Rogue

Shalka Doctor?
Or Comic Relief Doctor?

One episode (Rogue)

First broadcast: June 8 2024
Audience for story: 3.52m

REGULAR CAST

Ncuti Gatwa (The Doctor) Born Oct 15 1992 Click here for Ncuti Gatwa's entry on The Giggle

Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday) Born Jun 19 2004 Click here for Millie Gibson's entry on The Church on Ruby Road

GUEST CAST

Camilla Aiko (Emily Beckett)

Career highlights

Camilla's further work includes Fifteen-Love (2023), Lee (2023) and Madhouse (2024).

Maxim Ays (Lord Galpin) Born Sep 18 1998

Career highlights

Maxim debuted in Still So Awkward (2021), followed by Sanditon (2022), The Larkins (2022) and Boarders (2024).

Debra Baker (Housekeeper) Born Jan 2 1968

Career highlights

Debuting in 2007 short film The East Front, Debra's other credits include The Butterfly Tattoo (2009), EastEnders (2011), Junkhearts (2011), Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me (2011), Call the Midwife (2012), PhoneShop (2013), Birds of a Feather (2014), Coronation Street (2014), Angel (2015), God's Acre (2015), The Five (2016), Sliced (2019), Bruised Sky (2020, which she also wrote for), It's a Sin (2021), King Gary (2021) and Supacell (2024).

Nancy Brabin-Platt (Miss Talbot)

This is Nancy's debut TV credit. Nancy also works as a drag performer, and set up her own monthly drag event to support female, trans and non-binary performers.

Ashley Campbell (Butler) Born 1980

Career highlights

Best known for playing Ollie in The Mysti Show (2004), Ashley's other work includes Holby City (2003), William and Mary (2005), Ultimate Force (2006), Hollyoaks Later (2009), Scott and Bailey (2014), Father Brown (2020), Bridgerton (2020), Call the Midwife (2021), Coronation Street (2021-23) and four different episodes of Doctors (2018-23).

Facts

In 1990, Ashley was one of the children attending the Danny Kaye International Children's Awards in Amsterdam in aid of Unicef, representing the UK. He also took part in the UK promotion of Michael Jackson's Bad World Tour in 1988.

David Charles (Mr Price) Born Sep 21 1961

Career highlights

Debuted in Mistress of Suspense (1990), then The Old Devils (1992), Strange But True? (1994), Grange Hill (1995), The Bench (2001), Wild West (2002), The Story of Tracy Beaker (2004), Doc Martin (2005), High Hopes (2005), Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (2006, as Charles Hawtrey), Sense and Sensibility (2008), Thorne (2010), The Inside Man (2019), The Crown (2019) and Masters of the Air (2024).

Paul Forman (Lord Barton) Born Mar 16 1994

Career highlights

Further work includes Nevrland (2019), Seagull (2019), The Spanish Princess (2020), Frank of Ireland (2021), McDonald and Dodds (2022), Riches (2022) and Emily in Paris (2022).

Facts

Paul is a British/ French actor who also works as a model. He can be seen on the cover of Attitude magazine with the band Little Mix in 2018.

Michelle Greenidge (Carla) Born Jun 15 1970

Doctor Who credits

Played: Carla Sunday in The Church on Ruby Road (2023), Space Babies (2024), 73 Yards (2024), Rogue (2024), The Legend of Ruby Sunday/ Empire of Death (2024)

Career highlights

Debuted in the 2009 short Leave, followed by All About the McKenzies (2014), Venus vs Mars (2015), A Lesson Learnt (2015), Intruders (2017), Timewasters (2019), I May Destroy You (2019-20), Small Axe (2020), It's a Sin (2021), Cruella (2021), King Gary (2021), Grantchester (2021), Alex Rider (2021), The Witchfinder (2022) and My Happy Ending (2023). Recurring roles include Lola in Mandy (2020-22), Valerie in After Life (2019-22) and Judith in Code 404 (2020-22).

Jonathan Groff (Rogue) Born Mar 26 1985

Career highlights

Making his screen debut playing Henry Mackler in US soap One Life to Live (2007), Jonathan's CV includes roles in Pretty/ Handsome (2008), Taking Woodstock (2009), The Conspirator (2010), The Good Wife (2012), Boss (2012), Frozen (2013, as the voice of Kristoff), The Normal Heart (2014), American Sniper (2014), The Simpsons (2018), Frozen 2 (2019), Hamilton (2020), Invincible (2021), The Matrix Resurrections (2021), And Just Like That (2022), Lost Ollie (2022), Knock at the Cabin (2023) and A Nice Indian Boy (2024). Further recurring roles include Jesse St James in Glee (2010-15), Patrick Murray in Looking (2014-16) and Holden Ford in Mindhunter (2017-19).

