History Creator / BilliePiper

Born in Swindon, Billie Paul Piper (born Leian Paul Piper, September 22, 1982) is the only full time ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion to have three UK Number One hits to her name. She is notable for her dyed blonde hair, big black eyebrows and being a Fox. Literally, as she married Laurence Fox in December 2007. With him, she has two sons, Winston James and Eugene Pip. They divorced in 2016, however.

She started out as an actress, but moved into singing, with "Because We Want To" making her (at fifteen) the youngest singer to debut at No. 1. After two more, her star faded somewhat -- but in the middle of a lot of chaos, she married British presenter Radio/ChrisEvans (no, not that Creator/ChrisEvans). The marriage lasted for years and the [[AmicableExes two remain good friends]].

After her departure from ''Who'', she's appeared in some other things, most notably as Literature/SallyLockhart in two film adaptations (alongside Creator/MattSmith, which should give rise to some interesting {{shipping}} {{fanvid}}s). That and ''Series/SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' (where Matt Smith also showed up... hoo boy). Billie Piper's first non-BBC TV role was as the star of ITV's adaptation of ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. She gave a critically-praised performance in Creator/NeilLaBute's play ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', and made her debut at the National Theatre in ''The Effect''. She subsequently starred in the Showtime GothicHorror series ''Series/PennyDreadful'' as tubercular sex worker Brona Croft, [[spoiler:who after her death is reanimated as the Bride of Frankenstein.]] In 2016-7 she reached new heights of critical praise as a theatre actor, in the very demanding main role of Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca's play ''Yerma'', winning just about every British stage acting award and several American ones, and giving her the distinction of being [[TheAce the only actress to have won six out of an available six Best Actress awards in British theatre for a single performance]].[[note]]Critic's Circle Theatre Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards, Evening Standard Theatre Awards, the Lawrence Olivier Award, the Whatsonstage.com Awards, the Broadway World Theatre Awards, and the Glamour Award[[/note]] She grew beyond acting with the romantic black comedy film ''Film/RareBeasts'', which she wrote, directed, and played a major role in. In 2020 she co-created the TV series ''Series/IHateSuzie'' with the ''Secret Diary of a Call Girl'' main writer Lucy Prebble, in which she played an actress whose life spirals out of control after a sex-tape scandal -- many reviewers noted the parallels between the fictional Suzie's career and [[AdamWesting Piper's own]].

Billie Piper also appeared on ''Series/TopGear'' as a "star in a reasonably priced car," where she confessed a love of classic cars and then drove round the track in an impressive 1 minute, 48.3 seconds.[[note]]She did cut corners though. A lot. Creator/DavidTennant complained about it during his appearance. A lot. [[DirtyOldMan Jeremy Clarkson]] responded by citing the transparent shirt that she was wearing at the time.[[/note]]

* DyeHard
* GenderBlenderName: Not just her forename. Her middle name too, it's Paul.

* IdolSinger

After her departure from ''Who'', she's appeared in some other things, most notably as Literature/SallyLockhart in two film adaptations (alongside Creator/MattSmith, which should give rise to some interesting {{shipping}} {{fanvid}}s). That and ''Series/SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' (where Matt Smith also showed up... hoo boy). Billie Piper's first non-BBC TV role was as the star of ITV's adaptation of ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. She gave a critically-praised performance in Creator/NeilLaBute's play ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', and made her debut at the National Theatre in ''The Effect''. She subsequently starred in the Showtime GothicHorror series ''Series/PennyDreadful'' as tubercular sex worker Brona Croft, [[spoiler:who after her death is reanimated as the Bride of Frankenstein]]. In 2016-7 she reached new heights of critical praise as a theatre actor, in the very demanding main role of Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca's play ''Yerma'', winning just about every British stage acting award and several American ones, and giving her the distinction of being [[TheAce the only actress to have won six out of an available six Best Actress awards in British theatre for a single performance]].[[note]]Critic's Circle Theatre Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards, Evening Standard Theatre Awards, the Lawrence Olivier Award, the Whatsonstage.com Awards, the Broadway World Theatre Awards, and the Glamour Award[[/note]] She grew beyond acting with the romantic black comedy film ''Film/RareBeasts'', which she wrote, directed, and played a major role in. In 2020 she co-created the TV series ''Series/IHateSuzie'' with the ''Secret Diary of a Call Girl'' main writer Lucy Prebble, in which she played an actress whose life spirals out of control after a sex-tape scandal -- many reviewers noted the parallels between the fictional Suzie's career and [[AdamWesting Piper's own]].

