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.