35 actors who have travelled between the universes of Doctor Who and Star Wars
From the Tardis to the Death Star, these actors have clocked up appearances in both sci-fi classics
26. Alistair Petrie
The Night Manager and Utopia star is well known to UK audiences thanks to a jam-packed CV featuring roles in Undercover, New Blood, Sherlock, Whitechapel and The Forsyte Saga to name but a few. Now he's known to Star Wars fans as the gruff Alliance military man, General Draven. And if you're a fan of Doctor Who audio adventures you'll know his voice as that of a German lieutenant in Criss-Cross and Julius Caesar in Living History.
27. Ayesha Dharker
Corrie star Ayesha played the successor to Natalie Portman’s Queen Amidala in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, but six years later had a very different, more antagonistic role in Doctor Who’s Planet of the Ood, where she played a PA for Ood operations.
28. Michael Sheard
Sheard played Imperial Admiral Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back, perhaps best known for blundering the attack on the heroic rebels at the beginning of the movie (which has led to some fans believing him to be a rebel spy) and getting force choked by Darth Vader. But Sheard also took on six roles in Doctor Who which led him to star alongside every classic Doctor save Patrick Troughton and Colin Baker. Quite the man about town – he even did an audio drama with Paul McGann!
29. Brian Blessed
The booming Blessed voiced Gungan chief Boss Nass in The Phantom Menace, and also put in a turn in the Whoniverse as King Yrcanos in Sixth Doctor serial The Trial of a Timelord. The actor also revealed to RadioTimes.com that he’d been approached to play the Doctor in the mid-1960s – what might have been, eh?
