List of guest appearances in Doctor Who
This is a list of actors who have made guest appearances in Doctor Who. These actors were well-known names at the time of their appearance in the series, which frequently caused interest in the media towards the latest story. Actors who became famous after their Doctor Who appearance are not present in this list.
| Actor | Episode/s | Character |
| Derek Acorah[5] | "Army of Ghosts" | Himself |
| Alistair Appleton | "Army of Ghosts" | Himself |
| Thelma Barlow[6] | "The Lazarus Experiment" | Lady Thaw |
| Peter Capaldi | "The Fires of Pompeii" | Caecilius |
| Michelle Collins[7] | "42" | Kath McDonell |
| Pauline Collins OBE [8] | "Tooth and Claw" | Queen Victoria |
| Phil Cornwell | "The Fires of Pompeii" | Stallholder |
| Brian Cox CBE | "The End of Time" | Voice of the Elder Ood |
| Bernard Cribbins[9] | "Voyage of the Damned", "Partners in Crime", "The Sontaran Stratagem" / "The Poison Sky",
"Turn Left", "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End", "The End of Time" | Wilfred Mott |
| Timothy Dalton | "The End of Time" | Rassilon |
| Peter Davison | "Time Crash" (Mini Episode) | The Doctor |
| Richard Dawkins[4] | "The Stolen Earth" | Himself[10] |
| Huw Edwards[11] | "Fear Her" | Himself |
| Lee Evans[12] | "Planet of the Dead" | Malcolm Taylor |
| Mark Gatiss[13] | "The Lazarus Experiment" | Professor Richard Lazarus |
| Karen Gillan |
"The Fires of Pompeii" |
Soothsayer |
| Trisha Goddard[14] | "Army of Ghosts" | Herself |
| Mona Hammond[15] OBE | "Rise of the Cybermen" | Rita-Anne |
| Andrew Hayden-Smith[16] | "Rise of the Cybermen" / "The Age of Steel" and "Doomsday" | Jake Simmonds |
| Anthony Head[8] | "School Reunion" | Mr Finch |
| Shirley Henderson | "Love & Monsters" | Ursula Blake |
| Jessica Hynes | "Human Nature" / "The Family of Blood", "The End of Time" | Joan Redfern and Verity Newman |
| Sir Derek Jacobi CBE | "Utopia" | Professor Yana/The Master |
| Peter Kay[4] | "Love & Monsters" | Victor Kennedy |
| Felicity Kendal CBE [4] | "The Unicorn and the Wasp" | Lady Clemency Eddison[17] |
| Alex Kingston | "Silence in the Library" / "Forest of the Dead" | Professor River Song |
| Dervla Kirwan | "The Next Doctor" | Miss Hartigan |
| Sarah Lancashire | "Partners In Crime" | Miss Foster (Matron Cofelia) |
| Maureen Lipman CBE [8] | "The Idiot's Lantern" | The Wire |
| Roger Lloyd-Pack[8] | "Rise of the Cybermen" / "The Age of Steel" | John Lumic |
| McFly | "The Sound of Drums" | Themselves |
| Roy Marsden | "Smith and Jones" | Mr Stoker |
| Kylie Minogue | "Voyage of the Damned" | Astrid Peth |
| Colin Morgan |
"Midnight" |
Jethro |
| Jason Mohammad | "The Christmas Invasion" | Himself |
| Georgia Moffett | "The Doctor's Daughter" | Jenny |
| David Morrissey | "The Next Doctor" | Jackson Lake |
| Sophia Myles | "The Girl in the Fireplace" | Madame De Pompadour |
| Tracy-Ann Oberman[8] | "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday" | Yvonne Hartman |
| Sharon Osbourne | "The Sound of Drums" | Herself |
| Paul O'Grady | "The Stolen Earth" | Himself[10] |
| Ardal O'Hanlon | "Gridlock" | Thomas Kincade Brannigan |
| Geoffrey Palmer OBE | "Voyage of the Damned" | Titanic Captain Hardaker |
| Steve Pemberton | "Silence in the Library" / "Forest of the Dead" | Strackman Lux |
| Anne Reid | "Smith and Jones" | Florence Finnegan |
| Christopher Ryan | The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky | General Staal |
