Arthur Darvill

Arthur Darvill
Other names:	Thomas Arthur Darvill
Birth date:	17 June 1982
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Rory Williams
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	2010-12, 2020-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Swimming with Sharks, Little Dorrit, Doctor Faustus, The White Queen, Broadchurch, Frankenstein, Treasure Island, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Cbeebies Bedtime Story, World on Fire, The Sandman
IMDb profile

Arthur Darvill (born Thomas Arthur Darvill in Birmingham on 17 June 1982) played Rory Williams between series 5 and 7 of Doctor Who. He also played the Auton duplicate of the same character in the Doctor Who two-parter The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang.

Early Life and Career

Arthur Darvill was educated at Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire and trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His first television appearance was in ITV drama He Kills Coppers and he met Matt Smith in Swimming With Sharks. Just prior to joining the cast of Doctor Who, he starred alongside Freema Agyeman when playing the role of Edward "Tip" Dorrit in Little Dorrit. He also wrote the 2009 musical Been So Long.

In February 2012, Darvill became the second companion actor of the revived series (after Noel Clarke) to appear in a Big Finish Productions audio drama when he guest starred in the audio story Paradise Frost, an episode of the Bernice Summerfield box set, Road Trip as Jared Jones. He also played Frank Layton in the Torchwood - Special Releases audio story Believe.

On 30 March 2015, Darvill was cast as Rip Hunter in a lead role for Legends of Tomorrow. Ironically, in the DC comics, Rip Hunter is a leader of a group of time-travellers. Darvill is also the fifth actor from Doctor Who to have a role within the series' universe.

Personal life

He was born on the same day as his Broadchurch co-star and Thirteenth Doctor actor Jodie Whittaker.

He is married to Inès de Clercq and the son of Ellie Darvill.

Credits

As Rory Williams

Television

Doctor Who

• The Eleventh Hour
• The Vampires of Venice
• Amy's Choice
• The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood
• The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang
• A Christmas Carol
• The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon
• The Curse of the Black Spot
• The Doctor's Wife
• The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People
• A Good Man Goes to War
• Let's Kill Hitler
• Night Thoughts
• The Girl Who Waited
• The God Complex
• Closing Time
• The Wedding of River Song
• The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Asylum of the Daleks
• Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• A Town Called Mercy
• The Power of Three
• The Angels Take Manhattan

Mini-episodes

• Pond Life
• Rory's Story

Webcasts

Doctor Who: Lockdown

• Rory's Story

Video Games

The Adventure Games

• The Gunpowder Plot

Other Roles

Television

Other

• Doctor Who at the Proms (2010) - Presenter

Audio

Time Lord Victorious

• Echoes of Extinction - Cooke

The Lone Centurion

• The Lone Centurion: Volume One
  • Gladiator
  • The Unwilling Assassin
  • I, Rorius
• The Lone Centurion: Volume Two
  • The Once and Future Nurse
  • The Glowing Warrior
  • The Last King of Camelot

Bernice Summerfield

• Paradise Frost - Doctor Jared Jones

Torchwood Special Releases

• Believe - Frank Layton

Audiobook Readings

BBC New Series Adventures

• Night of the Humans
• The Glamour Chase

BBC Audio

• The Ring of Steel
• Day of the Cockroach
• Sleepers in the Dust

External links

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• Arthur Darvill at the Internet Movie Database
• Arthur Darvill RADA Profile
• Penguin Funding Profile
• Arthur Darvill at the Doctor Who: Lockdown! wiki