Going from
Doctor Who
to Dickens and back again was a snap for award-winning actress
Freema Agyeman
.
She started on the British soap opera
CrossRoads, movied on to guest-star roles on prime-time series, and landed the role of the
Tenth Doctor Who's companion (after guest starring as another character) all within a four-year span!
Talk about meteoric!
In addition, she appeared in the acclaimed BBC production of Charles Dickens'
Little Doritt
(as
Tattycoram) and a remake of the 1970s post-apocalyptic tv series
Survivors!
She's also done
Doctor Who and
Torchwood audiobooks and animation voice work (on
Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest
).
Currently, she's starring as
Crown Prosecutor / Solictor Advocate Alesha Phillips (equivalent to an American assistant district attorney) on
Law & Order: UK. but it's a fair bet she'll show up somewhere in the Whoverse before too long...
Trivia: Freema is a spokesperson for
Divine Chocolate, an ethical corporation that helps Ghanaian cocoa farmers make a fair living.