Anna Hope


*The following article is written from an Out of Universe perspective.*

Anna Hope played Commander Sandra Armstrong, companion to the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who between 2002 and 2003.

Biography

Prior to Doctor Who

Hope grew up in the village of Edgworth, Lancashire where she attended Edgworth Primary School and Turton High School before moving to Manchester, aged 16, where she attended William Hulme's Grammar School

She was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, and Birkbeck College, London. She studied English at Wadham College and graduated in 2001 from Birkbeck College with an MA in Creative Writing.

Hope began acting in small plays that she would put on with her sisters at home, before eventually joining the Octagon Youth Theatre, in Bolton, aged 10.

Work on Doctor Who

Hope auditioned alongside 300 different actresses for the role of Commander Sandra Armstrong in Doctor Who, and secured the role, first playing the character in the Season 39 story No Sky in Space.

She continued to play Sandra alongside Richard E. Grant's Doctor throughout Season 39 and in the first and final stories of Season 40 before making one last regular appearance in Doctor Who (2003)

Hope later returned for two brief appearance as Sandra in Season 43, first in the story The Sharper the Knife, then in the Season final The Confrontation of the Wicked.

Hope later made a brief cameo as a U.N.I.T. soldier in the 50th Anniversary movie Doctor Who: Genesis.

After Doctor Who

Hope's other appearances include Crime and Punishment, Waking the Dead, and Coronation Street.

Hope is represented by Feast Management, based in London. and Felicity Bryan Associates.

Hope's first novel, "Wake", was published in January 2014 by Doubleday UK and Random House USA. Hope was on the shortlist for the New Writer of the Year 2014 of the National Book Awards. The novel centred on three different women living through World War I and the effect that it had on them back at home. Her second novel 'The Ballroom' was published in 2016.

Personal Life

To be added.

Selected Credits

Doctor Who

as Sandra Armstrong

Movies

as Sandra Armstrong

Doctor Who (2003)

As U.N.I.T. Personel

Doctor Who: Genesis

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