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Pearl Mackie is best known for her starring role as Bill Potts opposite Peter Capaldi in the BBC’s beloved sci-fi series Doctor Who. Most recently Pearl shot survival thriller feature Horizon Line for STXfilms and SF Studios opposite Allison Williams – she also filmed starring role in independent Dystopian feature The Deal, directed by Orsi Nagypal.

Recently aired work includes playing Lucy One in Friday Night Dinner opposite Simon Bird and Tamsin Greig for Channel 4. On the feature side, Pearl played a supporting role in Steve Coogan’s feature Greed which premiered the London BFI film festival in the autumn. On stage, Pearl was last seen playing Lulu in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party alongside Zoe Wanamaker, Stephen Mangan and Toby Jones, Directed by Ian Rickson to stellar reviews in his West End production. That year Pearl also shot short film Origami, written by BAFTA New Talent Hotlist writer Sumerah Srivastav, alongside Nicholas Pinnock.

Pearl has also leant her voice to award-winning Podcasts Forest 404, playing the lead role of Pan, and Prepper alongside Sue Johnston. Both are available on BBC Sounds.

Pearl’s West End debut came starring in the National Theatre’s Olivier and Tony award-winning production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time. She appeared in A Mad World, My Masters with the Royal Shakespeare Company, she had previously starred as Nina in Theatre503’s play Only Human and co-starred in the European premiere of Aurin Squire’s Obama-ology at the Finborough Theatre. Alongside Martin Freeman, Michael Socha and Maxine Peake, Pearl featured in the comedy film Svengali, directed by John Hardwick. Further theatre credits include: Hello Kind World; Crystal Springs; Home; The Crucible; and The Comedy of Errors.

Pearl trained at Bristol Old Vic.

Jessica’s acclaimed career has gone from strength to strength since she was plucked from RADA early to make her professional debut at the National Theatre as Lesley Sharp’s daughter in Simon Stephens Harper Regan. In the last few years we’ve seen her star in some of the UK’s most celebrated television, be it as Alison Laithwaite in Peter Moffat’s critically acclaimed The Last Post (Bonafide Films), Lady Rochford opposite Mark Rylance in the award-winning adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall or as Jenny Lee in the much-loved Call the Midwife (Neal Street Productions).  Jessica can be seen opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in TV mini-series Melrose (Sky Atlantic/Showtime) alongside Paddy Considine in The Informer (Neal Street Productions), in Simon Amstell’s debut feature film, Benjamin (Open Palm Films) and in the upcoming feature film Carmilla (Bird Flight Films), based on the 19^th Century Gothic novel.

Other screen credits include Baptiste (BBC), Jericho (ITV), Inside No.9 (BBC), Partners in Crime (Endor Productions), Fortitude (Tiger Aspect), An Adventure in Space and Time for which she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress in a Movie or Mini-series at the US Critics Choice Awards, Doctor Who, Garrow’s Law (all BBC), The Woman in Black (Alliance Films) and Robin Hood (Universal Pictures).

Her theatre credits include X (Royal Court), Roots (Donmar Warehouse), The Changeling (Young Vic), Rocket to the Moon (National Theatre), Earthquakes in London (National Theatre), Ghosts (Duchess Theatre, West End) for which she was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award, Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith/Royal Exchange, Manchester) for which she won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards and Gethsemane (National Theatre). Jessica was also nominated for the ‘Times Breakthrough Award’ for theatre at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards in 2012.