Doctor Who (2005)
Saturday 7:00 PM on BBC
Cast & Crew
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Arthur Darvill
Rory Williams
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Matt Smith
The Eleventh Doctor
Matt attended the Northampton School for Boys. A talented footballer, he gave up dreams of turning pro after a back injury, and started acting. A former member of the National Youth Theatre, Matt studied drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia. In January 2009, the BBC announced that he would be taking on the role of the Eleventh Doctor in the iconic series Doctor Who, making him the youngest actor ever to portray The Doctor.moreless -
Karen Gillan
Amy Pond
Karen is a young Scottish actress, probably best known for her role in Doctor Who's fourth season episode "The Fires of Pompeii". In May 2009 it was announced that she was to become the Doctor's new companion in the fifth season alongside the eleventh doctor Matt Smith to be broadcast in 2010. At 21 she will be one of the younger Doctor Who companions.moreless -
Christopher Eccleston
The Ninth Doctor
On February 16, 1964 Christopher was born in the northwestern English town of Salford to a modest working class family.
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Chris had big dreams of one day becoming a professional football player, but at the age of nineteen Chris realised that his true calling in life was to become an actor. He soon enrolled in London's Central School of Speech and Drama. After he graduated though, it took a few years before his career got off the ground.
In 1991, the tides slowly began to turn for Chris when he was given a role in Let Him Have It.
His performance won him much praise and soon led him to the role that would set his place as a television favourite in stone. In 1993, Chris began co-starring opposite Robbie Coltrane (also of Harry Potter fame) in the hit crime drama Cracker. He continued appearing in the series for the first two seasons.
In 2004, it was confirmed that Chris would play the main role of The Doctor in the revival of Doctor Who opposite Billie Piper. This was going to be his most famous role and would make him a household name in the UK. He only stayed for 13 episodes, leaving in The Parting of the Ways to be replaced by David Tennant. Chris was criticised a lot for leaving the role so early.
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David Tennant
The Tenth Doctor
David was born in 1971, in Scotland, to the Rev. Alexander and Helen McDonald. The youngest of three, he has a brother, Blair (managing director of Sony Music Publishing for Great Britain) and a sister, Karen and has admitted to being a committed Christian. In July 2007, following a battle with cancer, his mother passed away, and David is now patron of the Association of International Cancer Research (AICR). From a very young age he was keen to be an actor, which intensified when he attended Paisley Grammar School. He trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and acted with the 7:84 Theatre Company, a genre-bending, ground-breaking, political Scottish Theatre Group. David is godfather to Arabella Weir from The Fast Show youngest child. Both of them have worked with each other in several projects. He changed his name to avoid confusion with another actor, and picked Tennant from Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. David had a successful career in theatre before moving to TV with starring roles in Takin Over the Asylum, Blackpool and Russell T. Davies' Casanova before becoming the Tenth Doctor in the revitalised Doctor Who. The actor has been connected to a few co-workers from Doctor Who and other projects but as of present, he remains unmarried and has openly admitted in being shy about discussing his private life, especially his romantic history. In September 2008 the author Nigel Goodall released a biography on David titled David Tennant: A Life in Time and Space. However, the book itself was not done under the actor's consent.moreless -
Billie Piper
Rose Tyler
Billie was born in 1982, in Swindon to Paul Piper, a builder, and Mandy Kent. The eldest of four children, she has a brother, Charlie, and two sisters, Harley and Ellie. She attended Bradon Forest School and the Sylvia Young Theatre School from age 12, and became famous in her teens as a pop singer having 7 top 5 hit singles before she was 20. Billie's first husband was UK DJ Chris Evans, whom she married when she was 18 and he was 16 years older (May 2001 - May 2007), and though they are now divorced they remain good friends. On 31 December 2007, Billie married Laurence Fox in Easebourne, West Sussex. In October 2008, Billie gave birth to her son Winston James Fox by emergency Caesarean. In 2006, she released her autobiography, Growing Pains. However in mid 2007 it was re-released on paperback with new information from the actress. Billie admitted to releasing her own autobiography to counter the release of an unauthorised biography that was coming out at the same time.moreless -
Freema Agyeman
Martha Jones
Freema Agyeman was born in 1979 in London to Ghanaian and Iranian parents. Ever since a young age, she wanted to become an actress and got her big break in the now cancelled Crossroads as Lola Wise. She later appeared in several episodes of the ITV crime drama, The Bill. In 2006, Freema played Adeola in the penultimate episode of the second series of Doctor Who, Army of Ghosts. In that her character died. However, it was confirmed in July 2006 that she would play 23 year old medical Student Martha Jones, the new companion, in the third series of Doctor Who, replacing Billie Piper's Rose Tyler. Agyeman appeared in every episode of the critically acclaimed third series before her character departed following the culmination of her story arc in the series final. She subsequently reprised her role as Martha Jones, now a qualified doctor, in three episodes of spin-off series Torchwood, as well as in five episodes of the Fourth Series of Doctor Who. Following her role as Martha Jones, Agyeman went on to appear in BBC productions of Little Dorrit in which she played tempestuous maid Tattycoram, and Survivors, in which she played Jenny Collins. In February 2009 Law and Order: UK started airing, which stars Freema Agyeman as Crown Prosecutor Alesha Phillips in all 13 episodes. A second series begins filming in September 2009.moreless -
