Inevitably, Matt Smith’s departure from Doctor Who last month produced instant speculation on who should play the 12th incarnation of the all-powerful Timelord.

The rapid-fire repartee and seamless synergy between the two got a harsh shake-up in the form of the Doctor’s regeneration into the 12th, played by Peter Capaldi.

The bookies called it; the 12th Doctor is Peter Capaldi. The actor was introduced during a live broadcast on the BBC Sunday. He'll be the next in a long line of actors to play the quirky Doctor ...

The Harry Potter alum may be one of the front-runners for playing the 12 th Doctor, at least according to William Hill, one of the largest bookies in the U.K. According to Hill, Grint is a 10-1 ...

Doctor Who is one of the longest-running shows in the history of British television, and as a result, many famous actors have appeared on it at one point or another. And sometimes, those actors ...

Over the 60-year history of Doctor Who, 18 different actors have played as many versions of the Doctor, most moving on from ...

The Doctor is an alien—a Time Lord—who is able to "regenerate" into a new body (and new actor) when he dies. That's what will happen to Capaldi, who is the 12th actor to star in the role.

The 12th Doctor is a perhaps unusual direction for the hit BBC show to take, given the marked differences between Capaldi and the recent actors to play the role. Matt Smith, who played the 11th ...

“Doctor Who,” TV’s longest running science fiction series, celebrates a landmark this year — its 50th anniversary. As for the Doctor himself, played currently by Matt Smith, he clocks in ...

For a couple of minutes one night in 1999, Hugh Grant played the Twelfth Doctor in a comedy sketch written by Steven Moffat. The Curse Of The Fatal Death hints that the Doctor and the Master have ...

Features The actors who played multiple roles in Doctor Who Peter Capaldi is far from the only Doctor Who actor to appear in multiple roles. Mark talks us through the many others to have done so ...