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Billie Piper
Piper at the 2019 Brussels Comic Con
Born
Leian Paul Piper

(1982-09-22) 22 September 1982 (age 42)
Swindon, Wiltshire, England
EducationSylvia Young Theatre School
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
Years active1998–present
Spouses
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    (m. 2001; div. 2007)​
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    (m. 2007; div. 2016)​
PartnerJohnny Lloyd (2016–2023)
Children3
AwardsFull list
Musical career
Genres
InstrumentVocals
Years active1996–2003
Labels
Websitebilliepiperofficial.com

Billie Paul Piper (born Leian Paul Piper; 22 September 1982) is an English actress and former singer. She initially gained recognition as a singer after releasing her debut single "Because We Want To" at age 15, which made her the youngest female singer to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one. Her follow-up single "Girlfriend" also entered at number one. In 1998, Piper released her debut studio album, Honey to the B, which was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Her second studio album, Walk of Life, was released in 2000 and spawned her third number-one single, "Day & Night". In 2003, Piper announced that she had ended her music career to focus on acting.[1]

Piper appeared in the BBC One sci-fi series Doctor Who as Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor, as a regular between 2005 and 2006, and additionally in 2008, 2010, and 2013. She starred as Belle de Jour in the drama series Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007–2011), as Brona Croft/Lily in the Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful (2014–2016), and as Karen Mars in Netflix Original series Collateral (2018), for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. Piper co-created and starred in the Sky Atlantic series I Hate Suzie (2020–2022), for which she earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in 2021 and 2023.

Piper has starred in five plays since 2007 and won the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her performance in Yerma, described as a "generation's best".[2] She went on to win a total of six Best Actress awards for that performance, including the Olivier Award, making Piper the only actor to have won six out of an available six Best Actress awards for a single performance.

Early life and education

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Piper was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, on 22 September 1982.[3] She was initially named Leian Paul Piper, but her first name was legally changed to Billie on 25 April 1983 by her parents, Mandy Kent and Paul Piper.[3] She has three siblings.[4][5] Piper started dance classes aged five. Two years later, she appeared in soft-drink commercials for American TV before taking a role as an extra in the 1996 film Evita.[6] She attended Bradon Forest School in Purton, near Swindon,[7] but left at around the age of 12[8] after winning a scholarship to the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London.[9]

Career

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Music career

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Piper's career began when she was selected to appear on the Saturday morning children's television show Scratchy & Co. She later landed a role in a television commercial promoting the pop magazine Smash Hits. She was offered a record deal at the age of 15, and in 1998, became the youngest artist to debut at number one in the UK Singles Chart with "Because We Want To", released under the stage mononym "Billie".[10] Her follow-up single "Girlfriend" also debuted at number one.

Piper's debut album Honey to the B was released immediately afterwards, and entered and peaked at number 14 on the UK Albums Chart, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom alone along with a platinum certification, and a double-platinum certification in New Zealand, where it peaked at number three on the New Zealand Albums Chart. However, Honey to the B found limited success in other territories, such as Australia, where it entered and peaked at number 31 on the ARIA Albums Chart despite the success of "Honey to the Bee", and in the US it went almost completely unnoticed, peaking at number 17 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.[11]

At the 1998 Smash Hits Poll Winners' party, Piper was nominated for Best New Act (for which she came second, it being won by B*Witched) and won Princess of Pop (she was the first to win this award). She then released "She Wants You" as the third single from the album. The song reached number three. "Honey to the Bee" was released as the fourth single from the album; like the previous single, it reached number three. At the same time, "She Wants You" was released in the US, reaching number 9 on the "Hot Club Dance Play" chart.

In 1999, Piper was nominated for two BRIT Awards and won two awards at the 1999 Smash Hits Poll Winners' party, although she was reduced to tears at the latter ceremony after being booed by fans of Ritchie Neville, whom she was dating at the time. She then started to tour and release in Asia. The singles and the album were released in mid- to late 1999. In August of that year, the follow-up to "Because We Want To" was released in Japan, a single comprising "Girlfriend" and "She Wants You" combined. She recorded a song for Pokémon: The First Movie titled "Makin' My Way (Any Way That I Can)".[12]

Piper in 2004

During that time, Piper recorded her second album. She decided to release further records under her full name of Billie Piper. She returned to the Singles Chart in May 2000 with her third number-one single "Day & Night". She waited until September to release "Something Deep Inside", which reached number four, but her success waned. In October 2000, Piper released her second album, Walk of Life, which reached No. 14 in the UK Album Chart, but quickly fell off the charts and was certified silver in the UK. The album charted in two other countries: New Zealand, where it reached No. 17, and Australia, where it peaked at No. 23. In Piper's autobiography, she states that the album was a "commercial bomb". The song "Walk of Life", the final single off the album, was released in December 2000 and reached No. 25 in the UK Singles Chart.

