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Rose Tyler was The Doctor’s companions between “Rose” and Doomsday. Rose was a different sort of companion as far as The Doctor was concerned. She was a quick thinking girl who was often equal to him when it came to working out what was going on. But she was also more than JUST a companion. From early in her travels with him it was clear there was some extra chemistry between them. Could The Doctor be falling in love? The idea seemed impossible. But the clues were there. When the Ninth Doctor was forced to regenerate, having saved her life by drawing the time vortex out of her body and into his own, she was confused at first by her own feelings, but eventually her attachment to the Tenth Doctor proved just as strong. When given the choice between staying with The Doctor and fighting the cybermen and Daleks and going to an alternative universe with her mother and father and Mickey, she chose to stand by The Doctor. But in the end the choice wasn’t hers. She was rescued from the void by her father and taken to the alternative universe where she had her family again but lost The Doctor. In a brief reunion she was able to tell him she loved him, but he missed the chance of saying it to her.
Rose was reunited with The Doctor when the Daleks stole planet Earth to use in their plan to destroy all life in the universe except Dalek. She used a Dimensional Canon to cross from the alternative universe and contact the Doctor. Their reunion was almost destroyed when a Dalek shot The Doctor, but when he stopped his regeneration by forcing the energy into his disembodied hand, cut off in the fight with the Sycorax two years before, a clone Doctor was created, with only one heart and a Human lifespan. When the Earth and the universe was saved, the Human Doctor stayed with her on the alternative Earth where he promised that they could grow old together.
The Tenth Doctor briefly saw Rose again just before his regeneration. He came to the Powell Estate on New Years Day, 2005, three months before his Ninth incarnation first met her and exchanged a few words with her.
Billie Paul Piper (originally Lianne Piper) was born on 22 September 1982 in Swindon, Wiltshire to Paul Piper and Mandy Kent. Her parents changed her given name from Lianne to Billie three weeks after registering her birth. She has a younger brother, Charlie, and two younger sisters, Harley and Ellie. Billie grew up in Nine Elms, Swindon. She went to Brookfield Primary School in the Shaw, Swindon, and Bradon Forest Secondary School in the village of Purton. She supports Swindon Town football club. Later, she attended The Sylvia Young Theatre School. Billie married businessman, television presenter, and BBC Radio 2
DJ Chris Evans in a secret ceremony on May 2001 in Las Vegas after
five months of dating. Their marriage attracted much comment due to
the sixteen-year age gap between the two. When she promoted her album on Evans's radio show, he asked, "Why don't we get married and sell the photos to Hello!, then give all the money to charity?" To which she replied, "OK, let's." She didn't think he was serious. After a courtship that included giving her a silver Ferrari she broke up with her on-again-off again boyfriend, Ritchie Neville of Five. Her relationship with Evans created a rift between Billie and her parents. Subsequently, the Pipers took a large sum of money in return for an exclusive on their daughter. Billie felt betrayed and ended all communication with her parents for a long time. With her marriage to Evans, she cleaned up her act, giving up on anorexia, drugs, and pop stardom. Billie set her sights on becoming an actress. She spent some time in Los Angeles taking acting classes. Since then, she has landed lucrative film and television roles. In October 2004, Billie and Evans began a trial separation. In spring of 2005 it was confirmed that she and Evans would be divorcing. The two remain friends, and in November 2005 Billie Piper was a guest on the first episode of her ex-husband's show OFI Sunday. Billie dated and lived with law student Amadu Sowe fro Billie Piper's first break in the entertainment world came as a teenager, when she was selected to appear on the Saturday morning kids' television show Scratchy & Co. She later landed a role in a television commercial promoting the pop magazine Smash Hits. Her role was to blow a bubble in front of the camera, burst it with her finger and shout "Pop!". A red screen would then come up and the words "Smash hits Magazine. 