Official Doctor Who media shared a first look at Jinkx Monsoon in full costume as her Doctor Who character, billed as “the Doctor’s most powerful enemy yet.”

@doctorwho Here comes Jinkx… ⛈️ @Jinkx Monsoon has landed and started filming for #DoctorWho ♬ original sound – Doctor Who

Along with two new photos of the award-wining Broadway star, actress and singer, they shared the news that she began filming for the series on 19 April.

The two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner shared her enthusiasm with PRIDE.

“I’m terribly excited. It’s not easy to encapsulate how excited I am with words. I was saying to the director yesterday, the role that I’m playing, it’s like everything I ever dreamed about doing as an actor in one character. It’s insane. It’s like all of my actor fantasies have been rolled into one character, and now I get to do it all on a show that I love, written by a prolific writer, a voice of our generation who has written so many astounding things. And this is just one example of his brilliance, Russell T. Davies. But it’s just… it’s extremely thrilling. And when I was dreaming, when I was a little boy, dreaming of growing up and being an actress, this is what I was imagining”

Jinx Monsoon is filming at least one episode written by Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T Davies in filming Block Four, directed by Ben Chessell. According to her interview with PRIDE, Davies thought her right for a Doctor Who role he had in mind after seeing her in her show Together Again, Again.

Doctor Who will return in November 2023 with three 60th anniversary specials starring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as companion Donna Noble. In the following festive period, Ncuti Gatwa will star in his first full Doctor Who episode as the Fifteenth Doctor. Doctor Who Series 14 starring Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson will debut in 2024.