Noticing her untapped potential, he offers to privately tutor her. Highlights of her career include playing Adriana in a production of The Comedy of Errors at Circomedia in Bristol in 2010. YES! [7] In the same year Mackie was nominated for the BBC Carleton Hobbs Award for outstanding duologues in the school play Noughts & Crosses. Mackie grew up in Brixton in south London and is of paternal West Indian and maternal English descent. The star also hopes to inspire a new generation of actors – having had few role models to look up to herself. Pearl Mackie has appeared in one film to date – the 2013 music comedy Svengali. Her first major television role came in 2014, when she played Anne-Marie Frasier in BBC One soap opera Doctors. Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). There were hardly any strong black women,” she told The Guardian last year while explaining how she realised she wanted to act when she was five. She is rescued, however, by Heather, who transforms her into a creature like herself and offers Bill the choice of travelling space and time together, or being returned to her life on Earth as a normal, living human again. In the show's tenth series, starting with the first episode, Bill served as a companion of the Twelfth Doctor, an incarnation of the alien time traveller known as the Doctor (portrayed by Peter Capaldi). The Londoner has gone down well so far as Doctor Who's latest companion. In the show's tenth series, starting with the first episode, Bill served as a companion of the Twelfth Doctor, an incarnation of the alien time traveller known as the Doctor (portrayed by Peter Capaldi). [6] During her studies she went to workshops and took part in many extra-curricular plays. Her first major television role came in 2014, when she played Anne-Marie Frasier in BBC One soap opera Doctors. [3] Before her premiere episode was broadcast, Bill made a cameo appearance in a Doctor Who Magazine comic strip, titled "The Daft Dimension", alongside Nardole in Issue #511 (May 2017). In subsequent episodes, Bill learns about the Doctor's Time Lord nature and the rules of time travel, averting alien invasions and ending conflicts on faraway planets and deep space, growing closer to the Doctor all the while. Pearl Mackie, Actress: Doctor Who. Pearl Mackie is an avid user of Twitter and can be found sharing news, information and insights from her life via the handle @Pearlie_mack. [14] On the same day, Mackie officially announced at San Diego Comic-Con that she would not be returning for the eleventh series. [17] Den of Geek's Simon Brew also gave a positive review of Mackie, praising the humour in Mackie's performance. Is it cheaper to leave heating on all day or turn it on when needed? [4], Paul Cornell's novelisation of "Twice Upon a Time" reveals more details about Bill's experiences following the events of "The Doctor Falls". For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click here. Judging by the fact kids are already dressing up as her character Bill it looks like Pearl is already achieving an impressive influence on the next generation of dreamers. [3] Mackie is a 2010 graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. “I didn’t see many people who looked like me on TV. [11], A preview scene was filmed in April 2016 as part of a promotional clip shown on 23 April 2016 on BBC One, during the semi-final half-time of the 2015–16 FA Cup. [7][8][9] Producer Steven Moffat said Mackie's ethnicity was a factor in the decision to cast her, as he wanted to make the cast more diverse: "We decided that the new companion was going to be non-white [...] because we need to do better on that". However despite her pivotal role on the show, Pearl admitted she had never seen Doctor Who. Wilkins also commented on the character that "she is gay, black, and working class is another welcome step in Doctor Who’s ability to reflect the entire spectrum of who enjoy the show and identify with its characters". Pearl Mackie was born on May 29, 1987 in Brixton, London, England. She shared a teacher-student relationship with him similar to that of Leela and Gabby Gonzalez, albeit on more official circumstances. Following the broadcast of her first episode, the character was received more positively. They are titled The Shining Man, Diamond Dogs and Plague City. You are Pearl Mackie, yes? Mackie is a 2010 graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. 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Heather was a student at St Luke's University in the 2010s. She's fun, she's excited, she's a bit geeky – she quite likes sci-fi stuff, she's into space and that type of thing so when she does go on adventures with the Doctor and discovers aliens are real and that kind of stuff it blows her mind which is really cool. Ahead of her screen debut, Pearl teased that Bill is “Cool, strong, sharp, a little bit vulnerable with a bit of geekiness thrown in.”. When she first encountered the Doctor, Bill was working as a canteen assistant at St Luke's University, seemingly destined for an unprivileged life. The video was based in a darkly lit night club and also featured Bond star Ben Whishaw, Sense8 actress Tuppence Middleton, and Misfits actor Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. As they spend time together on Earth – magicking up enough money to rent a flat and adopting cats – Bill grows to know and love Heather as a person. Pearl Mackie has an impressive theatre CV to her name – having been treading the boards since graduating from Bristol Old Vic in 2010. However, with Peter Capaldi leaving his role as The Doctor, The Sun revealed that Bill looks set to face the axe as well after only one series. Bill returns the Doctor's body to the TARDIS, and bids him a sad farewell, before taking off with Heather to explore the universe. Though Cybermen are normally emotionless and hellbent on converting humans to their ranks, Bill retains her humanity and sense of identity as a result of particular experiences she has had travelling with the Doctor. Her Instagram handle is @therealpearlmackie. In the series finale, "World Enough and Time" / "The Doctor Falls", Bill is shot through the heart after the Doctor's crew reacts to an alien distress call aboard a spaceship, and is carried away by menacing scientists to a lower deck where time moves much more rapidly. She infuriated Whovians when she appeared on The One Show and didn't know that the Tardis is fuelled by Artron energy - instead claiming is ran on "space engine oil". The Doctor saw … About last night... #baftaeerisingstar2017, A post shared by Pearl Mackie (@therealpearlmackie) on Feb 2, 2017 at 5:04am PST. Can I take your picture?” she said – revealing fame had already reached her. She's very real – she's not had a very easy upbringing and whilst she doesn't really let that affect her day-to-day life, it's there under the surface – she can be quite defensive. @chihirochieko RUNNING TINGZ @BBCAMERICA #gally1 pic.twitter.com/yrBxpsKOVv. Bill Potts is introduced in the tenth series premiere, "The Pilot". Here's the lowdown on her... Pearl Mackie is a British actress, dancer and singer who was born in Brixton, South London, England on 29 May 1987. Titled "Friend from the Future", it introduced Bill and the Doctor in an encounter with Daleks. (TV: The Pilot) Eventually, Heather was able to track Bill to a colony ship from Mondas, where she had been converted into a Cyberman.
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