Whoniverse / Xenoverse connections

Jenna Coleman is best known for her BAFTA-nominated performance as Clara in 'Doctor Who' and for playing the title role in ITV's Emmy-nominated series 'Victoria'. She was most recently seen in a lead role as Marie-Andrée Leclerc in the dark crime drama 'The Serpent' for BBC and Netflix opposite Tahar Rahim, and in the critically acclaimed miniseries 'The Cry' for the BBC/Sundance. On-stage, she was most recently seen at The Old Vic in 'All My Sons' alongside Bill Pullman and Sally Field. Upcoming is Neil Maskell's feature debut 'Klokkenluider' and Warner Brothers'/Netflix anticipated series, 'The Sandman' as Johanna Constantine

Skye Deva St. John Bennett was born on the 2nd of May 1995 in London, England to American parents. She is a dual British-American citizen.

Skye began her professional career at ten years old when she won her first film role playing Steven Seagal's daughter in 'Shadowman'. This led to further film and television roles, including playing Mina in the film adaptation of David Almond's Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Children's Award-winning book, 'Skellig' and as the mysterious, tarot card reading little girl in series two of 'Torchwood'. She also appeared as young Martha in the TV adaptation of Ken Follett's historical novel, 'The Pillars of the Earth'.

Skye's theatrical debut at age 13 was as Nadia in Peter Flannery's translation of 'Burnt by the Sun' at the National Theatre, London, in March 2009. She was also cast in Mark Haddon's play 'Polar Bears' at London's Donmar Warehouse in Spring 2010.

Skye's voice acting debut occurred in the 2017 fantasy JRPG video game Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and its 2018 prequel DLC expansion, Torna ~ The Golden Country. In both games, she portrayed deuteragonists Pyra and Mythra.

Skye started releasing music as Deva St. John in October 2018.

Harry Charles Salusbury Lloyd is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Will Scarlet in the 2006 BBC drama Robin Hood, Jeremy Baines in the 2007 Doctor Who episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", Viserys Targaryen in the first season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, Peter Quayle in the Starz series Counterpart, Charles Xavier in the third season of the FX series Legion, Bernard Marx in the Peacock series Brave New World, and Viktor in the Netflix series Arcane. He has also appeared on stage, and in films including The Theory of Everything and Anthropoid.

Corey Johnson was born on 17 May 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Morbius (2022), The Mauritanian (2021) and Captain Phillips (2013).

Most recently, John can be see in season three and four of Tom Clancy's: Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime and will appear later in 2023 in the anticipated series Masters of the Air. Previous work includes the Queen's Gambit (Netflix), Trust (FX), Das Boot (Amazon / Sky Atlantic), Zero Dark Thirty, Jurassic World and many more. He also plays Dandelion in the hit video game The Witcher.

John was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for his feature film producing debut The Hide, which won Best Feature Film at the Beaufort International Film Festival, where is short film The Applicant also picking up Best Short Film the previous year.

When not acting, John releases calming music under his name that can be found on all major streaming platforms. Middle Sea is most recent EP.

Pippa Bennett-Warner was born on 23 July 1988 in Banbury, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Gangs of London (2020), See How They Run (2022) and Real (2019).

Todd Kramer was born on 7 April 1972 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Solomon Kane (2009), Running Scared (2006) and Tristan + Isolde (2006).

Jessica Preddy was born in London, England, UK. She is known for Greta (2018), Alan Wake II: Night Springs (2024) and The First Musketeer (2014).

Shaun was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, to Ann and Denis Dooley. He is an actor known for Misfits (2009).

He has two younger sisters, Stephanie Dooley and Kimberly Dooley.

Shaun is married to Polly Dooley.

Despite living in London, Shaun still attends all of Barnsley FC's home games.

Shaun won the RTS Northwest award for best actor in the award-winning film The Mark of Cain (2007).

Colin McFarlane was born on 15 September 1961 in Clapton, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Commuter (2018). He has been married to Kate McFarlane since 12 July 1993. They have one child.

Martin T. Sherman was born on 28 November 1966 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) and Leap Year (2010).

Born in Gibraltar, and educated in Ireland and England, Nicholas studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music And Drama in London. His extensive career has encompassed stage, screen, and radio. He has played leading and major supporting roles for many British stage productions including for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre. Winner of the BBC Radio Carleton Hobbs award in 1993 he is regularly heard in BBC Radio drama productions, with more than 100 credits to his name. He is also a well known voice in the world of video games - he is the voice of Garrett Hawke (lead) in Bioware's Dragon Age 2, and has featured strongly in such popular games as Star Wars Battlefront 2, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Final Fantasy XIV, Hitman, Little Big Planet, Fable, Killzone, and many more.

His other skills and interests include playing blues harmonica and slide-guitar, stilt-walking, scuba-diving, and skiing. Nicholas is a keen kite-surfer and a skilled horseman and swordsman.

Elizabeth Tan is a British actress best known for her series regular roles in award-winning TV series Top Boy, Emily in Paris, The Singapore Grip, Irish Wish and Dr Who. Her transformative character work in Film, Television and Theatre has seen Tan demonstrate incredible versatility in her portrayals, earning her many glowing reviews from critics. Having started training in martial arts from the age of 5 years old, Tan has also inhabited a number of compelling characters in action/martial arts films and has a particular interest in the Wing Chun, Wu Shu and Thai Kickboxing schools.

Fanos Xenofós is known for FBI: International (2021), Assassin's Creed Odyssey: The Fate of Atlantis (2019) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019).

Gerran Howell is a Welsh actor. He is best known for playing Vladimir Dracula in Young Dracula, a CBBC television series that aired between 2006 - 2012. He took time to study at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2011, going on to continue another series of Young Dracula and various other BBC shows including 'Some girls' as Ryan and Kitto in John Boormans Queen and country

Adam Howden is known for Xenoblade Chronicles (2010), Dragon Age II (2011) and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (2014).

