10 Actors Who Appeared In Star Wars And Doctor Who
3. Christina Chong
Speaking of bit-parts in The Force Awakens, Christina Chong's small role in the seventh episode of the Skywalker Saga is something of a mystery to this day, and that's because it was cut in its entirety during editing.
In July 2014, it was announced that Chong had joined the film in a "minor role", and though she did travel to Abu Dhabi to shoot her scenes - and even got called in for reshoots at Pinewood Studios in London - her character didn't make the final cut.
Reflecting on her Star Wars experience in a recent interview, Chong said:
"My scene was with Daisy Ridley, and it was at the beginning, the very first day of the shoot... I essentially got paid twice to do that job and ended up on the cutting room floor, which is amazing!"
Fortunately, Doctor Who's editors were much kinder to Chong, and her character - Lorna Bucket, a soldier working for the part religious, part military organisation the Church of the Papal Mainframe - played a vital role in the 2011 episode A Good Man Goes To War.
Along with Pegg, Chong is another of those rare actors who's completed the Trek/Wars/Who trifecta, having boldly gone to the Star Trek franchise in 2022's Strange New Worlds, which currently has a second season in the works.