History Creator / MatthewWaterhouse

According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, Matthew Waterhouse was born on the 19th of December, 1961 (some sources list his birthdate as 1962) in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. He was also a great fan of ''Doctor Who'' in his childhood and teenage years, collecting every bit of [[TheMerch merchandising]] under the sun and later joining The Doctor Who Appreciation Society. He had an older brother who was also briefly an actor - this and the omnipresence of ''Doctor Who'' in Waterhouse's life ultimately made him want to become an actor as well. Unfortunately, Waterhouse's older brother died by suicide after an ill-fated romance, which lead to RealitySubtext in Adric's first serial, ''Full Circle'', when Adric's older brother dies at the hands of the Marshmen.

* LGBTCreators: Not only was Waterhouse the youngest actor to play a companion of the Doctor on ''Doctor Who'', he was also the first openly-gay actor to be on the show. He discusses his sexuality at length in ''Blue Box Boy''.

Adric was written to be a fairly wiry yet bratty teenager, something that many fans felt wasn't properly realised due to Waterhouse's inexperience in acting (prior to ''Doctor Who'', he was a BBC clerk with a bit part in the 1980 John Duttine miniseries ''To Serve Them All My Days'')- Equity in particular kicked up a fuss as he wasn't a member. Waterhouse ''himself'' even attracted controversy after some of his colleagues expressed their impressions that he was perhaps a little ''too'' much like the character he was meant to be portraying in RealLife (Lalla Ward's expressed sentiments about him are a prime example). While filming [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E3Kinda "Kinda"]] he decided to advise Creator/RichardTodd (an Oscar-nominated actor) on acting, which according to Waterhouse was a sarcastic throwaway joke that was gravely misread on set.

Ask any ''Series/DoctorWho'' fan which companion they deem to be the most annoying/irritating/controversial and nine times out of ten they ''will'' say Adric. After all, a character who was often portrayed as an arrogant, misogynistic and generally unsympathetic BrattyHalfPint generally doesn't go down well with an audience.

According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, Matthew Waterhouse was born on the 19th of December, 1961 (prior to this, some sources list his birthdate as 1962) in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. He was also a great fan of ''Doctor Who'' in his childhood and teenage years, collecting every bit of [[TheMerch merchandising]] under the sun and later joining The Doctor Who Appreciation Society. He had an older brother who was also briefly an actor - this and the omnipresence of ''Doctor Who'' in Waterhouse's life ultimately made him want to become an actor as well. Unfortunately, Waterhouse's older brother died by suicide after an ill-fated romance, which lead to RealitySubtext in Adric's first serial, ''Full Circle'', when Adric's older brother dies at the hands of the Marshmen.