Bill Paterson

Bill Paterson is a renowned Scottish actor who played Dr. Edwin Bracewell in the 2010 Doctor Who television stories Victory of the Daleks and The Pandorica Opens.

He has co-starred with many Doctor Who actors during a career that began about 1976. Most recently, he has been recognisable as the lead character in Sea of Souls, which was produced by Phil Collinson immediately before Collinson moved to Doctor Who. During that four-year run, he worked with many Doctor Who-related guest stars, including: Paul McGann, Michelle Collins, Colin Salmon, Michelle Duncan, Peter Guinness, Christina Cole, Peter Capaldi, Sarah Haynes, Nicholas Gecks, Ellie Haddington, Louis Mahoney, Michael Obiora, Eric Mason, Bhasker Patel and Struan Rodger. He followed up that experience with a main role in the 2008 adaptation of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit, directed by Adam Smith and co-starring Freema Agyeman, Eve Myles, and Arthur Darvill. As of 2010, he is a regular on Law and Order UK, where he plays the senior Crown Prosecutor, the boss of Freema Agyeman's character.