Matthew Waterhouse
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Matthew Waterhouse (born 19 December 1961 in Hertford) is a British actor best known for his role as Adric in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is from Haywards Heath, West Sussex. He was educated at Shoreham Grammar School (now Shoreham College [1]). After leaving the series, he began a stage career.
Adric was a companion of Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors from 1980 to 1982. Waterhouse was the youngest male actor to play a companion (Jackie Lane, who played Dodo Chaplet, holds the distinction of being the youngest female actor to play a companion).
Waterhouse returned to the sphere of Doctor Who and took part in the audio commentaries for the DVD releases of Earthshock and The Visitation in 2003 and 2004 respectively. He also took part in the The Keeper of Traken commentary for the New Beginnings boxset, released in 2007.
In 2006, Waterhouse self-published his debut novel, Fates, Flowers.
Waterhouse's name was used by comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams for a character in their sketch show Little Britain. Waterhouse in the programme is an unsuccessful inventor of bizarre and ridiculous new versions of things such as board games and breakfast cereals. Little Britain has also featured two other characters named after Doctor Who companion actors, Michael Craze and Mark Strickson, while the actual programme is narrated by Tom Baker.
Waterhouse has lived in Connecticut, in the United States, since July 1998.
