Jenna Coleman

format_quote I don’t really enjoy playing myself at all,” Coleman says. “I love anything that feels more removed from myself. I have a lot more freedom... But using my own voice and being me? I feel self-conscious. If people ask me to do a speech or something, it’s like my worst nightmare. I can’t bear it.”

stars  When she left Doctor Who, she took a few mementos with her.

“I stole quite a lot actually. I stole it but somebody helped me in the props department, so I feel like that was okay,” she revealed on the U.K.’s The Jonathan Ross Show. “I stole a piece of TARDIS. A proper gallifreyan full-on piece under my jumper, but it was in conjunction with the props team, they gave me the wink. I’ve also got the neon sign of the police box sign; I’ve got that in my dining room and it lights up.”

stars  In 2012, she was voted 91st by readers of FHM in their annual 100 Sexiest Women poll.

stars  While auditioning for Doctor Who, the code name that was used was Men on Waves, an anagram for Woman Seven.

stars  Jenna-Louise Coleman was holding an avocado in a grocery shopping and thinking about salad ingredients when she learned she was cast in the cult BBC sci-fi series "Doctor Who" as the Time Lord's new companion.