Dan Starkey

Dan Starkey is an English actor who trained at the Bristol Old Vic after studying Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He appeared on the BBC One science-fiction series Doctor Who as various Sontaran characters, most notably Strax, during the tenures of the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors. On stage he played Simon in Torben Betts's Muswell Hill at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond in 2012 and was nominated for that year's Offie for Best Male Performance. He was also part of the one-off comedy The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, a Doctor Who 50th anniversary piece, in 2013. From 2016 he was a regular on the CBBC sketch show Class Dismissed, appearing in 36 episodes across its first three series before leaving. Other theater credits include Notes from Underground at the Arcola in 2007, The 39 Steps on a UK tour, The Fitzrovia Radio Hour, and Making News at the Edinburgh Fringe.