12 Facts About Toby Whithouse

Toby Lawrence Whithouse is an English actor, screenwriter and playwright.

Toby Whithouse was a regular in the cast of the early 1990s BBC One drama series The House of Eliott and had a small role in the 1993 film Shadowlands.

Toby Whithouse appeared on stage in the West End, co-starring with Gene Wilder in Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon in 1997.

Toby Whithouse played the Home Secretary in the final series of Being Human in 2013.

Frustrated at what he perceived as a lack of quality in many of the scripts he was sent to read, Toby Whithouse took to writing in his spare time between acting roles, eventually writing a play Jump Mr Malinoff, Jump which won the Verity Bargate Award.

Toby Whithouse then became associated with the independent production company World Productions, for whom he worked on the BBC Two drama series Attachments.

When Channel 4 approached World with a view to a new drama series commission, the company came up with the idea of a series concerning the lives of four nurses in the North of England, and Toby Whithouse was given the task of fleshing out and formatting the show which became No Angels.

At the invitation of showrunner Steven Moffat, Toby Whithouse returned to Doctor Who in 2010 and contributed scripts on a regular basis until 2017.

In 2008 the pilot of Being Human, created and written by Toby Whithouse, was shown on BBC Three as part of a viewer trial.

Toby Whithouse confirmed via Twitter in July 2015 that there would not be a second series, and subsequently remarked in a 2017 interview that The Game "had not been a particularly enjoyable experience".

Later that same year came the additional announcement that Neil Gaiman had hired Toby Whithouse to collaborate with him, as the lead writer and Executive Producer on a television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels.

In June 2023 it was announced that filming had started on The Red King, a mystery series from Toby Whithouse commissioned by the channel Alibi.