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|birth date    = [[29 May (people)|29 May]] [[1987 (people)|1987]]
|birth date    = [[29 May (people)|29 May]] [[1987 (people)|1987]]
|role          = {{il|[[Bill Potts]]|[[Bill Potts (Shadow World)|Shadow Bill Potts]]}}
|role          = [[Bill Potts]]
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|time          = 2017
|time          = 2017
|non dwu        = ''Doctors'', ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'', ''The Birthday Party''
|non dwu        = ''Doctors'', ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'', ''The Birthday Party'', ''Cbeebies Bedtime Story'', ''Forest 404'', ''Friday Night Dinner'', ''The Long Call''
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|official site  =
|twitter        = Pearlie_mack
|twitter        = Pearlie_mack
|clip          = Meet PEARL MACKIE - DOCTOR WHO New York Comic Con Highlight 2016
|clip          = Dr Who's Pearl Mackie Is Still Surprised by Attention From Fans This Morning
|clip2         = Doctor Who Watch The Doctor Quiz His New Companion
|clip2          = Meet PEARL MACKIE - DOCTOR WHO New York Comic Con Highlight 2016
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|clip3         = Doctor Who Watch The Doctor Quiz His New Companion
|trailer        = Pearl Mackie on Doctors
|trailer        = Pearl Mackie on Doctors
|job title      = Actor
|story          = [[#Credits|See Credits Section]]
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'''Pearl Mackie''' (born [[29 May (people)|29 May]] [[1987 (people)|1987]]<ref name="The Telegraph">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/doctor-pearl-mackie-everything-need-know-new-companion/|title=Doctor Who's Pearl Mackie: everything you need to know about the new companion|author=Gee, Catherine|date of source=7 April 2017|website name=The Telegraph|accessdate=15 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="The Sun">{{cite web|url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3086768/pearl-mackie-doctor-who-bill-potts-actress/|title=Who is Pearl Mackie? Doctor Who companion Bill Potts who admits she's never seen the show|author=Duff, Seamus|date of source=15 April 2017|website name=The Sun|accessdate=15 April 2017}}</ref>) played companion [[Bill Potts]] in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', beginning with the [[series 10 (Doctor Who)|series 10]] story, ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]''.
'''Pearl Mackie''' (born [[29 May (people)|29 May]] [[1987 (people)|1987]]<ref>[https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/pearl-mackie.html Famous Birthdays]</ref>) played companion [[Bill Potts]] in [[series 10 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 10]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', beginning with ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'' and ending with [[Testimony|a version of Bill]] in ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''.


Pearl Mackie grew up in [[Brixton]]. According to an October 2016 interview, she desired to be an actor from the age of five, but found that "I didn't see many people who looked like me on [[television|TV]]. There were hardly any strong black women." The role models of Mackie's [[childhood]] were all "tough women, not afraid to be vulnerable": Aretha Franklin, [[Beyoncé]], Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Ella Fitzgerald. "They made me feel someone like me could do that."<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/oct/05/doctor-who-pearl-mackie-new-series-companion-interview|title=Doctor Who's new companion Pearl Mackie: 'I have no time-travelling experience!'|author=Jeffries, Stuart|date of source=5 October 2016|website name=The Guardian|accessdate=15 April 2017}}</ref> Mackie's first acting role was at the age of ten: Nancy in a school production of ''[[Oliver Twist]]''.<ref name="The Telegraph" />
== Personal life ==
Pearl Mackie grew up in [[Brixton]]. According to an October 2016 interview, she desired to be an actor from the age of five, but found that "I didn't see many people who looked like me on [[television|TV]]. There were hardly any strong black women." The role models of Mackie's [[childhood]] were all "tough women, not afraid to be vulnerable": Aretha Franklin, [[Beyoncé]], Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Ella Fitzgerald. "They made me feel someone like me could do that."<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/oct/05/doctor-who-pearl-mackie-new-series-companion-interview|title=Doctor Who's new companion Pearl Mackie: 'I have no time-travelling experience!'|author=Jeffries, Stuart|date of source=5 October 2016|website name=The Guardian|accessdate=15 April 2017}}</ref>


Like her character, Mackie actually went to university in [[Bristol]], though she attended the [[University of Bristol]], where she earned a degree in drama, and not [[St Luke's University]]. Mackie studied further at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating finally in 2010.<ref name="The Sun" />
In 2020, Mackie came out as bisexual.<ref>https://archive.today/20200630200342/https://www.instagram.com/p/CB-bfqZAX6y/</ref> She later announced in 2022 that she was engaged.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CY7R5TDM4RT/?utm_medium=copy_link</ref>