After her departure from ''Who'', she's appeared in some other things, most notably as Literature/SallyLockhart in two film adaptations (alongside Creator/MattSmith, which should give rise to some interesting {{shipping}} {{fanvid}}s). That and ''Series/SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' (where Matt Smith also showed up... hoo boy). Billie Piper's first non-BBC TV role was as the star of ITV's adaptation of ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. She gave a critically-praised performance in Creator/NeilLaBute's play ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', and made her debut at the National Theatre in ''The Effect''. She subsequently starred in the Showtime GothicHorror series ''Series/PennyDreadful'' as tubercular sex worker Brona Croft, [[spoiler:who after her death is reanimated as the Bride of Frankenstein]]. In 2016-7 she reached new heights of critical praise as a theatre actor, in the very demanding main role of Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca's play ''Yerma'', winning just about every British stage acting award and several American ones, and giving her the distinction of being [[TheAce the only actress to have won six out of an available six Best Actress awards in British theatre for a single performance]].[[note]]Critic's Circle Theatre Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards, Evening Standard Theatre Awards, the Lawrence Olivier Award, the Whatsonstage.com Awards, the Broadway World Theatre Awards, and the Glamour Award[[/note]]

* {{Mondegreen}}: ''Day & Night'' is actually "All of the day/All of the night" but gets mistaken for "I love the day/I love the night" quite a bit

She started out as an actress, but moved into singing, with "Because We Want To" making her (at fifteen) the youngest singer to debut at No. 1. After two more, her star faded somewhat -- but in the middle of a lot of chaos, she married British presenter Chris Evans (no, not that Creator/ChrisEvans). The marriage lasted for years and the [[AmicableExes two remain good friends]].

Born in Swindon, Billie Paul Piper (born Leian Paul Piper, 22 September 1982) is the only full time ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion to have three UK Number One hits to her name. She is notable for her dyed blonde hair, big black eyebrows and being a Fox. Literally, as she married Laurence Fox in December 2007. With him, she has two sons, Winston James and Eugene Pip. They divorced in 2016, however.

After her departure from ''Who'', she's appeared in some other things, most notably as Literature/SallyLockhart in two film adaptations (alongside Creator/MattSmith, which should give rise to some interesting {{shipping}} {{fanvid}}s). That and ''Series/SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' (where Matt Smith also showed up... hoo boy). Billie Piper's first non-BBC TV role was as the star of ITV's adaptation of ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. She gave a critically-praised performance in Creator/NeilLaBute's play ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', and made her debut at the National Theatre in ''The Effect''. She subsequently starred in the Showtime GothicHorror series ''Series/PennyDreadful'' as tubercular sex worker Brona Croft, [[spoiler:who after her death is reanimated as the Bride of Frankenstein]]. In 2016-7 she reached new heights of critical praise as a theatre actor, in the very demanding main role of Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca's play ''Yerma'', winning just about every British stage acting award and several American ones, and giving her the distinction of being the only actress to have won six out of an available six Best Actress awards for a single performance.[[note]]Critic's Circle Theatre Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Drama League Awards, Evening Standard Theatre Awards, the Lawrence Olivier Award, the Whatsonstage.com Awards, the Broadway World Theatre Awards, and the Glamour Award[[/note]]

* ThoseTwoActors: With Creator/MattSmith. [[note]]Yes, the same Matt Smith that played the Eleventh Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' after Piper left the show.[[/note]]

Born in Swindon, Billie Paul Piper (born Leian Paul Piper, 22 September 1982 in Swindon, England) is the only full time ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion to have three UK Number One hits to her name. She is notable for her dyed blonde hair, big black eyebrows and being a Fox. Literally, as she married Laurence Fox in December 2007. With him, she has two sons, Winston James and Eugene Pip. They divorced in 2016, however.

Born in Swindon, Billie Paul Piper (born Leian Paul Piper, 22 September 1982) is the only full time ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion to have three UK Number One hits to her name. She is notable for her dyed blonde hair, big black eyebrows and being a Fox. Literally, as she married Laurence Fox in December 2007. With him, she has two sons, Winston James and Eugene Pip. They divorced in 2016, however.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: She was referred to as The Princess of Pop for a time.

* OldShame: She's not going to be belting out into "Because We Want To" anytime soon.[[note]]She's way more sport about it than others, however, as seen in ''TheGrahamNortonShow'' (even [[SelfDeprecation taking the mickey on herself about it]]).[[/note]]

After her departure from ''Who'', she's appeared in some other things, most notably as Literature/SallyLockhart in two film adaptations (alongside Creator/MattSmith, which should give rise to some interesting {{shipping}} {{fanvid}}s). That and ''Series/SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' (where Matt Smith also showed up... hoo boy). Billie Piper's first non-BBC TV role was as the star of ITV's adaptation of ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. She gave a critically-praised performance in Creator/NeilLaBute's play ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', and made her debut at the National Theatre in ''The Effect''. She subsequently starred in the Showtime GothicHorror series ''Series/PennyDreadful'' as tubercular sex worker Brona Croft, [[spoiler:who after her death is reanimated as the Bride of Frankenstein]]. In 2016-7 she reached new heights of critical praise as a theatre actor, in the very demanding main role of Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca's play ''Yerma'', winning just about every British stage acting award.

