Fifteenth Doctor

The Fifteenth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a millennia-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, with somewhat unknown origins, who travels in time and space in their TARDIS, frequently with companions. Usually, at the end of each incarnation's life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, both their physical appearance and personality change. However, the Fifteenth Doctor emerged unconventionally, via "bi-generation", in which he split from the body of his predecessor, the Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant), rather than replacing him, allowing both incarnations to co-exist. The Fifteenth Doctor is portrayed by Ncuti Gatwa, who is the first black man and the first openly queer actor to portray the role. Gatwa portrayed the character in the fourteenth and fifteenth series of the show's 2005 revival. The Fifteenth Doctor has been characterised as more emotionally open than many previous incarnations. Throughout the Fifteenth Doctor's time on the show, he travels with companions Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) while they face off against various antagonists, including a recurring Pantheon of Gods and their leader, Sutekh (Gabriel Woolf), as well as renegade Time Lord the Rani (Anita Dobson and Archie Panjabi) and the banished Time Lord founder Omega (Nicholas Briggs). He also engages in a romantic relationship with the character Rogue (Jonathan Groff), marking the first time in the series the Doctor has engaged in a romantic relationship with another man. After triggering his regeneration to alter reality and bring back a child he had in a fantasy world created by the Rani, the Fifteenth Doctor regenerates into a character portrayed by Billie Piper. Gatwa was cast in the role after telling his agent that he wanted to play the...