Jodie Whittaker

• Birth year: 1982

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• Place of birth: Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK

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Jodie Auckland Whittaker is an English actress, known for Venus (2006), Attack the Block (2011), and Broadchurch (2013-2017). In 2017, Whittaker was announced as the thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor on the BBC series Doctor Who, making her the first actress to headline the series.