13 Great Non-Doctor Who Performances By Each Doctor

13. Jodie Whittaker In Adult Life Skills

Jodie Whittaker plays Anna, a woman approaching 30 who is stuck in arrested development. She makes endearingly silly videos in her mother’s shed, a hobby she has shared with her brother since childhood. The reappearance of an old school friend and a bond with a troubled neighbour opens Anna’s insular world and offers her a way out of her self-imposed exile. Anna’s shed is like a TARDIS, offering her the ability to escape the drudgery of her day job and constant arguments with her mother through these wacky videos which see her two thumbs bickering their way through space. Jodie Whittaker absolutely nails this fine line between quirk, comedy and pathos which presents us with the fully rounded character of Anna.

Adult Life Skills was released in 2016, two years before Whittaker debuted as the Doctor and had a good run of UK and international film festivals. It's less widely known than her work in the likes of Broadchurch or Trust Me but the film is incredibly likeable, ably balancing moments of great sadness with great humour, a British story about loss and renewal. Which isn’t that bad a description of Doctor Who either.