Mandip Kaur Gill is an English actress Her first television role came in 2012 when she was cast as Phoebe McQueen in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks After departing the series in 2015 Gill went on to have guest roles in Cuckoo Doctors The Good Karma Hospital and Casualty In October 2017 the BBC announced that Gill had been cast as companion Yasmin Khan in the longrunning BBC scifi series Doctor Who