Karen Gillan

Karen Gillan is an English actor and director best known for her role of Amy Pond in the long running series Doctor Who. Gillan began her role as The Eleventh Doctor’s first companion during the revived show’s fifth season. Her character arc was one of the most complex in the series’ history, seeing her from a young girl to a mother.

Since leaving Doctor Who, Karen Gillan has enjoyed a thriving film and television career. She appeared in the terrifying horror hit, Oculus(2013) and was in 2014′s most successful film, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, stealing the show as the nefarious Nebula. She reprised her role in the franchise’s follow up movie Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2, and then again in Avengers:Infinity War, Avengers:Endgame, Thor: Love and Thunder, and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3. Gillan was cast in the lead female role in the Jumanji sequel starring alongside Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, Kevin Hart, Nick Jonas and Jack Black which was released towards the end of 2017 and became Sony’s highest-grossing film domestically of all time. In 2019 she reprised her role as Martha in the continuation Jumanji:The Next Level. Most recently she can also be seen in the action packed movie Gunpowder Milkshake(2021) alongside Lena Heady, and the Netflix comedy The Bubble(2022).