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Donna Noble was initially only with The Doctor for a brief time, though she managed to develop a certain rapport. By the time he had rescued her from a speeding taxi driven by an evil robot Santa there was a level of trust. The Doctor found her even less attuned to the affairs of planet Earth than he was, but by the end of their first adventure he seemed to have come to like her. He asked her to join him in his adventures, but she said no, one of the few people who have done so, along with Grace Holloway, Mickey Smith, and latterly Joan Redfern. She did, however, understand that The Doctor didn’t REALLY want to be alone and urged him to find a friend who would travel with him.
Donna caught up with The Doctor again a year later, when they both investigated Adipose Industries and came up against the mysterious Miss Foster. Donna accepted The Doctor's offer to join him this time - in fact, she had already packed. She found herself in the middle of Pompeii as Vesuvius got ready to explode and the home planet of the Ood, helping them to revolt against the Humans who had made them slaves. She and her family were caught up in the Sontaran attack on Earth. She met Agatha Christie, and the Doctor's cloned daughter and enjoyed a holiday on the diamond planet of Midnight. She experienced the perfect life in a virtual reality universe. But fate was always catching up with Donna. When a Time Beetle thrust her into an alternative reality where she never even met The Doctor terrifying events began to unfold which culminated in her fighting the Daleks alongside a duplicate Doctor and having absorbed his Time Lord mind in a Human/Time Lord metacrisis. Tragically, the only thing The Doctor could do about it was wipe her memory of ever knowing him and bring her back to her mother and grandfather. All the inner strength and confidence in herself was lost and she reverted to being an ordinary, slightly scatterbrained woman with no direction in her life.
When we saw Donna again in End of Time, she still couldn't remember anything, but was having curious flashbacks. She was engaged to a nice young man called Sean and planning her wedding, just like when The Doctor first me her. When The Master turned everyone else in the world into clones of himself she radiated artron energy and defeated a gang of them trying to capture her. The Doctor claimed he had left that as a defence mechanism for her. As The Doctor prepared for regeneration, he came to her wedding secretly and left a winning lottery ticket to assure her and Sean's future.
Catherine Tate was born on 12th May, 1968 in Bloomsbury, London and brought up in the Brunswick Centre. Her mother was a florist. She attended St Joseph's, Macklin Street, a local Catholic primary school; followed by Notre Dame High School, Southwark, a south London convent secondary school. She studied for A-levels in the sixth form of Salesian College, Battersea, another south London secondary school, before going on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She began her acting career with roles in serial dramas such as Casualty. She appeared in comedy series including The Harry Hill Show, Barking and That Peter Kay Thing and soon after she became involved with Lee Mack's Perrier-nominated New Bits show at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2000. In 2001 she returned to the festival with her own one-woman show which was followed by roles in Big Train, Attention Scum and TVGoHome. After being spotted at Edinburgh, she was offered a role in the comedy Wild West with Dawn French. She was then given her own programme, which she co-wrote with Derren Litten, The Catherine Tate Show.
In March, 2005, she appeared during the BBC's Comic Relief as the character of Lauren Cooper from The Catherine Tate Show, alongside boy-band McFly. In November 2005, she appeared in another charity sketch as part of the BBC's annual Children in Need telethon. The segment was a crossover between EastEnders and The Catherine Tate Show, featuring Eastender characters Peggy Mitchell, Little Mo Mitchell and Stacey Slater, and Catherine appeared in the guise of her well-known character Lauren Cooper. Also in November, Catherine was a guest star at the 77th Royal Variety Performance and once again appeared in the guise of Lauren, accompanied by her friends Ryan and Liese. During the sketch, her character Lauren, looked up at the Royal Box and asked the Queen; "Is one bovvered? Is one's face bovvered?"
At the end of 2005 she appeared in the award-winning BBC television adaptation of Bleak House. In 2006, Catherine was featured in Doctor Who as Donna Noble, a woman in a wedding dress who suddenly appeared in the TARDIS at the end of the final episode Doomsday, and played a major role in the Christmas special The Runaway Bride. On her appearance in the series, Tate commented "I was holding out for a summer season at Wigan rep but as a summer job, this'll do." She has been commissioned to write a TV drama for the BBC's forthcoming Decades project. She also had a role in the television adaptation of the novel The Bad Mother's Handbook where she co-starred along side Anne Reid. On March 16, 2007, Catherine appeared on Comic Relief in the guise of some of her well-known characters from The Catherine Tate Show. She appeared as character Lauren Cooper in sketches with David Tennant who acted as Lauren Cooper's teacher and British Prime Minister Tony Blair who saw Lauren Cooper while she was on work experience at 10 Downing Street. She also appeared as Elaine Figgis who had met actor Daniel Craig on the internet, as Geordie Georgie with Lenny Henry and Joannie "Nan" Taylor on an episode of Deal or No Deal hosted by Noel Edmonds.
Catherine co-wrote and starred in her own comedy sketch programme called The Catherine Tate Show. Despite speculation that the third series would be the last, She and the BBC have not ruled out further series or episodes. In an interview on The Paul O'Grady Show on 18th December 2006 Tate indicated that a fourth series was unlikely but hoped to film a one-off special episode in 2007. She has also indicated that she would be happy to take the show on a live tour.
Catherine has been nominated for and won several awards for her work on the show. In 2004, Tate won a British Comedy Award for "Best comedy newcomer" for her work on the first series of The Catherine Tate Show and in 2006 on 13th December, she won a British Comedy Award for "Best British Comedy Actress" for her work in the second series of The Catherine Tate Show. She was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for "best comedy performance" in the second series. Catherine had roles in three films in 2006. These films included; Starter for Ten, Sixty Six and Scenes of a Sexual Nature. She appears in the forthcoming films: Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution, in which she plays the title character, and Love and Other Disasters. In 2001 she played Smeraldina in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Servant to Two Masters. In 2005, she played a role in the West End play Some Girl(s), alongside Friends star David Schwimmer, Sara Powell, Lesley Manville and Saffron Burrows.
Doctor Who Doomsday (8 July 2006) - The Bride
Before Doctor Who Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007) .... Dorothy
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