He originated the role of Posner in the award winning National Theatre production of The History Boys and repeated the role in the regional and international tours of the play and on Broadway where he received a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play, He trained at LAMDA and has appeared at the National in His Dark Materials and in The Accrington Pals at the Chichester Festival Theatre. His television work includes The Royal, Doctors and Inpectot Linley

Wayne Forester is known for Xenoblade Chronicles (2010), TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (2005) and The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (2010).

Timothy Watson is known for Xenoblade Chronicles (2010), Dragon Age: Origins (2009) and 007 Legends (2012). He is married to Helen Grace. They have two children.

Anthony May Trained at R.A.D.A. from 1965 to 1967.

He played Wick in David Halliwell's Little Malcolm at the Royal Court Theatre for the National Youth Theatre. Then Zigger in Zigger Zagger, which transferred to the Strand Theatre, for which he was nominated for a Variety Award for most promising newcomer.

In his first film, he played the Young Poet in Karel Reisz's Isadora. Roles in TV, including The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for the BBC and the Wednesday play No Trams to Lime Street (musical version), followed. Then a film in Czechoslovakia, Micheal Kohlaas, with David Warner and Anna Karina, directed by the Oscar-winning director Volker Shloendorff. A play at the Royal Court, Trixie and Baba by John Antrobus and Richard Cromwell in Cromwell with Richard Harris and Alec Guinness.

He starred in the short film Les Bicyclettes de Belsize, directed by Doug Hickox. The Soldier in Brendan Behan's The Hostage, directed by Richard Eyre, was followed by a tour of the Far East playing Prince Hal in Henry IV, parts 1 and 2. He starred as 'Pirie' in Cornel Wilde's No Blade of Grass, and a guest star role in the children's hit series, The Double Deckers'. He was a director of Senta Productions who produced the film The Triple Echo, which starred Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed, directed by Michael Apted.

Playing Sloane in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Kings Head Theatre preceded tours with the London Shakespeare Group's Macbeth of Iraq, Bangladesh, Korea, Japan and Africa, where they played to Maasai warriors in the foothills of Mt Kilimanjaro. He played Macduff at Frank Dunlop's Young Vic Theatre, where a long association over the years developed. This production was toured around Mexico, finishing at the Guanahato Festival. Other plays at the Young Vic included King Lear, The Real Inspector Hound, A Man for all Seasons, Richard II, Gloo Joo and Caesar in Anthony and Cleopatra. At the Bristol Old Vic Leonidik in Arbuzov's The Promise, and another production of 'Macbeth', this time playing Banquo, directed by Richard Cottrell. A film of Chekov's Zinotchka. An Australian film They Ran Before the Wind, filmed in the South Seas, in which Anthony played Fletcher Christian in a story of what happened after the mutiny on the Bounty. He then played Bobby in American Buffalo at the National Theatre, directed by Bill Bryden, and starred in an American drama documentary about Jack the Ripper. Anthony was also in the Jack the Ripper film Murder by Decree with James Mason and Christopher Plummer. He played Hamlet at the Northcott Theatre. Other roles there included Captain Plume in The Recruiting Officer and Sir Thomas Overbury in a new play Favours. Anthony worked with Mike Hodges on the Tom Stoppard written film Squaring the Circle, and was also in the film McVicar.

There have been many TV appearances, including Z-Cars, Casualty, Juliet Bravo, Dickens of London, The Bill, London's Burning, Anna Lee, The Paradise Club, El Cid, Bulman, Between the Lines, Softly, Softly, Rockliffe's Babies, Minder, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Chandler and Co, Boon, Coronation Street, The Dream Team, The Hutton Enquiry, The Ice House and Messiah, working with directors Adrian Shergold, Anthony Minghella, Martin Campbell, Stephen Poliakoff and Tim Fywell. Other stage plays include Richard II, Gloo Joo, Withdrawal Symptoms, A Chorus of Disapproval, Marino Faliero, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Launderette, A Last Belch for the Great Auk and The Nuns, which he also directed at the Roundhouse.

He was the voice of the King of the Dead in 'The Lord of the Rings' movie. In 2011 He played 'Bootstrap Bill' in the Pirates of the Caribbean video game and 'Thompson' in Tin Tin video game and 'Dickson' in The Xenoblade Chronicles. He recently played the Queen Elizabeth Hall, reading the poetry of Rumi.

Blake Ritson started acting when he was 13, debuting in White Chameleon at the Royal National Theatre, directed by Sir Richard Eyre for which he received rave reviews. He worked with Sir Richard Eyre again two years later on Macbeth, and went on to appear in the original West End run of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. He won an academic scholarship to St.Paul's School in London before attending Cambridge University, where he studied English and Medieval Italian. Following University, he studied physical theatre at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris.

He has appeared in numerous TV shows and films and played a number of leads for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and on American TV. In recent years, he has become particularly well known for his work portraying a variety of villainous characters, following his celebrated portrayal of Riario in three seasons of Da Vinci's Demons. He was subsequently cast by Warner Brothers to portray the Supervillain Brainiac, one of Superman's most famous nemeses.

He is also a much in demand voice actor, having starred in dozens of plays and narrated numerous audio books for BBC radio, narrated a series of children's books and played leading characters in some of the biggest selling computer games of all time, for which he has been nominated for five awards.

In addition to acting, he has also co-directed and co-written four prize-winning short films with his brother Dylan, another Cambridge graduate and ex-member of the Footlights company. He also plays various musical instruments and played banjolele on the album 'Cowley Road' by fellow thespian - and 'Mansfield Park' co-star - Douglas Hodge.