Born: 15th October 1992 (as Mizero Ncuti Gatwa)
Episodes Broadcast: 2023

Ncuti Gatwa was born in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, but his family fled the country two years later to escape the Tutsi genocide. He was instead raised in Scotland, where he attended the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Gatwa graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting, and he joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre soon thereafter. He made his television debut in 2014 with a small role in Bob Servant, before appearing in Stonemouth the following year. Gatwa's breakthrough role arrived in 2019, when he co-starred in the comedy-drama Sex Education. The same year, he could be seen in Horrible Histories: The Movie -- Rotten Romans; a second cinematic outing arrived in 2021, in the form of the ensemble romance The Last Letter From Your Lover.

In 2022, it was announced that Gatwa had been cast as the successor to the Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, on Doctor Who. Audiences would later discover that he would, in fact, be playing the Fifteenth Doctor -- following a brief period in which the Tenth Doctor, David Tennant, would be returning to the series as the Time Lord's fourteenth incarnation. Regardless of his ordinal designation, this made Gatwa the first Doctor Who lead actor to be born outside the United Kingdom, and the first to be openly gay. He was also the first series star to be a person of colour, although Jo Martin had previously played the so-called Fugitive Doctor in several of Whittaker's stories. Gatwa made his on-screen Doctor Who debut in 2023's The Giggle before enjoying his first full adventure in the subsequent Christmas special, The Church On Ruby Road. The same year, he could be seen in the feature film Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.