2010, Talulah married billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX; they divorced in 2012, remarried in 2013, then divorced again in 2016. Musk granted Talulah a $16m cash settlement. Talulah's father Doug Milburn was once the head of the UK's National Crime Squad (NCS); he now works as a TV scriptwriter on the likes of Silent Witness and Prime Suspect. In 2016, Talulah published her debut novel, Acts of Love.

Colin Salmon (Dr Moon) Born Dec 6 1962
Career highlights
Colin debuted in Prime Suspect 2 (1992), then Between the Lines (1993), Soldier Soldier (1994), Shine On Harvey Moon (1995), Tales from the Crypt (1996), Band of Gold (1997), Immortality (1998), Dinotopia (2002), The Statement (2003), Keen Eddie (2003-04), AVP: Alien vs Predator (2004), Sea of Souls (2005), Bad Girls (2006), Party Animals (2007), The Bank Job (2008), Merlin (2009), Strike Back (2010), Stalker (2010), Death in Paradise (2011), Single Ladies (2011-12), Rita (2013), 24: Live Another Day (2014), No Offence (2015), The Musketeers (2015), London Has Fallen (2016), Henry IX (2017), Mortal Engines (2018), The Bet (2020), Nobody (2021) and Intelligence (2020-21). Recurring roles include Chief of Staff Charles Robinson in the Bond films Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002), David Tyrel in Hex (2004-05), James "One" Shade in Resident Evil (2002) and Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), Walter Steele in Arrow (2012-14), Doug Greer in Law and Order UK (2009-14), Rob Bennett in Some Girls (2012-14), Jarrod Sands in Limitless (2015-16) and General Zod in Krypton (2018-19).
Facts
Between 1978-80 Colin was the drummer in a punk rock band called The Friction. Colin is still musical today, playing trumpet in his own jazz quartet. In 2012, he was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, being voted off in the fifth week. Colin, who has long been labelled as a "James Bond who never was", played 007 in screen tests for actresses auditioning for roles in Die Another Day. Here he is on Twitter.

Jessika Williams (Anita)
Career highlights
After debuting in Doctor Who, Jessika went on to appear in Taggart (2008), The Descent: Part 2 (2009) and Jewish Girls are Easy (2014).

CREW

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

Euros Lyn (director) Born Mar 1971 Click here for Euros Lyn's entry on The End of the World

Phil Collinson (producer) Born Aug 26 1970 Click here for Phil Collinson'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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