Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror

No, not Empress of the Racnoss,
but Queen of the Skithra 

One episode (Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror)
First broadcast: Jan 19 2020
Audience for story: 5.20m

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

Russell Bentley (Mr Brady)
Career highlights
Russell debuted in The Bill (2006), after which he appeared in EastEnders (2006), Kick-Ass (2010), 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover (2016) and Watergate (2018). He has also given his vocal skills to video games, such as Vietcong (2002-04) and Horizon Zero Dawn (2017), and narrated the series Web of Lies (2019).
Facts
Russell is a county swimmer and still competes for Camden Swiss Cottage Swimming Club's Masters Squad. He was chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2008 Maccabiah Games ("Jewish Olympics").

Brian Caspe (Mr Martin) Born May 11 1975
Career highlights
Californian Brian debuted in 2003's Hitler: The Rise of Evil, then took parts in The Last King (2003), Chasing Liberty (2004), Hellboy (2004), The Illusionist (2006), Hannibal Rising (2007), The Red Baron (2008), Victory Day (2011), Borgia (2011), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), Missing (2012), Last Knights (2015), The Martian (2015), Legends (2015), Anthropoid (2016), Fearless (2017), Britannia (2018), Knightfall (2019), Carnival Row (2019), Jojo Rabbit (2019), Little Kingdom (2019), The Quarantine (2020), Shadowplay (2020), Spy City (2020), The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021), Deadline (2022) and Das Boot (2022).

Robert Glenister (Thomas Edison) Born Mar 11 1960
Doctor Who credits
Played: Salateen in The Caves of Androzani (1984)
Played: Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (2020)
Career highlights
Debuted in Crown Court (1979), then appeared in Escape (1980), The Lonelyheart Kid (1984), Cover Her Face (1985), Blood Rights (1990), Kinsey (1991), Soldier Soldier (1991), Only Fools and Horses (1992), Pie in the Sky (1994), Persuasion (1995), Bramwell (1996), Midsomer Murders (2001), Heartbeat (2002), Roger Roger (2003), Between the Sheets (2003), The Ruby in the Smoke (2006), Jane Hall (2006), Appropriate Adult (2011), The Cafe (2013), Vera (2014), Code of a Killer (2015), Paranoid (2016), Close to the Enemy (2016), Curfew (2019), The Aeronauts (2019), Strike (2020), Suspicion (2022) and Sherwood (2022). Robert has had regular roles as Steve Webber in Sink or Swim (1980-82), Colin Morris in Chancer (1990), Detective Sergeant Terrence Reid in A Touch of Frost (2001-03), the Home Secretary in Spooks (2006-10) and Ash Morgan in Hustle (2004-12). He was also the narrator for Law and Order UK (2009-14).
Facts
Robert was married to actress Amanda Redman until 1992, with whom he had a daughter, Emily, who has also acted on screen. His son Tom Glenister also acts. His father is prolific director John Glenister and his brother the actor Philip Glenister (making him the actress Beth Goddard's brother-in-law). In 2019, lawyers acting for a company owned by Robert (Big Bad Wolff) lost an appeal in a long-running battle with HM Revenue and Customs regarding liability for National Insurance contributions. Robert said he would have to sell or re-mortgage his house as a result, as he faced a bill of £147,000 plus interest.

Robin Guiver (Bill Tallow)
Career highlights
Robin's first credit was in the 2011 short Now and Then, with further acting work in Gnomeland (2013), Sugar Snap (2016, which he also wrote and directed) and On Your Way (2017). Robin is also an experienced physical performer and puppeteer, and most notably operated the droid D-0 in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He has also performed in a similar capacity on The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), as well as Gravity (2013), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Life (2017) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). He was also a movement captain and performer at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.

Erick Hayden (Mr Sorensson) Born Apr 9 1971
Career highlights
American Erick's work includes Susie (2008), Marple (2013), 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover (2014), 24: Live Another Day (2014), Marriage (2014), Spectre (2015), Tyrant (2016), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Precognition (2018), Dumbo (2019), The Utah Cabin Murders (2019) and Soundtrack to Sixteen (2020).
Facts
Erick once worked as a theatre and film critic for the Anchorage Press in Alaska.

