Jodie Whittaker
Year Title Role
2006 Venus Jessie
2007 St Trinian 's Beverly
2008 Good Anne Hartman
2009 White Wedding Rose
2009 Swansong : Story of Occi Byrne Bridget Byrne
2009 Roar Eva
2009 Perrier 's Bounty Brenda
2009 Wish 143 Maggie
2009 St Trinian 's 2 : The Legend of Fritton 's Gold Beverly
2010 The Kid Jackie
2010 Ollie Kepler 's Expanding Purple World Noreen Stokes
2011 Attack the Block Samantha Adams
2011 One Day Tilly
2011 A Thousand Kisses Deep Mia Selva
2012 Good Vibrations Ruth
2012 Ashes Ruth
2012 Dust Jessica 's Mum
2012 Smoke
2013 Hello Carter Jenny
2013 Spike Island Suzanne
Filmography -- Film
Jodie Auckland Whittaker (born 17 June 1982) is an English actress. She came to prominence in her 2006 feature film debut Venus, for which she received British Independent Film Award and Satellite Award nominations. She was later praised for her roles in the cult science fiction film Attack the Block (2011), the Black Mirror episode The Entire History of You (2011), and as grieving mother Beth Latimer in Broadchurch. On 16 July 2017, the BBC announced that Whittaker would become the thirteenth and first female incarnation of The Doctor in the British TV series Doctor Who. She formally assumed the role from Peter Capaldi in the 2017 Christmas special episode Twice Upon a Time when Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor regenerated into Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor. Whittaker appears in her first full series as the Doctor in the eleventh series, which premiered in October 2018. She continues in the role in the twelfth series in 2020.