Over the course of its many years on television, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who has not only seen changes in the actors to play the Doctor, but in the supporting cast as well.
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The Doctor is usually accompanied in his travels by one to three companions (sometimes called assistants). These characters provide a surrogate with whom the audience can identify, and further the story by asking questions and getting into trouble, (similar to Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.) The Doctor regularly gains new companions and loses old ones; sometimes they return home, or find new causes on worlds they have visited. A few of the companions have died during the course of the series.
Other humans
This list includes characters who appear to be human and who are not known to be anything other than human, even if having originated extra-terrestrially.
- Ashildr AKA Lady Me (Maisie Williams)[1]
- Captain Henry Avery (Hugh Bonneville)[2]
- Toby Avery (Oscar Lloyd)[3]
- Sophie Benson (Daisy Haggard)[4]
- Captain Carter of the Teselecta (Richard Dillane)[5]
- Nasreen Chaudhry (Meera Syal)[6]
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Ian McNeice)[7]
- computer programmer, unnamed (Jo Stone-Fewings)[8]
- Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles)[9]
- "Danny Boy" and Captain Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart (Mark Gatiss)[10]
- Special Agent Canton Everett Delaware III (W. Morgan Sheppard, Mark Sheppard)[11]
- Miss Dexter (Elize du Toit)[12]
- Charles Dickens (Simon Callow)[13]
- Queen Elizabeth I (Vivienne Bennett, Angela Pleasence, Joanna Page)[14][15]
- Queen Elizabeth II (Jeannette Charles, Herself [archival], Jessica Martin [voice], Angharad Baxter [body])[16][17][18]
- Queen Elizabeth X, a/k/a "Liz 10" (Sophie Okonedo)[19]
- Elliot (Samuel Davies)[6]
- female programmer, unnamed (Nisha Nayar)[8]
- Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart)[20]
- floor manager, unnamed (Jenna Russell)[8]
- Midshipman Alonzo Frame (Russell Tovey)[21]
- French newsreader, unnamed (Anthony Debaeck)[22]
- Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (Howard Lee)[23]
- Vincent van Gogh (Tony Curran)[24]
- Detective Inspector Gregson (Paul Hickey)[25]
- Yvonne Hartman (Tracy-Ann Oberman)[26]
- Clive Jones (Trevor Laird)[27]
- Francine Jones (Adjoa Andoh)[28]
- Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister (Penelope Wilton)[29]
- Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd)[30]
- Leo Jones (Reggie Yates)[31]
- Letitia "Tish" Jones (Gugu Mbatha-Raw)[32]
- President John F. Kennedy (himself,[33][34] wax sculpture)[35][36]
- Madame Kovarian (Frances Barber)[37]
- Tanya Lernov (Clare Jenkins)[38][39]
- President Abraham Lincoln (Robert Marsden,[40] wax sculpture)[41]
- Charlotte Abigail Lux (Eve Newton)[42]
- Strackman Lux (Steve Pemberton)[43]
- Gustave[44] Lytton (Maurice Colbourne)[45]
- Tony Mack (Robert Pugh)[6]
- Angie Maitland (Eve de Leon Allen)[46]
- Artie Maitland (Kassius Carey Johnson)[47]
- Mo (Alun Raglan)[6]
- Moira (Jennifer Hennessy) (The Pilot, Extremis)
- Oliver Morgenstern (Ben Righton)[48]
- Lynda Moss (Jo Joyner)[49]
- Nerys (Krystal Archer)[50][51]
- President Richard M. Nixon (Stuart Milligan,[52] wax sculpture,[53] plastic mask.)[54]
- Sylvia Noble-Mott (Jacqueline King)[55][56]
- Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17 (Zoë Wanamaker)[57]
- Dave Oswald (Michael Dixon,[58] James Buller)[59]
- Ellie Oswald (Nicola Sian)[60]
- Alfie Owens a/k/a Stormageddon Dark Lord of All (Isabelle James, Josy James & 5 other babies)[61]
- Rupert "Danny" Pink (Samuel Anderson,[62] Remi Gooding,[63] Jeremiah Krage[64])
- Rigsy (Joivan Wade)[65]
- Rodrick (Paterson Joseph)[8]
- Lucy Saxon (Alexandra Moen)[66]
