Anonymous
asked:
Wanda Ventham also appeared on Doctor Who a couple of times, including in one of my favorite series, "The Image of the Fendahl".
answered:
So she did! It’s almost inevitable that any UK-based actor will appear on Doctor Who sooner or later. With black hair, she looks a lot more like her famous son, Benedict Cumberbatch.
British actors always seem to have very robust careers. It’s for the same reason the same five or six countries always win the World Cup. It’s not because of a more generally talented population, but a property of the educational system: some countries direct and encourage young people with talent by tracking from a very early age. From what I have seen, when it comes to drama, the UK and Australian educational systems are better at this than the US is.
It’s been my experience that explanations are seldom cultural, but are almost always structural.