Felicity Jones
2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story introduced us to Jyn Erso, the Rebel fighter who gave her life to provide the Alliance with the means to destroy the Death Star. But, several years earlier, actress Felicity Jones played a much less heroic character in an episode of Doctor Who.
In 2007’s “The Unicorn and the Wasp,” the sci-fi show did a take-off on Agatha Christie-type murder mysteries. Jones played Lady Robina Redmond, an aristocrat who turned out to be a cockney jewel thief known as the Unicorn. It was a light-hearted part and worlds away from the sort of roles she would become known for in Hollywood (see: her Oscar-nominated turn in 2014’s The Theory of Everything).
Funnily enough though, one of Jones’ credits after leaving Doctor Who was The Amazing Spider-Man 2, where she played Felicia Hardy. A superhero movie that happens to star another alumn of the sci-fi show…