Billie Piper

Acting

Billie Piper

Born 1982-09-22 · Wiltshire, England, UK

Billie Paul Piper (born Lianne Piper, 22 September 1982, in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English singer and actress. She began her career in the late 1990s as a pop singer and then switched to acting. Her most famous role is as Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who from 2005 to 2006, a role she reprised in 2008 and 2010. In 2007, Broadcast magazine listed Piper at no. 6 in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers, the top woman on the list. Since 2007 she has starred as the high-flying escort Belle de Jour in the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

Acting credits

Evita poster
6.1

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

Evita

1996

Catherine Called Birdy poster
6.0

A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.

Catherine Called Birdy

2022

Scoop poster
6.4

Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamous interview.

Scoop

2024

Mansfield Park poster
6.1

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford

Mansfield Park

2007

The Shadow in the North poster
6.6

Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.

The Shadow in the North

2007

Elsinore poster
NR

A powerful, deeply moving and inspiring true story of actor Ian Charleson, who faced incredible odds while preparing to give the performance of his life in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London.

Elsinore

2026

Doctor Who at the Proms poster
7.2

Doctor 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

City of Tiny Lights poster
5.2

In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.

City of Tiny Lights

2016

Eternal Beauty poster
6.2

When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.

Eternal Beauty

2020

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor poster
8.2

In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

The Leading Man poster
5.0

Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. Enter Robin Grange, a charismatic young Hollywood actor making his London theatre debut. Robin is attractive, charming and dangerous, and soon inveigles his way into everyone's life. He ingratiates himself with the cast and, quickly grasping Felix's dilemma, sets about weaving his web of mischief. He suggests that if he were to seduce Elena, she would be distracted from Felix's affair, regain her self respect, and perhaps even willingly part from the unfaithful husband to whom she clings...

The Leading Man

1996

The Ruby in the Smoke poster
6.4

Sally Lockhart has struck a man dead with just three words, sent to her in a message from her father just before he drowned in the South China Seas. But unfortunately, Sally has no idea what the words The Seven Blessings mean. Before long, she is drawn into a mystery filled with opium, secrets from her own past and, at the heart of it all, the Ruby of Agrapur.

The Ruby in the Smoke

2006

Much Ado About Nothing poster
8.2

Tensions mount in the TV studio when a take-charge anchor is reunited with a man she has a "history" with.

Much Ado About Nothing

2005

The Calcium Kid poster
5.5

When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action, he is propelled from amateur boxer to the world stage and announced as the replacement contender for the championship fight.

The Calcium Kid

2004

I Hate Suzie Too poster
NR

I Hate Suzie Too, the three-part anti-Christmas special, written by Lucy Prebble (Secret Diary of a Call Girl, The Effect, Succession) and Billie Piper (Doctor Who, Yerma, Rare Beasts), follows former child star Suzie Pickles, also played by Piper, as she attempts to rebuild her public image after losing her marriage, her agent and primary custody of her son in the wake of the photo-hacking scandal. Desperate for redemption, Suzie signs on to the chaotic reality dance competition Dance Crazee Xmas, where every performance becomes another battle for public approval.

I Hate Suzie Too

2022

Parkinson at 50 poster
10.0

Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourite encounters.

Parkinson at 50

2021

Power Girls poster
NR

Video collection of music tracks by female performers.

Power Girls

2002

Rare Beasts poster
5.5

Mandy is a mother, a writer, a nihilist. Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the midst of a female revolution, mining the pain of her parents' separation and professionally writing about a love that no longer exists, she falls upon a troubled man, Pete, who’s searching for a sense of worth, belonging and ‘restored’ Male identity.

Rare Beasts

2021

Doctor Who Explained poster
6.7

A BBC America documentary explores the mysterious and two-hearted alien who is the Doctor with exclusive interviews with cast members from the show's 50-year history.

Doctor Who Explained

2013

Doctor Who: A New Dimension poster
9.0

Documentary lead-in to the premiere episode of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who. Features cast interviews, behind the scenes footage, and a look at the Doctor's past.

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

2005

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2 poster
6.5

Amy tries to flirt with The Doctor but he tries to ignore her advances.

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2

2010

Doctor Who: The End of Time poster
8.5

The Doctor finally faces his destiny as both his home planet and old foe reappears.

Doctor Who: The End of Time

2010

David Tennant's Video Diary poster
9.3

David Tennant records behind the scenes interviews and glimpses into the production behind his three series of Doctor Who.

David Tennant's Video Diary

2007

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War poster
5.1

Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on her travels with the Doctor. With the TARDIS still unable to get her home to Earth, Belinda must fight for her life as the Doctor faces an almighty threat to reality itself…

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025

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