10 Roles That Showed Doctor Who Actors In A Completely Different Light

5. Jenna Coleman €“ Room At The Top

Aside from a flirtatious turn in 'Asylum of the Daleks', Jenna Coleman's Clara has been a mild-mannered and close friend to the Doctor. It makes perfect sense for her to play both a nanny and teacher; she has an older-sister quality in the presence of children, and a warm humanness that would appeal to Eleven. Room At The Top however, showcases a very different side of Coleman. Shortly after lead character Joe arrives in Warley, he meets the rich Susan (Coleman), and the pair begin a relationship; the drama shows Susan's and Joe's lust for each other in explicit sex scenes, as he juggles dating her with an older, unhappily married woman Alice. It's a mature, no-holds-barred performance, and one that doesn't have a lot in common with Clara Oswald. In fact, Coleman's other big role on British TV, a stint in Emmerdale as Jasmine Thomas, wasn't a lot like Clara either; she started off as a suspended school pupil, before killing a man, falling in love with a woman and being sent to prison. The Doctor would disapprove.