10 Doctor Who Background Actors Who Got Themselves Noticed

The cast of Fifth Doctor classic Kinda is stacked. Alongside the regulars, it has legend of British cinema Richard Todd as Sanders, The Liver Birds' Nerys Hughes as Todd, and The Bill's Simon Rouse and Jeff Stewart.

But the most famous actor in the entire cast is one of the background artists, a very young Jonny Lee Miller, who played the uncredited role of "fruit-bearing child" in this serial.

That fruit-bearing child would grow up to play Sick Boy in both Trainspotting movies, the other modern day Sherlock Holmes in Elementary, and – weirdly – a 'Hollywood handsome' version of former Prime Minister John Major in The Crown Season 5.

What's strange about Jonny Lee Miller's one and only contribution to Doctor Who is that it's just that. A quick rifle through the various wild rumours about potential Doctor actors – from Kris Marshall to Denzel Washington – reveals that Jonny Lee Miller has never been linked to the role at any point in his career.

And given that he's now played Sherlock Holmes, he's probably unlikely to want to play another eccentric British genius in a long-running TV show.