However, the Doctor Who season 11 crew soon start to suspect that some force is trying to change the timeline in this adventures set in the US but filmed in South Africa.
Here’s the lowdown on Doctor Who’s Rosa Parks actress Vinette Robinson.
Who plays Rosa Parks in Doctor Who?
Rosa Parks is being played by 37-year-old actress Vinette Robinson.
The Leeds born actress is best known for her roles in Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake, autism drama The A Word and as Sergeant Sally Donovan in Sherlock.
However, her first screen role was at eight years old, when she played a patient in serial drama Children’s Ward in 1989.
She would not appear on television again until 1998 when she began to work as a professional actress.
Bit parts in series like Cold Feet and Doctors led to the real-life role of Peter Sutcliffe victim Rita Rytka in TV mini-series This is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.
Her recurring role was in Kay Mellor’s 2003 drama Between the Sheets alongside Norman Wisdom, Brenda Blethyn and Richard Armitage.
The following year, she appeared as Jamaican Girl in the Oscar-nominated Vera Drake.
In 2007, she starred alongside a future Doctor when she starred alongside Matt Smith in Party Animals.
In the same year, she made her first Doctor Who appearance in current showrunner’s Chris Chibnall’s first writing credit for the show, the David Tennant-starring 42.
Her next returning roles where in 2009, when she starred in Alex Kingston (AKA Doctor Who’s River Song) in Hope Springs and in the BBC’s Waterloo Road.
The following year, she made her first appearance in Sherlock.
So far, she has appeared in 2010 episodes A Study in Pink, The Great Game, 2012 instalment The Reichenbach Fall and 2014’s The Sign of Three.
On the series, she plays Sally Donovan, a police officer working under DI Greg Lestrade (Rupert Graves) who treats Sherlock with contempt.
2016 saw Robinson appear in Black Mirror episode Hated in the Nation.
The last few years have seen her play lead roles in series like Close to the Enemy, Delicious, Year Million, The A Word and now Doctor Who.
Doctor Who season 11 airs tonight at 6.55pm on BBC One
