{"id":6456,"date":"2018-08-20T21:14:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calverosdepot.com\/blog\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2018-08-20T21:14:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:14:15","slug":"day-20-favorite-actress-doctor-who-30-day-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calverosdepot.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/20\/day-20-favorite-actress-doctor-who-30-day-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 20 – Favorite Actress – Doctor Who 30 Day Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like with my Favorite Actor answer<\/a>, I’ll go with naming someone who doesn’t have a major role on the show.\u00a0 But maybe a reoccurring role?<\/p>\n

Penelope Wilton played the wonderful (and not dead yet) character Harriet Jones.\u00a0 Russell T. Davies, showrunner and head writer for Doctor Who at the time, created the character for<\/p>\n

\"Harriet<\/p>\n

Wilton herself, and she was very committed to Harriet.<\/p>\n

What I love is how she is willing to take charge out of necessity, and not out of hunger for power.\u00a0 And to not agree with the Doctor with how to handle a planetary emergency.\u00a0 And even though she didn’t agree with him, she didn’t hold a grudge when he said something that ending up removing her from office. And she was more than willing to organize a way to contact him if they needed help. \u00a0 I felt the Doctor treated Harriet unfairly at the end of The Christmas Invasion.<\/p>\n

And I always had a theory that Harriet didn’t die in Stolen Earth.\u00a0 We hear the Daleks shooting and her screaming, but that’s done off camera.\u00a0 We never see her body.\u00a0 And my long held theory was confirmed last year by Davies<\/a>, who wrote (among others) a poem in Now We Are Six Hundred<\/a> about what happened after the Daleks attacked.<\/p>\n