Before ''Doctor Who'', Pearl Mackie's work was largely in theatre; she has very few credits in either film or television. After playing Anne-Marie Frasier in one episode of {{wi|Doctors (soap opera)|Doctors}}<ref name="The Telegraph" />, Bill Potts is her first starring role in a television series.
== Career ==
Mackie's first acting role was at the age of ten: playing Nancy in a school production of ''[[Oliver Twist]]''.<ref name="The Telegraph">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/doctor-pearl-mackie-everything-need-know-new-companion/|title=Doctor Who's Pearl Mackie: everything you need to know about the new companion|author=Gee, Catherine|date of source=7 April 2017|website name=The Telegraph|accessdate=15 April 2017}}</ref>


To keep secrets from spreading, the code "{{uc:Meantown}}" was used for Mackie's auditions for the [[companion]] role, rather than ''Doctor Who''. The word is an anagram for {{uc:Woman Ten}}; that is, the companion for [[series 10 (Doctor Who)|series 10]] of the [[BBC Wales]] version of the show.
Like her character Bill Potts, Mackie actually went to university in [[Bristol]], though she attended the [[University of Bristol]], where she earned a degree in drama. Mackie further studied at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, from which she was graduated in 2010.<ref name="The Sun">{{cite web|url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3086768/pearl-mackie-doctor-who-bill-potts-actress/|title=Who is Pearl Mackie? Doctor Who companion Bill Potts who admits she's never seen the show|author=Duff, Seamus|date of source=15 April 2017|website name=The Sun|accessdate=15 April 2017}}</ref>


[[Bill Potts|Bill]] is the eighth major recurring companion in the new series, the second woman of colour, after [[Martha Jones]], and the second openly [[queer]] companion, after [[Jack Harkness]].
Before ''Doctor Who'', Pearl Mackie's work was largely in theatre; she has very few credits in either film or television. After playing Anne-Marie Frasier in one episode of {{wi|Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors}}<ref name="The Telegraph" />, Bill Potts was her first starring role in a television series.
 
To keep secrets from spreading, the code "{{uc:Meantown}}" was used for Mackie's auditions for the [[companion]] role, rather than ''Doctor Who''. The word is an anagram for {{uc:Woman Ten}}; that is, the companion for [[series 10 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 10]] of the [[BBC Wales]] version of the show.
 
== Credits ==
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]''
* ''[[Smile (TV story)|Smile]]''
* ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]''
* ''[[Knock Knock (TV story)|Knock Knock]]''
* ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]''
* ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]''/ ''[[The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)|The Pyramid at the End of the World]]'' / ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]''
* ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]''
* ''[[The Eaters of Light (TV story)|The Eaters of Light]]''
* ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'' / ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]''
* ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''
 
=== Webcasts ===
* ''[[The Best of Days (webcast)|The Best of Days]]''


== External links ==
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== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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Latest revision as of 20:33, 25 April 2024

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Pearl Mackie (born 29 May 1987[1]) played companion Bill Potts in series 10 of Doctor Who, beginning with The Pilot and ending with a version of Bill in Twice Upon a Time.

Personal life[[edit] | [edit source]]

Pearl Mackie grew up in Brixton. According to an October 2016 interview, she desired to be an actor from the age of five, but found that "I didn't see many people who looked like me on TV. There were hardly any strong black women." The role models of Mackie's childhood were all "tough women, not afraid to be vulnerable": Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Ella Fitzgerald. "They made me feel someone like me could do that."[2]

In 2020, Mackie came out as bisexual.[3] She later announced in 2022 that she was engaged.[4]

Career[[edit] | [edit source]]

Mackie's first acting role was at the age of ten: playing Nancy in a school production of Oliver Twist.[5]

Like her character Bill Potts, Mackie actually went to university in Bristol, though she attended the University of Bristol, where she earned a degree in drama. Mackie further studied at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, from which she was graduated in 2010.[6]

Before Doctor Who, Pearl Mackie's work was largely in theatre; she has very few credits in either film or television. After playing Anne-Marie Frasier in one episode of Doctors[5], Bill Potts was her first starring role in a television series.

To keep secrets from spreading, the code "MEANTOWN" was used for Mackie's auditions for the companion role, rather than Doctor Who. The word is an anagram for WOMAN TEN; that is, the companion for series 10 of the BBC Wales version of the show.

Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]

Television[[edit] | [edit source]]

Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]

Webcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Famous Birthdays
  2. ↑ Jeffries, Stuart (5 October 2016). Doctor Who's new companion Pearl Mackie: 'I have no time-travelling experience!'. The Guardian. Retrieved on 15 April 2017.
  3. ↑ https://archive.today/20200630200342/https://www.instagram.com/p/CB-bfqZAX6y/
  4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CY7R5TDM4RT/?utm_medium=copy_link
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gee, Catherine (7 April 2017). Doctor Who's Pearl Mackie: everything you need to know about the new companion. The Telegraph. Retrieved on 15 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Duff, Seamus (15 April 2017). Who is Pearl Mackie? Doctor Who companion Bill Potts who admits she's never seen the show. The Sun. Retrieved on 15 April 2017.
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