Doctor Who: 10 Female Doctors That Might Actually Happen

9. Tamsin Greig

She's got the hair for it and as Paul McGann has often pointed out, it's a hair job. Tamsin Greig may be familiar to you for her portrayal of Fran Katzenjammer in the Channel Four comedy Black Books or as Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing. She has that silliness about her that is key for any Doctor but she can also delve into the emotional and serious side of the character. She has some serious acting chops, too, having played Miss Bates in the 2009 BBC version of Jane Austen's Emma as well as appearing in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, for which she won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2007. Not too shabby. She has already appeared in Doctor Who, back in 2005. In the episode The Long Game she played a nurse who helped short-term companion Adam implant a computer chip inside his brain. She has also appeared alongside Sort-Of-Doctor Richard E. Grant (who played the Doctor in 2003's Scream of the Shalka webcast) in the 2009 film Cuckoo. Plenty of talent and some Doctor Who credentials to boot! Perfect.
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Joel Cornah, is an author hailing from a small isolated village in Lancashire. Having told stories of dinosaurs, penguins and dragons to his younger siblings for nigh on two decades, it soon became apparent that these tales needed to be written down. Gathering the myriad of maps, family trees, illustrations and noted ideas, he began work on the world of dyngard. Having grown along with the audience from a collection of loosely related children’s stories, it became a whole world of adventure, magic and questions. He was awarded a degree in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moors University and spent seven years writing a comical newspaper for The Barrow Downs Tolkien discussion forum. Currently running a charity café in Parbold village, Joel is often found deep in discussion of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the long history of Doctor Who, and desperately trying not to frighten people away. Often with limited success.