13 Doctor Who actors who played different characters in Torchwood

However, he’d already appeared in the Whoniverse in Torchwood episode Adrift, where he played traumatised Rift victim Jonah.

10. Richard Briers

The late, great Richard Briers is another classic Who actor to appear in Torchwood, as the Chief Caretaker in 1987 Seventh Doctor story Paradise Towers and as millionaire entrepreneur Henry Parker in 2008 Torchwood episode A Day in the Death.