Dan Starkey (actor)
{{Short description|English actor}}
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| name = Dan Starkey
| image = Dan Starkey by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| image_caption = Starkey at the 2016 Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|9|27|df=y}}
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| alma_mater = Bristol Old Vic
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 2004–present
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Dan Starkey (born 27 September 1977){{cite web|url=https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/arts-and-culture/theatre-and-stage/doctor-who-star-chats-about-christmas-show-northampton-757280|title=Doctor Who star chats about Christmas show in Northampton|date=6 December 2016|website=Northampton Chronicle & Echo|access-date=29 September 2020}} 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, he 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'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). 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."[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lv3mj The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]", BBC programmes, retrieved 26 November 2013
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.{{cite web |url=http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/detail.asp?ItemID=2914 |title=University Challenge Victory |author= |date=2 January 2015 |website=Trinity Hall, Cambridge |access-date=3 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103233947/http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/detail.asp?ItemID=2914 |archive-date=3 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}
Filmography
=Film=
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Fix | Drifter | Short film |
| 2015 | Alex the Vampire | Dan | |
| 2018 | Sherlock Gnomes | Teddy Gregson | Voice |
| 2023 | Mummies | Danny and Dennys | Voice |
=Television=
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–21 | Doctor Who | Various | 13 episodes |
| 2011 | The Sarah Jane Adventures | Plark | The Man Who Never Was |
| 2012–14 | Wizards vs Aliens | Randal Moon | Series Regular |
| 2012 | Casualty | Wally St Clare | "Sixteen Candles" |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Himself | |
| 2015 | Inside No. 9 | Blue Demon Dwarf | "Séance Time" |
| 2015 | Catherine Tate's Nan | Ian | Episode: "Nanger Management" |
| 2016–2018 | Class Dismissed | Various | 36 episodes |
| 2019
|Passerby |Episode: "Saturday Morning Funtime" | |||
| 2019
|Mr. Briscoe |Episode 5 | |||
| 2019, 2023
|Glen Glenson |2 Episodes |
=Video games=
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Doctor Who: The Adventure Games | Field Major Kaarsh; various Sontarans | "The Gunpowder Plot" |
| 2015 | Lego Dimensions | Strax | |
| 2022 | Warhammer 40,000: Darktide | The 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
| class="wikitable" | ||
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| rowspan="3"|2011 | Robophobia | Cravnet |
| Hexagora | Lord Zellenger | |
| The Five Companions | The Sontarans | |
| rowspan="4"|2012 | The Foe from the Future | Historiographer Osin |
| Wirrn Isle | Sheer Jawn | |
| Energy of the Daleks | Kevin Winston, Robomen | |
| The First Sontarans | Jaka | |
| 2013 | Starlight Robbery | Marshall Stenn, Major Vlaar, Sergeant Gredd, Asallis |
| 2014 | The King of Sontar | Strang, Hutchins |
| 2015 | Terror of the Sontarans | Field-Major Kayste, Skegg, Stodd |
| 2018 | The Coming of the Martians | Ogilvy |
| 2024 | Doctor Who: Rogue (Novelisation) | Reader |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2396083|Dan Starkey}}
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Category:21st-century English male actors
Category:English male film actors
Category:English male stage actors
Category:English male television actors
Category:English male voice actors
Category:Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Category:Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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