
Acting
Pearl Mackie
Born 1987-05-29 · Brixton, London, England, UK
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.
Acting credits
5.6A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
Greed
2019
5.6A couple flying on a small plane to attend a tropical island wedding must fight for their lives after their pilot suffers a heart attack.
Horizon Line
2020
7.2Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially shot feature for the Fifteenth Doctor and a host of scary aliens as they thrill a packed audience at London's Royal Albert Hall. In a concert like no other in time and space, the much-loved music, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, is accompanied by specially edited sequences from the series.
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
5.8A mother fights to save her ailing daughter after a global pandemic worse than any seen before ravaged the planet, leaving resources so scarce you must pay for them with your life.
The Deal
2022
8.0As 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.
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017
7.7A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
8.0A 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.
Origami
2019
5.4Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…
Svengali
2013
NRIn a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be. Under the watchful eyes and guidance of their guardian Sylvia, Nana, and some unlikely lodgers, they fight to pursue their individual passions. But in a world that wasn’t built for women with big ambitions, can they forge a future, keep their family together, and even learn a dance or two along the way?
National Theatre Live: Ballet Shoes
2025
9.0A 1960s period thriller centring around a gang of ex-airforce servicemen who now run a nefarious smuggling operation.
Your Move
2023
7.0The Doctor and Bill are chased by a group of Daleks in a short introductory video to present Bill, the new companion, to audiences for the first time.
Doctor Who: Friend from the Future
2016
8.0An absurd black comedy unbelievably based on a true story of Victorian occult murder with a hint of spiritualism.
Copycats
2021
6.7Pops and Branwell, two kid detectives, suspect a traitor in their squad as they chase a soup robbing thief.
Pops and Branwell
2019
NRAfter his release from prison, an ex-soldier embarks on a journey to reunite with his family.
Tyger
2023
8.0When 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.
The Lennox Report
2020
10.0A 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?
National Theatre at Home: Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors
2023