Not as far as I know. I only know the actress from Stephen Fry’s Kingdom. The kiddie dialogue is because when Miss Kislet was a child the Great Intelligence ganked her and made her his number 2. When she restored everyone to factory settings, they went back to just before they got ‘taken’. She just happened to have been taken a long time ago.
That one was quite funny. Specially his befuddled/offended reaction at having the TARDIS called a snog-box (hey, it does sound mighty suspicious for some …um… eccentric dude to show up and ask young cuties to step into a box with him…)
Yeah - “My conscience is telling me not to do this” (boss lowers “conscience” rating) “Right away!”
Loved this episode; found the notion of sucking people into the wifi pleasantly creepy. Fell right in love w/ Clara–if she keeps it at this level, she may make a run for Favorite Companion, potentially unseating the Great Donna. :eek:
On the other hand, all of this speculation about her being River is a bit bothersome. I am thoroughly Rivered out. I want a total River hiatus for at least several seasons. Perhaps longer. Please Mr. Moffat, no more River. Also, no Angels, you’ve bloody well ruined them enough already.
On yet a third hand, what is Jenna-Louise Coleman’s ethnicity? She’s got this sort of vaguely indeterminate not-white-European thing going on, rather like Gina Bellman of Leverage. It is, of course, totally hot. 
I’m also in the Amy Pond camp. The following photo, however, has gone a long way, a looooong way, toward changing my mind:
Wow - was she going for Emma Peel?
StG
In the immortal word of Keanu Reeves, “Whoa.”
Or in the immortal words of a BBC Drama exec “Something for the dads …”
Uh oh–I think we’re in a time loop. 
Clara is quite comely. I’d definitely put her at or near the top of my list of hottest companions of the Doctor.
Yes, I have a list.
She was also in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Well played, sir, well played.
They seem to like slinking up companions in shiny suits though…
Sorry, I was completely mashed up last night 
I love Amy, and I’m rather fond of Karen, but that’s just not right.
And in Calendar Girls (and needed considerably bigger buns).
This isn’t her first science fiction, either: she was a fighter pilot in The Phantom Menace.
I suspect that that may not be an original image of Karen.
I completely agree. It just doesn’t work for her.
I hope you are right, it’s not a very flattering shot, especially of her face. I shouldn’t have linked it, but I thought it was weird that they both have been shot in latex, but maybe they haven’t.
You may be right. (possibly NSFW):
Jenna-Louise Coleman had a short topless scene in Room At the Top. Video clips are easily found with google.
I think she shot that role shortly before getting cast in Doctor Who. It did seem odd because Jenna always plays the sweet girl next door type. But the girl next door does get the boy once in awhile. 
It does make you question why “obedience” wouldn’t always be turned all the way up.