Matthew Waterhouse

Matthew Waterhouse (born on 19 December 1961REF: Who-ology: The Official Miscellany in Hertford) played companion Adric in Doctor Who from Full Circle to Earthshock, with cameo appearances in Time-Flight and The Caves of Androzani.
After leaving the series, he began a stage career. Since 2014, he reprised the role of Adric for Big Finish's audio adventures. He shared his memories of portraying Adric in the 96th edition of Big Finish's charity podcast series Toby Hadoke's Who's Round.
== Personal life ==
Waterhouse is openly gayBlue Box Boy, Matthew Waterhouse (published 2010 by What Noise Productions) and lives with his husband in Sussex. (DCOM: Living With Waterhouse)
== Career ==
Waterhouse began his career as a clerk in the BBC news department before securing a role in the television drama in 1980. Shortly afterward he auditioned for and won the role of Adric. He was a confirmed Doctor Who fan and had had at least one letter printed in Doctor Who Weekly before he took up the role.
Adric was a companion of Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors from 1980 to 1982. Waterhouse was the youngest actor to play a companion and remains the youngest male to have done so. (In 2010, Caitlin Blackwood aged ten played the role of seven-year-old Amelia Pond, the Eleventh Doctor's first companion, and continued to portray her on a recurring basis throughout — and immediately beyond — her cousin Karen Gillan's regular performance as adult Amy). Matthew Waterhouse is openly gay and is believed to be the first non-heterosexual actor on Doctor Who to have been open about his sexuality while on the series. He also played the third companion to die in the series after Katarina in 1965 and Sara Kingdom in 1966. The first Doctor Who serial Waterhouse filmed was State of Decay; Full Circle was filmed afterwards.
Waterhouse's name was used, as an in-joke, by comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams for a character in their sketch show . Waterhouse in the programme is an unsuccessful inventor of bizarre and ridiculous new versions of things such as board games and breakfast cereals. (Little Britain has also featured two other characters named after Doctor Who companion actors, Michael Craze and Mark Strickson.)
Waterhouse has lived in Connecticut, in the United States, since July 1998. He still appears occasionally at fan conventions and visits the UK. Most recently, he has contributed to the commentary for the DVD releases of The Visitation and Earthshock.
In 2010, Waterhouse joined a growing number of Doctor Who actors in publishing an autobiography. In his book, Blue Box Boy, he writes candidly about his experiences making Doctor Who. In it he claims Tom Baker had a horrible attitude and that he was shocked that someone he admired could be this way. To publicise the release, he consented to a rare interview for Doctor Who Magazine #424.
Waterhouse was offered a role in the Big Finish audios shortly after they started, but turned down the offers for many years. This was not due to a resentment of the company but rather a belief that he could not capture the youthful essence of the fifteen-year-old Adric at his age. After recording some Target audio books, he decided that doing so might have been possible, and in 2014 he reprised the role in two audios for The Fifth Doctor Box Set; Psychodrome and Iterations of I. (DWMSE 39)
== Actor Credits ==
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* Full Circle
* State of Decay
* Warriors' Gate
* The Keeper of Traken
* Logopolis
* Castrovalva
* Four to Doomsday
* Kinda
* The Visitation
* Black Orchid
* Earthshock
* Time-Flight
* The Caves of Androzani
=== Other ===
* Children in Need 1985
* The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* The Star Men
* The Contingency Club
* Zaltys
* Kingdom of Lies
* Ghost Walk
* Serpent in the Silver Mask
==== The Fourth Doctor Adventures ====
* Purgatory 12
* Chase the Night
* The Planet of Witches
* The Quest of the Engineer
==== The Fifth Doctor Adventures ====
* The Fifth Doctor Box Set
** Psychodrome
** Iterations of I
* The Lost Resort
* God of War
* The Dream Team
** The Merfolk Murders
** Dream Team
==== Novel Adaptations ====
* Cold Fusion
==== Short Trips ====
* A Full Life
* The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius
* Messages from the Dead
==== Ravenous ====
* Companion Piece
=== Audiobook Readings ===
==== Target Novelisations ====
* Doctor Who and the Visitation
* Full Circle
* Four to Doomsday
==== The Audio Novels ====
* Watchers
* Prisoners of London
==== Doctor Who Audio Annuals ====
* Conundrum
* The Penalty
* Double Trouble
* Planet of Fear
==== Dalek Audio Annuals ====
* Timechase
* The Fugitive
* Nightmare
=== Webcasts ===
==== The Collection ====
* The Trial
=== Documentary ===
* Doctor Who's Who's Who
* Putting the Shock into Earthshock
* A New Body at Last
* The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor
* Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
*Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 96: Matthew Waterhouse
* The Fan Show
* Time Trap: The Making of Castrovalva
* Double Trouble
=== Audio commentary ===
* The Keeper of Traken
* The Visitation
* Black Orchid
to be completed
== Writor Credits ==
=== Short Stories ===
==== The Target Storybook ====
* The Dark River
=== Audio ===
==== The Audio Novels ====
* Watchers
* Prisoners of London
== External links ==
* Gay Icons: Adric
== Footnotes ==
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