Paul Kasey (Harold Green) Born Aug 5 1973 Click here for Paul Kasey's entry on Rose

Shaun Mason (Foreman)
Career highlights
Shaun debuted in Revengers Tragedy (2002), then Death Defying Acts (2007), Accused (2010), Shameless (2012), Line of Duty (2012), Good Cop (2012), Luther (2013), Cilla (2014), The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015), Snatch (2017), Rellik (2017), Coronation Street (2018), I Hate Suzie (2020), A Discovery of Witches (2021), Dodger (2022) and Becoming Elizabeth (2022).

Haley McGee (Dorothy Skerritt)
Career highlights
Canadian Haley's other work includes Urban Legends (2009), Murdoch Mysteries (2015) and Shut Eye (2016).

Anjli Mohindra (Queen Skithra) Born Feb 20 1990
Doctor Who credits
Played: Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures (Series 2-5) (2008-11), Redacted (2022, audio)
Played: Queen Skithra in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (2020)

Played: Voice of the Mechanoid Queen in Daleks! (2020, animation)
Career highlights
Anjli debuted in Coronation Street in 2005, then secured roles in The Inbetweeners (2008), Law and Order UK (2009), Beaver Falls (2011), Casualty (2012), Coming Up (2013), The Missing (2014), Cucumber (2015), Paranoid (2016), The Boy with the Topknot (2017), Bancroft (2017), Bodyguard (2018), The Bisexual (2018), DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2018), Dark Heart (2018), The Dead Room (2018), Wild Bill (2019), Vigil (2021), The Lazarus Project (2022) and The Peripheral (2022).

Facts

Anjli's partner is actor Sacha Dhawan, who played the Master during the Whittaker era.

Goran Višnjić (Nikola Tesla) Born Sep 9 1972
Career highlights
Croatian-American Goran made his credited screen debut in Braca Po Materi (1988), followed by Paranoia (1993), Detonator II: Night Watch (1995), See You (1995), Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), The Peacemaker (1997), Rounders (1998), Practical Magic (1998), The Deep End (2001), Ice Age (2002), Close Your Eyes (2002), Spartacus (2004), Elektra (2005), Helen (2009), The Deep (2010), Leverage (2010), Tito (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Pan Am (2011-12), Red Widow (2013), Dark Hearts (2014), Crossing Lines (2015), This Is Us (2019/22), Santa Clarita Diet (2019), Dollface (2019), General (2019-20, which he also produced), The Boys (2020) and Hellraiser (2022). He found fame playing Luka Kovac in 185 episodes of the medical drama ER (1999-2008), and also regularly played John Woods in the sci-fi series Extant (2014-15) and Garcia Flynn in Timeless (2016-18). He can also be seen playing chess with Madonna in her video for the single The Power of Good-Bye (1998).
Facts
Goran spent a period in the 1990s in the Yugoslavian, and then Croatian, Army, and defended his hometown of Sibenik during the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Goran has a large scar on his stomach following gastric ulcer surgery. In 1999, People magazine named him Sexiest Import; the following year he was named by the magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. His wife Eva is the daughter of Croatian director Antun Vrdoljak.

CREW

Nina Metivier (writer)
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), It Takes You Away (2018)
Wrote: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (2020)
Career highlights
Nina started out as a script editor on 26 episodes of children's series Big and Small (2011), after which she worked in this capacity on The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (2012), Leonardo (2011-12) and Dinopaws (2014). She has also been writer and producer of the online mystery drama Dixi (2014-17), and is creator of the teen iPlayer series The A List (2018-21).
Awards
2014: BAFTA Children's Award for Best Interactive - Original (Dixi) - shared with Dan Berlinka and Melanie Stokes

Nida Manzoor (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (2020), Fugitive of the Judoon (2020)
Career highlights
Nida started out writing and directing short films such as Layla (2013) and Arcade (2013), then secured work directing Enterprice (2017-18), Hounslow Diaries (2018) and We Are Lady Parts (2021). She has also written episodes of the series Dixi (2016), Jamillah and Aladdin (2016) and is creator, producer and writer of We Are Lady Parts.

Awards

2019: Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award for Comedy Director (Enterprice)

2022: BAFTA TV Award for Comedy Writer (We Are Lady Parts)