- David Tennant
David Tennant is the stage name of David John McDonald (born 18 April 1971), a Scottish actor from Bathgate, West Lothian, best known as the tenth actor to portray the Doctor in the television series "Doctor Who". Already a well-known theatre actor, Tennant achieved wider fame for his TV roles in "Casanova" and "Doctor Who", as well as his film role as Barty Crouch Jr in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
- Tom Baker
Thomas Stewart Baker (born January 20, 1934) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who", a role he played from 1974 to 1981, and for being the narrator of the comedy series "Little Britain".
- Billie Piper
Billie Paul Piper (born Lianne Paul Piper on 22 September 1982) is an English actress. She began her career as a pop singer in her teens, and was well-known for her marriage to DJ Chris Evans, but is now best known for portraying Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor in the television series "Doctor Who" from 2005 to 2006.
- Bruce Purchase
Bruce Purchase is a British actor (born 1938), known for his roles on television. His credits include: "Callan", "The First Churchills", "Doomwatch", "Fall of Eagles", "I, Claudius", "The New Avengers", "Doctor Who" (in the serial "The Pirate Planet"), "Blake's 7" and "The Tripods".
- Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston (born 16 February 1964) is an English stage, television and film actor. He is well-known for his roles in several high-profile films, and in 2005 he became the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in "Doctor Who".
- Freema Agyeman
Freema Agyeman (born 1979) is an English actress whose first notable appearance was in the ITV soap opera "Crossroads". She is best known for playing medical student Martha Jones, companion of the Tenth Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". Prior to getting the role of Martha in "Doctor Who", she worked shifts at a Blockbuster Video outlet in North London, which enabled her to schedule auditions for other work.
- Noel Clarke
Noel Anthony Clarke is an English actor and writer from London. In 2003, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for "Most Promising Newcomer" for his performance in the play "Where Do We Live" at the Royal Court Theatre. He has appeared in several television programmes including "Casualty" and "Metrosexuality". He has had recurring roles as Wyman Norris in the revival series of "Auf Wiedersehen, …
- Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate is an English comedienne and actress best known for her BBC Two sketch comedy series, "The Catherine Tate Show". Following its success, Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of "Doctor Who" and is now set to reprise the role to become the Doctor's companion throughout series four in 2008. She has won numerous awards for her work on "The Catherine Tate Show" and has been nominated for a BAFTA and Emmy Award.
- John Barrowman
John Barrowman (born 11 March, 1967 in Mount Vernon, Glasgow) is a British-American actor, musical performer, dancer, singer, and TV presenter who has lived and worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States. He currently lives in the UK. He became a United States citizen in 1985, and holds dual US/UK citizenship. Barrowman is best known on British television for his acting and his presenting work on theatre.
- Peter Davison
Peter Davison (born Peter Moffett 13 April, 1951) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's "All Creatures Great and Small" and as the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in "Doctor Who", which he played from 1981 to 1984.
- Colin Baker
Colin Baker (born London, June 8, 1943) is an English actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who", from 1984 to 1986.
- Jon Pertwee
John Devon Roland Pertwee, better known as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the science fiction television series "Doctor Who", where he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series "Worzel Gummidge". He also hosted the murder mystery quiz programme "Whodunnit!" between 1974 and 1978 for Thames Television.
- Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith August 20, 1943) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who" from 1987 to 1989 and in the 1996 "Doctor Who" television movie. He is sometimes credited as Sylveste McCoy.
- David Walliams
David Walliams (born David Williams, August 20, 1971) is an English comedy actor, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas in the sketch show "Little Britain".
- William Hartnell
William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 - 23 April 1975) was an English actor, the first actor to play the lead role of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who" from 1963 to 1966.
- Paul McGann
Paul McGann (born November 14, 1959 in Liverpool) is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial "The Monocled Mutineer", in which he played the lead role. He is also known for his role in "Withnail and I", and for portraying the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 "Doctor Who" television movie and subsequent tie-in media.
- Elisabeth Sladen
Elisabeth Sladen (born February 1, 1948, Liverpool, England) is an English actress best known for her work as the character Sarah Jane Smith on the television series "Doctor Who" and related spin-offs. She appeared as a regular on "Doctor Who" with both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and has reprised the role many times.
- Bernard Cribbins
Bernard Cribbins (born December 29, 1928 in Oldham, Lancashire) is an English character actor and musical comedian. Early in his career, he released a number of comedy records, including "Right Said Fred" (in which a group of workmen struggle to move a large unspecified object, possibly a piano) and "Hole in the Ground" (in which an embittered workman murders a bowler-hatted harasser). He has appeared in many British films, including three Carry On films, …
- John Simm
John Ronald Simm (born July 10, 1970 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an English actor and musician. He is best known for his role as DI Sam Tyler in the BBC detective drama "Life on Mars". He has also recently appeared as the latest incarnation of the Master in the long-running BBC science fiction series "Doctor Who".