After her departure from ''Who'', she's appeared in some other things, most notably as Literature/SallyLockhart in two film adaptations (alongside Creator/MattSmith, which should give rise to some interesting {{shipping}} {{fanvid}}s). That and ''SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' (where Matt Smith also showed up... hoo boy). Billie Piper's first non-BBC TV role was as the star of ITV's adaptation of ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. She gave a critically-praised performance in Creator/NeilLaBute's play ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', and made her debut at the National Theatre in ''The Effect''. She subsequently starred in the Showtime GothicHorror series ''Series/PennyDreadful'' as tubercular sex worker Brona Croft, [[spoiler:who after her death is reanimated as the Bride of Frankenstein]]. In 2016-7 she reached new heights of critical praise as a theatre actor, in the very demanding main role of Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca's play ''Yerma'', winning just about every British stage acting award.

After her departure from ''Who'', she's appeared in some other things, most notably as Literature/SallyLockhart in two film adaptations (alongside Creator/MattSmith, which should give rise to some interesting {{shipping}} {{fanvid}}s). That and ''SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' (where Matt Smith also showed up... hoo boy). Billie Piper's first non-BBC TV role was as the star of ITV's adaptation of ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. She gave a critically-praised performance in Creator/NeilLaBute's play ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', and made her debut at the National Theatre in ''The Effect''. She's currently starring in the Showtime GothicHorror series ''Series/PennyDreadful''.

Born in Swindon, Billie Paul Piper ((born Leian Paul Piper, 22 September 1982) is the only full time ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion to have three UK Number One hits to her name. She is notable for her dyed blonde hair, big black eyebrows and being a Fox. Literally, as she married Laurence Fox in December 2007. With him, she has two sons, Winston James and Eugene Pip. They divorced in 2016, however.

Born in Swindon in 1982, Billie Paul Piper is the only full time ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion to have three UK Number One hits to her name. She is notable for her dyed blonde hair, big black eyebrows and being a Fox. Literally, as she married Laurence Fox in December 2007. With him, she has two sons, Winston James and Eugene Pip. They divorced in 2016, however.

Born in Swindon in 1982, Billie Paul Piper is the only full time ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion to have three UK Number One hits to her name. She is notable for her dyed blonde hair, big black eyebrows and being a Fox. Literally, as she married Laurence Fox in December 2007. With him, she has two sons, Winston James and Eugene Pip.

After her departure from ''Who'', she's appeared in some other things, most notably as SallyLockhart in two film adaptations (alongside Creator/MattSmith, which should give rise to some interesting {{shipping}} {{fanvid}}s). That and ''SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' (where Matt Smith also showed up... hoo boy). Billie Piper's first non-BBC TV role was as the star of ITV's adaptation of ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. She gave a critically-praised performance in Creator/NeilLaBute's play ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', and made her debut at the National Theatre in ''The Effect''. She's currently starring in the Showtime GothicHorror series ''Series/PennyDreadful''.

* OldShame: She's not going to be belting out into "Because We Want To" anytime soon.

After her departure from ''Who'', she's appeared in some other things, most notably as SallyLockhart in two film adaptations (alongside Creator/MattSmith, which should give rise to some interesting {{shipping}} {{fanvid}}s). That and ''SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' (where Matt Smith also showed up... hoo boy). Billie Piper's first non-BBC TV role was as the star of ITV's adaptation of ''Literature/MansfieldPark''. She gave a critically-praised performance in Creator/NeilLaBute's play ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', and made her debut at the National Theatre in ''The Effect''.

Billie Piper also appeared on ''Series/TopGear'' as a "star in a reasonably priced car," where she confessed a love of classic cars and then drove round the track in an impressive 1 minute, 48.3 seconds.[[note]]She did cut corners though. A lot. Creator/DavidTennant complained about it during his appearance. A lot.[[/note]]

Billie Piper also appeared on ''Series/TopGear'' as a "star in a reasonably priced car," where she confessed a love of classic cars and then drove round the track in an impressive 1 minute, 48.3 seconds.

After her departure from ''Who'', she's appeared in some other things, most notably as SallyLockhart in two film adaptations (alongside Creator/MattSmith, which should give rise to some interesting {{shipping}} {{fanvid}}s). That and ''SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' (where Matt Smith also showed up... hoo boy). Billie Piper's first non-BBC TV role was as the star of ITV's adaptation of ''MansfieldPark''. She gave a critically-praised performance in Creator/NeilLaBute's play ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', and made her debut at the National Theatre in ''The Effect''.