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| King James I (Alan Cumming) |
First broadcast: Nov 25 2018
Audience for story: 7.65m
REGULAR CAST
Jodie Whittaker (The Doctor) Born Jun 17 1982 Click here for Jodie Whittaker's entry on Twice Upon a Time
Mandip Gill (Yasmin Khan) Born Jan 5 1988 Click here for Mandip Gill's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth
Tosin Cole (Ryan Sinclair) Born Jul 23 1992 Click here for Tosin Cole's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth
Bradley Walsh (Graham O'Brien) Born Jun 4 1960 Click here for Bradley Walsh's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth
GUEST CAST
Alan Cumming (King James I) Born Jan 27 1965
Career highlights
Hugely prolific Scotsman Alan made his screen debut in Travelling Man (1984), followed by roles in Taggart (1986), Shadow of the Stone (1987), High Road (1988), Bernard and the Genie (1991), Micky Love (1993), Cabaret (1993), The High Life (1994-95), Circle of Friends (1995), GoldenEye (1995), Emma (1996), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), Spice World (1997), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), 3rd Rock from the Sun (2000), Get Carter (2000), Spy Kids (2001), Sex and the City (2001), Spy Kids 2 (2002), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Frasier (2003), X-Men 2 (2003), Spy Kids 3 (2003), Son of the Mask (2005), The L Word (2006), Tin Man (2007), Boogie Woogie (2009), Burlesque (2010), Maladies (2012), After Louie (2017), Queers (2017), Instinct (2018-19), Helpsters (2019), Briarpatch (2020), Prodigal Son (2021), Solar (2022) and The Good Fight (2022). Alan also played Eli Gold in 121 episodes of The Good Wife (2010-16). He is a prolific voice actor too, having given his vocal talents to Black Beauty (1994), God, the Devil and Bob (2000), Courage the Cowardly Dog (2002), Shoebox Zoo (2004), Robot Chicken (2006/08), Rick & Steve, the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World (2007-09), The Smurfs (2011-13), Dora the Explorer (2014), Michael Jackson's Halloween (2017), Show Dogs (2018) and The Prince (2021). Alan also appeared in the 1993 drama The Airzone Solution, a video production co-starring Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy.
Awards
1991: Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance of the Year (Accidental Death of an Anarchist)
1992: British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Newcomer (Bernard and the Genie)
1998: Tony Award for Best Leading Actor (Musical) (Cabaret)
2009: Officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the arts and civil rights
2018: BAFTA Scotland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film and Television
Facts
Between 1985-93, Alan was married to fellow actor Hilary Lyon; in 2007 he married Hollywood storyboard artist Grant Shaffer. Alan has said in interview that he was approached about the role of the Ninth Doctor (but not offered it) in 2004. He became a US citizen in 2008. Alan has launched two of his own fragrances, called Cumming and Second Cumming. He can also be seen in the music video for 30 Seconds to Mars' City of Angels (2013). Alan has also written a book (Tommy's Tale, 2002), an autobiography (Not My Father's Son, 2014) and two albums (I Bought a Blue Car Today, 2009, and Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, 2016). Here's his Twitter feed.
Stavros Demetraki (Alfonso) Born 1985
Career highlights
Debuted in Doctors (2009), followed by Dracula Untold (2014), The Vote (2015), Risen (2016), Tyrant (2016) and Hampstead (2017).
Facts
Here's Stav on Twitter.
Siobhan Finneran (Becka Savage) Born Apr 27 1966
Career highlights
Siobhan made her earliest screen appearance in Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987, as Rita), followed by stints on Coronation Street (1989-90, as Josie Phillips), Josie (1991), Cannon and Ball's Playhouse (1991), Peak Practice (1995), Out of the Blue (1996), The Russ Abbot Show (1995-96), Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1998), Emmerdale (1998), City Central (2000), Bob and Rose (2001), Harold Shipman: Doctor Death (2002), Conviction (2004), Johnny and the Bomb (2006), The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006), Boy A (2007), Apparitions (2008), The Street (2009), The Syndicate (2013), Midwinter of the Spirit (2015), The Moorside (2017), The Loch (2017), The Other One (2017-22), Cold Feet (2017-19), The Widow (2019), A Confession (2019), The Stranger (2020), Time (2021) and Alma's Not Normal (2021). She also regularly played Milly Bates in Motormouth (1991-92), Julie O'Neill in Clocking Off (2000-02), Sarah O'Brien in Downton Abbey (2010-12), Janice Garvey in Benidorm (2007-15) and Clare Cartwright in Happy Valley (2014-22).
Facts
Between 1997-2014 Siobhan was married to actor Mark Jordon (best known as PC Phil Bellamy in Heartbeat).
Arthur Kay (Smithy) Born 2008
Career highlights
Between 1985-93, Alan was married to fellow actor Hilary Lyon; in 2007 he married Hollywood storyboard artist Grant Shaffer. Alan has said in interview that he was approached about the role of the Ninth Doctor (but not offered it) in 2004. He became a US citizen in 2008. Alan has launched two of his own fragrances, called Cumming and Second Cumming. He can also be seen in the music video for 30 Seconds to Mars' City of Angels (2013). Alan has also written a book (Tommy's Tale, 2002), an autobiography (Not My Father's Son, 2014) and two albums (I Bought a Blue Car Today, 2009, and Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, 2016). Here's his Twitter feed.
