:Now now, no need to get personal. If you want to make a case for someone, go ahead, but by what stretch is Darren Morfitt notable? As for the others, I checked each one's wiki page before removing them. They may have long careers but they are hardly A-list actors. They have long careers being character actors playing workaday characters in TV dramas, exactly as they have done in DW. None of these are the kind of actors who most people would go 'oh looks its...' when they appear on screen. Note, this is no critisism of them, its just what they do for a living. As for Alex Kingston, she is probably most notable now for playing River Song! Other than that she's played a bunch of character parts and a long term character in ER. Now I've never watched ER, so maybe that was a more notable role than it seems. But yeah a case can be made for her, OTOH, she's half way to becoming a companion now. Have a look back at the exstensive discussions that there have been on this subject, plus take a look at the criteria that's been used in the past, and judge honestly whether all these are consistent with that.