100% pure pop!" with Billie's voice saying the words. She then had to run up to the camera and dance, then run back. At the age of 15, she was offered a record deal, and in 1998 became the youngest artist ever to debut at number one in the UK singles chart with "Because We Want To", released under the artist name "Billie". Her follow-up single "Girlfriend" also debuted at Number One, and her first album, Honey to the B (released immediately afterwards) debuted at Number 14 in the UK album charts. She released two further singles off the album, "She Wants You" and "Honey to the Bee"; both songs debuted at Number 3. Billie then took a year off to record her second album. She decided to release further records under her full name, Billie Piper. She returned to the Singles Chart in May 2000 with a new, sexier sound. She hit the Number 1 spot with "Day & Night", but her success wasn't to continue. She waited until the following September to release "Something Deep Inside". That reached Number 4 in the UK Singles Chart. In October 2000 she released her second album, Walk of Life, which reached Number 14 in the UK Album Chart. The song "Walk of Life", the final single off this album, was released in December 2000 and reached Number 25 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1999, she was nominated for two BRIT Awards and was named Best Female Star at the Smash Hits Poll Winners' party, although at the latter ceremony she was reduced to tears after being viciously booed by jealous fans of Ritchie Neville, member of boyband Five, whom she was dating at the time. Billie then decided to end her pop career and return to her original ambition, acting. She took acting lessons while living in Los Angeles and, still a high-profile figure, quickly earned roles in the BBC Television series The Canterbury Tales (modern retellings of Chaucer's stories) and the one-off drama Bella and the Boys. She gained very positive reviews for these appearances, critics seemingly feeling that she was a far better actress than she was a singer. In 2004, she appeared in the films The Calcium Kid, as the romantic interest of Orlando Bloom's character, and Things to do Before You're Thirty. Shortly before starting work on Doctor Who she filmed a starring role in the horror movie Spirit Trap, released in the summer of 2005 to generally poor reviews. In November 2005, she starred as Hero in a BBC adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, updated for the modern day in a similar manner to the Canterbury Tales series in which she featured, with Hero now being a weather presenter in a television station. Billie has completed work on two stand-alone television productions. In the first, a BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's historical novel The Ruby in the Smoke broadcast in December 2006, Piper played protagonist Sally Lockhart, a Victorian orphan. The BBC plans to film all four of Pullman's Sally Lockhart novels, presumably with Billie continuing in the role. In 2007 she appeared as the main character, Fanny Price, in an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, screened on ITV1. This was her first acting role on television for a broadcaster other than the BBC. Billie is reported to be attached to appear in an ITV2 adaptation of Belle de Jour, a book detailing the life of a prostitute. In May 2004, it was announced that Piper was to play the character
Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor in the revived series of Doctor
Who, beginning in 2005. Billie Piper won the Most Popular Actress category at the 2005 and 2006 National Television Awards for her work on Doctor Who. BBC News named her as one of its "Faces of the Year" for 2005, primarily due to her success in Doctor Who. At The South Bank Show Awards on 27 January 2006 Billie Piper was awarded The Times Breakthrough Award for her successful transition from singing to acting. In March 2006, the Television and Radio Industries Club named her as best new TV talent in their annual Tric awards. In September 2006, she was named Best Actress at the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards. After the completion of the first series of Doctor Who, the British media regularly released conflicting reports about how long she would be staying with the programme. In March 2006, she claimed that she would continue on Doctor Who into its third season in 2007; however, on May 10, 2006 she was reported to be considering quitting the series, although she did express an interest in playing a female version of the Doctor in the future (possibly related to a proposed Doctor Who spin-off series about Rose which was later dropped). On June 15, 2006, it was announced by the BBC that she was to depart in the final episode of the second series, Doomsday; Billie's decision to leave had been taken a year previously, but remained a secret until news of her departure became public. Both Billie and head writer Russell T. Davies have mentioned that the door was open for her return to the role at a later date. Rumours about a return in the 2007 series have, however, been denied in print by Davies. There were, briefly, plans by the BBC to produce a Rose Tyler spin-off starring Piper and following Rose's life after leaving the Doctor, but this was cancelled by Davies. Billie Piper made her stage debut in a touring production of Christopher Hampton's play Treats which opened in early 2007 in Windsor.
Film and TV Doctor Who (27 episodes)
"The Shadow in the North" (2007)
(mini) TV Series (completed) .... Sally Lockhart
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2004 to 2006. She is most recently reported to be dating actor Laurence
Fox, son of James Fox.
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