Jodie Auckland Whittaker (born 17 June 1982) is an English actress. She is best known as the thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who, Beth Latimer in Broadchurch and Orla O’Riordan in Time.

Jodie met Christian Contreras, a Belizean-American actor and writer, in drama school, and they married in Arizona in 2008. She gave birth to their daughter in April 2015, and had their second child in 2022. As of 2018 they have been resident in London.

Nothing is known about Jodie's baking skills in the run up to the show.