Karen Gillan Biography | Bio

Karen Gillian is a Scottish and voice actress, director, screenwriter, and model. Her 1st film release is titled The Party’s Just Beginning. Karen Gillan appeared in Nebula (Marvel Cinematic Universe films), Guardians of the Galaxy of 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 of 2017, Avengers: Infinity War of 2018, Avengers: Endgame of 2019 and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle as Martha (2017). Her portrayal in these films and others too earned her fame worldwide.

Karen Gillan Age

Gillian was born on 28th November 1987. She is aged 31 years as of 2018.

Karen Gillan Family

Karen Gillan (born Karen Sheila Gillan) was born and brought up in Inverness, Scotland is the only daughter of Marie Gillian from the clan of Macnab and John Gillan (from the clan of Paterson) who is a singer and recording artist.

Education

Karen developed the love for acting on attending a number of youth theatre groups and taking part in a wide range of productions at Charleston Academy. When she hit 16 she decided to chase after her acting career and studied at the Performing Arts Studio Scotland. She then went to Italia Conti Academy in London.

Karen Gillan Husband | Karen Gillan Boyfriend

Fact is that Gillan is still unmarried, and she says that there is no chance of having a husband. She went a couple of romantic dates in 2006 with her boyfriend, Patrick Green, a British picture taker.

The two were bonded for about 6years (not so sure) and later in 2012, they separated. As from that same year, she met another guy, Andrew Brooke (British maker)and started dating but the truth is that Karen Gillan is single and no spreading rumors that she is getting engaged anytime sooner.

Children

She has no kids as she is not married yet.

Karen Gillan Career

Gillan’s 1st appearance in a film was with Matt Smith in Doctor Who, as Amy Pond. Viewing her 1st appearance on T.V. included visitor appearances. Her 1st role was in scenes of the series, Rebus. She then took a 2-year term, as a casting individual of a series, The Kevin Bishop Show, which was the 2008 comedy show.

In the series, she played as so many characters and celebs like Katy Perry and Angelina Jolie. She continued with the show until 2009. In 2010 she was won the “Lady of the Year” Awards-Best Actress and National Television Awards, all for her role in Doctor Who. She also won the SFX Awards, TV Choice Awards.

Karen Gillan Filmography

Feature films

Year	Title	Role
2010	Outcast	Ally
2013	Not Another Happy Ending	Jane Lockhart
	Oculus	Kaylie Russell
2014	Guardians of the Galaxy	Nebula
2015	The Big Short	Evie
2016	In a Valley of Violence	Ellen
2017	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Nebula
	The Circle	Annie Allerton
	Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle	Martha
2018	The Party’s Just Beginning	Liusaidh
	Avengers: Infinity War	Nebula
	Alex & the List	Lily
	All Creatures Here Below	Ruby
2019	Avengers: Endgame	Nebula
	Call of the Wild	Mercedes
	Spies in Disguise	Eyes (voice)

Short films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Bound for Greatness	Maeve MacDonough
2015	Warning Labels	Mindy
	Coward		Director, screenwriter and executive producer
	Fun Size Horror: Volume Two	Rachel Milligan	segment Conventional Also director and screenwriter

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Rebus	Teri Cotter	Episode: “A Question of Blood”
2008	Stacked	Ginny Turner	Television film
	Doctor Who	Soothsayer	Episode: “The Fires of Pompeii”
	Harley Street	Holly	Episode 1
2008–2009	The Kevin Bishop Show	Various characters	Main role
2008	Coming Up	Anna	Episode: “Thinspiration”
2009	The Well	Coll	4 episodes
2010–2013	Doctor Who	Amy Pond	Series 5–7, 2013 specials
2010–2011	Doctor Who Confidential	Herself	Recurring role
2012	We’ll Take Manhattan	Jean Shrimpton	Television film
	In Love With…	Laura	Episode: “In Love with Coward”[51]
2013	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Daisy	Main role
2014	A Touch of Cloth	Kerry Newblood	2 episodes
	Selfie	Eliza Dooley	Main role
2015	The Devil You Know	Jane Porter	Unaired HBO pilot episode[52][53]
	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Herself	Episode: “Karen Gillan Wears A Black and White Striped Pullover and Coral Skirt”
	7 Days in Hell	Lily Allsworth	Television film
	Robot Chicken	Anastasia Steele / Susanna Walcott / Elizabeth Proctor (voice)	Episode: “Zero Vegetables”
2016	Emo Dad	Jessica (voice)	5 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
2010–2011	Doctor Who: The Adventure Games	Amy Pond	Series 1–2
2010	Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth
	Doctor Who: Return to Earth

