Doctor Who: 10 Female Doctors That Might Actually Happen

6. Hermione Norris

Another Doctor Who veteran, Hermione Norris appears in this year's controversial Kill the Moon alongside Peter Capaldi. She's therefore no stranger to episodes that divided fans so entering as the first female Doctor would no doubt be a breeze for her. She has already proven herself as hero material playing the morally ambiguous Ros Myers in Spooks for which she won the award for Best Actress at the 200 ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards - as prestigious as they are. Her spy antics showed her as an incredibly versatile actress and her final scenes, sacrificing her life to save a paralysed Home Secretary from an exploding building, were very much worthy of the Doctor himself. It's not all seriousness and mystery, though. Hermione has also been nominated for a British Comedy Award for her role in Cold Feet in 2001. Heroics is all well and good but if you can't have a laugh then what's the point?

Joel Cornah

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Joel Cornah, is an author hailing from a small isolated village in Lancashire. Having told stories of dinosaurs, penguins and dragons to his younger siblings for nigh on two decades, it soon became apparent that these tales needed to be written down. Gathering the myriad of maps, family trees, illustrations and noted ideas, he began work on the world of dyngard. Having grown along with the audience from a collection of loosely related children’s stories, it became a whole world of adventure, magic and questions. He was awarded a degree in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moors University and spent seven years writing a comical newspaper for The Barrow Downs Tolkien discussion forum. Currently running a charity café in Parbold village, Joel is often found deep in discussion of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the long history of Doctor Who, and desperately trying not to frighten people away. Often with limited success.

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