| Michelle Ryan[12] | "Planet of the Dead" | Christina de Souza |
| John Simm[18] | "Utopia", "The Sound of Drums", "Last of the Time Lords", "The End of Time" | Harold Saxon/The Master |
| Elisabeth Sladen | "School Reunion", "The Stolen Earth", "Journey's End", "The End of Time" | Sarah Jane Smith |
| Clive Swift | "Voyage of the Damned" | Mr Copper |
| Catherine Tate | "Doomsday", "The Runaway Bride" and as a regular in Series 4 | Donna Noble |
| Nigel Terry | The Doctor's Daughter | Cobb |
| David Troughton | "Midnight" | Professor Hobbes |
| Zoë Wanamaker[4] CBE | "New Earth" | Lady Cassandra |
| Kirsty Wark | "The Poison Sky" | Herself |
| Don Warrington MBE | "Rise of the Cybermen" | The President |
| June Whitfield CBE | "The End of Time" | Minnie Hooper |
| Ann Widdecombe MP | "The Sound of Drums" | Herself |
| Penelope Wilton OBE | "Aliens of London", "World War Three", "The Christmas Invasion", "The Stolen Earth" | Harriet Jones |
| Barbara Windsor MBE | "Army of Ghosts" | Herself as Peggy Mitchell |
| Nicholas Witchell | "Voyage of the Damned" | Himself |
| Actor | Episode/s | Character |
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| Bill Bailey | "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" | Droxil |
| Lynda Baron | "Closing Time" | Val |
| Hugh Bonneville | "The Curse of the Black Spot", "A Good Man Goes to War" | Captain Henry Avery |
| David Bradley | "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" | Solomon |
| Olivia Colman | "The Eleventh Hour" | Mother |
| James Corden | "The Lodger", "Closing Time" | Craig |
| Annette Crosbie OBE | "The Eleventh Hour" | Mrs Angelo |
| Tony Curran | "Vincent and the Doctor", "The Pandorica Opens" | Vincent van Gogh |
| Warwick Davis | "Nightmare in Silver" | Porridge / The Emperor |
| Sir Michael Gambon CBE | "A Christmas Carol" | Kazran Sardick |
| Richard E. Grant | "The Snowmen", "The Bells of Saint John", "The Name of the Doctor" | Dr. Walter Simeon / The Great Intelligence |
| Rupert Graves | "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" | Riddell |
| John Hurt | "The Name of the Doctor", "The Day of the Doctor" | The Doctor |
| Celia Imrie | "The Bells of Saint John" | Miss Kizlet |
| Katherine Jenkins | "A Christmas Carol" | Abigail Pettigrew |
| Suranne Jones | "The Doctor's Wife" | Idris / TARDIS |
| Toby Jones | "Amy's Choice" | The Dream Lord |
| Helen McCrory | "The Vampires of Venice" | Rosanna Calvierri |
| Sir Ian McKellen | "The Snowmen" | Voice of the Great Intelligence |
| Ian McNeice | "Victory of the Daleks", "The Pandorica Opens", "The Wedding of River Song" | Winston Churchill |
| David Mitchell | "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" | Voice of Robot 1 |
| Sir Patrick Moore | "The Eleventh Hour" | Himself |
| Bill Nighy | "Vincent and the Doctor" | Museum Curator |
| Sophie Okonedo | "The Beast Below", "The Pandorica Opens" | Queen Elizabeth the Tenth (Liz 10) |
| Joanna Page | "The Day of the Doctor" | Queen Elizabeth the First |
| Bill Paterson | "Victory of the Daleks", "The Pandorica Opens" | Professor Edwin Bracewell |
| Dame Diana Rigg | "The Crimson Horror" | Mrs Gillyflower |
| Christopher Ryan | "The Pandorica Opens" | Commander Stark |
| Michael Sheen OBE | "The Doctor's Wife" | Voice of House |
| Mark Sheppard | "The Impossible Astronaut" / "Day of the Moon" | Canton Everett Delaware III |
| Mike Skinner | "The Time of Angels" | Security Guard |
| Rachael Stirling | "The Crimson Horror" | Ada Gillyflower |
