Alex Kingston
Acting
Biography
Alex Kingston (born 11 March 1963) is an English actress. Active from the early 1980s, Kingston became noted for her television work in both Britain and the US in the 1990s, including her regular role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the NBC medical drama ER (1997–2004) and her title role in the ITV miniseries The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996), which earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress. Kingston's later credits include the recurring role of River Song in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2008–2015), Mrs. Bennet in the ITV period-drama fantasy Lost in Austen (2008), Dinah Lance in The CW's superhero fiction drama series Arrow (2013–2016), and Sarah Bishop in A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022).
Born: March 11, 1963
Place of Birth: Epsom, England, UK
Known For
The Knock
The Knock is a British television drama series, created by Anita Bronson and broadcast on ITV from 1994 to 2000, which portrayed the activities of customs officers from Her Majesty's Customs and Excise. The series derived its name from the distinctive 'knock knock knock' command used over the radio to synchronise a raid.
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
Zoe Ball and Rick Edwards get the party started for the celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who, with Doctors and companions past and present, celebrity fans and special surprises.
The Fall
Janet and Liam are happily married until she stops talking to him. And everybody else. In an attempt to diagnose her loss of speech she begins seeing a psychiatrist who starts to probe at a secret buried in the depths of Janet's psyche, the revelation of which has profound and lasting implications not just for her but the entire family. Drew Hewitt's masterful play examines with wit, humour and searing honesty the complex ideas surrounding free will, love and the painful truths of existence.
Doctor Who - Night and The Doctor: Last Night
The Doctor's first date with River has gotten more than a little complicated. With three versions of her in the TARDIS, it takes two of him to sort matters.
Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song Prequel
A digital clock on a computer screen flickers between 05:02:57 PM and 05:02:58 PM. A series of black and white video feeds from security cameras reveal the place to be Area 52. The last shot is of an apparently empty specimen tank. Two soldiers, each wearing an eyepatch, make their way down a corridor, stopping next to a pair of empty tanks nestled into alcoves along the wall. The soldiers check the tanks, report them as secured, then move on. After the soldiers leave, a Silent appears in each tank, alive and awake. Footage from security cameras throughout the base reveal there are at least one hundred and twelve identical tanks, with the implication that all of them contain Silents. Behind a barricaded wooden door in another room containing an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus, a woman in a black suit stands with her back turned to the camera. As the camera zooms in, she turns. It is River Song, with an eyepatch over her right eye. She smiles.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Ever since her birth in Newgate Prison, Moll has survived by her cunning wit, and considerable powers of seduction. She goes through five husbands and countless lovers to escape a life on the streets. In between using and deceiving her besotted paramours, she is not above picking a pocket or two! All the while, though, her heart belongs to the charismatic Jemmy. Inevitably, even the most clever criminal's luck runs out and Moll is soon facing hangman's noose. As her execution day approaches, she devises on last desperate ploy to save not only her own neck, but also the life of her one true love.
Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: First Night
The night River Song is imprisoned in Stormcage for killing the Eleventh Doctor, she receives a visit from her husband to take her out on their first date. Things get complicated when another River arrives.
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
Peter Davison is on a new journey to discover everything he can about the Doctor's Companion. What exactly is a companion's role, how do you actually become a companion, what do they have in common and how have the companions changed over the years?
Woman of the Wolf
This fairy-tale-like drama, based on a 1904 short story by American poet and feminist author Renée Vivien, tells two opposing versions of the same narrative: one told verbally by Pierre Lenoir, a male narrator at a Victorian dinner party; the other told visually through the behavior of an unnamed woman who meets him on a fantasy cargo boat. The intercutting of the two stories creates a tension between the different world views of the woman and the man.
Doctor Who: Rain Gods
The Doctor and River Song find themselves at the mercy of the natives of the planet of the Rain Gods, who mean to sacrifice them to their deities, until the Doctor calls upon the gods themselves to help them out of the fix.
Filmography
as Sharon Rabinowitz
as Sheila
as Audrey Gratz
as Lucifer
as Dr. Greta Portius
as Narrator
as US Ambassador Emily Morgan
as Lucifer
as Tamara
as Judith Gray
as Sarah Bishop
as Naomi Shropshire
as Mary Foster
as Ria
as River Song
as Vlurgen (voice)
as Ruth Hattersley
as River Song (archive footage)
as Narrator
as Sheila
as River Song
as River Song (archive footage)
as Lady Macbeth
as River Song (archive footage)
as River Song
as River Song
as Dinah Lance
as River Song (archive footage)
as Jackie Gardner
as River Song
as Helen Maynard
as Commander Sloane Thompson
as Ruth
as Fiona Banks
as Ellie Lagden
as Eve Manchester
as Mrs. Bennet
as River Song
as Dr. Marla Thomkins
as Self
as Diane Freed
as Tiffany Hartunian
as Suzanne Harrison
as Brownie
as River Song
as River Song / Professor River Song
as Self
as Self - Contestant
as Boudica
as Miranda Pennebaker
as Lucy Costin
as Self
as Self
as Patricia Alwick
as Lisa Locke
as Miranda Pond
as Self
as Peternelle
as Jani De Villiers
as Self
as Verity Graham
as Moll Flanders
as Chic Party Guest
as Moll Flanders
as Anna
as Frances Partridge
as Caroline Carrison
as Elizabeth Corday
as Katherine Roberts
as The Woman
as Actress
as Ursula Kröhling
as Daniella
as Schoolgirl (Uncredited)
as Jill Harcourt