- John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python, and as the writer and star of the popular television comedy "Fawlty Towers". He has won BAFTA and Emmy awards, and was an Academy Award nominated screen writer for his film, "A Fish Called Wanda".
- Georgia Moffett
Georgia Elizabeth Moffett (born December 25, 1984 in west London) is an English actress and the daughter of actors Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson.
- Sophia Myles
Sophia Myles (born March 18, 1980) is an English film and television actress.
- Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966) is an English actor and writer. Gatiss was born in Sedgefield, County Durham, England. He currently lives in Islington, London, with his partner Ian and their dog Bunsen. In 2006, Gatiss was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Huddersfield.
- Nicholas Courtney
Nicholas Courtney (born William Nicholas Stone Courtney on December 16 1929) is a British television actor, most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who".
- Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for his work on British television and particularly for his role as the Master in "Doctor Who". He was the first actor to portray the Master as a recurring role after the death of Roger Delgado in 1973. He was born in London the son of the actor Henry Ainley. His half-brother, Richard Ainley, was also an actor. Ainley's swarthy appearance tended to get him parts as villains.
- Louise Jameson
Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951 in Wanstead, London) is an English actress, most famous for playing Leela, the leather-clad barbarian warrior companion of the mysterious Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series "Doctor Who". Jameson has also appeared on "Emmerdale" (as Sharon Crossthwaite), "The Omega Factor" (as Dr. Anne Reynolds), "Tenko" (as Blanche Simmons), …
- Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who" and its various spin-offs. Briggs sometimes uses the pseudonym Arthur Wallis. Some of Briggs' earliest "Doctor Who"-related work was as host of "Myth Makers", …
- David Troughton
David Troughton (born June 9, 1950 in Hampstead, North London, England) is a Shakespearean actor on the British stage.
- Roger Delgado
Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto (March 1, 1918 - June 18, 1973) was a British actor, best known for his role as the Master in "Doctor Who". He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London - Delgado often remarked to "Doctor Who" actor Jon Pertwee, a close friend, that this made him a true cockney, as he was born within the sound of the Bow Bells - although his mother was Spanish and his father French.
- Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE (born 22 October, 1938) is an English actor and director, knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British.
- Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE, (26 May 1913-11 August1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, often appearing opposite his close friend Christopher Lee. He was also asked, because he was such a familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, to appear as Grand Moff Tarkin in the original "Star Wars" film.
- Peter Kay
Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973 in Farnworth, near Bolton, England) is a writer, producer, actor and comedian. His work includes "That Peter Kay Thing" (2000), "Phoenix Nights" (2001 - 2002), "Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere" (2004), as well as other independent productions.
- Anthony Stewart Head
Anthony Head (born 20 February, 1954) is an English actor and musician who has appeared in theatre, television and films. He is most widely known for his role as Rupert Giles in the American television drama series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", as the Prime Minister in the British comedy show "Little Britain", as Dr.
- Simon Pegg
Simon John Pegg (born 14 February 1970 in Gloucester) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and film and television actor. He is known for his title roles in "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz", and for the British sitcom "Spaced". Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright.
- Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen on May 5, 1957) is a British actor. Among his best-known roles is the world-weary, drug-crazed alcoholic Withnail in "Withnail and I"
- Matthew Waterhouse
Matthew Waterhouse is a British actor best known for his role as Adric in the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". He is from Haywards Heath, West Sussex. He was educated at St. Wilfrid’s Primary School, West Sussex and Shoreham Grammar School (now Shoreham College). After leaving the series, he began a stage career, mainly because he was influenced by his older brother, Paul, to do so.
- Sophie Aldred
Sophie Aldred (born 20 August 1962) is an English actress and television presenter, best known for her portrayal of the Doctor's assistant Ace in the television series "Doctor Who". She was born in Greenwich, and raised in Blackheath, London. Having attended Blackheath High School, she studied drama at the University of Manchester, before embarking on a career in children's theatre. In 1987, she was cast as Ace in "Doctor Who".
- Davina McCall
Davina Lucy Pascale McCall (born 16 October 1967) is an English television presenter and actress who works on British television. She is best known for presenting the UK edition of "Big Brother" and working as a presenter on MTV early in her career.
- Eve Myles
Eve Myles (born 1978) is an actress from Ystradgynlais, Wales, UK, who plays the female lead character in "Torchwood" and "Belonging". She has also appeared in "EastEnders", the television film "Score", and the "Doctor Who" episode "The Unquiet Dead". In 2002 and 2003, Myles was nominated for Best Actress in the BAFTA Cymru Awards for her role as Ceri on the BBC Wales drama "Belonging".
- Nicola Bryant
Nicola Bryant (born 11 October 1962 in Guildford, Surrey) is a British actress known for her role as Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown, a companion of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who".