Jacqueline King

BIO

Jacqueline King played the recurring role of Sylvia Noble, the overbearing, widowed mother of Catherine Tate’s character Donna Noble, in Doctor Who’s 2006 Christmas special “The Runaway Bride” and throughout the fourth series opposite Tate, David Tennant and Bernard Cribbins. 

King has appeared on stage and in television and film including Comic Potential, the Damsels in Distress trilogy, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Casualty, Life Begins, Lawless, Doctors, 55 Degrees North, Missing and The Bill; she also appeared in House of Saddam playing real-life diplomat April Glaspie. 

King returned the role of Sylvia in several audios for Big Finish Productions, including in their series The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Lady Christina, and Donna Noble: Kidnapped!, and in the role for the more recent Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials.