Resolution

The Doctor brings us all together

One episode (Resolution)

First broadcast: Jan 1 2019
Audience for story: 7.13m

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

Daniel Adegboyega (Aaron) Born Jul 21 1979
Doctor Who credits
Played: Guard in Torchwood: Miracle Day - The Categories of Life (2011)
Played: Aaron in Resolution (2019)
Career highlights
Nigerian Daniel's screen debut came in 2008's Broken Lines, followed by parts in Spooks (2010), Skyfall (2012), Atlantis (2013), Episodes (2014), The Interceptor (2015), Casualty (2017), Father Brown (2017), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Man Down (2015-17), Save Me (2018), The Marine 6: Close Quarters (2018), Nightflyers (2018), Sex Education (2019), Big Boys Don't Cry (2020), Tom and Jerry: The Movie (2021) and Grace (2022).
Facts
Daniel runs his own personal fitness company. His Twitter handle is @Daniel Adeg.

Michael Ballard (Sergeant)
Career highlights
Other work includes The Bill (2008), Merlin (2009), Law and Order UK (2010), Common People (2013), Dirtymoney (2013), Jekyll and Hyde (2015), The Musketeers (2016), The Death of Stalin (2017), Motherland (2019), Bloods (2022) and EastEnders (2017/22).
Facts
Here's Michael on Twitter.

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

Connor Calland (Security guard Richard) Born Jan 28 1997
Career highlights
Connor's further work includes Doctors (2019), We Hunt Together (2020), Flatmates (2021), Last Night in Soho (2021) and Stay Close (2021). He also played Jordan Price in 62 episodes of soap Hollyoaks (2019-20).

Darryl Clark (Police officer Will) Born 1975
Career highlights
Debuted in Tres estrelles (1989), followed by Seeyou at Night (1990-91), The Cops (1998), Where the Heart Is (1999), Clocking Off (2000), Holby City (2003), The Royal (2006), Emmerdale (2008), Spooks: Code 9 (2008), Coronation Street (2009), Shameless (2011), DCI Banks (2014), several episodes of Doctors (2004/11/14/18), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Father Brown (2018) and Murder in the Car Park (2020).

Sophie Duval (Mum) Born 1971
Career highlights
Further work includes Topsy-Turvy (1999), Dickens (2002), Ashes to Ashes (2009), Holby City (2012), Don't Take My Baby (2015), The Coroner (2015), EastEnders (2016), Chewing Gum (2017), Father Brown (2018), Emmerdale (2018), Call the Midwife (2020), Sliced (2021) and The Richie Doctor (2021).

Laura Evelyn (Call centre Polly) Born 1983
Career highlights
Laura debuted in the short film Scratch (2008), followed by work in Popular Unrest (2010), Wilby Park (2011), Doctors (2015), Denial (2016), Lovesick (2018), Silent Witness (2018), Black Mirror (2018), Good Omens (2019), Last Christmas (2019), Starstruck (2021) and Agatha Raisin (2022). She also wrote two short films, Parents Evening (2015) and Frolic (2019).
Facts
Here's Laura on Twitter.

James Lewis (Farmer Dinkle) Born 1983
Career highlights

James debuted in Straight 8 (2004), followed by Heartbeat (2005), Sugartown (2011), The Mill (2014), Emmerdale (2019), Pennyworth (2019), Hollyoaks (2019) and Gentleman Jack (2022).

Callum McDonald (Teen)
Career highlights
Child actor Callum also played Augustus Gloop in Sam Mendes's stage version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 2016-17.

Nikesh Patel (Mitch) Born Oct 17 1985
Career highlights
Nikesh's first role was as Dan in the series Bedlam (2012), followed by roles in Jadoo (2013), Midsomer Murders (2013), Law and Order UK (2014), Honour (2014), London Has Fallen (2016), Halal Daddy (2017), Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019), Man Like Mobeen (2020), Artemis Fowl (2020), The Mezzotint (2021) and Starstruck (2021-22). He also played Aafrin Dalal in 19 episodes of Indian Summers (2015-16).

Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Charlotte Ritchie (Lin) Born Aug 29 1989
Career highlights
Charlotte debuted in the 2004 short film The Open Doors before appearing as an uncredited student in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). She then secured roles in Life of Riley (2009), Death in Paradise (2011), Doctors (2012), Raised by Wolves (2016), You (2018), Stath Lets Flats (2019), Dead Pixels (2019-21), Feel Good (2020-21) and Grantchester (2022). She has also enjoyed regular roles as Hannah in Siblings (2014-16) and Oregon in Fresh Meat (2011-16), but will be best recognised as Nurse Barbara Hereward (nee Gilbert) in Call the Midwife (2015-18) and Alison Cooper in sitcom Ghosts (2019-22). Charlotte has also appeared as herself on various shows, such as 8 Out of 10 Cats (2014), Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2016), The Last Leg (2017) and Taskmaster (2021).
Facts
Charlotte was also a member of the classical/ close harmony band All Angels, which released three albums, performed the National Anthem at Twickenham and Wembley, and supported Katherine Jenkins (guest star of A Christmas Carol) on tour. Her brother is singer/ songwriter Luke Ritchie, and her sister journalist Alice Ritchie. Here she is on Twitter.

Harry Vallance (Teen) Born 2005
Career highlights
Child actor Harry played Mike Teavee in Sam Mendes's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and also appeared in the West End's School of Rock. He also appeared in the Hetty Feather 2019 Christmas special.
Facts
His mum is lifestyle and travel journalist Donna Vallance.

CREW

Chris Chibnall (writer) Born Mar 21 1970 Click here for Chris Chibnall's entry on 42

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).

The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

What next for Ryan (Tosin Cole)?

One episode (The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos)
First broadcast: Dec 9 2018
Audience for story: 7.14m

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

Mark Addy (Paltraki) Born Jan 14 1964
Career highlights
Mark's earliest screen appearance was as Tony in The Ritz (1987), after which he appeared in The Continental (1987), A Very Peculiar Practice (1988), Married with Children (1992), Between the Lines (1994), Band of Gold (1995), Peak Practice (1995), Ghostbusters of East Finchley (1995), Heartbeat (1995/96), The Thin Blue Line (1996), Sunnyside Farm (1997), The Full Monty (1997), Jack Frost (1998), The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), Married 2 Malcolm (2000), Too Much Sun (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), The Time Machine (2002), Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Bonkers (2007), It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010), Robin Hood (2010), Game of Thrones (2011), Great Expectations (2011), The Syndicate (2013), New Blood (2016), Young Hyacinth (2016), The More You Ignore Me (2018), Wasteland (2018), The Runaways (2019), Downton Abbey (2019), White House Farm (2020), King Gary (2020) and Sherwood (2022). Mark also had recurring roles as Bill Miller in 88 episodes of Still Standing (2002-06), Andy in Trollied (2011-13), and Hercules in Atlantis (2013-15).
Facts
Here's Mark on Twitter.

Percelle Ascott (Delph) Born Jun 10 1993
Career highlights
Zimbabwe-born Percelle debuted in Excluded (2010), then Silent Witness (2012), Beat Girl (2013), A Brilliant Young Mind (2014), Pompidou (2015), Walliams and Friend (2015), Doctors (2016), The Coroner (2016), The Weekend Movie (2016), Casualty (2017), The Innocents (2018), The Dare (2019) and Tin Star (2020). He also regularly played Yungah Baby Tinie Winie in Youngers (2013-14) and Benny Sherwood in Wizards vs Aliens (2012-14).
Facts
Here's Percelle on Twitter.

Jan Le (Umsang)

Career highlights
Jan's only other screen work includes Queens of Mystery (2019), Atlanta (2022) and D.I Ray (2022). 

Facts

This is her Twitter.

Phyllis Logan (Andinio) Born Jan 11 1956
Career highlights
Debuted in The Red Dress (1977), followed by Shoestring (1980), Every Picture Tells a Story (1983), The Chain (1984), The Doctor and the Devils (1985), The Inquiry (1987), The Kitchen Toto (1987), Bust (1987), Hannay (1988), The Angry Earth (1989), Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992), Chiller (1995), Secrets & Lies (1996), Shooting Fish (1997), Invasion: Earth (1998), Holby City (1999), Rab C Nesbitt (1999), Hope and Glory (2000), Dickens (2002), Poirot (2003), Murder in Suburbia (2004), Sea of Souls (2006), Honest (2008), The Royal (2008), Nativity! (2009), A Touch of Frost (2010), Vera (2012), Bones (2014), Girlfriends (2018), The Good Karma Hospital (2017-18), Misbehaviour (2020), Intergalactic (2021), Guilt (2021) and Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022). She may also be remembered for playing Lady Jane Felsham in 47 episodes of Lovejoy (1986-94) and Mrs Hughes in 52 episodes of Downton Abbey (2010-15) and its two movie spin-offs (2019/22).
Awards
1984: BAFTA Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film (Another Time, Another Place)

1984: Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress (Another Time, Another Place)
Facts
Phyllis is married to actor Kevin McNally, who appeared in The Twin Dilemma and Flux.

Samuel Oatley (Tzim-Sha)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Tzim-Sha in The Woman Who Fell to Earth, The Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos (both 2018)
Career highlights
Debuted in No Sweat (1997), followed by roles in Foyle's War (2004), Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup (2006), Bad Girls (2006), Hush Your Mouth (2007), Little Devil (2007), Midsomer Murders (2008), Law and Order UK (2009), Endeavour (2014), New Tricks (2015), Witless (2016), Man Down (2017), Cursed (2020) and Small Axe (2020).
Facts
Samuel also works as a boxing agent and writer, and is a prolific poker player. Here he is on Twitter.

CREW

Chris Chibnall (writer) Born Mar 21 1970 Click here for Chris Chibnall's entry on 42

Jamie Childs (director) Born 1988
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Demons of the Punjab (2018), It Takes You Away (2018), The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (2018), as well as the Thirteenth Doctor's reveal trailer (2017)
Career highlights
Jamie started out (credited as Jamie Catchpole Childs) as a production coordinator on First Cut: How to Snare a Millionaire (2009), moving on to second unit director on The Seasoning House (2012) and Poldark (2015). Dropping the "Catchpole", he worked as director on Vera (2016-17), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2017), Next of Kin (2018), His Dark Materials (2019-20), The Sandman (2022) and Willow (2022). He is also an executive producer on The Sandman and Willow.
Facts
Jamie's career began when he won a competition to direct a trailer for Patricia Cornwell's novel Book of the Dead (2007), after which he directed several ad campaigns, including for the BBC (The White Queen, Strictly Come Dancing), ITV (Encore) and Dove soap's sponsorship of the Four Nations rugby tournament in 2016. In 2022, it was reported that Jamie was dating former Doctor Who companion Jenna Coleman after meeting on the set of The Sandman. Here's Jamie on Twitter.

It Takes You Away

It takes you away...
to see a talking frog

One episode (It Takes You Away)
First broadcast: Dec 2 2018
Audience for story: 6.79m

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

Sharon D Clarke (Grace O'Brien) Born Aug 12 1966 Click here for Sharon D Clarke's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth

Kevin Eldon (Ribbons) Born Oct 2 1959
Doctor Who credits
Played: Antimony in Death Comes to Time (2001, audio)
Played: Ribbons in It Takes You Away (2018)
Career highlights
The highly prolific Kevin made his uncredited debut as a seven-year-old boy in the 1966 adaptation by Francois Truffaut of Fahrenheit 451, after which he appeared as an adult in Packing Them In (1992), Blue Heaven (1994), The Sunday Show (1995), Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge (1995), Fist of Fun (1995-96), In the Red (1998), Hippies (1999), This Morning with Richard Not Judy (1998-99), Jam (2000), Black Books (2000), Spaced (2001), Attention Scum (2001), Brass Eye (1997-2001), World of Pub (2001), Big Train (1998-2002), Smack the Pony (2001-03), Nighty Night (2004), Murder City (2004), Green Wing (2004), I Am Not an Animal (2004), Look Around You (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Funland (2005), Popetown (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Hyperdrive (2006-07), Saxondale (2007), Hotel Babylon (2008), Skins (2008), Dead Set (2008), Robin Hood (2009), Merlin (2009), The IT Crowd (2010), This is Jinsy (2011), Hugo (2011), Arthur Christmas (2011), Hunderby (2012), It's Kevin (2013), Death Comes to Pemberley (2013), Mr Sloane (2014), Psychobitches (2014), The Kennedys (2015), Bull (2015), Jekyll and Hyde (2015), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2016), Hoff the Record (2016), Red Dwarf (2016), Game of Thrones (2016-17), Gunpowder (2017), Murder on the Blackpool Express (2017), Inside No. 9 (2018), EastEnders (2018), Damned (2016-18), Midsomer Murders (2018), Johnny English Strikes Again (2018), The Last Kingdom (2018), Cavendish (2019), The Crown (2019), Truth Seekers (2020), Shadow and Bone (2021), Wolfe (2021) and Sanditon (2019-22). Kevin is also the voice of Penfold in the 21st century version of cartoon Danger Mouse (2015-19), and also writes an awful lot of material for the various comedy shows he's appeared in (particularly the sketch shows). He has also served as script editor on Genie in the House (2006) and Popetown.
Facts
Nicheren Buddhist Kevin has also been in a punk band called The Time, and performed stand-up comedy. Here he is on Twitter.