Awards

2014: Behind the Voice Award for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film (Frozen) - shared with cast

2016: Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album (Hamilton) - shared with cast

2018: Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Series, Drama/ Genre (Mindhunter)

Facts

While filming the dance routine to Bohemian Rhapsody in Glee, Jonathan sustained a 5-inch scar on his bicep after being wounded by his dance partner's stiletto! Jonathan has been romantically linked to actor Zachary Quinto, actor Gavin Creel and choreographer Corey Baker. When he was in his early 20s, Jonathan was diagnosed with melanoma and underwent surgery to remove it. He is an advocate of transcendental meditation.

Susan Twist (The Portrait) Born c.1957 Click here for Susan Twist's entry on Wild Blue Yonder

Indira Varma (Duchess of Pemberton) Born Sep 27 1973

Doctor Who credits

Played: Suzie Costello in Torchwood: Everything Changes (2006), They Keep Killing Suzie (2006)

Played: Duchess of Pemberton in Rogue (2024)

Career highlights

Indira debuted in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), followed by Clancy's Kitchen (1997), Psychos (1999), Other People's Children (2000), In a Land of Plenty (2001), Attachments (2000-01), Mad Dogs (2002), Rockface (2003), Canterbury Tales (2003), Donovan (2004), The Quatermass Experiment (2005), Love Soup (2005), Little Britain (2005), Basic Instinct 2 (2006), Comanche Moon (2008), Bones (2008), Moses Jones (2009), Hustle (2010), Luther (2010), Silk (2012), Hunted (2012), New Blood (2016), Unspeakable (2017), Silent Hours (2017), Patrick Melrose (2018), Carnival Row (2019), Faith Healer (2020), This Way Up (2019-21), Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022), The Capture (2022), Extrapolations (2023), Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 (2023) and The Night Manager (2024-25). Recurring roles include Niobe in Rome (2005-07), Ilsa Pucci in Human Target (2010-11), Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones (2014-17), Safiya Masry in For Life (2020-21) and voicing various puppets, including politician Priti Patel, for Spitting Image (2020-21).

Awards

2015: Behind the Voice Award for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Video Game (Dragon Age: Inquisition) - shared with cast

2020: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Present Laughter)

Facts

Indira is married to actor Colin Tierney.

CREW

Kate Herron (writer) Born Oct 28 1987

Career highlights

Kate's other writing work includes the short films Frank (2010), Kill List: The Musical (2012), Run  Toward Them (2012), Valentine (2014), Healey's House (2014) and Smear (2017), which she also directed. Non-short film directing credits include The Idris Takeover (2017), Five By Five (2017), Sex Education (2019), Daybreak (2019), Loki (2021) and The Last of Us (2025). Kate was also a producer on the series Loki.

Facts

Kate's involvement with Doctor Who came about after Russell T Davies criticised the "feeble" LGBTQ representation in series 1 of Loki. When he reached out to Kate to apologise, it ended up with him inviting her to write an episode of Doctor Who.

Briony Redman (writer)

Career highlights

Briony's other screen writing work includes the short films Run Towards Them (2012), Forget Me Not (2014) and Smear (2017). She has also appeared before the camera in these short films, plus Darren H Christ (2014), Snowflakes (2017), Angry Quiz Guy (2020) and The Invisible Man (2022). She is also a comedy writer and performer, having worked on sketch shows as well as improv with Questing Time, The Free Association and Steen Raskapoulos and Friends. She was also one half of a comedy double act called Surname & Surname with Paul Foxcroft.

Ben Chessell (director)

Doctor Who credits

Directed: The Devil's Chord (2024), Rogue (2024)

Career highlights

Australian Ben's earliest directing work was for the 2002 short The Only Person in the World, followed by Heartworm (2004), Little Deaths (2007), Dance Academy (2010), Rescue Special Ops (2011), Rush (2010-11), Camp (2013), Sucker (2015), Offspring (2012-17), Doctor Doctor (2017-18), The Family Law (2017-19), Girl/ Haji (2019), The Great (2020), Surviving Summer (2022) and Deadloch (2023).

Facts

Ben studied ecology and medieval history at university in Melbourne.