Doctor Who - The Magician's Apprentice - 02:20 am Sunday, June 28 on BBC Three

Peter Capaldi (Actor) .. The Doctor

Born: April 14, 1958 in Glasgow

Best Known For: The Thick of It and Doctor Who.

Early-life: Peter Dougan Capaldi was born in Glasgow on April 14, 1958. He is Irish on his mother's side and his father's family was from Italy. While attending Glasgow School of Art, he was the lead singer in a punk rock band called the Dreamboys. The drummer in the band was Craig Ferguson, who went on to become comedian and American chat show host. It was also while studying that Peter landed his breakthrough acting role in Local Hero in 1983.

Career: Playing mainly minor roles, Capaldi went on to feature in episodes of Minder, C.A.T.S. Eyes, The Lair of the White Worm, Rab C Nesbitt, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Agatha Christie's Poirot and the miniseries Selling Hitler. He returned to the big screen when he wrote and starred in 1993's low-budget Soft Top Hard Shoulder. Guest starring roles followed in Prime Suspect 3, The Vicar of Dibley, Judge John Deed, My Family and Midsomer Murders. His profile raised significantly in 2005 when he began playing foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in BBC comedy The Thick of It, a role that won him a Bafta. He also played Tucker in movie spin-off In the Loop. Always in-demand, his other TV credits include Skins, Torchwood: Children of Earth, The Nativity, Getting On and The Hour. He is currently playing the twelfth incarnation of the Time Lord in Doctor Who, a role he had long coveted.

Quote: 'There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.'

Trivia: A lifelong Doctor Who fan, Capaldi was invited to audition for the role of the Eighth Doctor, which was eventually taken by Paul McGann, but turned it down, saying, 'I loved the show so much, and I didn't think I'd get it, and I didn't want to just be part of a big cull of actors.'

Jenna Coleman (Actor) .. Clara

Born: April 27, 1986 in Blackpool

Best Known For: Playing Clara in Doctor Who.

Early-life: Born Jenna-Louise Coleman in Blackpool on April 27, 1986. She has an older brother called Ben and was head girl at her comprehensive school. While still at school she began appearing with local theatre group Yer Space, and won an award at the Edinburgh Festival for her performance in one of the organisation's plays. Jenna was auditioning for drama schools when she landed the part of Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale in 2005. She relocated to Leeds and ended up staying on the soap for nearly four years, appearing in 168 episodes.

Career: Coleman went on to have a recurring role in Waterloo Road, but claims that playing a schoolgirl at the age of 23 was 'surreal'. She went on to appear in Julian Fellowes' ITV mini-series Titanic and starred in a BBC Four adaptation of John Braine's novel Room at the Top. She made her film debut in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). Her profile increased significantly in 2012 when it was announced that she would play the companion in Doctor Who. Away from the sci-fi drama, she has starred in Stephen Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge and the three-part drama Death Comes to Pemberley. In 2013 she dropped 'Louise' from her name and is now known as Jenna Coleman.

Quote: 'I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.'

Trivia: Coleman was nominated for a number of soap awards during her time on Emmerdale, including Most Popular Newcomer at the 2007 National Television Awards.

Michelle Gomez (Actor) .. Missy

Born: April 21, 1971 in Glasgow

Best Known For: Playing Sue White in Green Wing.

Early-life: Michelle Gomez was born on April 21, 1971, in Glasgow. She caught the acting bug at the age of seven after seeing a production of Kiss Me Kate. She attended Shawlands Academy and trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Theatre.

Career: In 1998, Gomez landed parts in The Bill, The Acid House and Il Mio West, while Ticks, Taggart, Highlander: The Raven and New World Disorder also boosted her profile. In 2001 she was snapped up to star in hit comedy The Book Group. That eventually paved the way for her role as HR manager Sue White in Green Wing. Recent projects have included Chromophobia, Murder in Suburbia, Carrie and Barry, and Feel the Force. On the stage, she has starred in Boeing-Boeing, and The Taming of the Shrew.

