Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Acting Born Mar 9, 1968 Islington, London, England, UK 23 credits
Biography
Dame Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock is a British space scientist and science educator. She is an honorary research associate of University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and has been the chancellor of the University of Leicester since 1 March 2023. Since February 2014, she has co-presented the long-running astronomy television program The Sky at Night with Chris Lintott. In 2020, Maggie was awarded the William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics for her public engagement in physics. She is the first black woman to win a gold medal in the Physics News Award and she served as the president of the British Science Association from 2021 to 2022.
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- QI (2003) as Self
- The One Show (2006) as Self
- The Sky at Night (1957) as Self - Presenter
- The Sky at Night (1957)
- Would I Lie to You? (2007) as Self
- The Jonathan Ross Show (2011) as Self - Guest
- Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011) as Self - Participant
- Pointless Celebrities (2011) as Self
- Richard Osman's House of Games (2017) as Self - Contestant
- Doctor Who Confidential (2005) as Self
- Michael McIntyre's The Wheel (2020) as Self - Expert
- Strangest Things (2021) as Self - Space Scientist
- Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit (2016) as Self
- I Literally Just Told You (2021) as Self - Question Writer
- Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (1966) as Self - Presenter
- Alien Files: Reopened (2024) as Self - Physicist & Space Scientist
- Finding Father Christmas (2025) as Self
- Artemis: To the Moon and Back (2026) as Self
- Last Swim (2025) as Self
- The Infinite Monkey Cage (2020) as Panellist
- The Science of Doctor Who (2012)
- Do We Really Need the Moon? (2011) as Host
- In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World (2012) as Herself - Presenter