Dr Who star Karen Gillan to tread West End boards

Karen Gillan.

INVERNESS-BORN Doctor Who actress Karen Gillan is to make her professional theatre debut.

Karen, who plays the Doctor’s feisty assistant Amy Pond, will appear in a West End revival of John Osborne’s 1964 play Inadmissible Evidence.

The former Charleston Academy pupil co-stars with Douglas Hodge in the show, which opens at the Donmar Warehouse in October.

Hodge plays a self-destructive lawyer, while Gillan will play his secretary.

The 23-year-old will also be seen later this year playing model Jean Shrimpton in BBC Four film We’ll Take Manhattan.

Dame Eileen Atkins played Gillan’s role in the original production of Osborne’s play at the Royal Court in London.

Jamie Lloyd will direct the Donmar’s revival, which – according to a theatre insider – will make “subtle cuts” to Osborne’s text.