Alternative 1st to 8th Doctor Companions
by ewan-drysdale | created - 29 Aug 2016 | updated - 29 Aug 2016 | PublicActors with the right age, nationality and profile to be alternative 1st to 8th Doctor Companions
1. Honor Blackman
Actress | Goldfinger
One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End, to Edith Eliza (Stokes), a homemaker, and Frederick Thomas Blackman, a statistician employed with the Civil Service. She received elocution lessons for her 16th birthday (at her own request), and later attended the Guildhall School of ...
1st Doctor
2. Wanda Ventham
Actress | UFO
Wanda Ventham was born on August 5, 1935 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for UFO (1970), Invasion: UFO (1974) and Sherlock (2010). She has been married to Timothy Carlton since April 1976. They have one child. She was previously married to James Tabernacle.
1st Doctor
3. Shirley Eaton
Actress | Goldfinger
Long before Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty and company showed up in 1980s TV households, Hollywood had, in effect, its own original "Golden Girl"...literally...in the form of stunning British actress Shirley Eaton. Although she found definitive cult stardom in 1964 with her final golden moment in a ...
1st Doctor
4. Shirley Anne Field
Actress | The Damned
Shirley Anne Field was one of Britain's most highly respected actresses. She starred opposite Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Steve McQueen, Michael Caine, Daniel Day-Lewis and Ned Beatty in such classic films as The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The War Lover, Alfie, My ...
1st Doctor
5. Diana Rigg
Actress | Last Night in Soho
British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
Rigg made her ...
1st Doctor
6. Pauline Collins
Actress | Shirley Valentine
Collins entered motion pictures as a stripper in the exploitation film, Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966), and television, as a maid in the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971). In 1988, she starred in the one-woman play 'Shirley Valentine' in London, and soon after, brought the role to...
2nd Doctor
7. Angela Douglas
Actress | Carry on Up the Khyber
Angela Douglas was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire but has lived her whole life in South London.
Her first professional appearance was in the West End, aged just 14 years old.
Small roles in television along with teenage modelling and commercials followed. Aged twenty, Angela was taken to ...
2nd Doctor
8. Valerie Leon
Actress | The Spy Who Loved Me
Not just another tall, beautiful brunette, Valerie Leon had extensive experience in British theatre, television and films, before she became a fixture in the "Carry On" series, appearing in seven of them. In addition to comedy, she also excelled in horror films, playing a dual role in one of ...
3rd Doctor
9. Helen Mirren
Actress | The Queen
Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...
3rd Doctor
10. Jane Asher
Actress | Death at a Funeral
Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress, author and entrepreneur, who achieved early fame as a child actress, and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career.
She has appeared in TV shows and films such as The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Alfie (1966), Deep End (1970)...
3rd Doctor
11. Lynda Bellingham
Actress | Romanovy: Ventsenosnaya semya
Lynda Bellingham played many roles during her five-decade professional career, but became synonymous with one. "Being a mum making gravy was not quite how I had seen my career advancing," she said once. But between 1983 and 1999 that's what she did in 42 "episodes" of an award-winning TV ad. Since ...
3rd Doctor
12. Caroline Munro
Actress | The Spy Who Loved Me
Leggy, brunette-maned pin-up actress Caroline Munro was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, and lived in Rottingdean near Brighton where she attended a Roman Catholic convent school. By chance, her mother and a photographer entered her picture in a "Face of the Year" competition for the British ...
4th Doctor
13. Madeline Smith
Actress | Live and Let Die
Shapely, dark haired British actress who appeared in a number of sensual film and TV roles that showcased her beauty. She is probably best recognizable as Miss Caruso, the beautiful young Italian agent sleeping with James Bond in the opening of Live and Let Die (1973) whose blue dress zipper meets ...
4th Doctor
14. Cherie Lunghi
Actress | Excalibur
Cherie Lunghi was born on April 4, 1952 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Excalibur (1981), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) and The Mission (1986). She was previously married to Ralph Lawson.