John Barrowman
Captain Jack Harkness
John was born in 1967, in Glasgow, Scotland. His family moved to Joliet, Illinois when he was eight. While studying at United States International University, he returned to the UK to study Shakespeare. While studying there, he attended an open casting call for Anything Goes. They needed an actor who could not only act and sing, but also do an American accent. He got the role, and hasn't looked back since. He has since appeared on stage both in the UK and the US, in shows including Miss Saigon, Beauty and the Beast, Evita, Hair, Sunset Boulevard,and A Few Good Men. He has appeared on television on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in the BBC revival of Doctor Who and its 2006 spin off, Torchwood. His film roles include DeLovely, in which he performed a duet with Kevin Kline and Mel Brook's remake of The Producers.moreless -
Catherine Tate
Donna Noble
Catherine grew up in Bloomsbury's iconic Brunswick Centre. Growing up without a father, her mother Josephine provided for Catherine as best she could. After attending such acting schools as the central School of Speech and Drama and climbing to where she is now in her career, Catherine is the mother of a little girl called Erin whom Catherine says doesn't take after her mother when it comes to comedy; Erin is very much a girly girl.
Described as one of the funniest new British comedic talents of recent years, Catherine Tate has taken England and Ireland by storm! Her Career has sky rocketed as of late. Her successful sketch show The Catherine Tate Show ran for three seasons. She has now moved on to the companion role in the 4th series of the revamped Doctor Who where she plays Donna, a character she is reprising from the Christmas special The Runaway Bride.
Her film career has also taken a turn for the better with a line of films that were released in late 2006 where she demonstrated that she's not typecast to just playing comedy roles, but serious ones too. These films included Sixty Six, Scenes of a Sexual Nature and Starter For Ten.
To add to her array of talent Catherine is also a writer. She has proven her worth by possibly writing some of the funniest sketches in her TV series, but not only she has also written for various other shows too. Catherine has appeared in many of Britain's best comedies and TV series from The Bill to Men Behaving Badly.moreless -
Reggie Yates
Leo Jones
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Shaun Dingwall
Pete Tyler
Shaun Dingwall is an actor working exclusively in the UK. His career started to take off in the early 1990s; he worked on the stage in 1994 starring in the revival and the first touring presentation of Beautiful Thing as Ste a role played in the movie by Scott Neal. Shaun's first well known TV character is D.C. Mark Rivers in Touching Evil.
In 2005, Shaun had the very important role of Rose's father Pete Tyler in the first series of Doctor Who (2005) ; a role he reprised in the second series. Since his work in the show, he has become implicated in the world attached to it narrating an audio book, providing commentaries for the DVDs and going to conventions.moreless -
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Tish Jones
Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a British-born actress, who is also trained at the RADA. She has starred in a variety of television programmes and theatre productions, notably her recurring roles in both Spooks and Doctor Who. More recently, Mbatha-Raw has appeared in the drama Fallout as part of the 'Disarming Britain' TV season on Channel 4, and has also played the character of Viv Davis on Bonekickers.
Mbatha-Raw is one of the stars of the 2010 J.J. Abrams American spy series Undercovers.moreless -
Arthur Darvill
Rory Williams
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Noel Clarke
Mickey Smith
Noel was born in London in 1975. His mother was from Trinidad. He went to St. Charles Sixth Form College. Noel came to public attention through roles in Auf Wiedersehen,Pet and Doctor Who. As well as an actor, Noel is a writer, having won awards for his his first screenplay, Kidulthood, which he wrote while still in his 20s. Noel is married with a son (b. 2008), and lives in Ladbroke Grove.moreless -
Camille Coduri
Jackie Tyler
Camille was born in 1966. The actress who made her debut in theatre like many actors, has also featured in many TV series and movies but is mostly famous for her Doctor Who role Jackie Tyler, the mother of Billie Piper's character Rose Tyler as well as her role as Peggy in the shortlived BBC3 drama Sinchronicity. Camille married her husband Christopher Fulford in 1992. The couple have two children, Rosa and Santino.moreless -
Bernard Cribbins
Wilfred Mott
Bernard was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1928 to John Edward and Ethel Cribbins. Bernard started acting at 14 with the Oldham Rep, and soon established himself on the stage before moving in to film and television. He briefly sojourned from acting to service in the Parachute Regiment. He is married to Gillian McBarnet.moreless -
Jacqueline King
Syliva Noble
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Tracey Ifeachor
Abigail Naismith
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Alex Kingston
River Song
Alex Kingston grew up in Epsom, on the outskirts of London, the eldest of three daughters of a butcher and his German wife. She became interested in acting after a family trip to Germany, where she saw her uncle performing on stage. Her first role was at the age of five, when she played the angel Gabriel in a school play. She attended an all-girls grammar school in Epsom, where was inspired by her English teacher to pursue an acting career. At age fifteen she got her first professional acting job playing a judo-trained bully on the British television series Grange Hill.
