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In November 2009, she played Adelaide Brooke, companion to the Doctor, in the second of the 2009 Doctor Who specials. [16] [17] She played Alice's mother in Tim Burton 's 2010 film Alice in Wonderland , alongside Mia Wasikowska , Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter .
Lindsay Duncan CBE (born 7 November 1950) played Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who story The Waters of Mars. She also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
“Oh yes! Yes, yes, yes,” beams the star of Birdman and Doctor Who, sitting in the glass-walled suite of a fancy London hotel. What did she think of it? “Oh God.” There’s a long silence, then a...
- Alexandra Pollard
- The episode was originally intended to be the 2009 Christmas special, and writers Russell T. Davies and Phil Ford hence conceived that "Christmas on Mars" would be the story’s conceit (it was also nearly titled both that and "Red Christmas.")
- In another email in The Writer's Tale, Davies mentions going to the cinema and watching three films back to back while struggling with a logistical problem over the third season of Torchwood.
- The scenes in the Mars base’s "bio-dome" were filmed at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. The production crew were surprised to discover that upon turning the lights on, hundreds of birds woke up and began chirping, creating a noise that was impossible to edit out of the episode.
- Bowie Base One is named after the singer/songwriter David Bowie, and is an obvious allusion to his 1971 song Life on Mars?— which also, of course, inspired the TV series of the same name.
Set on Mars in the year 2059, the episode depicts the Doctor encountering the first human colony, Bowie Base One, commanded by one-off companion Captain Adelaide Brooke (Lindsay Duncan), who turns out to be a pivotal character in the history of humanity.
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Dec 19, 2009 · With David Tennant, Lindsay Duncan, Peter O'Brien, Aleksandar Mikic. In a Mars base the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.
Lindsay Duncan was born on 7 November 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), About Time (2013) and Gifted (2017). She is married to Hilton McRae. They have one child.
