Pearl Mackie

Actress

May 29, 1987 (39 years)

Brixton, London, England, UK

Biography

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.

Filmography

7.6

Doctor Who

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.

4.8

Doctors

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.

7.6

The Diplomat

Alysse

Amid an international crisis, a US diplomat contends with her high-profile job as ambassador to the UK and her strained marriage to a political star.

6.6

Room 101

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.

7.4

Urban Myths

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...

7.8

Friday Night Dinner

Lucy One

Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.

5.6

Horizon Line

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.

10.0

Best & Bester

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.

6.0

Tom Jones

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.

6.2

The Long Call

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.

N/A

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

Doctor Who: The Fan Show was a YouTube series on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel. It was hosted by Christel Dee and later also with Luke Spillane. Every week, they talked about Doctor Who and its many spin-offs with a special guest, usually a fan, although interviews with a member of the cast or crew were not unheard of. Some episodes also featured, or entirely consisted of, in-character skits, usually of a parodical nature.

5.6

Greed

Cathy

A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.

5.8

The Deal

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.

7.2

Doctor Who at the Proms

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.

5.3

Svengali

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…

9.0

Your Move

Patricia

A 1960s period thriller centring around a gang of ex-airforce servicemen who now run a nefarious smuggling operation.

8.0

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

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.

7.6

The Real Charlie Chaplin

Self - 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.

7.0

Doctor Who: Friend from the Future

Bill Potts

The Doctor and Bill are chased by a group of Daleks in a short introductory video to present Bill, the new companion, to audiences for the first time.

6.7

Pops and Branwell

"Pops" Popowski (voice)

Pops and Branwell, two kid detectives, suspect a traitor in their squad as they chase a soup robbing thief.