4th Doctor
15. Maureen Beattie
Actress | The Decoy Bride
Maureen was born in Bundorran, County Donegal, while her Dad was doing summer season at a local theatre. She was brought up in Glasgow. She is the eldest of four children; 2 brothers Mark and Paul, plus sister Louise. Her father, Johnny is a well known Scottish entertainer, while her late mother, ...
4th Doctor
16. Fiona Fullerton
Actress | A View to a Kill
The only child of Pamela and Bernard Fullerton was born in Kaduna, Nigeria on 10 October 1956. As a child she wanted to be a ballet dancer and at 11 she enrolled at the Elmhurst Ballet School in Surrey where she was spotted and signed to appear in the film 'Run Wild, Run Free' in 1969. This was ...
5th Doctor
17. Amanda Redman
Actress | Sexy Beast
Amanda Redman was born on August 12, 1957 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Sexy Beast (2000), New Tricks (2003) and Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001). She has been married to Damian Schnabel since September 4, 2010. She was previously married to Robert Glenister...
5th Doctor
18. Julia St John
Actress | The Brittas Empire
Julia St John was born on August 3, 1956 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Brittas Empire (1991), The Young Victoria (2009) and Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012). She has been married to Peter McEnery since 1997.
6th Doctor
19. Patricia Kerrigan
Actress | Miss Potter
Patricia Kerrigan was born in 1961 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Miss Potter (2006), To Kill a King (2003) and Where the Heart Is (1997).
7th Doctor
20. Saskia Reeves
Actress | Luther
Born and raised in London to a Dutch mother and English father, who is himself an accomplished actor, Saskia took an early interest in drama and continues to do so, first studying at the London Guildhall School of Speech and Drama and since working with the likes of Mike Leigh, Stephen Poliakoff ...
7th Doctor
21. Joanne Whalley
Actress | Willow
British-born actress Joanne Whalley has graced the big and small screens for decades. Known for such films as Scandal and Willow, she was a firm fixture on British TV screens including the hit series, The Singing Detective and nuclear industry drama The Edge Of Darkness, for which she received a ...
7th Doctor
22. Amanda Donohoe
Actress | Liar Liar
Award-winning actor Amanda Donohoe trained at the Royal Central school of Speech and Drama. In a career spanning more than 30 years, she has appeared in a variety of productions on stage, screen and television in the UK and USA. She won a Golden Globe for her role in the multi-award-winning TV ...
7th Doctor
23. Doon Mackichan
Actress | The Day Today
Doon Mackichan is an actress and writer known for the double Emmy Award-winning Smack the Pony (1999), Two Doors Down (2016), Plebs (2013), Toast of London (2012) and The Day Today (1994), among others. She has frequently collaborated with Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Christopher Morris. She ...
7th Doctor
24. Catherine Zeta-Jones
Actress | Chicago
Catherine Zeta-Jones was born September 25, 1969 in Swansea, Wales (and raised in the nearby town of Mumbles), the only daughter of Patricia (nee Fair) and David James "Dai" Jones, who formerly owned a sweet factory. She attended Dumbarton House School (Swansea). Her father (the son of Bertram (...
8th Doctor
25. Jennifer Ehle
Actress | Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Anne Ehle is an American actress, the daughter of English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice. For her work on Broadway, she won the 2000 Tony ...
8th Doctor
26. Minnie Driver
Actress | Circle of Friends
Minnie Driver was born January 31, 1970 in London and raised in Barbados until she was seven. Her mother, Gaynor Churchward, was a designer and former couture model. Her father, Charles Ronald "Ronnie" Driver, was a businessman. Minnie's mother was her father's mistress while he was still married ...
8th Doctor
27. Helen Baxendale
Actress | Anonymous
Helen Baxendale was born on June 7, 1970 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Anonymous (2011), Cold Feet (1997) and Cardiac Arrest (1994). She has been married to David L. Williams since 1993. They have three children.
8th Doctor
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