Caitlin Blackwood (born 23 June 2000)[1] is a British actress best known for playing the young
Amy Pond in the
BBC One TV programme Doctor Who.[2]
Biography
Blackwood was born in
Antrim, Northern Ireland, in 2000.[1] She moved with her family to
Inverness in Scotland when she was six years old and has lived there ever since.[1]
Blackwood played Alexis in the 2015 episode "Preparing the Weapon" of the crowdfunded[3] TV series Cops and Monsters.[4] In 2018 she appeared in a short film called Sundown directed by Ryan Hendrick.[5]
She played the young
Amelia Pond in several Doctor Who episodes; "
The Eleventh Hour", "
The Big Bang", "
Let's Kill Hitler", and "
The God Complex", with footage of her briefly reused in "
The Angels Take Manhattan". She is the cousin of
Karen Gillan, who portrayed the adult Amy Pond, although they had never met before Blackwood was cast.[6] Resemblance to Gillan was a factor in her casting.[7][8] In 2018, she starred in Sundown, an award-winning short film by Scottish writer and director Ryan Hendrick. In 2020, she played Amy Pond in the Doctor Who short: "The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond".[9]