Biography

Paul Cornell was born on July 18, 1967 in the UK. He is a writer and actor, known for Doctor Who (2005), Saucer Country and Primeval (2007). He has been married to Caroline Jane Symcox since April 2002. They have one child.

Doctor Who (2005) creator and executive producer Russell T. Davies has claimed his story "Human Nature" is the best Doctor Who story ever written.

He is the creator of Bernice Summerfield, who starred in a series of novels and audio stories connected to Doctor Who (1963).

He names Terrance Dicks as one of his earliest and biggest influences on becoming a writer.

He wanted to make Bruce Wayne/Batman part of his famous run on Action Comics but could not get the idea cleared.

I'm really tired with the idea that 'dark' is adult. If anything, as an adult I've come to cherish really stupid comedy as possibly the highest achievement of mankind. Because it's the thing we do that most points away from death. I'm increasingly unafraid to say that A Matter of Life and Death (1946) has been replaced as my favourite movie of all time by One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975).

[on Doctor Who (2005)] Of course we should have snogging.

[on the kissing scene in Doctor Who: The Movie (1996)] The only thing people talked about, incredibly. Getting beyond all this stuff, it takes a Russell [Russell T. Davies] to get beyond.