Niky Wardley

Her most notable role is schoolgirl Lauren Cooper's sidekick in the BBC's Emmy and BAFTA-nominated sketch series The Catherine Tate Show (2004–2007).

While doing her first theatre production for the Royal Shakespeare Company, called A Servant to Two Masters (2000–2001), she met comedian Catherine Tate and shared a dressing room with her for ten months.

[7] Wardley was cast after being recommended to the producers by the Fifth Doctor actor, Peter Davison, with whom she had previously worked in the ITV drama series The Complete Guide to Parenting (2006).

[3] After a period of travelling with the Doctor, Wardley's character became disillusioned with him after he showed coldness in the face of others' deaths whilst favouring the lives of his friends.

Drew travelled with the Monk for a while, but later came to regret her decision, as he told her countless lies and had sided with Earth's invaders, the Daleks.

[11] Since 2016, she has continued to work with Big Finish and has played several other characters in Doctor Who-related audio adventures, most notably Donna Noble's (Catherine Tate's character) school friend Natalie Morrison in the four-part audio series Donna Noble: Kidnapped!

[12] In 2006, Wardley played Joe Macer's daughter Megan in two episodes of the BBC One long-running soap opera EastEnders.

Her stage work includes Alan Ayckbourn's plays Bedroom Farce (2009)[13] and A Small Family Business (2014),[14] as well as William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (2007–2008), starring Zoë Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale as Beatrice and Benedick,[15] and Twelfth Night (2017), starring Tamsin Greig as Malvolia.

[18] In May 2018, she married Welsh actor Daniel Hawksford,[19][20] with whom she had previously worked in the National Theatre production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (2007–2008).