After finishing her schooling, Alex moved to London, where she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She successfully completed their two-year program and began performing in repertory theatres across England. She was soon asked to join the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company, where she performed not only mainstays like Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear, but also new plays and contemporary American cs.
She made her feature film debut in Peter Greenaway's 1989 movie The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover. In 1996 she landed the title role in the PBS Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, a role that brought her critical acclaim. In 1997 she became a household name when she took on the role of Dr. Elizabeth Corday on the NBC television series ER.moreless -
Rupert Vansittart
General Asquith
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Alan David
Gabriel Sneed
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John Schwab
Bywater
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Jennifer Hill
Mrs Peace
JENNIFER HILL ACTRESS Jennifer's love for the performing arts manifested itself at an early age. By the age of 6 she was performing skits and plays with fellow acting students. By the age of 8 she already had an agent and her third national TV commercial under her belt. For years Jennifer enjoyed her time in front of the camera as an actor/model appearing in numerous television commercials, advertising photo shoots and community theater. But her constant brushes with the advertising world motivated Jennifer to pursue her love of her craft from the other side of the camera and she joined an ad agency. While continuing her scholastic and performing arts studies at night Jennifer spent her days at the agency working in broadcast and print production. However, Jennifer's interpersonal skills and logical approach to problem solving redirected her advertising career to the human resources side of the business where she rapidly progressed to the role of Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) with responsibilities for over 100 employees. But to the chagrin of her advertising colleagues the time came when Jennifer could no longer suppress her need to follow her true goal in life. She auditioned for and won the role of co-host on a nationally televised sports based trivia show "Game On". Over two successful years Jennifer gained notoriety and an almost cult like following. She became a media darling with numerous appearances on the Mike Bullard Show, Off The Record, The Wave and the Gemini Awards. Jennifer graced the covers of an international magazine and has been the subject of articles in major newspapers such as the Globe & Mail, National Post, Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun. With representation in both Toronto and Los Angeles Jennifer leads the busy life of a bi-coastal actor appearing in numerous television and feature film productions. Most recently Jennifer has appeared in Relic Hunter, Twice in a Life Time, Martha Higgins Mysteries, An American in Canada, Comics, The Circle, Street Time, Comedy Network, Mutant X, Soul Food IIICBS Movie of the Week "The Crooked E", Gavin Crawford Showmoreless -
Mark Benton
Clive Finch
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Anna-Louise Plowman
Diana
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Naoko Mori
Doctor Sato
Naoko Mori was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1975. When she was four years old she moved with her family to New Jersey, and eight years later to Surrey, England.
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Naoko took singing lessons and attended stage school and, at the age of seventeen, appeared in London's West End in the leading role of Kim in Miss Saigon, opposite John Barrowman, with whom she later appeared in the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood.
Like Torchwood co-starsJohn Barrowman and Eve Myles, Naoko had appeared in Doctor Who, playing a medical doctor named Sato in the episode "Aliens of London", perhaps related to Hoshi Sato, the computer expert she played in Torchwood.
In the 1990s she appeared regularly on British TV as a hospital receptionist in Casualty and as a friend of Julia Sawalha, Jennifer Saunders' studious daughter, in the comedy Absolutely Fabulous, a role she continued for almost a decade. This was alternated with film work such as Topsy-Turvy, playing a Japanese girl who helped inspire Gilbert and Sullivan to pen The Mikado.
Mori also appeared in the television programmes Judge John Deed in 2001 and Spooks in 2002. Mori had a major role in the 2005 BBC docu-drama Hiroshima, which contained dramatic re-enactments of the 1945 Atomic-bombing.
Mori returned to the West End on November 20th, 2006, when she took over the role of Christmas Eve from Ann Harada in the London production of Avenue Q. -
Yasmin Bannerman
Jabe
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Annette Badland
Guest Star
Annette is an actress who is very well recognised for her many roles on British TV. During her career she has appeared in a large variety of roles, from appearances in children's shows such as Happy Families and The Worst Witch to dramas such as Cutting It and Bergerac. Annette was born in Birmingham in 1950. She trained at the East 15 Acting School in London. Annette lives in the West Midlands.moreless -
Annette Badland
Margaret Blaine
Annette is an actress who is very well recognised for her many roles on British TV. During her career she has appeared in a large variety of roles, from appearances in children's shows such as Happy Families and The Worst Witch to dramas such as Cutting It and Bergerac. Annette was born in Birmingham in 1950. She trained at the East 15 Acting School in London. Annette lives in the West Midlands.moreless -
Corey Johnson
Henry
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