Can You Hear Me?

Zellin (Ian Gelder) gives
good grimace

One episode (Can You Hear Me?)
First broadcast: Feb 9 2020
Audience for story: 4.90m

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

Clare-Hope Ashitey (Rakaya) Born Feb 12 1987
Career highlights
Debuted in Beyond the Gates (2005), followed by Children of Men (2006), Exodus (2007), Black Brown White (2011), Mrs Biggs (2012), The White King (2016), Master of None (2017), Shots Fired (2017), Doctor Foster (2015-17), Seven Seconds (2018), Top Boy (2011/19), The Feed (2019), Death in Paradise (2020), Riviera (2020), Confession (2022) and Funny Woman (2022). She also played DC Charlie Steele in 23 episodes of Suspects (2014-16).
Facts
Clare-Hope has a degree in anthropology.

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

Aruhan Galieva (Tahira) Born Aug 1991
Career highlights
Aruhan's other work includes Whitechapel (2012), Anna Karenina (2012), Glasgow Girls (2014), Black Mirror (2016), Doctors (2017-18) and Julia & IDA (2020).
Facts
Aruhan's father is the Kazakh violinist and conductor Marat Bisengaliev, founding musical director of the Symphony Orchestra of India. Aruhan is also musical, attracting acclaim as the solo soprano on Karl Jenkins's 2006 album TLEP and its follow-up, Shakarim.

Ian Gelder (Zellin) Jun 3 1949 to May 6 2024 (bile duct cancer)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mr Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth (2009)
Played: Voice of the Remnants in The Ghost Monument (2018)
Played: Zellin in Can You Hear Me? (2020)
Career highlights
Debuted in New Scotland Yard (1972), then Edward the King (1975), State of Emergency (1975), Spearhead (1978), Rumpole of the Bailey (1980), I Thought You'd Gone (1984), Little Dorrit (1987), Blackeyes (1989), Van der Valk (1991), King Ralph (1991), The Day Today (1994), Skallagrigg (1994), Absolutely Fabulous (1995), Fist of Fun (1995), Bugs (1995), Brass Eye (1997), McCallum (1998), My Dad's the Prime Minister (2004), Holby City (2006), Robin Hood (2009), Pope Joan (2009), Psychoville (2011), Mr Selfridge (2013), Ripper Street (2016), Snatch (2017), Queers (2017), His Dark Materials (2019) and Surge (2020). He will be best known as Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones (2011-16).
Facts
Ian's partner since 1993 was fellow actor Ben Daniels.

Nasreen Hussain (Anita Patel)
Career highlights
Nasreen debuted in Merseybeat (2001), followed by Casualty (2002), Barbara (2003), Murder City (2004), Emmerdale (2016), Coronation Street (2018), Love Type D (2019), Cold Feet (2020), Moving On (2021) and The Midwich Cuckoos (2022).

Willie Jonah (Old Tibo) Jun 1 1935 to c. Sep 2023
Career highlights
South African Willie debuted in Espionage (1964), then found roles in The Power Game (1966), The Bushbaby (1969), Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Jason King (1971), Shaft in Africa (1973), Casanova 73 (1973), Quiller (1975), Rock Follies (1976), Rooms (1977), 1990 (1977), Angels (1976/82), Terry and June (1983), Being Human (1994), The Secret Laughter of Women (1999), Doctors (2003), The Day of the Triffids (2009), The Iron Lady (2011) and The Two Popes (2019).

Michael Keane (Fred) Born 1985
Career highlights
Further credits include The Road of Souls (2011), The Hollow Crown (2012), Mr Turner (2014), The Conversations (2016), The Witcher (2019) and The Canterville Ghost (2021). He also wrote the series British Rationals (2017-18), in which he played Max Turner, and a 2022 episode of EastEnders.

Amanda Liberman (Mum) Born 1977
Career highlights
Amanda's other credits include three short films - Mightier (2001), Mr Firecul (2004) and Sign Language (2010) - and Silent Witness (2010).

Bhavnisha Parmar (Sonya Khan) Born 1986
Doctor Who credits
Played: Sonya Khan in Arachnids in the UK (2018), Demons of the Punjab (2018), Spyfall (2020), Can You Hear Me? (2020), Flux (2021)
Career highlights
Other work includes Penguin (2011), Darren Has a Breakdown (2014) and Guilty Pleasures (2016).

Sirine Saba (Maryam) Born Jan 1 1975
Career highlights
Lebanese Sirine made her credited debut in The Bill (2002), followed by Footballer$ Wives: Overtime (2006), Silent Witness (2006), I Am Slave (2010), Unforgotten (2017), EastEnders (2017), Cleaning Up (2019), Holby City (2018-19), The Black Forest (2019) and Midsomer Murders (2021).

Anthony Taylor (Andrew)
Career highlights
Andrew's earliest credit was in The Vet (1995), followed by Murder in Mind (2001), Walking with Cavemen (2003), He Kills Coppers (2008), Unarmed But Dangerous (2009), Patrick Melrose (2018), Silent Witness (2019) and The Irregulars (2021).

Buom Tihngang (Tibo)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Tibo in Spyfall (2020), Can You Hear Me? (2020)
Career highlights
Buom's further work includes Diana and I (2017), World on Fire (2019), Endeavour (2020), Death in Paradise (2021) and Caribbean Summer (2022).

Everal A Walsh (Gabriel) Born 1968
Doctor Who credits
Played: Gabriel in The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Can You Hear Me? (2020)
Career highlights
Everal is a seasoned voice actor, especially in video games, including Fuzion Frenzy (2001), Archangel (2002), Urban Freestyle Soccer (2003), The Witcher (2007), Venetica (2009), Arena of Fate (2014) and Sacred 3 (2014), as well as the Conflict series of games (2003-05). He has also appeared in Prime Suspect 5 (1996), Emmerdale (2003), Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere (2004), The Street (2006), Spooks: Code 9 (2008), Accused (2010), Screwed (2011), Coronation Street (2011), In the Dark (2017), The Favourite (2018) and Cold Call (2019).
Facts
Here's Everal on Twitter!

CREW

Charlene James (writer)
Career highlights
Charlene's other writing credits include The Break (2016), Brexit Shorts: Go Home (2017), Snatches: Moments from Women's Lives (2018), A Discovery of Witches (2018), Unprecedented (2020) and The Rising (2022). She is also a playwright and actor.
Awards
2016: Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright (Cuttin' It)
2016: UK Theatre Award for Best New Play (Cuttin' It)
2016: Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright (Cuttin' It)

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

Emma Sullivan (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Can You Hear Me? (2020), The Haunting of Villa Diodati (2020)
Career highlights
Emma's first directing credit was on a series of short films, including Nut? (2004), Walking to Nairobi (2005) and After Tomorrow (2009). Her first TV work was on daytime soap Doctors (2012-13), followed by Holby City (2014), 4 O'Clock Club (2017), Call the Midwife (2018), Silent Witness (2019) and The Watch (2020). She also wrote some of the short films she's directed.
Awards
2009: Edinburgh International Film Festival Award for Best British Short (After Tomorrow)