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Pearl Mackie

Acting Born May 29, 1987 Brixton, London, England, UK 24 credits

Biography

Pearl Mackie is a British actress, dancer, and singer. She is best known for playing Bill Potts in the long-running television series Doctor Who. Mackie is a 2010 graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her first major TV role came in 2014, when she played Anne-Marie Frasier in BBC One soap opera Doctors.

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Known for

Doctor Who

as Bill Potts

The Diplomat

as Alysse

Full filmography

  • Doctor Who (2005) as Bill Potts
  • Doctors (2000) as Anne-Marie Frasier
  • The Diplomat (2023) as Alysse
  • Room 101 (1994) as Self
  • Urban Myths (2017) as Kay
  • Friday Night Dinner (2011) as Lucy One
  • Best & Bester (2022) as Grafifi (Voice)
  • Tom Jones (2023) as Honour
  • The Long Call (2021) as DS Jen Rafferty
  • Horizon Line (2020) as Pascale
  • Greed (2019) as Cathy
  • Doctor Who: The Fan Show (2015)
  • The Deal (2022) as Kabira
  • Doctor Who at the Proms (2024) as Bill Potts (archive footage)
  • Your Move (2023) as Patricia
  • The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021) as Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (2017) as Bill Potts
  • Svengali (2013) as F.O.H. girl
  • Tyger (2023) as Sarah
  • Origami (2019) as Heather
  • Pops and Branwell (2019) as "Pops" Popowski (voice)
  • Doctor Who: Friend from the Future (2016) as Bill Potts
  • The Lennox Report (2020) as Tarnia
  • National Theatre Live: Ballet Shoes (2025) as Sylvia Rose Brown