Alex Kingston

Alex Kingston
Other names:	Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston
Birth date:	11 March 1963
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	River Song
Main jobs:	Actor, Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	2008, 2010-2013, 2015-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Grange Hill, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Bill, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, ER, Boudica, Lost in Austen, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Hope Springs, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Marchlands, Upstairs, Downstairs, Who Do You Think You Are, NCIS, Macbeth, Chasing Shadows, Arrow, Transference, A Discovery of Witches
IMDb profile
Interview
▶︎ YouTube YouTube might collect personal data. Privacy Policy UnderstoodDismiss

You may wish to consult Alex for other, similarly-named pages.

Alexandra Elizabeth "Alex" Kingston (born 11 March 1963) played River Song in Doctor Who, beginning with Silence in the Library in series 4. In 2015, she also first appeared in her own range of audio plays, The Diary of River Song, as well as the Doom Coalition, Ravenous and UNIT: The New Series audio series and the audio anthologies The Eighth of March and The Legacy of Time.

Trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Kingston is best known internationally for her role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the US TV series ER, alongside Goran Višnjić, and the title role in the 1996 miniseries The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders.

She also had recurring roles in the US TV series FlashForward as Scotland Yard inspector Fiona Banks, and a lead role in the ITV drama Marchlands as Helen Maynard, the 1980s tenant of the house and mother of Sydney Wade's character.

Kingston played the lead role of Queen Boudica in the 2003 film Warrior Queen, directed by Bill Anderson and co-starring Emily Blunt as Boudica's daughter Isolda. Other Doctor Who alumni who appeared in the film included Alex Hassell, Angus Wright, Steve John Shepherd, Frances Barber, and Jack Galloway.

Kingston also starred in multiple seasons of Law & Order: SVU, where she played defence attorney Miranda Pond (a name similar to Melody Pond) and appeared in NCIS as Miranda Pennebaker.

Kingston has a recurring role in Arrow, being the third of five actors from Doctor Who to also have a role in the show's universe.

She was formerly married to actor Ralph Fiennes (whom she met at RADA), and Florian Haertel. Her daughter Salome Haertel acted alongside her in Series 2 and Series 8 of The Diary of River Song.

Her niece, Bonnie Kingston, played Lucy Davis in the Missy audio series. (BFX: A Spoonful of Mayhem)

Acting Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead
• The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone
• The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang
• The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon
• A Good Man Goes to War
• Let's Kill Hitler
• Closing Time
• The Wedding of River Song
• The Angles Take Manhattan
• The Name of the Doctor
• The Husbands of River Song

Mini-episodes

• Prequel to The Wedding of River Song
• First Night / Last Night
• Rain Gods

Other

• Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty - (prerecorded message)

Webcasts

Monster Files

• Monster File: Weeping Angels
• Monster File: Vampires
• Monster File: Silurians

Video Games

Console

• The Eternity Clock

Audio

Special Releases

• The Legacy of Time
  • Lies in Ruins

Doom Coalition

• The Sonomancer
• The Eighth Piece / The Doomsday Chronometer
• The Crucible of Souls
• Songs of Love

Ravenous

• Companion Piece

The Tenth Doctor and River Song

• Expiry Dating
• Precious Annihilation
• Ghosts

Dalek Universe

• The First Son

Once and Future

• The Union

The Diary of River Song

• Series One
  • The Boundless Sea
  • I Went to a Marvellous Party
  • Signs
  • The Rulers of the Universe
• Series Two
  • The Unknown
  • Five Twenty-Nine
  • World Enough and Time
  • The Eye of the Storm
• Series Three
  • The Lady in the Lake
  • A Requiem for the Doctor
  • My Dinner with Andrew
  • The Furies
• Series Four
  • Time in a Bottle
  • Kings of Infinite Space
  • Whodunnit?
  • Someone I Once Knew
• Series Five
  • The Bekdel Test
  • Animal Instinct
  • The Lifeboat and the Deathboat
  • Concealed Weapon
• Series Six
  • An Unearthly Woman
  • The Web of Time
  • Peepshow
  • The Talents of Greel
• Series Seven
  • Colony of Strangers
  • Abbey of Heretics
  • Barrister to the Stars
  • Carnival of Angels
• Series Eight
  • Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow
  • A Brave New World
  • A Forever Home
  • Queen of the Mechoniods
• New Recruit
  • The Blood Woods
  • Terror of the Suburbs
  • Never Alone
  • Rivers of Light
• Two Rivers and A Firewall
  • The Two Rivers
  • Beauty on the Inside
  • Black Friday
  • Firewall
• Friend of the Family
• The Orphan Quartet
  • The Excise Men
  • Harvest of the Krotons
  • Dead Man Talking
  • The Wife of River Song

UNIT: The New Series

• The Power of River Song

The Eighth of March

• Emancipation

Peladon

• The Poison of Peladon

The Lives of Captain Jack

• R&J

Audiobook Readings

BBC New Series Adventures

• The Ruby's Curse

BBC New Series Tie-In Novels

• The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

Stage Plays

• The Crash of the Elysium (deleted scenes)

Writing Credits

Novels

BBC New Series Adventures

• The Ruby's Curse - with Jacqueline Rayner

External links

• Alex Kingston at the Internet Movie Database