Sleep No More

Rassmussen (Reece Shearsmith) goes
to pieces at the end of the episode...

One episode (Sleep No More)
First broadcast Nov 14 2015
Average audience for story: 5.61m

REGULAR CAST

Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) Born Apr 14 1958 Click here for Peter Capaldi's entry on The Fires of Pompeii

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

GUEST CAST

Zina Badran (Morpheus presenter) Born 1985
Career highlights
Zina's other work includes The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997), The Wrong Door (2008), EastEnders (2010), Will (2011), Stella (2012), Pramface (2013), A Touch of Cloth (2013), Tyrant (2015), Emmerdale (2016), A Very English Scandal (2018) and Almost Never (2019-20).

Facts

Zina is also a professional actors' photographer.

Bethany Black (474) Born Dec 24 1978
Career highlights
Bethany's other acting work includes Milites Christi (2009), Banana (2015), Cucumber (2015) and No Offence (2018). She also appeared in the Banana/ Cucumber companion series Tofu (2015).
Facts
Bethany is the first transgender actor to appear in Doctor Who, and was the first transgender woman to play a transgender woman in a lead role on British TV (in Banana). She is also a stand-up comedian. Bethany's material is often confessional, and deals with her depression, alcoholism and drug abuse while growing up. She also attempted suicide (once she tried to hang herself but the ceiling gave way, and another time she tried to gas herself, but the car ran out of petrol). Bethany began to feel happier after undergoing gender reassignment surgery. In 2018, she was diagnosed with autism, ADHD, OCD and agoraphobia.

In 2019 Toby Hadoke released the first of a two-part Who's Round interview with Bethany here.

Nikkita Chadha (Hologram singer) Born Aug 12 1994
Career highlights
Singer and dancer Nikkita's other work includes performing on Strictly Come Dancing and Britain's Got Talent, as well as at the 2016 Brit Awards with Jess Glynne. She has also appeared in Boogie Man (2018), Rocketman (2019), Bridgerton (2020), Eternals (2021), Never Kiss Your Best Friend (2022) and Death on the Nile (2022).
Facts
Here's Nikkita on Twitter.

Elizabeth Chong (Hologram singer)
Career highlights
Singer and dancer Elizabeth's other work includes performing alongside Olly Murs on The X Factor and Take That at the Brit Awards.

Paul Davis (King Sandman) Born Mar 18 1981
Career highlights
Paul's other work includes Burke and Hare (2010), and the short films Dumped (2011), Halloween H33 (2011), Escape from London (2011), The Other Side (2012), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and Into the Dark (2018). He has also written and directed the shorts Him Indoors (2012) and The Body (2013).
Facts
Paul, who is 6ft 8in tall, is a keen horror movie fan and also a film journalist specialising in retrospectives of classic horror movies, having been published in HorrorHound Magazine and created the documentary Beware the Moon: Remembering An American Werewolf in London (2009). Here he is on Twitter.

Matthew Doman (Sandman) Born 1982
Doctor Who credits
Played: Man in Black in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Vault of Secrets (2010, uncredited)
Played: Dark Horde in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (2010, uncredited)
Played: Roman soldier in The Pandorica Opens (2010, uncredited)
Played: Dalek operator in Victory of the Daleks (2010, uncredited), Asylum of the Daleks (2012, uncredited)
Played: Headless monk in A Good Man Goes to War (2011, uncredited)
Played: Anderson in The Wedding of River Song (2011, uncredited)
Played: The Vigil in The Rings of Akhaten (2013, uncredited)
Played: Whisper Man in The Name of the Doctor (2013, uncredited)
Played: Droid in Deep Breath (2014, uncredited)
Played: "The Doctor's father" in Listen (2014, uncredited)
Played: Cyberman in Dark Water/ Death in Heaven (2014, uncredited), Ascension of the Cybermen/ The Timeless Children (2020), The Power of the Doctor (2022)
Played: Sandman in Sleep No More (2015)
Matthew was also a monster performer at the 2010 and 2013 Doctor Who Proms, and the 2014 Earth Conquest world tour, as well as several other live promotional appearances
Career highlights
His other work includes Casualty (2010), Wizards vs Aliens (2013), DaiVerso (2013), Valley of the Demon (2013), Kerb Crawlers (2013), Bob (2017), Strange Tales (2019) and Long Shots (2022).
Facts
In 2008, Matthew, who is 6ft 2in tall, won Welsh Male Model of the Year.

Paul Courtenay Hyu (Deep-Ando) Born 1968
Career highlights
Debuted in Doctor at the Top (1991), followed by Magic (1991), An Actor's Life for Me (1991), One Foot in the Grave (1992), The Blackheath Poisonings (1992), Echt Harder (1995), Bugs (1996), Wing Commander (1999), North Square (2000), Dr Terrible's House of Horrible (2001), Clocking Off (2002), Manchild (2003), The Missing Chink (2004, which he also wrote), Dead Fish (2005), Funland (2005), EastEnders (2008), Not Going Out (2011), Kevin Lemon: The Film (2012), Happy Valley (2014), Vera (2016), Absentia (2017) and Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators (2022).
Facts
In his first couple of years, Paul was credited as Paul Courtney-Hugh. In 2007, Paul won an Elvis Presley Impersonators special of the quiz show The Weakest Link, as his alter ego Chinese Elvis.

Gracie Lai (Hologram singer) Born 1990
Career highlights
Singer and dancer Gracie has also appeared in musical theatre, including Avenue Q.
Facts
Here she is on Twitter.

