Alan Ruscoe (born 14 April 1972) is a British actor who is best known for his work as various aliens, monsters and androids in the ''
Star Wars
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'' films and the television series ''
Doctor Who
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''.
Career
On television, he has played Baraquel, Sariel and Araquiel in Sky One's ''
Hex'' season 2, as well as a number of characters in the
2005 series of ''Doctor Who'':
Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen in "
Aliens of London
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" and "
World War Three" (and briefly in "
Boom Town"), lead
Auton
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in "
Rose
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", the Anne Droid in "
Bad Wolf
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" and "
The Parting of the Ways
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", Trine-E in "
Bad Wolf
"Bad Wolf" is the twelfth episode of the revived Doctor Who series 1, first series of the British Science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. The episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 11 June 2005. It is ...
", and Lute of the Forest of Cheem in "
The End of the World". Ruscoe has also appeared in the
''Doctor Who'' audio dramas ''The Veiled Leopard'', ''
The Settling'', ''Gallifrey: Annihilation'' and ''Bernice Summerfield: Paradise Frost'' for
Big Finish Productions
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. He also played Andrew Stone, a Mars colonist later taken over by an alien lifeform in the November 2009 ''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...
'' special "
The Waters of Mars", He also played Marcus in the ITV Soap Emmerdale in
2013.
In films, Ruscoe has played
Daultay Dofine,
Bib Fortuna and
Plo Koon
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in ''
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'', and the Mangalore Kino in ''
The Fifth Element
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''. He also played "the Poulterer" in a 2004 television adaptation of ''
A Christmas Carol
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''. He appears alongside Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave and Gemma Arterton in "Song For Marion" released this year.
In theatre, he has played Deputy and Snake Preacher in ''
Whistle Down the Wind'', Riff Raff in ''
The Rocky Horror Show
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'' in the English Theatre Frankfurt, Bob Cratchit in the 2004 touring version of ''
Scrooge'' and Gussie Fink-Nottle in the 2007 UK tour of ''By Jeeves''. In Germany, he played "Bob" the pizza-boy-eating alien for the
T-Online
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History
In ...
television and poster campaign.
Filmography
Film
Television
External links
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1972 births
Living people
British male film actors
British male television actors
British male stage actors
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