Jodie Whittaker

QUICK FACTS
NAME
Jodie Whittaker
OCCUPATION
Film Actress, Television Actress
BIRTH DATE
June 3, 1982 (age 36)
PLACE OF BIRTH
Skelmanthorpe, United Kingdom
ZODIAC SIGN
Gemini

Biography of Jodie Whittaker
Film actress, television actress (1982-)
Jodie Whittaker is a British actress who in 2017 became the first woman to be chosen in the leading role of "Doctor Who" in the 54-year history of the British television program.
Who is Jodie Whittaker?
Born in 1982, actress Jodie Auckland Whittaker is the first woman to take on the lead role of Doctor Who, the long-running British television series about an alien who travels through time and is a success both in the United States and around the world. Her Doctor Who is the 13th incarnation of the character series, which has been played by a succession of male actors since the show began in 1963.

When she won the role of Doctor Who, Whittaker was already known in the UK for her roles in a succession of British television programs, with Broadchurch and Trust Me (both in 2017).

Photo of Jodie Whittaker
Jodie Whittaker attends the UK premiere of 'Get Santa' at Vue West End on November 30, 2014 in London, England.

(Photo: Karwai Tang_WireImage)

Movies and television programs
From the age of 20, Whittaker found himself performing with some of the best in Britain. The first time he landed a role in the play The Storm starring Mark Rylance at the Shakespeare Globe Theater in London in 2005. A year later, he won a role in his first film, Venus (2006), starring Peter O ' Toole and Vanessa Redgrave.


Other Whittaker films include White Wedding (2009), The Kid (2010), Attack the Block, One Day (with Anne Hathaway), both in 2011, along with Good Vibrations (2012), Hello Carter (2013) and Get Santa ( 2014). ).

By the time Whittaker won the role of Doctor Who, he had appeared on a variety of successful British television shows such as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Wired (both in 2008), Marchlands (2011), Black Mirror (2011), The Assets, The Smoke (both in 2014), Broadchurch and Trust Me (both in 2017). Broadchurch, in which Whittaker played the grieving mother, Beth Latimer, is considered by many to be her best-known role.

'Doctor who'
After the BBC announced Whittaker's casting in Doctor Who in July 2017, some fans complained on social media about casting a woman in an iconic role that had always been played by a male actor. But Whittaker has pointed out that the character, an extraterrestrial able to "regenerate" (and, from 2017, herself) every so often in a new person, in fact has no gender.

"I'm playing an extraterrestrial and gender is not part of that," he said in an interview with Rolling Stone. "A moment like this, being the first woman chosen as something, makes you really think about your sex, whereas in reality what you want to do is play a role in which your gender is irrelevant."


She added: "I am a woman, so I do not need to play that, and for me, this was the most liberating experience because there is no right or wrong way to do it." The rules went out the window.

How Whittaker became "Doctor Who"
The current executive producer of Doctor Who, Chris Chibnall, was also the creator of Broadchurch. He knew Whittaker and his work, and it was he who made the final decision to choose her in the old male lead role in Doctor Who.

"I always knew that I wanted the 13 Doctor to be a woman," Chibnall said after Whittaker's casting was announced. "Jodie is a super intelligent, fun, inspiring and super intelligent force of nature and will bring wit, strength and warmth to the paper," he said.

Despite his pre-existing professional relationship with Chibnall, Whittaker says he had to audition for Doctor Who, in competition with other applicants. The new Doctor Who with Whittaker is scheduled to premiere in 2018.

The first 'Doctor Who' woman demands gender equality-pay
When he accepted the role, Whittaker adopted a position of equal pay for women and insisted that he be paid the same amount of money per episode as his male predecessor, Peter Capaldi. "It's an incredibly important moment and the notion [of equal pay] should be supported," he said in an interview in January 2018.

According to published reports, he is being paid between £ 200,000 and £ 249,000 per episode of Doctor Who, the same as Capaldi. (In US dollars, the figures are $ 283,000-352,000, according to the exchange rate of the US dollar in pounds sterling in January 2018).

There are no social networks for Whittaker
Although Doctor Who enjoys a large number of international followers, even on social media, Whittaker does not have Instagram or Twitter accounts, and prefers to maintain privacy in his personal life. "I do not really want to talk about relationships because it allows people to get involved," he said in an interview.