Year	Title	Role	Venue
2011	Inadmissible Evidence	Shirley	Donmar Warehouse
2013	Time to Act	Karen	Broadway

Karen Gillan Awards

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
2010	Constellation Awards	Best Female Performance	Doctor Who: “Amy’s Choice”	Nominated
	TV Quick Awards	Best Actress	Doctor Who	Nominated
	Cosmopolitan‘s Ultimate Women of the Year Awards	Best Actress		Won
	Young Scot Awards	Entertainment		Won
2011	SFX Awards	Best Actress		Won
	TV Choice Awards	Best Actress		Won
	Scream Awards	Best Sci-Fi Actress		Nominated
2012	National Television Awards	Best Drama Performance: Female		Won
	SFX Awards	Best Actress		Nominated
	Nickelodeon UK Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite UK Actress	N/A	Nominated
	Scottish Fashion Awards	Scotland’s Fashion Icon	N/A	Won
2013	National Television Awards	Best Drama Performance – Female	Doctor Who	Nominated
2014	Fright Meter Awards	Best Actress	Oculus	Nominated
	Detroit Film Critics Society	Best Ensemble	Guardians of the Galaxy	Won
	Nevada Film Critics Society	Best Ensemble Cast		Won
	Phoenix Film Critics Society	Best Cast		Nominated
2015	Central Ohio Film Critics Association	Best Ensemble		Nominated
	Empire Awards	Best Female Newcomer	Guardians of the Galaxy and Oculus	Won
	Fangoria Chainsaw Awards	Best Actress (long-list)	Oculus	Nominated
	Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival	Best Actress in a Short Film (Long)	Bound for Greatness	Nominated
	IFS Film Festival	Best Actress in a Short Film		Won
		Best Independent Short	Coward	Won
	Edinburgh International Film Festival	Best Short Film		Nominated
	Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards	Best Short Film	Conventional	Nominated
2016	London IFF Film Festival	Best Lead Actress in a Short Film	Bound for Greatness	Won
	FirstGlance Film Festival	Best Actress in a Short Film		Won
2017	Maui Film Festival	Rising Star	N/A	Won
2018	Glasgow Film Festival	Audience Award	The Party’s Just Beginning	Nominated
	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Best On-Screen Team (with Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Nick Jonas)	Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle	Nominated
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Comedy Movie Actress		Nominated
	DTLA Film Festival	Best Female Actor in a Leading Role	All Creatures Here Below	Won
	Philadelphia Film Festival	Artistic Achievement in Independent Film	The Party’s Just Beginning	Won
	British Academy Scotland Awards	Best Feature Film		Nominated
	British Independent Film Awards	Best Debut Screenwriter		Nominated

Karen Gillan Net Worth

The talented Karen has a Net Worth of $2 million dollars.

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It’s Karen Gillan’s last series as Amy Pond. Having traveled through space and time for three
years, she is about to hang up her TARDIS key. Here she gives us a glimpse at what is to come in episodes 1 to 3, from Daleks to Dinosaurs, and some thoughts on her departure.
It was AMAZING! We have totally made them scary again. I expect everyone to be watching from behind their sofas, I know I will… Karen is talking excitedly about the return of the Doctor’s most fearsome and famous enemy the Daleks. The opener to series 7, Asylum Of The Daleks, will feature the most Daleks ever to be seen on screen and from the different decades, including a special appearance from Russell T Davies’ Dalek, I am so pleased that he now owns an official Dalek, it was a real honor to act opposite him and I think he is going to go far! she says rather cheekily.

