Alex Kingston, best-known for her roles in ‘Doctor Who' and ‘ER', is the third celebrity confirmed for ‘Strictly Come Dancing' 2025.
Kingston has been a star of stage and screen for more than four decades, gaining international fame as Dr Elizabeth Corday in the global hit TV drama ‘ER' for eight years, winning a SAG award in the process. She is known to millions of ‘Doctor Who fans' as the iconic River Song, aka The Doctor’s Wife, a role she has played opposite three Doctors on screen and continues in audio adventure and novel form.
Other television work includes a BAFTA-nominated performance as Moll Flanders, plus roles in ‘Douglas Is Cancelled', ‘Treason', ‘Gilmore Girls', ‘Boudica', ‘Lost in Austen', ‘Dodger', ‘A Discovery of Witches', ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', and ‘Arrow'. Her extensive theatre roles range from playing Lady Macbeth, to Nurse Ratchet in ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest', Prospero for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and many many more.
On joining Strictly Come Dancing, Kingston says: ”Aaaaagghhh!!!!!!”
The news was revealed on The One Show on Monday 11th August. The remaining celebrity contestants joining the new series will be announced in due course.
‘Strictly Come Dancing' will return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer this September.
