Pearl Mackie
Birthday: Born in 1987-05-29 in Brixton, London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Pearl Mackie is a British actress, dancer, and singer. She is best known for playing Bill Potts in the long-running television series Doctor Who. Mackie is a 2010 graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her first major TV role came in 2014, when she played Anne-Marie Frasier in BBC One soap opera Doctors.
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The Diplomat
Character: Alysse
In the midst of an international crisis, a career diplomat lands in a high-profile job she’s unsuited for, with tectonic implications for her marriage and her political future....
The Long Call
Character: DS Jen Rafferty
Detective Matthew Venn returns to the small North Devon community he grew up in with his husband and begins investigating a murder whilst coming to terms with his own traumatic past, having been excommunicated by his family and the church community they lived in....
Doctors
Character: Anne-Marie Frasier
Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery....
Doctor Who
Character: Bill Potts
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it....
Urban Myths
Character: Kay
Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly tongue in cheek, mischievous – and deliberately ambiguous – look at what might have happened......
Room 101
Character: Self
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101....
Tom Jones
Character: Honour
A reimagining of Henry Fielding's "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling," the tale of an illegitimate young man's love for an heiress and his attempts to find a place in the world....
Best & Bester
Character: Grafifi (Voice)
Twins Best and Bester have the unique ability to choose a new body every single day and, in doing so, experience life in a completely different way....
Movie Credits
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Character: Narrator (voice)
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966....
Origami
Character: Heather
A grounded sci-fi short about a mother whose belief in justice and a fair society is tested when those she loves are put at risk. Origami is set in a present day dystopian world. One where a growing number of young people are born with an ability that is wrongly deemed a threat to wider population. For this they are relentlessly persecuted. This is the story of one mother’s attempt to save her son....
The Lennox Report
Character: Tarnia
When a global pandemic threatens to jeopardise an impending deal, and their manager goes off sick, work colleagues Kayla and Mark are tasked with completing the Lennox Report. Spending time together online, their friendship deepens and Kayla begins to question some of the other relationships in her life....
Tyger
Character: Sarah
After his release from prison, an ex-soldier embarks on a journey to reunite with his family....
Your Move
Character: Patricia
A 1960s period thriller centring around a gang of ex-airforce servicemen who now run a nefarious smuggling operation....
Copycats
Character: Lady Isabella Sausage
An absurd black comedy unbelievably based on a true story of Victorian occult murder with a hint of spiritualism....
National Theatre at Home: Grenfell: in the words of survivors
Character: Natasha Elcock
A powerful new verbatim play from the testimony of residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Six years on, interviews conducted with a group of survivors and bereaved reveal the impact of the multiple failures that led to a national disaster, asking: how do we stop this ever happening again?...
Svengali
Character: F.O.H. girl
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…...
Friend from the Future
Character: Bill Potts
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Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Character: Bill Potts
As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a familiar face to convince the Doctors the universe still needs them....
Greed
Character: Cathy
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos....
Horizon Line
Character: Pascale
A couple flying on a small plane to attend a tropical island wedding must fight for their lives after their pilot suffers a heart attack....
Pops and Branwell
Character: "Pops" Popowski (voice)
Pops and Branwell, two kid detectives, suspect a traitor in their squad as they chase a soup robbing thief....
The Deal
Character: Kabira
A mother fights to save her ailing daughter after a global pandemic worse than any seen before ravaged the planet, leaving resources so scarce you must pay for them with your life....
Doctor Who at the Proms
Character: Bill Potts (archive footage)
Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially shot feature for the Fifteenth Doctor and a host of scary aliens as they thrill a packed audience at London's Royal Albert Hall. In a concert like no other in time and space, the much-loved music, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, is accompanied by specially edited sequences from the series....