Age: 80
female
Dame Penelope Alice Wilton DBE (born 3 June 1946) is an English actress. She was formerly married to fellow actor Sir Ian Holm, and as she has not remarried, she retains her married style of Lady Holm. Wilton is known for starring opposite Richard Briers in the BBC sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–1989), playing Homily in The Borrowers (1992) and The Return of the Borrowers(1993), and for her role as the widowed Isobel Crawley in the ITV drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015). She also played the recurring role of Harriet Jones in Doctor Who (2005–2008) and Anne in Ricky Gervais' Netflix dark comedy After Life. Wilton has had an extensive career on stage, receiving six Olivier Award nominations. She was nominated for Man and Superman (1981), The Secret Rapture (1988), The Deep Blue Sea(1994), John Gabriel Borkman (2008) and The Chalk Garden (2009) before winning the 2015 Olivier Award for Best Actress for Taken at Midnight. Her film appearances include Clockwise (1986), Cry Freedom (1987), Blame It on the Bellboy (1992), Calendar Girls (2003), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Match Point (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), The Girl (2012), The BFG (2016) and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Penelope Wilton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Penelope Wilton
Harriet Jones
for Harriet Jones in Jay and Stu's Doctor Who: Series 15
Suggested by optimistic_writer
What if Doctor Who was made by two obsessive Whovians on the internet featuring a dead actor? The Doctor returns after the horrifying events of last season and is dealing with the death of his companion, Jodie. The TARDIS has brought him to a strange planet, where he eventually meets two human slaves. By the end of the episode, one dies, and the other, named Laun, comes with the Doctor because she has nowhere else to go. Albeit begrudgingly as The Doctor is worried that he will get her killed as well. Learning from one another, they go on many adventures, like introducing Laun to modern day Earth, a planet called Iyoa, meeting Franz Kafka under familiar circumstances, a reintroduction to the Ice Warriors and a being called The Light, a Silurian/Human colony, and the Doctor facing his fears and worries about companions being killed. The episodes featured are: Planet of Kiar'ans, Welcome to Earth, Where Am I?, The Overseers, Memories of the Daleks, The Frozen Wastes/Beneath the Ice, The Passenger, Life in Plastic, Fear of the Silurians, In the World of the Dead, The Alien/The Ruins, and the Christmas Special featuring a meta-commentary on aliens broadcasting on TV channels wanting a certain goal.