Quote: 'It is always nice to play somebody who is slightly dour, and a Scot seems to manage to do that quite well for some reason.'

Trivia: Married to This Life star Jack Davenport since 2000. They have a son, Harry.

Julian Bleach (Actor) .. Davros

Jami Reid-Quarrell (Actor) .. Colony Sarff

Jemma Redgrave (Actor) .. Kate Stewart

Born: January 14, 1965 in London

Best Known For: Being a member of the Redgrave acting dynasty.

Early-life: Born Jemima Rebecca Redgrave on January 14, 1965, in London. She is the daughter of actor Corin Redgrave and his first wife, former model Deirdre Hamilton-Hill. Her parents divorced when she was nine. She has a brother, Luke, who's a cameraman, and two half-brothers from her father's second marriage to actress Kika Markham. Redgrave claims her childhood home was always full of her mother's friends, some of whom she didn't like. The open house nature of her upbringing made her long for discipline and structure. At 18, she enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Career: Redgrave followed her father, grandparents Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, aunts Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave, and cousins Natasha and Joely Richardson into acting. She started in the theatre, eventually making her movie debut in Dream Demon, and her first TV appearance in Tales of the Unexpected, in 1988. Other early projects include Howards End, Diana: Her True Story, and The Buddha of Suburbia. She became a star thanks to TV series Bramwell, which ended in 1998. Since then she's appeared in such projects as I'll Be There, The Grid, Amnesia, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Frankie and Doctor Who (including the 50th anniversary episode). Redgrave also continues to work on stage.

Quote: 'I think acting can be very self-absorbed, and I find that slightly embarrassing. Sometimes it seems such an uninquiring profession.'

Trivia: One of Redgrave's hobbies is calligraphy, which she began as a teenager to help improve her poor handwriting.

Jaye Griffiths (Actor) .. Jac

Born: September 24, 1963 in London

Best Known For: Playing Elle Gardner in Casualty.

Early-life: Born on September 24, 1963 in London. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1987, she played Maria in the television mini-series A Killing on the Exchange.

Career: Griffiths has appeared in a large number of TV shows, particularly hospital and police dramas. Her roles have included playing Elle Gardner in Casualty, Sally Johnson in The Bill, Doctor Elizabeth Croft in Doctors and Helen Marlowe in Criminal Justice. She has also played police officers in Coronation Street and Eastenders. Besides these roles, she starred as Ros Henderson in the science fiction series Bugs and played Jac in Doctor Who.

Quote: [On medical procedures]: 'Please don't take this the wrong way but I love it. I love watching operations. I could watch them all day.'

Trivia: Before she became an actress, she wanted to be a firefighter.

Harki Bhambra (Actor) .. Mike

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill (Actor) .. Bors

Benjamin Cawley (Actor) .. Kanzo

Aaron Neil (Actor) .. Mr Dunlop

Clare Higgins (Actor) .. Ohila

Kelly Hunter (Actor) .. Shadow Architect

India Ria Amarteifio (Actor) .. Alison

Dasharn Anderson (Actor) .. Ryan

Nicholas Briggs (Actor) .. Voice of the Daleks

Joey Price (Actor) .. Boy

Stefan Adegbola (Actor) .. Newsreader

Shin-Fei Chen (Actor) .. Newsreader

Lucy Newman-Williams (Actor) .. Newsreader

Demi Papaminas (Actor) .. Schoolgirl

Barnaby Edwards (Actor) .. Dalek

Nicholas Pegg (Actor) .. Dalek

Jonathan Ojinnaka (Actor) .. Soldier

Steven Moffat (Writer)

Hettie Macdonald (Director)

Peter Bennett (Producer)

Brian Minchin (Executive producer)

Doctor Who: The Magician's Apprentice

02:20 am - 03:05 am, Sunday, June 28 on BBC Three (23)

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The Magician's Apprentice
Season 9, Episode 1

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