Jodie Whittaker

Personal context

Summary

Jodie Whittaker is an English actor known for Broadchurch and for playing the first woman to portray the Doctor in Doctor Who. Her screen work includes crime dramas, science fiction, and stories about grief and family. In discussing Doctor Who, she has advocated for women as role models, challenged assumptions that boys cannot look up to female characters, and called for women not to be treated as a genre. She has also spoken against sexual harassment in workplaces and serves as an ambassador for Tender, which works to prevent domestic abuse and sexual violence.