Doctor Who announces Game of Thrones star in recurring role

Doctor Who has announced a Game of Thrones star will be making his debut in the upcoming season 13.

Revealed at today's (25 June) Doctor Who Comic-Con@Home panel, Jacob Anderson, who played Grey Worm in the Westeros series for five seasons, is joining the cast as a recurring character called Vinder.

Vinder will be joining forces with the Doctor and the crew as she faces her biggest ever adventure battling evil across time and space.

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Anderson said: "The Doctor has been a part of my life forever, from watching and rewatching the serials on VHS as a kid and being terrified, to unexpectedly finding my eyes watering when the Tenth Doctor said "I don't want to go", I always wanted to live in the Whoniverse.

"Not only has a lifelong dream of mine now been fulfilled, but to be playing a character as fun, adventurous, and dynamic as Vinder is the cherry on top. This is very cool."

His character joins the returning Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill) and previously-announced newbie John Bishop, who will be playing Dan Lewis.

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Bishop recently admitted he has already had a telling off by the BBC for nearly revealing too much spoiler-y information by confirming Dan comes from Liverpool.

"Then the BBC phoned me up and said: 'You've broke the cardinal sin. You've told them something about Doctor Who...' and I went, 'I haven't told them anything! Anybody who looks at me knows he's from Liverpool, let's be honest,'" he joked on The Graham Norton Show.

Doctor Who airs on BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US. Series 13 is due to premiere later this year. For more information on Doctor Who: Time Fracture, head this way – tickets are also available via retailers including LOVEtheatre, London Theatre Direct, Fever and Ticketmaster.

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