Legend of the Sea Devils

A Sea Devil senses something
fishy going on...

One episode (Legend of the Sea Devils)

First broadcast: Apr 17 2022
Audience for story: 3.47m

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

John Bishop (Dan Lewis) Born Nov 30 1966 Click here for John Bishop's entry on Flux

GUEST CAST

Simon Carew (Sea Devil) Born 1987 Click here for Simon Carew's entry on Fugitive of the Judoon

Marlowe Chan-Reeves (Ying Ki)

This is Marlowe's only credit to date.

Andrew Cross (Sea Devil)

Doctor Who credits

Played: Surgeon in The Return of Doctor Mysterio (2016, uncredited)

Played: Sea Devil in Legend of the Sea Devils (2022)

Played: Cyberman in The Power of the Doctor (2022)

Jon Davey (Sea Devil)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Cyberman in Rise of the Cybermen/ The Age of Steel (2006, uncredited), Doomsday (2006, uncredited), The Next Doctor (2008, uncredited), The Pandorica Opens (2010, uncredited), The Timeless Children (2020), Flux (2021, uncredited)
Played: Man on bus in Army of Ghosts (2006, uncredited)
Played: Host in Voyage of the Damned (2007, uncredited)
Played: Ood in Planet of the Ood (2008, uncredited), The End of Time (2010, uncredited)
Played: Atmos worker in The Sontaran Stratagem (2008, uncredited)
Played: Hath in The Doctor's Daughter (2008, uncredited), The End of Time (2010, uncredited)
Played: Judoon in The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End (2008, uncredited)
Played: Winder in The Beast Below (2010, uncredited)
Played: Dalek in Victory of the Daleks (2010, uncredited), The Day of the Doctor (2013, uncredited), The Time of the Doctor (2013, uncredited)
Played: Call centre worker in The Lodger (2010, uncredited)
Played: Goalkeeper in The Lodger (2010, uncredited)
Played: Museum visitor in The Big Bang (2010, uncredited)
Played: Shansheeth in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor (2010)
Played: Dark Horde in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (2010)
Played: Teselecta worker in Let's Kill Hitler (2011, uncredited)
Played: Cleric in Closing Time (2011, uncredited)
Played: Marine in The Wedding of River Song (2011, uncredited)
Played: UNIT soldier in The Bells of Saint John (2013, uncredited), The Day of the Doctor (2013, uncredited), Death in Heaven (2014, uncredited)
Played: Clockwork droid in Deep Breath (2014, uncredited)
Played: Dream Crab sleeper in Last Christmas (2014, uncredited)
Played: Mire in The Girl Who Died (2015, uncredited)
Played: Drone in The Return of Doctor Mysterio (2016, uncredited)

Played: UN troop in Extremis (2017, uncredited)

Played: Memory police in The Lie of the Land (2017, uncredited)

Played: Sea Devil in Legend of the Sea Devils (2022)
Jon also played monsters at the 2013 Doctor Who Prom.

Chester Durrant (Sea Devil) Born 1968

Doctor Who credits

Played: Pedestrian in The Runaway Bride (2006, uncredited)

Played: Futurekind in Utopia (2007, uncredited)

Played: Handsome guest in Voyage of the Damned (2007, uncredited)

Played: Soldier in The Doctor's Daughter (2008, uncredited), The Power of Three (2012, uncredited), The Bells of Saint John (2013, uncredited), The Day of the Doctor (2013, uncredited), Into the Dalek (2014, uncredited), Death in Heaven (2014, uncredited)

Played: Cleric in A Good Man Goes to War (2011, uncredited), Closing Time (2011, uncredited), The Time of the Doctor (2013, uncredited)

Played: Marine in The Wedding of River Song (2011, uncredited)

Played: Dalek operator in Asylum of the Daleks (2012, uncredited)

Played: Chorister in The Rings of Akhaten (2013, uncredited)

Played: Man in spacesuit in Listen (2014, uncredited)

Played: Guard in Time Heist (2014, uncredited), Mummy on the Orient Express (2014, uncredited)

Played: Sea Devil in Legend of the Sea Devils (2022)

Played: Cyberman in The Power of the Doctor (2022)

Career highlights

Chester's only other screen work is in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019).

Craige Els (Chief Sea Devil) Born Jul 18 1978

Doctor Who credits

Played: Dan's friend in Revolution of the Daleks (2021, uncredited)

Played: Karvanista in Flux (2021)

Played: Chief Sea Devil in Legend of the Sea Devils (2022)

Career highlights

Debuted in Call the Midwife (2013), then Ripper Street (2013), Hailmakers (2017), Coronation Street (2019), Sliced (2021) and RIPD 2 (2022).

Arthur Lee (Ji-Hun) Born 1981

Career highlights

Arthur's earliest screen credit was in the short film Hurt's Rescue (2014), followed by Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Strike Back (2015), Lucky Man (2017), Greta (2018), Treadstone (2019), The Batman (2022) and Moonhaven (2022).

Mickey Lewis (Sea Devil) Click here for Mickey Lewis's entry on Ascension of the Cybermen

Richard Price (Sea Devil) Born May 26 1981 Click here for Richard Price's entry on Ascension of the Cybermen

David K.S Tse (Ying Wai)

Career highlights

Hong Kong born David's CV stems back to 1988's Soursweet, followed by parts in Tatort (1991), Minder (1993), Bhaji on the Beach (1993), London's Burning (1994), Frontiers (1996), Cracker (1996), Thief Takers (1997), Down to Earth (2003), The Grid (2004), Spooks (2010), Wolfblood (2012), DCI Banks (2016), Tokyo Trial (2016-17), Chimerica (2019), Devs (2020) and Doctor Styrange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

Facts

The "KS" stands for Ka-Shing.

Crystal Yu (Madam Ching) Born 1989

Career highlights

Hong Kong born Crystal's earliest credit was on Dream Team (2003), followed by Diamond Geezer (2007), Spirit Warriors (2010), Shanghai (2010), Chimerica (2019), Keeping Faith (2019), Soulmates (2020), Silverpoint (2022) and The Sandman (2022). She regularly played Lily Chao in almost 150 episodes of Casualty (2013-17).

CREW

Ella Road (writer) Born 1991

Career highlights

Ella started out as an actor in short films such as A Memory (2014), Tiny Bible (2015) and The Things I Will Not Miss (2018), as well as the film Winter Ridge (2018). As a writer, Doctor Who was her first TV credit, followed by two episodes of Ten Percent (2022), but she is also a playwright, penning the Olivier Award-nominated The Phlebotomist, and Fair Play.

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

Haolu Wang (director)

Career highlights

Chinese born Haolu's first TV credit was Doctor Who, which followed several short films such as Being James (2014), The Blender (2017) and The Pregnant Ground (2019). Haolu also wrote and produced some of these films.