I think my favorite is the 1960s Dalek with the white and blue armor, she continues, there is something more menacing about them as they are smaller and they just look so original. If I was going to own one, it would be one of those, Karen concludes, I would keep it in my kitchen.

This series has been done in a really interesting way with five stand-alone epic episodes, like a movie a week, all building to the departure of the Ponds!

We actually kick-off the series with Amy and Rory’s relationship in a sticky situation; it is less than marital bliss.

Those scenes were really interesting to do, she explains, because they created such a different on-screen atmosphere between Amy and Rory, something that the viewers wouldn’t have seen before. That is the good thing about Doctor Who, it gives you the chance to shift the character, and you never know what is going to happen from episode to episode.

But it isn’t all upset for the Ponds, as the adventures continue in episode two with Dinosaurs On A Spaceship, written by Chris Chibnall. That was a crazy filming adventure, exclaims Karen, with all the adventures that I have been on throughout the show that was perhaps the most surreal! There was a lot of running from things we couldn’t see, which is always fun, BUT a couple of the cast got to ride a dinosaur.

And Mark Williams comes along for the ride as Rory’s dad Brian Williams, He was so fantastic, naturally funny and such great casting, you could totally imagine Rory having a dad like that. This series has some great guest stars, characters and of course monsters, she teases.

Guest stars making their Doctor Who debut are James Bond baddy, Steven Berkoff, Jemma Redgrave, and Ben Browder. Alex Kingston as River Song makes her return in episode 5, just in time to say goodbye to Amy.

While the majority of the filming was done in the home of Doctor Who, Cardiff, the cast and crew found themselves in the perfect spaghetti western location of Almeria, Spain, giving Toby Whithouse’s episode 3, A Town Called Mercy, a truly authentic western feel.

So much fun, claims Karen, using a location that had actually been the set for other westerns made everything feel so much, well, more real. In the episode Amy Pond gets her hand on a gun, something Karen agrees that she really shouldn’t be let anywhere near. Definitely, Amy Pond should be nowhere near a gun, exclaims Karen. I remember for a previous episode I had to fire a gun with blanks, followed quickly by Rory shouting ARGHHH as though I had hit him. I completely forgot this when the action was called, so when I fired and he shouted I really thought I had shot him! It was awful! In this episode when she gets hold of a gun you can see the fear on the faces of the other characters, but they weren’t acting, I genuinely think all of the actors including Matt and Arthur were in fear for their lives!

Featuring an alien with a score to settle A Town Called Mercy also reveals a different side to the Doctor as Amy claims, So this is what happens when you travel alone. In the series we see a slight shift in the Ponds’ relationship with the Doctor, Just as any relationship changes when it matures, explains Karen. We get to see a glimpse of what Amy and Rory do when the Doctor isn’t around and how the adventures and time away from home have affected their own relationships with friends and family. I think the Doctor also begins to realize how he has changed Amy and what happens when he isn’t there, and at first, he doesn’t really understand it. There is a really sweet moment in episode 5 when the Doctor notices Amy is wearing glasses, she hints.

Following the Western, the series takes us to Amy and Rory’s house and a deadly outbreak, before heading to the final episode of the Ponds, shot in New York and with the return of the Weeping Angels.

The neverending pranks and my two best friends, Karen is talking about what she is going to miss as she takes her bow from the show, Matt used to hide in the cupboard of my trailer and jump out of me and I used to go flying back against the wall in absolute shook! He must have done it like a hundred times and I fell for it every single time! But honestly, even with the bruises, it really was the biggest and most exciting time of my life. I wouldn’t change it for the world!

I always knew that Steven had an ending for Amy Pond and when I met with him a year or so ago it was kind of like, so what are the plans for the character and we both said that she should go at this point. It was such a fantastic mutual decision and completely the right time for Amy to leave. I will miss her, but I can’t wait for fans to see what happens.

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