2025Nominee
Best Performance
Finding Father Christmas
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Actor
Islington, London, England, UK
March 9, 1968
Biography
Dame Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock is a British space scientist and science educator. She is an honorary research associate of University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and has been the chancellor of the University of Leicester since 1 March 2023. Since February 2014, she has co-presented the long-running astronomy television program The Sky at Night with Chris Lintott. In 2020, Maggie was awarded the William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics for her public engagement in physics. She is the first black woman to win a gold medal in the Physics News Award and she served as the president of the British Science Association from 2021 to 2022.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2026Winner
Best Performance
Artemis: To the Moon and Back
2025Nominee
Best Performance
Last Swim
Career Highlights
2011Highlight
Best Performance
Do We Really Need the Moon?
2012Highlight
Best Performance
In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World
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Finding Father Christmas
Last Swim
The Science of Doctor Who