Pearl Mackie

Known for

Acting

Born

May 29, 1987 (age 39)

Birthplace

Brixton, London, England, UK

Biography

Pearl Mackie is a British actress, dancer, and singer. She is best known for playing Bill Potts in the long-running television series Doctor Who. Mackie is a 2010 graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her first major TV role came in 2014, when she played Anne-Marie Frasier in BBC One soap opera Doctors.

Best known work

Doctor Who

2005

The Diplomat

2023

Horizon Line

2020

Friday Night Dinner

2011

Greed

2019

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

2017

Doctors

2000

Svengali

2013

The Long Call

2021

The Real Charlie Chaplin

2021

Filmography

2025
National Theatre Live: Ballet Shoes
as Sylvia Rose Brown
2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
as Bill Potts (archive footage)
2023
National Theatre at Home: Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors
as Natasha Elcock
2023
Tyger
as Sarah
2023
Tom JonesTV
as Honour (4 episodes)
2023
The DiplomatTV
as Alysse (12 episodes)
2023
Your Move
as Patricia
2022
The Deal
as Kabira
2022
Best & BesterTV
as Grafifi (Voice) (52 episodes)
2021
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
The Long CallTV
as DS Jen Rafferty (4 episodes)
2021
Copycats
as Lady Isabella Sausage
2020
The Lennox Report
as Tarnia
2020
Horizon Line
as Pascale
2019
Pops and Branwell
as "Pops" Popowski (voice)
2019
Greed
as Cathy
2019
Origami
as Heather
2017
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
as Bill Potts
2017
Urban MythsTV
as Kay (1 episode)
2016
Doctor Who: Friend from the Future
as Bill Potts
2013
Svengali
as F.O.H. girl
2011
Friday Night DinnerTV
as Lucy One (2 episodes)
2005
Doctor WhoTV
as Bill Potts (12 episodes)
2000
DoctorsTV
as Anne-Marie Frasier (1 episode)
1994
Room 101TV
as Self (1 episode)