20 Doctor Who Actors Who Have Been In Star Wars (& 2 Who Will Be)
13. Hugh Quarshie
As Doctor Ric Griffin in the medical drama Holby City, Quarshie is a familiar face to many British TV viewers, but cinema audiences around the world know him better as Captain Panaka in The Phantom Menace. Years later (and not looking a day older), Quarshie got to flex his American accent again for Doctor Whos Series 3 two-parter Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks. In this 1930s New York-set tale of a Dalek hybrid and pig men, Quarshie played Solomon, a leader of the dispossessed in a "Hooverville" tent city near the Empire State Building.
Mike has lived in the UK, Japan and the USA. Currently, he is based in Iowa with his wife and 2 young children. After working for many years as a writer and editor for a large corporation, he is now a freelancer. He has been fortunate enough to contribute to many books on Doctor Who over the last 20 years and is now concentrating on original sci-fi & fantasy short stories, with recent sales including Flame Tree, Uffda, and The Martian Wave. Also, look for his contribution on Blake's 7 to "You and Who Else", a charity anthology to be released later this year.
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