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=== Actors to play the Doctor === | === Actors to play the Doctor === | ||
To date, the only openly LGBTQ actors to have portrayed the Doctor in any medium | To date, the only openly LGBTQ actor to portray a numbered canon incarnation of the Doctor is [[Ncuti Gatwa]], who came out as queer after he was announced to play the Fifteenth Doctor but before his first episode aired. Before this, the only openly LGBTQ actors to have portrayed the Doctor in any medium were [[Geoffrey Bayldon]] and [[Mark Gatiss]]. Bayldon was originally offered the role of the [[First Doctor]], and ultimately voiced an [[The Doctor (Auld Mortality)|alternate universe incarnation]] of him in the ''[[Doctor Who Unbound]]'' audio stories ''[[Auld Mortality (audio story)|Auld Mortality]]'' and ''[[A Storm of Angels (audio story)|A Storm of Angels]]''. [[Mark Gatiss]], meanwhile, played a [[The Doctor (The Web of Caves)|"generic" Doctor]] in the licensed parody sketch ''[[The Web of Caves (TV story)|The Web of Caves]]''. | ||
A number of LGBTQ actors had been considered to play the Doctor on screen. Openly gay actors [[John Sessions]] and {{w|Tony Slattery}} were considered to play the [[Eighth Doctor]].<ref>Segal, Philip; Gary Russell (2000). Doctor Who:Regeneration. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-710591-6.</ref> | A number of LGBTQ actors had been considered to play the Doctor on screen. Openly gay actors [[John Sessions]] and {{w|Tony Slattery}} were considered to play the [[Eighth Doctor]].<ref>Segal, Philip; Gary Russell (2000). Doctor Who:Regeneration. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-710591-6.</ref> | ||