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Graham O'Brien
Graham O'Brien is a fictional character created by Chris Chibnall and portrayed by Bradley Walsh in the long-running British sci-fi television series Doctor Who. A retired bus driver from Essex who is in remission from cancer, the character is portrayed as an everyman. In the show's eleventh series, starting with the first episode, he served as a companion of the thirteenth incarnation of the alien time traveller known as the Doctor (portrayed by Jodie Whittaker) until the 2021 New Year's Special "Revolution of the Daleks". He reprised his role in the BBC's Centenary special "The Power of the Doctor" in 2022.
Graham was born in Essex, during either the late 1950s or early 1960s, saying he was "only a toddler" in 1962. As a child, Graham attended Sunday School in Chingford, and sometimes spent summer holidays at Margate and Whistable. After his mother died, Graham's father "got rid of all her things super quick", unable to keep hold of them, telling Graham that "she's gone now and that's the end of it".
Graham worked as a bus driver, once having a supervisor who he would recall as behaving similarly to Thomas Edison. After he retired, Graham still kept in contact with his friends who also worked as bus drivers.
Graham developed cancer and met his wife Grace, a chemo nurse, while undergoing treatment. When he told Grace that he was a bus driver, she remarked that he ought not to be like James Blake, who she called "Blake the Snake." He learned of her appreciation of Rosa Parks and that she owned a t-shirt that said "The Spirit of Rosa". Once the cancer was found to be in remission, Graham married her and had become her second husband by 2015.
Whilst returning home after an unsuccessful session of teaching Ryan how to ride a bike, despite his insistence that he was "doing it, mate", Grace and Graham were trapped when a swarm of gathering coils attacked their train in search of Karl Wright, a fellow passenger. He, along with Grace, Ryan and Yasmin Khan, helped the Doctor battle both the coil and its controller, Tzim-Sha.
Whilst the Doctor recovered at his and Grace's home, he went around Sheffield to ask if anyone had seen anything unusual. Later, Grace and Graham followed the Doctor's orders to pose as construction managers and evacuate the construction site Karl worked at, so the Doctor, Ryan and Yasmin could rescue him.
However, the gathering coils were still active, with Tim Shaw using them to damage the crane that Ryan and the others were on. Despite Graham's protests, Grace climbed up and destroyed the creature by electrocuting it with live cables. However, Grace was also electrocuted in the process and fell to the ground. Mortally wounded, she died in Graham's arms, after telling him to not be afraid without her. After she died, Graham organised her things into boxes, finding the childhood possessions of her son, Aaron, as he did.
At Grace's funeral, Graham spoke of how Grace inspired him during their three-year marriage and felt guilty that he hadn't died instead. Sometime after the funeral, Graham helped the Doctor construct a teleporter to take her to her TARDIS. Though he meant to stay behind, he, along with Yasmin and Ryan, were accidentally brought along with her.
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Graham O'Brien
Graham O'Brien is a fictional character created by Chris Chibnall and portrayed by Bradley Walsh in the long-running British sci-fi television series Doctor Who. A retired bus driver from Essex who is in remission from cancer, the character is portrayed as an everyman. In the show's eleventh series, starting with the first episode, he served as a companion of the thirteenth incarnation of the alien time traveller known as the Doctor (portrayed by Jodie Whittaker) until the 2021 New Year's Special "Revolution of the Daleks". He reprised his role in the BBC's Centenary special "The Power of the Doctor" in 2022.
Graham was born in Essex, during either the late 1950s or early 1960s, saying he was "only a toddler" in 1962. As a child, Graham attended Sunday School in Chingford, and sometimes spent summer holidays at Margate and Whistable. After his mother died, Graham's father "got rid of all her things super quick", unable to keep hold of them, telling Graham that "she's gone now and that's the end of it".
Graham worked as a bus driver, once having a supervisor who he would recall as behaving similarly to Thomas Edison. After he retired, Graham still kept in contact with his friends who also worked as bus drivers.
Graham developed cancer and met his wife Grace, a chemo nurse, while undergoing treatment. When he told Grace that he was a bus driver, she remarked that he ought not to be like James Blake, who she called "Blake the Snake." He learned of her appreciation of Rosa Parks and that she owned a t-shirt that said "The Spirit of Rosa". Once the cancer was found to be in remission, Graham married her and had become her second husband by 2015.
Whilst returning home after an unsuccessful session of teaching Ryan how to ride a bike, despite his insistence that he was "doing it, mate", Grace and Graham were trapped when a swarm of gathering coils attacked their train in search of Karl Wright, a fellow passenger. He, along with Grace, Ryan and Yasmin Khan, helped the Doctor battle both the coil and its controller, Tzim-Sha.
Whilst the Doctor recovered at his and Grace's home, he went around Sheffield to ask if anyone had seen anything unusual. Later, Grace and Graham followed the Doctor's orders to pose as construction managers and evacuate the construction site Karl worked at, so the Doctor, Ryan and Yasmin could rescue him.
However, the gathering coils were still active, with Tim Shaw using them to damage the crane that Ryan and the others were on. Despite Graham's protests, Grace climbed up and destroyed the creature by electrocuting it with live cables. However, Grace was also electrocuted in the process and fell to the ground. Mortally wounded, she died in Graham's arms, after telling him to not be afraid without her. After she died, Graham organised her things into boxes, finding the childhood possessions of her son, Aaron, as he did.
At Grace's funeral, Graham spoke of how Grace inspired him during their three-year marriage and felt guilty that he hadn't died instead. Sometime after the funeral, Graham helped the Doctor construct a teleporter to take her to her TARDIS. Though he meant to stay behind, he, along with Yasmin and Ryan, were accidentally brought along with her.