Too shy to date: Jenna-Louise Coleman is currently dating Game Of Thrones actor Richard Madden. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images
AS Clara Oswald, she is the feisty new sidekick who has the Time Lord falling at her feet.
But Jenna-Louise Coleman couldn't be further from her confident character in Dr Who.
In fact, she is so shy, she has never even been on a date.
The 27-year-old star said she avoids situations where she is alone with someone she's not familiar with.
Instead she surrounds herself "with quite loud friends".
"I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody," she told the Radio Times.
She blamed her teenage years for her lack of confidence, after moving from a school with just eight students to a much larger one at the age of 14.
"I shrank away, surrounded myself with quite loud friends. I'd never been on a date in my life ever because the idea of just being sat with one person..."
Miss Coleman did however manage to find love.
She met her boyfriend, Game of Thrones star Richard Madden, in Budapest as she was filming Titanic and he was working on BBC drama Birdsong.
She has previously said of their meeting: "When we were there The Borgias and World Without End were also filming, and we'd all go out for drinks."
The actress, who has previously appeared in Emmerdale and Captain America: The First Avenger, has twice been nominated "sexiest female" at the British Soap Awards.
Coleman plays the Doctor's companion Clara in the BBC Sci-Fi series.
