Donna Noble is a fictional character in the long-running British
science fiction television series Doctor Who. Portrayed by British
actress and comedian Catherine Tate, she is a former companion of the
Tenth Doctor (David Tennant). Originally appearing in the closing
scene of the show's 2006 series and as a special guest star in its
following Christmas special, "The Runaway Bride", Tate was not
expected to reprise her role as Noble; for series 3 (2007), the Doctor
travelled alongside medical student Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman).
However, Tate expressed interest in returning to the role, and she
returned as Noble for the duration of the series 4 (2008), and in a
subsequent 2009â€"10 Christmas and New Year's special.Within the
series' narrative, Noble begins as an outspoken Londoner in her
mid-30s, a temp worker from Chiswick whose view of the universe is
small in scope. Although she at first finds alien time traveller the
Doctor terrifying, their initial encounter leaves her unsatisfied with
her normal life and she decides to travel alongside him when the next
opportunity arises. Noble becomes an asset to the Doctor on his
adventures and it is she who ultimately saves the universe in the
series 4 finale, although tragically at the cost of the memories of
her travels with the Doctor. In a contrast to the Tenth Doctor's prior
companions, who both harboured romantic feelings for him, Noble and
the Doctor shared a strictly platonic relationship; and she did not
feel the need to prove herself to be allowed to travel with the
Doctor, who refers to her as his "best friend".Donna Noble makes her
first appearance, credited as "The Bride", in the closing scenes of
2006 series finale "Doomsday"; she appears in a wedding dress,
outraged to be inexplicably aboard the Doctor's TARDIS. The scene was
kept a secret until broadcast, filmed with minimal crew, and was a
humorous postscript to the sad farewell the Doctor shared with
companion Rose (Billie Piper) moments prior. Noble's story is picked
up in 2006 Christmas special "The Runaway Bride". Noble is a temporary
secretary at HC Clements in London, a security firm which, unbeknownst
to her, is a front organization for the alien-investigating Torchwood
Institute. Her parents are Geoff (Howard Attfield) and Sylvia Noble
(Jacqueline King). Noble discovers that she is a pawn in a scheme of
the Empress (Sarah Parish) of the alien Racnoss, having been
manipulated by her fiancé, Lance (Don Gilet). When the Doctor
unleashes his fury upon the Racnoss, Noble snaps him out of it and
together they escape before the Torchwood facility floods. Noble is
upset, having lost her job and her fiancé, and declines the Doctor's
offer to become his companion, though she advises he find one. Noble
does not appear in the 2007 series, but the character Wilfred Mott
(Bernard Cribbins) appears in 2007 Christmas special "Voyage of the
Damned"; in the 2008 series, he is introduced properly as Noble's
grandfather, following the death of actor Howard Attfield.In the
series four opener "Partners in Crime" (2008), two years later, Noble
has become dissatisfied with regular life and more interested in the
bigger picture after her father died. When both are investigating the
alien connection to Adipose Industries' Miss Foster (Sarah
Lancashire), she and the Doctor are re-united, and she joins him in
the TARDIS as a regular companion. In "The Fires of Pompeii", Noble
shows her compassion when she argues and convinces the Doctor to save
a family in Pompeii from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. In "Planet of
the Ood", Noble and the Doctor go to the Ood-Sphere and Noble defends
the Ood from the abuses they suffer at the hands of humans. In the
two-parter "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky", Noble meets
the Doctor's former companion Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) who works
for UNIT and together they stop the Sontarans from using ATMOS to
choke the world. In "The Doctor's Daughter", it is Noble who names the
eponymous character "Jenny" (Georgia Tennant) and subsequently
convinces the Doctor to accept Jenny. The Doctor and Noble meet Agatha
Christie (Fenella Woolgar) in "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and have to
solve their very own murder mystery with Agatha Christie and a giant
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