Stavros Demetraki (Alfonso) Born 1985
Career highlights
Debuted in Doctors (2009), followed by Dracula Untold (2014), The Vote (2015), Risen (2016), Tyrant (2016) and Hampstead (2017).
Facts
Here's Stav on Twitter.
Siobhan Finneran (Becka Savage) Born Apr 27 1966
Career highlights
Siobhan made her earliest screen appearance in Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987, as Rita), followed by stints on Coronation Street (1989-90, as Josie Phillips), Josie (1991), Cannon and Ball's Playhouse (1991), Peak Practice (1995), Out of the Blue (1996), The Russ Abbot Show (1995-96), Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1998), Emmerdale (1998), City Central (2000), Bob and Rose (2001), Harold Shipman: Doctor Death (2002), Conviction (2004), Johnny and the Bomb (2006), The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006), Boy A (2007), Apparitions (2008), The Street (2009), The Syndicate (2013), Midwinter of the Spirit (2015), The Moorside (2017), The Loch (2017), The Other One (2017-22), Cold Feet (2017-19), The Widow (2019), A Confession (2019), The Stranger (2020), Time (2021) and Alma's Not Normal (2021). She also regularly played Milly Bates in Motormouth (1991-92), Julie O'Neill in Clocking Off (2000-02), Sarah O'Brien in Downton Abbey (2010-12), Janice Garvey in Benidorm (2007-15) and Clare Cartwright in Happy Valley (2014-22).
Facts
Between 1997-2014 Siobhan was married to actor Mark Jordon (best known as PC Phil Bellamy in Heartbeat).
Arthur Kay (Smithy) Born 2008
Career highlights
Arthur's only other role to date is in Brassic (2021).
Tricia Kelly (Old Mother Twiston)
Career highlights
Debuted in This is History, Gran (1986), followed by Christabel (1988), In Sickness and in Health (1985-90), This is David Harper (1990), Spatz (1991), B&B (1992), High Stakes (2001), May (2002), SWAT (2003), EastEnders (2007), The Sandpiper (2007) and Doctors (2014).
Facts
Her sister is theatre director Jude Kelly.
Tilly Steele (Willa Twiston) Born Jul 1 1992
Career highlights
Tilly's other work includes Agatha Raisin (2016), Mount Pleasant (2016), Doctors (2017), Victoria (2017) and Ladhood (2019-21).
Facts
Here she is on Twitter.
CREW
Joy Wilkinson (writer) Born 1976
Career highlights
Joy's other screenwriting work includes Casualty (2006), Holby City (2006), Land Girls (2011), The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (2012), The Watch (2021), Lockwood & Co (2022), and 36 episodes of Doctors (2006-14).
Facts
Joy once edited the Met Police newspaper. She has a fondness for cyborgs after becoming obsessed with The Terminator, and even has a tattoo on her arm to make it look like she is cybernetic under her skin. Here's her Twitter.
Sallie Aprahamian (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Arachnids in the UK (2018), The Witchfinders (2018)
Career highlights
Sallie started out as a script writer and editor for the soap EastEnders between 1989-91, then became a director, working on productions such as the soap Eldorado (1993), This Life (1997), The Lakes (1999), The Sins (2000), Teachers (2001), The Bill (2005-09), Casualty (1994-2012), EastEnders (1995-2014), Wolfblood (2014), The Dumping Ground (2014-16), The Worst Witch (2017), Hetty Feather (2018), Poldark (2019) and Cobra (2021).
Facts
Here's Sallie on Twitter.
Tricia Kelly (Old Mother Twiston)
Career highlights
Debuted in This is History, Gran (1986), followed by Christabel (1988), In Sickness and in Health (1985-90), This is David Harper (1990), Spatz (1991), B&B (1992), High Stakes (2001), May (2002), SWAT (2003), EastEnders (2007), The Sandpiper (2007) and Doctors (2014).
Facts
Her sister is theatre director Jude Kelly.
Tilly Steele (Willa Twiston) Born Jul 1 1992
Career highlights
Tilly's other work includes Agatha Raisin (2016), Mount Pleasant (2016), Doctors (2017), Victoria (2017) and Ladhood (2019-21).
Facts
Here she is on Twitter.
CREW
Joy Wilkinson (writer) Born 1976
Career highlights
Joy's other screenwriting work includes Casualty (2006), Holby City (2006), Land Girls (2011), The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (2012), The Watch (2021), Lockwood & Co (2022), and 36 episodes of Doctors (2006-14).
Facts
Joy once edited the Met Police newspaper. She has a fondness for cyborgs after becoming obsessed with The Terminator, and even has a tattoo on her arm to make it look like she is cybernetic under her skin. Here's her Twitter.
Sallie Aprahamian (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Arachnids in the UK (2018), The Witchfinders (2018)
Career highlights
Sallie started out as a script writer and editor for the soap EastEnders between 1989-91, then became a director, working on productions such as the soap Eldorado (1993), This Life (1997), The Lakes (1999), The Sins (2000), Teachers (2001), The Bill (2005-09), Casualty (1994-2012), EastEnders (1995-2014), Wolfblood (2014), The Dumping Ground (2014-16), The Worst Witch (2017), Hetty Feather (2018), Poldark (2019) and Cobra (2021).
Facts
Here's Sallie on Twitter.
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