Jodie Auckland Whittaker (born 17 June 1982) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles on television as Beth Latimer in Broadchurch (2013–2017) and the Thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who (2017–2022). She came to prominence in her 2006 feature film debut Venus, for which she received British Independent Film Award and Satellite Award nominations. She was later praised for her roles in the science fiction film Attack the Block (2011) and the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You" (2011).

Filmography

• Dear England — Pippa Grange
• 2026Office Romance — Lizzy
• 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War — The Doctor
• Frauds — Martha 'Sam' Samuels
• Toxic Town — Susan McIntyre
• 2025Truckload — Sarah
• Doctor Who — The Doctor
• 2024Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (13) (archive footage)
• 2024Tabby McTat — Narrator (voice)
• 2024That Christmas — Mrs. Williams (voice)
• 2023Capture — Mum
• One Night — Tess
• Ready Eddie Go! — Narrator
• 2022Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks — The Doctor
• 2022Doctor Who: Legend of the Sea Devils — The Doctor
• 2022Type — Franny (voice)
• 2021Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks — The Doctor
• Time — Orla O'Riordan
• 2019Bauhaus 100 — Narrator (voice)
• 2019Doctor Who: Resolution — The Doctor
• 2019Rachel — Rachel
• 2018Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell to Earth — The Doctor
• 2018Journeyman — Emma Burton
• 2018Untitled — Mary
• 2017Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time — The Doctor (13)
• Trust Me — Cath Hardacre / Ally Sutton
• 2016Adult Life Skills — Anna, Executive Producer
• 2014Black Sea — Chrissy
• 2014Emotional Fusebox — Anna
• 2014Get Santa — Alison
• The Assets — Sandy Grimes
• The Smoke — Trish Tooley
• Broadchurch — Beth Latimer
• 2013Dust — Jessica's Mum
• 2013Hello Carter — Jenny
• 2013Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World — Noreen Stokes
• 2012A Thousand Kisses Deep — Mia Selva, Video Assist Operator
• 2012Ashes — Ruth
• 2012Good Vibrations — Ruth
• 2012National Theatre Live: Antigone — Antigone
• 2012Smoke
• 2012Spike Island — Suzanne
• 2011Attack the Block — Sam
• Black Mirror — Ffion Foxwell
• 2011Hello Carter — Susie
• Marchlands — Ruth Bowen
• 2011One Day — Tilly Shaw
• 2011The Night Watch — Vivian Pearce
• 2011Two Minutes — Juliette
• Accused — Emma Croft
• 2010Perrier's Bounty — Brenda
• 2010Royal Wedding — Linda Caddock
• 2010The Kid — Jackie
• 2009Mr. Dorothy — Female Voice / Mitch's Wife
• 2009Roar — Eva
• 2009St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold — Beverly
• 2009Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne — Bridget
• 2009Thrush — Ruby's Friend
• 2009White Wedding — Rose
• 2009Wish 143 — Maggie
• 2008Consuming Passion — Mary Boon
• 2008Good — Anne
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles — Izz Huett
• 2008The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall — Sophie Hurndall
• Wired — Louise Evans
• Cranford — Peggy Bell
• 2007St Trinian's — Beverly
• 2007This Life +10 — Clare
• 2006Venus — Jessie
• Doctor Who — The Doctor
• The Afternoon Play — Sam
• Doctors — Louise Clancy
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Kirsty Richards
• The Country — Mother Hatch, Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (12)

• Bradley Walsh: The Laugh's on Me — Self
• 2020The Big New Year's In — Herself
• 2020The Big Night In — Self
• 2019Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered — Self
• The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer — Self - Guest
• Good Morning Britain — Self
• The Last Leg — Self
• 2011Behind the Block — Self
• The Jonathan Ross Show — Self - Guest
• CBeebies Bedtime Stories — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self - Guest
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self