20 Doctor Who Actors Who Have Been In Star Wars (& 2 Who Will Be)
19. Ayesha Dharker
Followers of the British soap opera Coronation Street already know Dharker as Tara Mandal but she's been in another type of opera too: a space opera! Under the weight of a clunky headdress in Attack of the Clones, Dharker played Queen Jamillia, the successor to Natalie Portmans Queen Amidala. Six years later, she landed a more morally questionable role in the Doctor Who story Planet of the Ood, where she played Solana Mercurio, a PA for Ood Operations. Mercurio's karmic reward for being complicit in selling the aliens as slaves was to be killed by an angry Ood.
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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