The mystery of Ruby Sunday\u2019s biological mother<\/a> has finally been answered in the Doctor Who<\/a> season finale, Empire of Death<\/a>!<\/p>\n It\u2019s a question that has plagued Millie Gibson\u2019s<\/a> character and audiences for the entire season, after we first met the companion in the 2023 Christmas special The Church on Ruby Road.<\/p>\n There have been theories galore, with many wondering if Ruby\u2019s mother is someone we already know or a character who has appeared in Doctor Who before.<\/p>\n But, actually, Ruby\u2019s mother is an ordinary \u2013 but very important \u2013 woman named Louise Alison Miller, played by Faye McKeever, who fans might recognise as Linda in Sky sitcom Trollied, Marie in the BBC Three series Massive, or Claire Olssen in ITV drama Little Boy Blue.<\/p>\n After defeating Sutekh and bringing life back to the universe, Ruby, the Doctor and Mel Bush<\/a> (Bonnie Langford) return to UNIT HQ, where they\u2019re able to trace Ruby\u2019s DNA to her mother.<\/p>\n \u201cLouise Alison Miller,\u201d Morris (Lenny Rush) tells Ruby. \u201cThirty-five years old, 15 when she gave birth to you.\u201d<\/p>\n Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) adds: \u201cRecords say her stepfather\u2026 well, he was trouble. I think she did the right thing getting you out of that house.\u201d<\/p>\n Rose Noble<\/a> (Yasmin Finney) goes on to say: \u201cShe must have hidden the pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n Kate adds that the identity of Ruby\u2019s father is known, and then goes to on to say that Louise is a nurse.<\/p>\n Ruby is left stunned at how \u201cordinary\u201d her mother is, wondering how she stayed invisible from Sutekh.<\/p> \u201cShe was important because we think she\u2019s important,\u201d the Doctor says. \u201cThat\u2019s how everything happens \u2013 every war, every religion, every love story.<\/p>\n \u201cWe invest things with significance. So while the whole of creation was turning around her, it made her sheer existence more powerful than Time Lords and gods<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the end, the most important person in the universe was the most ordinary. A scared little girl making her baby safe.\u201d<\/p>\n With Rose reminding the group that Louise pointed at the Doctor on the night she left Ruby at the Church, the Doctor reveals she wasn\u2019t actually pointing at him, but at the road sign for Ruby Road, effectively giving Ruby her name.<\/p>\n The Doctor and Ruby go on to visit Louise, keeping a distance from her as they watch her from outside a coffee shop.<\/p>\n \u201cShe has had over 7,000 days to come and find you and she never has,\u201d the Doctor tells Ruby. \u201cLouise will have made her choices and I think we should leave that alone.\u201d<\/p>\n But, after so many years of wondering, Ruby can\u2019t leave it there. She orders a coffee and, when her name is called, reveals her identity to Louise in an emotional exchange.<\/p>\n The pair share a hug, and we later see Louise at home with the Sundays, poring over photos of Ruby\u2019s childhood.<\/p>\n By the end of the episode, not only has Ruby reunited with her birth mother, she\u2019s on her way to meet her biological father.<\/p>\n The Doctor also reveals that she\u2019s changed his perception of family, and made his life bigger and better \u2013 even leaving the door open for a visit to his granddaughter, Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford).<\/p>\n Doctor Who will return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2025. <\/strong>Previous seasons are available to stream on\u00a0BBC iPlayer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Sci-Fi<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong>\u00a0For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<\/strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n We finally have an answer! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":53636,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-reveals-identity-of-ruby-sundays-mother-after-season-long-mystery-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-reveals-identity-of-ruby-sundays-mother-after-season-long-mystery-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-reveals-identity-of-ruby-sundays-mother-after-season-long-mystery-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-reveals-identity-of-ruby-sundays-mother-after-season-long-mystery-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-reveals-identity-of-ruby-sundays-mother-after-season-long-mystery-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-reveals-identity-of-ruby-sundays-mother-after-season-long-mystery-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-reveals-identity-of-ruby-sundays-mother-after-season-long-mystery-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"We finally have an answer!","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/53635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Millie](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/480409-1b8ae42.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413\" "\\"Millie")
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