Yasmin Finney
Born: 30th August 2003
Episodes Broadcast: 2023-2024
Manchester-born Yasmin Finney acted in a variety of stage productions
during her youth. She duly began studying performing arts, despite her
fears that career options would be limited for a transgendered woman of
colour. In 2019, Finney started documenting her life and experiences via
the TikTok video streaming platform, and she quickly amassed a
significant social media following. Her online popularity helped her
land the starring role in the 2022 Billy Porter movie Anything's
Possible, but travel restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
forced her to drop out. The same year, however, Finney made the short
film Mars and scored her first television part as one of the
leads of the coming-of-age drama Heartstopper. It was also
announced that she would be joining the cast of Doctor Who for
its sixetieth anniversary in 2023. Finney made her debut in The Star Beast as Rose Noble,
the daughter of former companion Donna Noble, played by Catherine Tate.
She then returned for a cameo appearance in The Giggle, in which Fourteenth
Doctor David Tennant was succeeded by Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth
Doctor. In 2024, Finney was back for Gatwa's first season finale, The Legend Of Ruby Sunday /
Empire Of Death.
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