- William Shakespeare (Hugh Walters, Dean Lennox Kelly)[67]
- Walter Simeon (Richard E. Grant, Cameron Strefford)[68]
- Jake Simmonds (Andrew Hayden-Smith)[69]
- Luke Smith (Tommy Knight)[70]
- Carla Sunday (Michelle Greenidge)
- Cherry Sunday (Angela Wynter)
- Professor Edward Travers (Jack Watling)[71][72]
- Miss Trefusis (Sylvia Seymour, Tracie Simpson)[73]
- Jackie Tyler (Camille Coduri)[74][75][76][77][78][79]
- Pete Tyler (Shaun Dingwall)[80]
- Madame Vernet (Chrissie Cotterill)[81]
- Queen Victoria (Pauline Collins)[82]
- Trinity Wells (Lachele Carl)[83]
- Brian Williams (Mark Williams)[84]
- Courtney Woods (Ellis George)[85]
- Courtney appears in three episodes during the 8th series. She is characterized as quirky and disruptive, frequently clashing with Clara.[86]
Time Lords
- Borusa (Angus MacKay;[87] John Arnatt;[88] Leonard Sachs;[89] Philip Latham)[90]
- The Castellan (Paul Jerricho)[91]
- Professor Urban Chronotis (Denis Carey [television],[92] James Fox [webcast],[93] Andrew Sachs [radio])[94]
- The Corsair (Elizabeth Berrington) [left arm only][95]
- The General (Ken Bones,[96] T'Nia Miller)[97]
- The Inquisitor (Lynda Bellingham)
- Jenny (Georgia Tennant)[98]
- Chancellor Goth (Bernard Horsfall)[87]
- The Master (Roger Delgado, Peter Pratt, Geoffrey Beevers, Anthony Ainley, Gordon Tipple, Eric Roberts, Derek Jacobi, John Simm, William Hughes, Michelle Gomez, Sacha Dhawan)
- The Meddling Monk (Peter Butterworth)[99][100]
- The Messenger (David Garth)[101]
- K'Anpo Rimpoche (Cho-Je) (Kevin Lindsay)[102]
- Omega (Stephen Thorne; Ian Collier)
- The Rani (Kate O'Mara)
- Rassilon (Richard Mathews, Timothy Dalton, Donald Sumpter)
- Third Time Lord/Chancellor (Clyde Pollitt)[39][103]
- The Valeyard (Michael Jayston)
- The Woman (Claire Bloom)[104]
- companions Susan Foreman, Romana, Donna Noble in her "DoctorDonna" phase, and River Song, are all Time Lords to one degree or another. Depending upon the continuity, companion Dorothy "Ace" McShane also became a Time Lord
Notes
- Lethbridge-Stewart appeared as a regular in Seasons 7 and 8 and more sporadically in many other episodes. Nicholas Courtney, along with his role as Bret Vyon in The Daleks' Master Plan, his appearance in the charity special Dimensions in Time and his participation in the Eighth Doctor audio play Minuet in Hell, has the distinction of having acted with every screen Doctor before the Ninth and also the Tenth (although in adventures before actor David Tennant was cast as the Doctor).
- The Inquisitor and The Valeyard appeared in every episode of Season 23, a season that comprised just one story, (albeit split into four segments), The Trial of a Time Lord.
- Mickey Smith was a significant recurring character in the 2005 series, prior to briefly becoming a companion in the 2006 series. Similarly, Jackie Tyler appeared in many episodes of the 2005 and 2006 series; in the episodes "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday", she briefly travels in the TARDIS and acts like a companion, although she is not generally considered one.
- The Master appeared as a regular in Season 8 and has returned numerous times in subsequent seasons and the television movie.
The Doctor Who comics, novels and audio dramas have created companions, villains and supporting characters of their own. Some of these originated in one medium and later appeared in another. The lists below indicate where a character has appeared.
Companions
with the Second Doctor
- John and Gillian (TV Comic comic strip)
with the Eleventh Doctor
- Kevin (IDW Comics)
- Decky Flamboon ("Doctor Who Adventures")
- Pippa ("Doctor Who Adventures")
- Alice Obiefune (Titan Comics)
with the Fourteenth Doctor
- Georgette Gold (Doctor Who Magazine comic strip)
- Georgy Gold (Doctor Who Magazine comic strip)
Other recurring or important characters