In February 2001, Piper appeared in court to testify against a woman named Juliet Peters. Peters was charged with, and eventually convicted of, stalking as well as making numerous threats against Piper and members of her family.[13] Peters received psychiatric treatment as part of her sentence. According to her autobiography, Piper was reluctant about the court case, but was pushed by her parents and her label. She also stated in the book that this was why "The Tide Is High" was not released as a single, writing: "The court case succeeded in doing what I alone could not – cutting the ties. Without it I might have been tempted back."

In January 2007, BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles started a campaign to get "Honey to the Bee" back into the top 100 on download sales as a way of testing out new chart rules that favour download sales.[14] The campaign was successful, with "Honey to the Bee" re-entering the official UK singles chart at No. 17, eight years after it was first released.

Film and television performances

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In 2004, Piper appeared in the films The Calcium Kid and Things to Do Before You're 30.[15] Shortly before starting work on Doctor Who, she had a starring role in the horror film Spirit Trap, released in August 2005 to poor reviews. In November 2005, she starred as Hero in a BBC adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, updated for the modern day in a similar manner to the Canterbury Tales (2003)[16] series in which she featured, with Hero now being a weather presenter in a television station.

In 2005, Doctor Who was resurrected after a sixteen-year absence from TV. Piper was cast as Rose Tyler, a travelling companion to the ninth incarnation of The Doctor (played by Christopher Eccleston). Piper won the Most Popular Actress category at the 2005 and 2006 National Television Awards for her work on Doctor Who.[17] BBC News named her one of its "Faces of the Year" for 2005, primarily due to her success in Doctor Who. At The South Bank Show Awards in January 2006, she was awarded The Times Breakthrough Award for her successful transition from singing to acting. In March, the Television and Radio Industries Club named her as the best new TV talent at their annual awards ceremony. In September, she was named Best Actress at the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards.[18]

After the completion of the very successful first series of the revamped Doctor Who, the British media regularly released conflicting reports about how long Piper would be staying with the show. In March 2006, she claimed that she would continue on Doctor Who into its third series in 2007.[19] In May, however, she was reported to be considering quitting the series, although she did express an interest in playing a female version of the Doctor in the future (possibly related to a proposed Doctor Who spin-off series about Rose, which was later dropped).[20] In June, the BBC announced that she was to depart in "Doomsday" (2006), the final episode of the second series.[21] Her decision to leave had been made a year previously, but had not yet been made public.[22]

Piper starred as Hannah Baxter in Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007–2012), an ITV2 adaptation of Brooke Magnanti's The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, a memoir detailing the life of a high-class prostitute who adopted "Belle de Jour" as her pseudonym, which aired from September 2007. As part of her preparation for the role, Piper met the memoir's author two years before her identity as a research scientist was revealed in a Sunday newspaper: "I absolutely had to meet the person behind the words to be able to take the part... people did ask me about her and I just had to smile, to avoid giving anything away."[23]

Piper and David Tennant filming the fourth series of Doctor Who in Penarth

In November 2007, the BBC confirmed that she would reprise her role as Rose Tyler in the fourth series of Doctor Who for three episodes. Later, it was confirmed by Russell T Davies in Doctor Who Magazine that this return had been planned since she left. The series began in April 2008,[24] and after several cameos, Piper made her official return as Rose in the series four final episodes "Turn Left", "The Stolen Earth", and "Journey's End". She did not initially state whether she would be reprising the role again. Interviewed on Doctor Who Confidential, she commented that "it's never really the end for the Doctor and Rose, but it's certainly the end for the foreseeable future".[25]

Piper completed work on two stand-alone television productions. In the first, a BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's historical novel The Ruby in the Smoke which was broadcast in December 2006, she played protagonist Sally Lockhart, a Victorian orphan. The BBC planned to film all four of Pullman's Sally Lockhart novels, with Piper continuing in the role in The Shadow in the North, which was shown in December 2007. Piper also appeared as Fanny Price in an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, screened on ITV1 in March 2007.[26] This was her first acting role on television for a broadcaster other than the BBC. She then provided voice-overs for various television commercials, including one for Comfort fabric-softener airing in June 2007.

The second series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, with Piper again in the starring role, started filming in May 2008, during which a body double was hired to hide Piper's pregnancy during the sex scenes.[27][28][29] Piper was also quoted during this time as worrying that she may have "ruined her future career" due to the nature of the topless scenes and other sexual scenes required.[30] The third series began airing in January 2010.[31] For the third and fourth series Piper was credited as executive producer. In January 2010, tying in with the broadcast of the third series and following on from the real Belle de Jour confirming her real identity, ITV2 broadcast an interview special, Billie and the Real Belle Bare All, which saw Piper meeting with Dr Brooke Magnanti on camera for the first time.[32]

Piper at the Doctor Who panel at the 2015 Oz Comic Con

She reprised her role as Rose Tyler in "The End of Time", the last of the 2008–2010 Doctor Who specials, as a younger version of Rose Tyler (specifically 3 months before her initial meeting with the Ninth Doctor in 2005 episode "Rose"). She also shared the role of Betty with Sue Johnston in the two-part TV adaptation of A Passionate Woman, screened on BBC 1 in April 2010.[33][34] In May 2011, it was announced that Piper would join the cast of a romance-comedy film directed by Robin Sheppard titled Truth about Lies.[35] In January 2013, Piper stated on The Graham Norton Show that she had not been asked to return for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who,[36] however, the BBC announced in the following March that she would be returning in the special,[37] titled "The Day of the Doctor", which was broadcast in November 2013. Despite being credited as Rose Tyler, Piper's actual role in the episode is the consciousness of "The Moment", a sentient weapon which takes on the form of Rose's "Bad Wolf" personality.

On 11 May 2014, Showtime aired a new horror series called Penny Dreadful in which Piper plays Brona Croft, a poor Irish immigrant who is trying to escape a dark past.[38] In the show's second series, Brona is resurrected by Victor Frankenstein as "Lily".[39] She was nominated for Best TV Supporting Actress at the 2015 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. The show was renewed for a third and final series, which she began filming on 17 September 2015.

Billie Piper at the 2016 Phoenix Comicon

Piper returned to the role of Rose Tyler alongside David Tennant in three stories that form the second volume of The Tenth Doctor Adventures audio drama series from Big Finish Productions. One story also featured Camille Coduri reprising her role as Rose's mother Jackie Tyler.[40] The set was released in November 2017. It was later announced that Piper would be headlining her own audio drama titled Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon. The box set featured four stories with Rose Tyler alongside her parents Jackie (Coduri) and Pete Tyler (Shaun Dingwall) as well as featuring Clive from the episode "Rose", played by his original actor Mark Benton. The first volume was released in September 2019 with two more expected in October 2022 and September 2023.[41][42]

In 2019, Piper wrote, starred in and made her directorial debut with the "anti-romcom" Rare Beasts,[43] before appearing alongside Sally Hawkins, Alice Lowe, and David Thewlis in Eternal Beauty, directed by Craig Roberts.[44] The following year, in August 2020, Piper co-created and starred in the critically acclaimed Sky Atlantic series I Hate Suzie. The series was also co-created and written by Secret Diary of a Call Girl creator Lucy Prebble. Piper portrays the titular Suzie Pickles, a former child screen star whose life and career are turned upside down by a compromising phone hack. Critics noted her own experience of having been a prodigious young singer-turned-actress who becomes famous at a young age would have informed her role as Pickles. The Guardian gave it a five-star review, describing Piper's character as "nude, lewd and joyously off the rails" in "this scabrously funny drama".[45]

In March 2021, it was announced that Piper would appear in the film adaptation of a children's book called Catherine Called Birdy.[46] In February 2023, it was announced she would play Sam McAlister, the TV producer who secured Newsnight's interview with Prince Andrew, in Scoop, a Netflix adaptation of McAlister's book.[47] On 7 May 2024, it was announced that Piper had joined the cast of Wednesday season two alongside Joanna Lumley and Christopher Lloyd; filming began that same month.[48]

