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2 | [[caption-width-right:300:''[[Series/DoctorWho Actors are great. The best, like, wow.]]'']] |
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4 | ->''"As an actor, you have good spells and bad spells."'' |
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6 | Mizero Ncuti Gatwa[[note]] Pronounced "SHOO-tee GAT-wah"[[/note]] (born 15 October 1992) is a Rwandan-Scottish actor[[note]]he was born in Rwanda and grew up in Scotland[[/note]]. He got his big break with the role of Eric Effiong in ''Series/SexEducation'' in 2019, and is currently playing the Fifteenth Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho''. |
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8 | Gatwa's tenure as the Doctor marks a bunch of firsts: he is the first Black male actor to be cast in the role[[note]]discounting Creator/ColinSalmon, whose role as [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary Doctor]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Moon]] was only confirmed to be an incarnation of the Doctor by WordOfGod rather than being stated in the series itself[[/note]], the first Black actor to play a mainline incarnation of the Doctor[[note]]Creator/JoMartin played an incarnation whose placement in the Doctor's timeline is unknown as of this writing, being known only as the "Fugitive Doctor", but as a guest character rather than as a regular[[/note]], and the first to be born outside the UK. Cast at the age of 29, he is tied with Creator/PeterDavison for the position of second-youngest actor to play the Doctor (the youngest being Creator/MattSmith, who was cast at 26) -- and is the first Doctor actor to be born after [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival the Classic Series' cancellation in 1989]]. He is also the first openly queer actor to play the role. |
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10 | !!Film roles |
11 | * ''Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans'' (2019) as Timidius |
12 | * ''Film/TheLastLetterFromYourLover'' (2021) as Nick |
13 | * ''Film/{{Barbie|2023}}'' (2023) as Tourist Ken |
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15 | !!Television roles |
16 | * ''Series/SexEducation'' (2019-2023) as Eric Effiong |
17 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle 2023]]-present) as the [[Characters/DoctorWhoFifteenthDoctor Fifteenth Doctor]] |
18 | ** ''Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'' (2023) AsHimself[[note]]2023 BBC Four airing; replacing Creator/MattSmith[[/note]] |
19 | * ''Series/MastersOfTheAir'' (TBA) as 2cd Lt. Robert Daniels |
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21 | !!Video game roles |
22 | * ''VideoGame/GRIDLegends'' (2022) as Valentin Manzi |
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24 | !!Tropes relating to him and his career: |
25 | * AwesomeDearBoy: His reaction to being cast as the Doctor: to him, ''Doctor Who'''s appeal lies in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO1hcd_AQqU giving voice and escapism to outliers, misfits and those who feel marginalised]]. |
26 | * DawsonCasting: He was in his mid twenties when cast as the teenage Eric in ''Sex Education''. |
27 | * FakeNationality: The Scottish-Rwandan Gatwa as the English-Nigerian Eric. |
28 | * LargeHam: |
29 | ** As Eric. He seems to be quite lively and boisterous in real life too. |
30 | ** If his first scene as the 15th Doctor goes, this could also be the case: "[[IncomingHam Someone tell me what the HELL is going on here?!]]" |
31 | * PromotedFanboy: He's a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', especially Creator/DavidTennant as the [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]], even citing him as the reason he got into acting. Fittingly, his PassingTheTorch moment involves Tennant himself. |
32 | -->''"It feels like it’s come full circle – because David was my Doctor and such a great inspiration to me as an actor. I would have been 13 – a pivotal time. And firstly, he’s Scottish. Plus he was so charismatic and fun. I mean all the Doctors have been fun, all the way back. Well, I don’t know if you can say that about Creator/WilliamHartnell. Maybe he wasn’t fun. But David had such a Scottish almost feral-ness to him, which is what I liked. I felt an affinity to that. So for him, of all people, to be handing the baton over – it just feels really surreal."'' |
33 | * MemeAcknowledgement: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV97KXrP6do His appearance]] on ''Series/TheGrahamNortonShow'' featured him discussing a meme edit of a Covid poster based around Eric's CharacterCatchphrase ("Wash your hands, you dirty pig!"). |
34 | * StarMakingRole: Eric Effiong in ''Sex Education''. ''Doctor Who'' will definitely count too. |
35 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was the last person to audition for the role of the Fifteenth Doctor. Showrunner Creator/RussellTDavies [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfQgjgV0nM8 has said]] that he had almost settled on another actor before Gatwa tried out for the part. |
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