Pearl Mackie
Acting
Biography
Pearl Mackie is a British actress, dancer, and singer. She is best known for playing Bill Potts in the long-running television series Doctor Who. Mackie is a 2010 graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her first major TV role came in 2014, when she played Anne-Marie Frasier in BBC One soap opera Doctors.
Born: May 29, 1987
Place of Birth: Brixton, London, England, UK
Known For
National Theatre at Home: Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors
A powerful new verbatim play from the testimony of residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Six years on, interviews conducted with a group of survivors and bereaved reveal the impact of the multiple failures that led to a national disaster, asking: how do we stop this ever happening again?
Best & Bester
Twins Best and Bester have the unique ability to choose a new body every single day and, in doing so, experience life in a completely different way.
Your Move
A 1960s period thriller centring around a gang of ex-airforce servicemen who now run a nefarious smuggling operation.
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a familiar face to convince the Doctors the universe still needs them.
Origami
A grounded sci-fi short about a mother whose belief in justice and a fair society is tested when those she loves are put at risk. Origami is set in a present day dystopian world. One where a growing number of young people are born with an ability that is wrongly deemed a threat to wider population. For this they are relentlessly persecuted. This is the story of one mother’s attempt to save her son.
The Lennox Report
When a global pandemic threatens to jeopardise an impending deal, and their manager goes off sick, work colleagues Kayla and Mark are tasked with completing the Lennox Report. Spending time together online, their friendship deepens and Kayla begins to question some of the other relationships in her life.
Copycats
An absurd black comedy unbelievably based on a true story of Victorian occult murder with a hint of spiritualism.
Friday Night Dinner
Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
The Diplomat
Amid an international crisis, a US diplomat contends with her high-profile job as ambassador to the UK and her strained marriage to a political star.
Doctor Who
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
Filmography
as Sylvia Rose Brown
as Bill Potts (archive footage)
as Natasha Elcock
as Sarah
as Honour
as Alysse
as Patricia
as Kabira
as Grafifi (Voice)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as DS Jen Rafferty
as Lady Isabella Sausage
as Tarnia
as Pascale
as "Pops" Popowski (voice)
as Cathy
as Heather
as Bill Potts
as Kay
as Bill Potts
as F.O.H. girl
as Lucy One
as Bill Potts
as Anne-Marie Frasier
as Self