| Imelda Staunton | "The Girl Who Waited" | Voice Interface |
| Meera Syal MBE | "The Hungry Earth" / "Cold Blood" | Nasreen Chaudhry |
| Bill Turnbull | "The Wedding of River Song" | Himself |
| Nina Wadia | "The Eleventh Hour" | Dr Ramsden |
| David Walliams | "The God Complex" | Gibbis |
| Sian Williams | "The Wedding of River Song" | Herself |
| Meredith Vieira | "The Wedding of River Song" | Herself |
| Robert Webb | "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" | Voice of Robot 2 |
| Arabella Weir | "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" | Billis |
| Mark Williams | "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship", "The Power of Three" | Brian Williams |
Doctor Who spin-offs
BBC Radio productions
Big Finish Audio productions
| Actor | Episode/s | Character |
| Lynda Bellingham | Gallifrey series | Inquistor Darkel |
| Michael Jayston | He Jests At Scars... | The Valeyard |
| Christopher Biggins | The One Doctor | Banto Zame |
| Tony Blackburn | The Rapture | DJ |
| Eleanor Bron | Loups-Garoux | Ileana de Santos |
| Paul Darrow | The Next Life | Guidance |
| James Fox | Shada | Professor Chronotis |
| Graeme Garden | Bang-Bang-a-Boom!, Max Warp, The Book of Kells, The Resurrection of Mars, Lucie Miller, To the Death | Professor Ivor Fassbinder, Geoffrey Vantage, The Meddling Monk |
| William Gaunt | Dalek Empire III | Selestru |
| Nickolas Grace | Human Resources | Straxus |
| Anthony Stewart Head | Excelis Dawns, Excelis Rising and Excelis Decays | Lord Grayvorn |
| Richard Herring | Real Time | Taylor Renchard |
| Nerys Hughes | Phobos | Eris |
| David Jackson | Sarah Jane Smith: Comeback | The Squire |
| Peter Jurasik (Babylon 5) | Winter for the Adept | Lt Peter Sandoz |
| Michael Keating | The Twilight Kingdom | Major Koth |
| Sally Knyvette | Spare Parts | Doctorman Allan |
| Burt Kwouk | Loups-Garoux | Doctor Hayashi |
| Stewart Lee | Real Time | Ryan Carey |
| Matt Lucas | The One Doctor | Cylinder Voice/The Jelloid |
| Bill Oddie | Doctor Who and the Pirates | Red Jasper, Scourge of the High Seas! |
| Jacqueline Pearce | The Fearmonger | Sherilyn Harper |
| Michael Praed | The Dark Flame | Professor Slyde |
| Simon Pegg | Invaders from Mars | Don Chaney |
| Patricia Quinn | Bang-Bang-a-Boom! | Queen Angvia |
| Andrew Sachs | Shada, The Boy That Time Forgot | Skagra, Adric |
| Alexander Siddig | Sisters of the Flame, Vengeance of Morbius and The Wreck of the Titan | Rosto, Captain |
| Jessica Stevenson | Invaders from Mars | Glory Bee |
| Gareth Thomas | Storm Warning, Dalek Empire I and Dalek Empire II | Lord Tamworth |
| David Walliams | Phantasmagoria | |
| Benedict Cumberbatch | Forty-Five | Howard Carter |
| David Warner | Various | Various |
| Thomas Sangster | The Bride of Peladon and The Mind's Eye | Miner and Kyle |
| Derek Jacobi | Deadline | Martin Bannister |
Charity Specials
Dimensions in Time
Light hearted special that combined EastEnders with Doctor Who. Many previous actors from the show appeared, along with the then current cast of the Soap Opera.[19]
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Spoof episode made for the charity Red Nose Day. The Doctor was played by five actors, all of whom had previously been named as possible candidates to play the role for real.[20] In order of appearance:
Webcast productions
Death Comes to Time
Shada
Scream of the Shalka
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