Doctor Who Vs. Cinderella

Disney Picture's live-action reworking

of their animated classic of 1950 was

shown on BBC1 tonight.

Lily James depicted the eponymous

folk heroine Ella, Cate Blanchett was

her wicked stepmother, Helena Bonham

Carter was the Fairy Godmother, and Richard Madden was the Prince.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh, the film

was released in 2015 - it also featured

Derek Jacobi, Alex Macqueen,

Stellan Skarsgard, Holliday Grainger,

and twelve other Doctor Who cast

connections:

• Nonso Anozie (Captain) was Hydroflax in The Husbands of River Song
• Hayley [Elizabeth] Atwell (Mother) voiced Asha for Blood of the Daleks (2007), Eleanor for The Doomwood Curse (2008), Seksa for The Whispering Forest (2010), and President Sheridan Moorkurk for The Sands of Life and War Against the Laan (both 2013)
• Mimi Ndiweni (Lady) was Abby in Oxygen, and voiced Ronnie Brockman for Big Dig (2013), Alicia Dowan/Secretary for Subterfuge (2019), and Other River for The Two Rivers (2022)
• Tom Edden (Footman) was Pharmacist in Gridlock
• Joseph Kloska (Assistant) voiced the Perfect One for The Masters of Luxor, Dukhin for The Acheron Pulse (both 2012), King Henry IV/Sir Robert de Wensley/Adam/Tom Chaucer for The Doctor's Tale (2014), Habrild for Order of the Daleks (2016), Schandel for Pretty Lies (2017), Morris/Centurion for The Iron Legion, Neville Plumstead/ Bobby Harrris/the Creature for The Ghosts of Greenwich (both 2019), Pilot Finlay for Genetics of the Daleks (2020), Ivo Hislop Cannon for Long Shot (2021), Tannus Vallon/ Suit for Chronomancer, Ludwig Von Husseldorf for Lay Down Your Arms (both 2022), and Corg for Dominant Species (2024)
• Ella Smith (Lady) voiced the titular role for The Wrath of Medusa (2022)
• Adetomiwa Edun (Trooper) was Brock in The Return of Doctor Mysterio
• Michael Jenn (Doctor) was Clarence DeMarco in The Name of the Doctor
• Josh O'Connor (Guard) was Piotr in Cold War 
• Gerald Horan (Vaneering) was Mr. Clark/Father of Mine in Human Nature and The Family of Blood 
• Bentley Kalu (Rider) was Hood in The Angels Take Manhattan
• Ryan Stuart was a stuntman on Nightmare in Silver too