Stage work

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Piper made her stage debut in a touring production of Christopher Hampton's play Treats, which opened in early 2007 in Windsor, Berkshire. Treats was to have ended its tour in the West End, at the Garrick Theatre, starting in February 2007 with previews. The play officially closed in May.[49]

Piper played Carly in the UK premiere of Neil LaBute's play Reasons to Be Pretty at the Almeida Theatre, running from November 2011 to January 2012. It received critical acclaim from The Guardian, The Observer, London Evening Standard, Metro, The Times, The Telegraph, Time Out, The Arts Desk, Daily Express and The Financial Times, all of which rated the production with a minimum of four stars.[50] BBC Radio 4 described Piper as "fantastic, completely brilliant. Her performance is so convincing and moving, an absolutely terrific performance".[51] The Jewish Chronicle hailed Piper's performance as second to none, being the best of the night, and stating that "no actor can cry more convincingly than Piper", giving the show four stars.[52]

Piper made her National Theatre debut in The Effect by Lucy Prebble, which ran from November 2012 to February 2013.[53] The play went on to become the most critically acclaimed show of the season[citation needed] and Piper was nominated for the WhatsOnStage Best Actress award for her work in The Effect. The play was also nominated for Best New Play and Best Set Designer.[54][55] Due to success and demand, the show was extended for a further month and an online petition was started for the show to be added to the National Theatre's Live Programming.[56] In 2013, Piper was nominated for Best Actress at the Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Theatre Awards for The Effect.[57][58] Piper also starred in Great Britain at the Royal National Theatre in 2014.[59] On 29 May 2014, Piper appeared alongside Ben Whishaw in the Playhouse Presents television special Foxtrot.[60]

Piper at the 2016 Magic City Con

In 2016, Piper starred in an adaptation of Federico García Lorca's 1934 play Yerma at the Young Vic, written and directed by Simon Stone.[61] Upon opening, the play received critical acclaim, mainly for Piper's performance. She was described as "earth-quaking" by The Guardian[62] and "a generation's greatest performance" by The Stage.[2] The Independent described her as "shattering" with the reviewer admitting he found himself "still visibly shaking from its effects on the Tube home afterwards."[63] The Jewish Chronicle proclaimed, "This is the performance to which [Piper's] previous excellent appearances on stage have been leading. She's one of those rare actresses who can be monumentally tragic and almost casually realistic at the same time."[64] Conversely, The Arts Desk warned its readers that her performance was "an utterly grueling, almost unbearable 100 minutes."[65] Piper won all six of the available Best Actress awards for that one performance, making it one of the most acclaimed and awarded stage performances in British theatre history, and making her the only actor to have picked up all six Best Actress awards for a single performance, including the coveted Olivier Award.[citation needed]

On 31 August 2017, Yerma streamed live into more than 700 cinemas across the UK. Whilst ticket sales are yet to be confirmed, more than 100 cinemas confirmed they had sold out to capacity with many requesting encore copies.[66] In an unprecedented event, after the live screening had finished, '#Yerma' trended on Twitter at number three, with some writers claiming Twitter had 'gone into complete meltdown' over Piper's performance.[67] The play was streamed across the world from 21 September.

Piper reprised the performance in a limited run at New York's Park Avenue Armory during March and April 2018, her New York stage debut. She once again received unanimous critical praise.[68] The New York Times said Piper's performance was "an unconditional victory" and "blisteringly powerful"[68] awarding it five stars, whilst Hollywood Reporter found her "simply staggering" adding; "When the actress appears at the curtain call, looking emotionally and physical exhausted, you find yourself relieved that she's OK and concerned that she'll have to do it all over again the next night."[69] Time Out likened Piper to an "angry beast" warning that her "astonishing" performance inflicted psychological-like emotions on the audience. NBC's Katie Englehart said, "Piper is so devastating I almost vomited in my seat – that doesn't sound like an endorsement but it is."[70] Vogue hailed Piper as "one of the great talents of her generation" and described her performance as "astonishing, raw, feral and terrifying." The AM New York critic claimed to be left "gasping for air" whilst the New York Stage Review found Piper's "downward spiral into abyss utterly harrowing and blazingly remarkable."[70]

