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With the Star Trek movie beaming up Noel Clarke (a.k.a. Mickey Smith), we look at some of the biggest celebs who’ve traveled through the Whoniverse. While the list is far from complete — we’ve left off the obvious recent Doctor Who regulars like Alex Kingston, John Simm, Bernard Cribbins, and Gavin & Stacey‘s James Corden — it provides an overview of the star-studded talent who’ve dazzled us over the series’ nearly 50 years. Also: check out our list of the five best Doctor Who guest stars from the modern era, in our humble opinion.
John Cleese – “City of Death” (1979)
Simon Pegg – “The Long Game” (2005)
Timothy Dalton – “The End of Time” (2009)
Anthony Stewart Head – “School Reunion” (2006)
Sir Derek Jacobi – “Utopia” (2007)
Eric Roberts – “Doctor Who” movie (1996)
Andrew Garfield – “Daleks in Manhattan” and “Evolution of the Daleks” (2007)
Carey Mulligan – “Blink” (2007)
Kylie Minogue – “The Voyage of the Damned” (2007)
Sophie Okonedo – “The Beast Below” (2010)
Lindsay Duncan – “The Waters of Mars” (2009)
Game of Thrones‘s Harry Lloyd – “Human Nature” and “Family of Blood” (2007)
Pauline Collins – “Tooth and Claw” (2006)
Sir Michael Gambon – “A Christmas Carol” (2010)
Martin Clunes – “Snakedance” (1983)
Downton Abbey‘s Hugh Bonneville – “The Curse of the Black Spot” (2011)
Bill Nighy – “Vincent and the Doctor” (2010)
David Morrissey – “The Next Doctor” (2008)
Julian Glover – “City of Death” (1979)
Marc Warren and Shirley Henderson – “Love and Monsters” (2006)
Upstairs Downstairs‘s Jean Marsh – various episodes from “The Knight of Jaffa” (1965) to “Battlefield” (1989)
Absolutely Fabulous‘s June Whitfield – “The End of Time” (2009)
Weakest Link host Anne Robinson – “Bad Wolf” and “The Parting of the Ways” (2005)
Brian Blessed – “The Trial of a Time Lord” (1986)
And as a bonus, a slightly controversial addition – Peter “Moff Tarkin” Cushing as “Dr. Who” in the non-canon ’60s films.
Who have we missed? And who is your favorite famous Doctor Who guest star?
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Pauline Collins with Troughton and Queen Victoria with Tennant
Moaning Myrtle and Bartie Crouch Sr. from Harry Potter 4
(she got trapped in cement block, he created Cybermen)
Prentis Hancock from “Space 1999″ in”Planet of Evil” “Ribos Operation”
Deep Roy the Oompa Loompa was in “Talons Of Weng Chiang”(evil dummy)
Hadley fraser in Army of Ghosts
The exquiste Cassandra, ms. Zoe Wanamake and then theres our shipsman Russel Tovey
wow i enjoyed and happy to watch many celebs on one site
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Colin Morgan!!
While he may not have been famous when he appeared on Doctor Who he is quite famous now…he’s Merlin for crying out loud! :p
In the same line:
Angel Coulby and Richard Wilson were also in some episodes!
I’m sure he’s already mentioned but my favourite recent celeb is Smithy – sorry James Corden.
Carey Mulligan (Sally Sparrow)
But i want Jenny (Doctor’s daughter) back… <3
What about Adam Garcia (Alex) in The Christmas Invasion? He’s been in some big movies – ‘Coyote Ugly’, ‘Riding in Cars With Boys’, ‘Bootmen’, ‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’, to name a few…
You surely do have a loose definition of “celebrity.”
I wouldn’t call most of these cameos – they are mostly guest-starring roles
I can’t believe you mention Brian Blessed and then forgot fellow Shakespeare thespian Richard Briers. Who starred in Paradise Towers.
As for modern day, half the cast of Being Human.
Carey Mulligan and Marc Warren are unique in that they star in their own episodes. The genesis of the episodes were most probably budgetary, enabling the team to shoot two episodes simultaneously, but the resulting episodes give the lead parts to two cameo performers. In the case of Blink, Carey Mulligan carries the episode almost single handedly. Brilliantly, I might add. One of my all time favorite episodes.
You missed Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett) in the Space Museum.
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You forgot Honor Blackman in “Terror of the Vervoids” with the sixth doctor.