Karen Gillan cast as 11th Doctor's companion

We now have our companion...

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Little-known actress Karen Gillan has been unveiled as the next assistant in Doctor Who.

The 21-year-old will star alongside new Time Lord Matt Smith in the new series, to be broadcast next year.

Gillan has already appeared in the drama, having played a Soothsayer in The Fires Of Pompeii in the last run.

"I am absolutely over the moon at being chosen to play the Doctor's new companion. - I just can't wait to get started," she said.

BBC News

Beat me to it. :-)
So much for casting against the romantic angle.
She is cute though. We'll see...

cool this is the first time a companion was in the show before (fires of pomp) of course as a different character-
still was hoping for sally sparrow but she looks promising.

well actually the brig was in the show before he was a companion- of course he played a different character...mr eye patch...
anyone else?

Freema Agyeman? Colin Baker?

oh and romanna/astra

Dodo Chaplet.

barbara from doc 1 then ffwd the ribos operation priestess- gosh help I'm a geek!!!!!

greenk9 wrote:

barbara from doc 1 then ffwd the ribos operation priestess- gosh help I'm a geek!!!!!

You are thinking of Meglos as Lexa the Deon Priestess.

So, who's the geek now?

Hoosier Whovian wrote:

greenk9 wrote:

barbara from doc 1 then ffwd the ribos operation priestess- gosh help I'm a geek!!!!!

You are thinking of Meglos as Lexa the Deon Priestess.

So, who's the geek now?

"IT decended from the heavens!"
sometimes I say that randomly, or when it rains

o.k. hoosier you win... the king of geek. Moose you win the prize of ultra geek that you even knew the quotes.

Dont forget Peter Purves as Morton Dill before he became Steven Taylor.

Uber Geek!

too true, Jacqueline Hill, Peter Purves, Nick Courtney, Ian Marter, Freema Ageyeman, Karen Gillian! Plus all the others who played lest significant roles, Like Christopher Benjamin- Prof. Litefoot and the Colonel Hugh, and Pauline Collins who played Sam Briggs and Queen Victoria, I don't count john scott martain, Paul Kasey, Alan Ruscoe, etc.

Mike Craze as police officer in part four of the war machines! Oh!

oh dear...