Personal life

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Piper married television presenter Chris Evans in a secret ceremony at the Little Church of the West in Paradise, Nevada near Las Vegas on 6 May 2001 after six months of dating. Their marriage attracted much comment because Piper was 18 and Evans was 35.[71] The couple separated in 2004, and divorced in May 2007.[72][73]

Piper married actor Laurence Fox on 31 December 2007, at St Mary's Church in Easebourne, West Sussex.[74] They have two sons.[75][76] Piper was granted a divorce in May 2016.[77][78]

Piper began dating Johnny Lloyd, the frontman of Tribes, in 2016. Their daughter was born on 2 January 2019.[79] The couple separated in 2023.[80]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1996 Evita Girl wanting Juan Perón's autograph Uncredited [81]
The Leading Man Girl [81]
2004 The Calcium Kid Angel [82]
2005 Things to Do Before You're 30 Vicky [15]
Spirit Trap Jenny [83]
2010 Animals United Bonnie (voice) [84]
The Raven Raven Short film [85]
2016 City of Tiny Lights Shelley [86]
2017 Beast Grace Short film [87]
2018 Two for Joy Lilah [88]
2019 Rare Beasts Mandy Also writer and director [89]
Eternal Beauty Nicola [90]
2022 Catherine Called Birdy Lady Aislinn [46]
2024 Scoop Sam McAlister

Television

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2003 The Canterbury Tales Alison Crosby Episode: "The Miller's Tale" [16]
2004 Bella and the Boys Bella Television film [91]
2005 ShakespeaRe-Told Hero Episode: "Much Ado About Nothing" [92]
2005–2006,
2008, 2010 		Doctor Who Rose Tyler 34 episodes: Series 1, 2 and 4, 2010 special [24]
2006 The Ruby in the Smoke Sally Lockhart Television film [91]
2007 Mansfield Park Fanny Price [93]
The Shadow in the North Sally Lockhart [94]
2007–2011 Secret Diary of a Call Girl Hannah Baxter 32 episodes [29]
2010 A Passionate Woman Betty 2 episodes [33]
2012 True Love Holly Episode: "Holly" [95]
2013 Doctor Who "The Moment" Episode: "The Day of the Doctor" [96]
2014 Playhouse Present Badger Episode: "Foxtrot" [97]
2014–2016 Penny Dreadful Brona Croft / Lily Frankenstein 27 episodes [98]
2018 Collateral Karen Mars 4 episodes [99]
2020–2022 I Hate Suzie Suzie Pickles 11 episodes; also co-creator [45]
2024 Austin As herself
2024 Kaos Cassandra [100]
2025 Wednesday Capri Season 2; in production [101]
TBA Coming Undone Terri White In development [102]

Audio

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Year Title Role Production Notes Ref.
2017 Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures Rose Tyler Big Finish Productions Volume 2 [40]
2019 Warhammer Adventures: City of Lifestone Narrator Black Library Part of the Realm Quest series [103]
Warhammer Adventures: Lair of the Skaven [104]
Warhammer Adventures: Forest of the Ancients [105]
2019–present Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon Rose Tyler Big Finish Productions Volume 1–3 [42]
2020 Mansfield Park Narrator Audible Part of The Jane Austen Collection [106]
Warhammer Adventures: Flight of the Kharadron Black Library Part of the Realm Quest series [107]

Theatre

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Year Title Role Theatre Notes Ref.
2007 Treats Ann Garrick Theatre [108]
2011–2012 Reasons to Be Pretty Carly Almeida Theatre [109]
2012–2013 The Effect Connie National Theatre [110]
2014 Great Britain Paige [111]
2016 Yerma Yerma Young Vic [112]
2017 Revival of the 2016 production
2018 Park Avenue Armory Off-Broadway transfer [113]

Discography

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Main article: Billie Piper discography

Accolades

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Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Billie Piper

Piper has won and been nominated for more than 70 recognised awards. During her musical career, she was nominated for two BRIT Awards in 1999. In 2005 and 2006, she won two National Television Awards for Best Actress for her acting work in Doctor Who.[17] She has also been nominated for two British Academy Television Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress for her performances in the television dramas Collateral (2018) and I Hate Suzie (2020–2022), respectively.

For her role in the 2016 production of Federico García Lorca's Yerma, Piper has won a total of six Best Actress awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award, and is now the only actor to have earned all of the currently available UK theatre Best Actress awards for a single performance.[114]

See also

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