Alex Kingston

ALEX KINGSTON is about to reprise her role as River Song in a two-part Doctor Who adventure. The story sees new Doctor Matt Smith and companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) come face-to-face with old enemies the Weeping Angels. Kingston, best known for playing surgeon Elizabeth Corday in ER, can be seen alongside the time-travelling duo on BBC1 tonight, April 24. Here she speaks about her return to the series and gives some teasing clues about her character... WERE YOU SURPRISED TO BE ASKED...Read Full Story

Actress Alex Kingston smashed her two front teeth when she collapsed following a head injury. The former E.R. star was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment to a horrifying wound after falling over and biting through her bottom lip. She had collapsed after suffering a dizzy spell following an incident earlier in the day when she hit her head on a lamppost. Kingston tells U.K. chat show host Graham Norton, "I was jetlagged, working with comedians and I walked into a lamppost. It was a...Read Full Story

HELLO SWEETIE! Happy Birthday Alex Kingstonaka Professor River Song in Doctor WhoToday marks the birthday of Alex Kingston, the English actress famous for her roles as Dr Elizabeth Corday (in E.R.), Queen Boudica, Moll Flanders, Helen Maynard in Marchlands and a host of other film roles including Croupier and Alpha Dog, plus cameos on TV in CSI, Without A Trace, Peak Practice, Flash Forward and The Bill.But Alex, born in Epsom, Surrey in 1963, is best known to Doctor Who fans as the enigmatic...Read Full Story

One of the actors appearing in the new supernatural (UK) ITV television series, Marchlands, has her own ghostly tale to tell.Alex Kingston, former ER star, says of her own supernatural experience:"I remember watching my daughter interacting with someone that I couldn't see at our home in LA ... it frightened the life out of me.At around the same time, I came home one evening and there was this awful smell in the living room - a bit like rotting flesh. It was totally inexplicable. That night...Read Full Story

Doctor Who star Alex Kingston used to be scared of the infamous Daleks when she was younger. Kingston, 47, who used to star in US show ER, plays the recurring role of Professor River Song in the hit sci-fi show. She admitted that when she was a child, she was scared of Doctor Who’s enemies – the Daleks. Kingston said to UK newspaper Daily Record: “I have quite a few favourite episodes but the ones that haunted me as a child… there was one where the Daleks invaded the London Underground. “And...Read Full Story