Andy Pryor

Dr. Andy Pryor, CDG, CSA has been the casting director for Doctor Who since Rose, and has therefore had a hand in choosing the Ninth, Tenth (and either directly or indirectly the Fourteenth), Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fifteenth Doctors and their companions. More broadly, he and his associates and assistants have personally contracted every speaking part in the modern series. As of 2026^[update], Pryor is the longest-serving member of the BBC Wales/BBC Studios team, having been the first person hired after Julie Gardner and Russell T Davies. Unlike Gardner and Davies, Pryor did not take a 13 year break from working on the show before returning.

He was also the casting director for the first three series of Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, though his former associate casting director, Andy Brierley, later took over as the casting director for Sarah Jane. Nevertheless, Pryor continued to be a casting director on Doctor Who as recently as the 2023 specials.

Since 2005, Andy Pryor has worked under show runners Russell T Davies (in both of his eras), Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall.

In 2013, he was the casting director for An Adventure in Space and Time, under Mark Gatiss.

In 2016, he also served as the casting director for Class, under creator Patrick Ness.

He has sometimes been a documentary subject on Doctor Who Confidential, most typically on the first episodes of series, where he has opined on the choosing of the new companions.

Outside of the Doctor Who family of shows, Pryor has been responsible for casting many of the most-acclaimed British shows of the early 21st century, such as Life on Mars with John Simm; Survivors with Paterson Joseph and Roger Lloyd Pack; Moses Jones with Matt Smith and Shaun Parkes; Whitechapel with Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton; Material Girl with Lenora Crichlow and Dervla Kirwan; Cutting It with Sarah Parish; and Red Cap with Peter Guinness. He also did some preliminary work on Russell T Davies' Casanova with David Tennant, but had to pull out of the project to concentrate on series 1 of Doctor Who. Some of his earliest work as a casting director involved Our Friends in the North, which co co-starred both Christopher Eccleston and Daniel Craig; and the film, Trainspotting. Earlier still, he had been a casting assistant on the first two series of Cracker, which also co-starred Eccleston.

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Andy Pryor at the Internet Movie Database