Doctor Who Vs. The Theory of Everything

This British biographical romance was 

based on Travelling to Infinity: My Life 
With Stephen, the 2007 memoir by Jane 

Wilde Hawking, the first wife of Professor

 Stephen Hawking (1942-2018).
The film chronicled Wilde's relationship 

with Hawking from their first meeting

at Cambridge University in 1963), the

diagnosis of ALS (a form of motor 

neurone disease), and his success in

 physics. Eddie Redmayne and Felicity

Jones portrayed the Hawkings.

The acclaimed production premiered at

 the Toronto Film Festival in 2014, and

went on to win an Oscar, three BAFTAs

and a Golden Globe award, including 

three respective Best Actor awards for 

Redmayne.

Shown again on Sony Movies tonight, the drama featured David

Thewlis, Emily Watson, Maxine Peake, and thirteen Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Jones played Robina Redmond in The Unicorn and the Wasp
• Harry Lloyd (Brian) was Baines in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
• Gruffudd Glyn (Rees) was Lloyd Llewellyn in The Woman Who Lived
• Simon Chandler (Taylor) voiced Corporal Arthur Dimes for Big Finish's Churchill Victorious (2018)
• Will Barton (Technician) made his TV debut as Midge on Survival, then voiced Djinni and Guard for The Destroyer of Delights, and Maddenjot for The Chaos Pool (both 2009)
• Claire Ashton (Kite Flyer) was a Secretary in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Shaun Lucas (Professor) was a Monk in The Bells of Saint John
• Glenn Marks was also stunt co-ordinator on The Family of Blood two-parter and Blink
• Helen Steinway Bailey and Leo Woodruff were stunt performers on Amy's Choice and Heaven Sent respectively
• Moira Thompson was also make-up artist on thirteen stories (from The Christmas Invasion to Doomsday)
• key stylist/make-up artist Lesley Smith began her career as an assistant on (part 1 of) State of Decay
• Julie Bentley was also the snow FX consultant on The Time of the Doctor and The Husbands of River Song