Christian Rubeck (Erik) Born 1980
Career highlights
Norwegian Christian made his screen acting debut in Wild West (2004), after which he turned up in Hawking (2004), Marple: A Murder is Announced (2005), The Girl in the Cafe (2005), Hotel Babylon (2006), SOS: Summer of Suspense (2008), Max Manus: Man of War (2008), Age of Heroes (2011), Amnesia (2014), Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead (2014), Det tredje oyet (2014), The Saboteurs (2015), The Interceptor (2015), Collide (2016), Nobel (2016), Genius (2017), Swimming with Men (2018), Amundsen (2019), Mellem os (2019), The Trip (2021) and Then You Run (2022).
Facts
In 2008, Norway's Elle magazine voted him the third sexiest man.

Lisa Stokke (Trine) Born Mar 25 1975
Career highlights
Norwegian Lisa made her first appearance acting on screen in Jonathan Creek (2001), followed by Long Flat Balls II (2008), Sara & Selma (2011) and Fortitude (2017), but she first rose to prominence on a Norwegian talent show at the age of 18 (despite having laryngitis!). She was the first person to play Sophie in the West End production of the Abba musical Mamma Mia!, and is the voice of the Snow Queen Elsa in the Norwegian dub of Disney's Frozen.

Awards

1999: Citizen of Tromsø
Facts
She released her first album, A Piece of Lisa, in 2006, having already featured on the official cast recording of Mamma Mia! in 1998. In 2020 she joined 10 other singers who'd dubbed Elsa for the international market (including Idina Menzel and Aurora) to perform Into the Unknown at the Oscars ceremony. She is married to cinematographer Tim Jolly. Here she is on Twitter.

Ellie Wallwork (Hanne) Born 2000
Ellie has been blind since birth (due to retinopathy of prematurity), and has also acted in Imagine (2012), Call the Midwife (2013/20) and Here Comes Frieda (2020). She is also a singer/ songwriter, and her work can be seen here. Here she is on Twitter.

CREW

Ed Hime (writer) Born 1980
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: It Takes You Away (2018), Orphan 55 (2020)
Career highlights
Ed's TV writing has included scripts for Skins (2010-11), The Watch (2021), Lockwood & Co (2022), and he has also written for radio and the stage.

Facts

In 2019, Ed was twice arrested as part of the Extinction Rebellion campaign group's activities, charged with public order offences and obstruction of the highway. He was found guilty. You can read about his experience here.

Jamie Childs (director) Born 1988
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Demons of the Punjab (2018), It Takes You Away (2018), The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (2018), as well as the Thirteenth Doctor's reveal trailer (2017)
Career highlights
Jamie started out (credited as Jamie Catchpole Childs) as a production coordinator on First Cut: How to Snare a Millionaire (2009), moving on to second unit director on The Seasoning House (2012) and Poldark (2015). Dropping the "Catchpole", he worked as director on Vera (2016-17), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2017), Next of Kin (2018), His Dark Materials (2019-20), The Sandman (2022) and Willow (2022). He is also an executive producer on The Sandman and Willow.
Facts
Jamie's career began when he won a competition to direct a trailer for Patricia Cornwell's novel Book of the Dead (2007), after which he directed several ad campaigns, including for the BBC (The White Queen, Strictly Come Dancing), ITV (Encore) and Dove soap's sponsorship of the Four Nations rugby tournament in 2016. In 2022, it was reported that Jamie was dating former Doctor Who companion Jenna Coleman after meeting on the set of The Sandman. Here's Jamie on Twitter.