Tallulah Francis

Tallulah Francis
Species:	Human
Job:	Singer
Affiliated with:	The Laurenzi
Place of origin:	New York City
Partner:	Laszlo
First appearance:	Daleks in Manhattan [+]Loading...["Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)"]
Appearances:	TV: Evolution of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)"] PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"]
Main actor:	Miranda Raison

Tallulah Francis (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"], The Secret Lives of Monsters ^[+]Loading...["The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"]) was an actress and singer in New York City in 1930. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan ^[+]Loading...["Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)"]) She was a member of Barker's Belles. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters ^[+]Loading...["The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)"])

Biography

She was the lead singer of New York Revue, a stage show where the other showgirls dressed as devils, while she was dressed as the lone angel.

Tallulah worked in a theatre called the Laurenzi, where she fell in love with one of the stagehands, Laszlo. When Laszlo was taken by the Cult of Skaro's minions, Tallulah missed him. He was partially converted into a pig slave, but still left her a rose every day.

Tallulah followed the Tenth Doctor into the sewers in order to find Laszlo. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan ^[+]Loading...["Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)"]) She helped the Doctor, along with Martha Jones and Laszlo, to stop the Daleks. After the Daleks' defeat she stayed with Laszlo, despite his altered appearance, showing that she truly loved him. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Personality

She was a bit of a ditzy person and easily confused when walking in underground tunnels, but her will was hard as iron. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan ^[+]Loading...["Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)"], Evolution of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

• Actress Miranda Raison recorded her own vocals for her performance of the original song, "My Angel Put the Devil in Me", but the soundtrack CD version of the song was performed by Yamit Mamo.
• Tallulah's surname wasn't revealed on television. However, in The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"], it is revealed to be Francis, which a later novel, The Secret Lives of Monsters ^[+]Loading...["The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)"], alludes to in a flier for the Laurenzi which shows the beginning of her surname, although the end was obscured.