Billie Piper is an English actress and former pop singer born in Swindon, Wiltshire, who began her career as a teenage chart-topping singer before transitioning fully into acting. She became a defining figure of modern 'Doctor Who' playing companion Rose Tyler, a role widely credited with helping revive the franchise's popularity in the 2000s. She later starred in the Showtime series 'Penny Dreadful' and joined the Netflix mythology comedy 'KAOS' as Cassandra, and more recently appeared in the Netflix series 'Wednesday'. Piper has built a rare dual career as both a pop icon and respected dramatic actress.
Billie Piper
44 years (Sep 22, 1982)Wiltshire, UKWiltshire, England, UK
20 Movies · 13 Series
Billie Piper is an English actress and former pop singer born in Swindon, Wiltshire, who began her career as a teenage chart-topping singer before transitioning fully into acting. She became a defining figure of modern 'Doctor Who' playing companion Rose Tyler, a role widely credited with helping revive the franchise's popularity in the 2000s. She later starred in the Showtime series 'Penny Dreadful' and joined the Netflix mythology comedy 'KAOS' as Cassandra, and more recently appeared in the Netflix series 'Wednesday'. Piper has built a rare dual career as both a pop icon and respected dramatic actress.
Billie Paul Piper (born Lianne Piper, 22 September 1982, in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English singer and actress.
She began her career in the late 1990s as a pop singer and then switched to acting. Her most famous role is as Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who from 2005 to 2006, a role she reprised in 2008 and 2010. In 2007, Broadcast magazine listed Piper at no. 6 in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers, the top woman on the list. Since 2007 she has starred as the high-flying escort Belle de Jour in the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl.