Arthur Darvill

Arthur Darvill (born Thomas Arthur Darvill in Birmingham on 17 June 1982Doctor Who Guide) played Rory Williams between series 5 and 7 of Doctor Who. He also played the Auton duplicate of the same character in the Doctor Who two-parter The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang.
== Early Life and Career ==
Arthur Darvill was educated at Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire and trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His first television appearance was in ITV drama He Kills Coppers and he met Matt Smith in Swimming With Sharks. Just prior to joining the cast of Doctor Who, he starred alongside Freema Agyeman when playing the role of Edward "Tip" Dorrit in . He also wrote the 2009 musical .
In February 2012, Darvill became the second companion actor of the revived series (after Noel Clarke) to appear in a Big Finish Productions audio drama when he guest starred in the audio story Paradise Frost, an episode of the Bernice Summerfield box set, Road Trip as Jared Jones.
 He also played Frank Layton in the Torchwood - Special Releases audio story Believe.
On 30 March 2015, Darvill was cast as Rip Hunter in a lead role for Legends of Tomorrow. Ironically, in the DC comics, Rip Hunter is a leader of a group of time-travellers. Darvill is also the fifth actor from Doctor Who to have a role within the series' universe.
== Personal life ==
He was born on the same day as his Broadchurch co-star and Thirteenth Doctor actor Jodie Whittaker.http://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1003229455840632832
He is married to Inès de Clercq and the son of Ellie Darvill.
== Credits ==
As Rory Williams
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* The Eleventh Hour
* The Vampires of Venice
* Amy's Choice
* The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood
* The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang
* A Christmas Carol
* The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon
* The Curse of the Black Spot
* The Doctor's Wife
* The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People
* A Good Man Goes to War
* Let's Kill Hitler
* Night Thoughts
* The Girl Who Waited
* The God Complex
* Closing Time
* The Wedding of River Song
* The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
* Asylum of the Daleks
* Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
* A Town Called Mercy
* The Power of Three
* The Angels Take Manhattan
==== Mini-episodes ====
* Pond Life
* Rory's Story
=== Webcasts ===
==== Doctor Who: Lockdown ====
* Rory's Story
=== Video Games ===
==== The Adventure Games ====
* The Gunpowder Plot
Other Roles
=== Television ===
==== Other ====
* Doctor Who at the Proms (2010) - Presenter
=== Audio ===
==== Time Lord Victorious ====
* Echoes of Extinction - Cooke
==== The Lone Centurion ====
* The Lone Centurion: Volume One
** Gladiator
** The Unwilling Assassin
** I, Rorius
* The Lone Centurion: Volume Two
** The Once and Future Nurse
** The Glowing Warrior
** The Last King of Camelot
==== Bernice Summerfield ====
* Paradise Frost - Doctor Jared Jones
==== Torchwood Special Releases ====
* Believe - Frank Layton
=== Audiobook Readings ===
==== BBC New Series Adventures ====
* Night of the Humans
* The Glamour Chase
==== BBC Audio ====
* The Ring of Steel
* Day of the Cockroach
* Sleepers in the Dust
== External links ==
* Arthur Darvill RADA Profile
* Penguin Funding Profile
== Footnotes ==
Category:Doctor Who regular cast
Category:Video game actors
Category:Big Finish Bernice Summerfield voice actors
Category:BBC Audio audiobook readers
Category:Performers of songs about the Doctor Who universe
Category:Actors who were credited in the Doctor Who opening titles
Category:Doctor Who at the Proms presenters
Category:Actors interviewed on Doctor Who Confidential
Category:Actors interviewed on Toby Hadoke's Who's Round
Category:Actors who portrayed companions of the Doctor
Category:BFTW voice actors
Category:Doctor Who webcast actors
Category:Audio cast stubs
Category:Post-2005 Doctor Who cast reprising their roles at Big Finish
Category:The Lone Centurion voice actors
Category:Big Finish Time Lord Victorious voice actors
Category:Actors who portrayed relatives of the Doctor
Category:Laurence Olivier Award winners
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