Neet Mohan (Chopra) Born Nov 11 1985
Career highlights
Neet's other work includes Everywhere and Nowhere (2011), Strike Back (2010-11), Trishna (2011), Fresh Meat (2011), Line of Duty (2012), The Magnificent Eleven (2014), No Offence (2015-17) and Lies We Tell (2016). Since 2017 Neet has played Rashid Masum in over 120 episodes of Casualty.
Facts
Here's Neet on Twitter.

Natasha Patel (Hologram singer)
Career highlights
Natasha is an actor, singer and dancer and has also worked in these capacities for Indian Pop Idol (2014), Psychobitches (2014), Ultrabeat's music video for Waiting for a Girl Like You (2014), ZingZillas (2014), and has also danced during a performance by Rita Ora on The X Factor in 2013. More recently she's been seen in Uncle (2017), Emmerdale (2021) and The Witcher: Blood Origin (2022).

Reece Shearsmith (Rassmussen) Born Aug 27 1969
Doctor Who credits
Played: Patrick Troughton in An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
Played: Rassmussen in Sleep No More (2015)
Career highlights
Reece is best known as one quarter of the comedy group The League of Gentlemen, alongside Mark Gatiss (prolific Doctor Who writer), Steve Pemberton (who appeared in Silence in the Library/ Forest of the Dead) and Jeremy Dyson. Reece began his acting career with London's Burning (1995), after which he played Andrew Powell in the PROBE series of Doctor Who spin-off videos (1995-96) and Dr Daniel Matthews in the Auton series of spin-offs (1997-98). Further work includes In the Red (1998), This Year's Love (1999), Spaced (2001), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (2001), tlc (2002), Catterick (2004), Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Abbey (2007), The Cottage (2008), Mid Life Christmas (2009), The First Men in the Moon (2010), Burke and Hare (2010), Eric and Ernie (2011), The Hollow Crown (2012), A Field in England (2013), The World's End (2013), The Widower (2014), Chasing Shadows (2014), House of Fools (2014), Peter Kay's Care Share (2015), Hunderby (2015), Galavant (2016), Borley Rectory (2016), Stag (2016), Borley Rectory (2017), In the Earth (2021), Foundation (2021), The Witchfinder (2022) and Good Omens (2019-22). He played various roles in The League of Gentlemen radio series (1997), TV series (1999-2017), and the film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005). Other regular work includes various roles in Psychoville (2009-11) and Inside No.9 (2014-22). Reece also wrote material for The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville and Inside No.9, and also directs and produces too.
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) - shared with production team
2009: British Comedy Award for Best New TV Comedy (Psychoville) - shared with Steve Pemberton
2011: British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Drama (Psychoville) - shared with Steve Pemberton

2012: BAFTA TV Award for New Media (Psychoville) - shared with production team

2015: Royal Television Society Award for Comedy Performance (Inside No 9) - shared with Steve Pemberton

2018: BAFTA TV Craft Award for Comedy Writer (Inside No 9) - shared with Steve Pemberton

2018: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best TV Situation Comedy (Inside No 9) - shared with Steve Pemberton

2019: Royal Television Society Award for Comedy Performance - Male (Inside No 9) - shared with Steve Pemberton

2021: BAFTA TV Award for Scripted Comedy (Inside No 9) - shared with production team
Facts
Here's Reece's website and Twitter feed.

Elaine Tan (Nagata) Born Jun 28 1979
Career highlights
Debuted aged nine in Infantile Disorders (1988), then appeared in Playbus (1989), Alfonso Bonzo (1990), Uncle Jack and the Dark side of the Moon (1992), Search (2000), Risk (2001), Trust (2003), Nighty Night (2004), Footballers' Wives (2004), Starter for 10 (2006), In the City (2006), Boston Legal (2008), Entourage (2011), Jewtopia (2012), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2011/12), Person of Interest (2014), Hawaii Five-O (2014), Acquitted (2015-16), Hand of God (2014-15), Grandfathered (2015), Tully (2018), Get Even (2020), The Lazarus Project (2022) and Moonhaven (2022). She also played Stacey in Harry and Cosh (2002-03) and Li in EastEnders (2006-07).

Tom Wilton (Sandman)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Zygon in The Zygon Invasion/ The Zygon Inversion (2015)
Played: Sandman in Sleep No More (2015)
Career highlights
Tom is also a puppeteer, physical actor and movement director, and worked on Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), as the Luggabeast, droid B-U4D and Sarco Plank. He also played Admiral Akbar in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Other puppetry and movement work includes Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), Artemis Fowl (2020) and The Midnight Sky (2020).

CREW

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

Justin Molotnikov (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Sleep No More (2015), Face the Raven (2015)
Career highlights
Justin's first directing work was on 1999's My Parents are Aliens, followed by Shoebox Zoo (2004-05), Taggart (2007), Shameless (2012), Merlin (2011-12), Atlantis (2013-15), Lucky Man (2018), Poldark (2019) and Outlander (2022). He is also a screenwriter, having co-created and written for Shoebox Zoo, and written for River City (2003/06) and Crying with Laughter (2009 - which he also directed, and appeared in as Big Hairy Gorilla!).
Awards
2009: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Feature Film (Crying with Laughter) - shared with production team

Nikki Wilson (producer) Click here for Nikki's entry on The Sontaran Stratagem

David P Davis (script editor)
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: Robot of Sherwood, Listen, Time Heist, The Caretaker, Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline, In the Forest of the Night, Dark Water/ Death in Heaven, Last Christmas, The Magician's Apprentice/ The Witch's Familiar, The Zygon Invasion/ The Zygon Inversion, Sleep No More, Face the Raven, The Husbands of River Song (2014-15)
Career highlights
David has also edited scripts for Merlin (2010) and Casualty (2011-14), as well as being a researcher on Holby City (2009-10). He wrote an episode of Casualty in 2012.
Facts
Here's David on Twitter.