Dan Starkey
Starkey at the 2016 Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest
Born (1977-09-27) 27 September 1977
United Kingdom
Alma materBristol Old Vic
OccupationActor
Years active2004–present

Dan Starkey (born 27 September 1977)[1] is an English actor known for making numerous appearances in the BBC One science-fiction TV series Doctor Who. He has portrayed a number of different Sontaran characters, most notably Strax, who has come across the Eleventh and Twelfth incarnations of the Doctor, played by Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi respectively. In 2016 joined the CBBC sketch show, Class Dismissed and has appeared in 36 episodes (every episode of Series 1,2 & 3) He left the show after Series 3.

Early life

Dan Starkey was born on 27 September 1977. Starkey studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and graduated in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic[2] before training at the Bristol Old Vic (graduating in 2006).

Career

He played the enraged loner Simon in Muswell Hill by Torben Betts at Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre (Feb/March 2012) and was nominated as Best Male Performance at the 2012 Off West End Theatre Awards (Offies). In November 2013 Starkey appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.[3]

University Challenge

On 2 January 2015, Starkey was a member of the winning team on Christmas University Challenge, representing Trinity Hall, Cambridge who defeated Balliol College, Oxford, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hull. His team-mates were international rower Tom James, world champion cyclist Emma Pooley and novelist Adam Mars-Jones.[4]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2004FixDrifterShort film
2015Alex the VampireDan
2018Sherlock GnomesTeddy GregsonVoice
2023MummiesDanny and DennysVoice

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008–21Doctor WhoVarious13 episodes
2011The Sarah Jane AdventuresPlarkThe Man Who Never Was
2012–14Wizards vs AliensRandal MoonSeries Regular
2012CasualtyWally St Clare"Sixteen Candles"
2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootHimself
2014Doctor WhoIan"Last Christmas"
2015Inside No. 9Blue Demon Dwarf"Séance Time"
2015Catherine Tate's NanIan1 episode
2016–2018Class DismissedVarious36 episodes
2019 Good Omens Passerby 1 episode

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011Doctor Who: The Adventure GamesField Major Kaarsh; various Sontarans"The Gunpowder Plot"
2015Lego DimensionsStrax
2022Warhammer 40,000: DarktideThe Seer

Theatre credits

  • The 39 Steps UK national tour
  • The Fitzrovia Radio Hour
  • Muswell Hill by Torben Betts, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond
  • Making News by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky, Pleasance One Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

CD audio dramas

YearTitleRole
2011RobophobiaCravnet
HexagoraLord Zellenger
The Five CompanionsThe Sontarans
2012The Foe from the FutureHistoriographer Osin
Wirrn IsleSheer Jawn
Energy of the DaleksKevin Winston, Robomen
The First SontaransJaka
2013Starlight RobberyMarshall Stenn, Major Vlaar, Sergeant Gredd, Asallis
2014The King of SontarStrang, Hutchins
2015Terror of the SontaransField-Major Kayste, Skegg, Stodd
2018The Coming of the MartiansOgilvy

References

  1. ↑ "Doctor Who star chats about Christmas show in Northampton". Northampton Chronicle & Echo. 6 December 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  2. ↑ 'Appendix V. Candidates who Took the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos between 1900 and 1999', in H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge, ed. by Michael Lapidge [=Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 69–70] (Aberystwyth: Department of Welsh, Abersytwyth University, 2015), pp. 257–66 (pp. 265–66).
  3. ↑ "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot", BBC programmes, retrieved 26 November 2013
  4. ↑ "University Challenge Victory". Trinity Hall, Cambridge. 2 January 2015. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2015.


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