It's a very happy birthday today to Eve Myles, who turns 44.
She first appeared in the 2005 Doctor Who story The Unquiet Dead, as psychic Cardiff maidservant Gwyneth. A year later she was Cardiff policewoman Gwen Cooper of Torchwood. The crossover Doctor Who story The Stolen Earth / Journey's End put their similarity down to proximity to the space / time Rift which ran through the city.
She shares her birthday with monster performer Spencer Wilding (the Minotaur in The God Complex, the Wooden King in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Ice Warrior Skaldak in Cold War, the lead Dreg in Orphan 55, and a Quill in spin-off series Class). He was also Darth Vader in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He is 50 today.
Today we also remember Mary Tamm, who passed away on this date in 2012, aged 62.
She portrayed the original incarnation of Romana throughout Season 16 - the Key to Time season. As a fellow Time Lord, she was promised a more proactive, independent sort of companion role, but quickly found that this was not the case. She therefore determined to leave after one year. Producer Graham Williams was so sure he could get her to change her mind that no exit was planned for her, so the character regenerated between seasons. She subsequently stated that she would have come back for a regeneration if asked.
We also lost actor John Normington today, in 2007 aged 70. He was the villainous Morgus in The Caves of Androzani, and later Trevor Sigma in The Happiness Patrol. In 2006 he featured in the Torchwood episode Ghost Machine, as Tom Flanagan.
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