Wednesday, April 05, 2017

The Eaters of Light

Not sure about the
latest BBC1 ident
One episode (The Eaters of Light)
First broadcast: June 17 2017
Audience for story: 4.73m

REGULAR CAST

Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) Born Apr 14 1958 Click here for Peter Capaldi's entry on The Fires of Pompeii


Pearl Mackie (Bill Potts) Born May 29 1987 Click here for Pearl Mackie's entry on The Pilot

GUEST CAST

Sam Adewunmi (Vitus) Born 1994
Career highlights
Sam debuted in The Missing (2014), then took parts in Prime Suspect 1973 (2017), The Hatton Garden Job (2017), Lucky Man (2018), The Last Tree (2019), The Watch (2020-21), Angela Black (2021) and You Don't Know Me (2021). He also played Benedict in 40 episodes of online teen series Dixi (2016).
Awards
2019: British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer (The Last Tree)
Facts
Here's Sam on Twitter.

Rebecca Benson (Kar) Born Apr 24 1990
Career highlights
Debuted in You Instead (2011), followed by Holby City (2012), Vera (2013), Shetland (2014), Game of Thrones (2016), The Crown (2016), The White Princess (2017), Year of the Rabbit (2019) and Flack (2019-20).
Facts
Rebecca is related to Scottish celebrity photographer Harry Benson. Here's Rebecca on Twitter.

Jocelyn Brassington (Judy)
Jocelyn's only other screen credit is Tomorrow Might be the Day (2018).

Michelle Gomez (Missy) Born Nov 23 1966 Click here for Michelle Gomez's entry on Deep Breath

Ben Hunter (Thracius) Born 1998
Career highlights
Further work includes The Rebel (2017), Doctors (2020) and Gentleman Jack (2019-22).
Facts
Ben, who secured an Olivier-nominated role in Gary Barlow's musical The Girls in 2017, is on Twitter.

Daniel Kerr (Ban) Born Apr 27 2000
Career highlights
Daniel has also appeared in The Wee Man (2013), Great Night Out (2013), Being Human (2013), Outlander (2014-15) and No Offence (2018). His regular roles include Eli Grant in 70 episodes of 4 O'Clock Files/ Club (2014-19) and James Coulter in 22 episodes of Doctors (2018). He also wrote, directed and starred in the short film Norm (2022).
Awards
2013: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor (The Wee Man)
Facts
Daniel is the youngest actor ever to win a Scottish BAFTA.

Lewis McGowan (Judy's brother) Born 2004
Career highlights
Lewis debuted in Scottish Mussel (2015), then Houdini and Doyle (2016), Rillington Place (2016), Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (2017), Blue Christmas (2017) and The Alienist (2018).
Facts
Lewis starred in the 2011 John Lewis Christmas commercial, the advert which started an annual tradition.

Billy Matthews (Cornelius)
Career highlights
Debuted in One Night (2012), then The Hollow Crown (2012), Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul (2012), The Hooligan Factory (2014) and Killing Eve (2018).
Facts
Here's Billy on Twitter.

Rohan Nedd (Simon)
Career highlights
After debuting in Doctor Who, Rohan went on to appear in Safe (2018), Blue Story (2019), Midsomer Murders (2019), Whitstable Pearl (2021) and Harry Wild (2022).

Aaron Phagura (Marc) Born Jun 17 ????
Career highlights
Debuted in Suburban Dracula (2015), then Him (2016), The Coroner (2016), Unforgotten (2017), Doctors (2018), Informer (2018) and Blinded by the Light (2019).
Facts
Here's Aaron on Twitter.

Brian Vernel (Lucius) Born Dec 29 1990
Career highlights
Debuted in The Field of Blood (2011, as Tom Vernel), then appeared in Offender (2012), Prey (2014), Grantchester (2014), The Casual Vacancy (2015), The Last Kingdom (2015), The Missing (2016), Dunkirk (2017), Papillon (2017), The Tunnel (2017-18), This Thing of Darkness (2020), Gangs of London (2020) and Slow Horses (2022). He may be best recognised as Bala-Tik in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

CREW

Rona Munro (writer) Born Sep 7 1959
Doctor Who credits
Writer: Survival (1989), The Eaters of Light (2017)
Career highlights
Rona has been writing for film, TV, stage and radio since 1981, her screen work including Biting the Hands (1989), Casualty (1990), Ladybird Ladybird (1994), Men of the Month (1994), Bumping the Odds (1997), Aimee and Jaguar (1999), I'm the Father (2002), Rehab (2003), Almost Adult (2006) and Oranges and Sunshine (2010).
Awards
1991: London Critics' Circle Drama Theatre Award for Most Promising New Playwright (Bold Girls)
2014: Evening Standard Award for Best Play (The James Plays)
2014: Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Play (The James Plays)
Facts
In 2013 she appeared on Newsnight to discuss Doctor Who in the 1980s.

Charles Palmer (director) Born 1965 Click here for Charles Palmer's entry on Smith and Jones

Nikki Wilson (producer) Click here for Nikki's entry on The Sontaran Stratagem

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