Karen Gillan Net Worth

Karen Gillan's Quotes

• [discussing Amy's relationship with the Doctor] She (Amy Pond) doesn't take his (the Doctor's) word as gospel and she's always happy to challenge him. If he tells her to do something then she won't necessarily do it, she might go off and do her own thing which can sometimes create a rift between the two of them! They are best pals though and it's a very up and down relationship because they are both very passionate people.
• Matt Smith is an incredible actor and it is going to be so much fun to act alongside him. I just can't wait to get started.
• [on winning the role as Amy Pond on Doctor Who (2005)] I am absolutely over the moon at being chosen to play the Doctor's new companion. The show is such a massive phenomenon that I can't quite believe I am going to be a part of it.
• I got a recall to come in and read with Matt [the eleventh Doctor] and that was quite funny, actually, because, I wasn't allowed to tell anyone that I was auditioning, what I was auditioning for, not even the people in the reception of the place that I was going to. So I had to give them a code name of 'Panic Moon'. It was fun but it was actually an anagram for 'companion' which is quite clever.
• I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say - yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

Interesting Facts about Karen Gillan

1. Grew up in Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Great-Britain and Northern-Ireland.
2. Attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, England.
3. Loves rummaging through vintage clothes shops and playing the piano.
4. Used the code word 'Panic Moon' (an anagram of 'Companion'), when auditioning for the role of Doctor Who's assistant/companion.
5. Cousin of Caitlin Blackwood, who plays the younger Amy Pond on Doctor Who.
6. Voted Best Actress by readers of "Doctor Who" magazine for her stint on the 2010 season of Doctor Who (2005).
7. Karen is part of the youngest pairing of Doctor Who and companion on Doctor Who (2005). In 2009, the new Doctor, Matt Smith, is 26, and she is just 21. Their combined age will be younger than that of Jon Pertwee, when he was playing the Time Lord in the 1970s.
8. Karen admitted the first person she told when she got the role of Amy Pond was her mother, who the actress said was a huge fan of Doctor Who (1963).
9. Is the only child and daughter of John Gillan of Clan Macnab and wife Marie Paterson of Clan Paterson, considered part of Clan MacLaren or of Clan Farquharson.
10. Good friends with Katee Sackhoff.
11. The Daleks on the series had to be redesigned to match her height, as she's half a foot taller than Billie Piper, who was the first companion on the revival.
12. Currently resides in Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York, and in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
13. Two years before she was cast as Amy Pond on Doctor Who (2005), Karen had a guest role in the episode, Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii (2008). She was cast as a soothsayer.
14. Became a huge fan of the situation comedy Community (2009), after her flatmate told her about their Doctor Who parody, "Inspector Spacetime".
15. Shaved her head completely bald to play Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Marvel Studios subsequently turned her shaved hair into a wig and presented it to her as a gift which she still keeps to this day.
16. Went on record that she would like to play a female Bond antagonist in a future James Bond movie and that she wants to play the female incarnation of The Joker in a future Batman movie.
17. Funko released Pop! vinyls of Karen Gillan's characters Amy Pond from Doctor Who and Nebula from the Cinematic Marvel Universe.
18. Gillan shaved off her hair during Guardians of The Galaxy (2014). She revealed this during Comic-Con 2013. During the conference, she wore a wig then took it off to surprise fans.
19. When she's not acting, she likes to play the piano and loves rummaging through vintage clothes shops.
20. One of her golden rules of life is a minimum of 8 hours of sleep per night.