Mandip Gill

Mandip Kaur Gill (born 5 January 1988) is an English actress. Her first television role came in 2012 when she was cast as Phoebe McQueen in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. After departing the series in 2015, Gill went on to have guest roles in Cuckoo, Doctors, The Good Karma Hospital and Casualty. In October 2017, the BBC announced that Gill had been cast as companion Yasmin Khan in the 2018 series of Doctor Who, and has since appeared in every episode of Series 11, 12 and 13.

Gill was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, on 5 January 1988. She is of Indian descent, and is a Sikh. Growing up in a council estate in the suburb of Middleton, where her parents owned a newsagents, she attended a primary school in the area before enrolling in Cockburn School. At fourteen, her family moved to Allerton Bywater, where she attended Brigshaw High School. She graduated from the University of Central Lancashire in 2009 with a BA (Hons) in Acting. She attended Park Lane College where she studied Performing Arts.