Clara Oswald is a fictional character portrayed by Jenna-Louise Coleman in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. She becomes a companion of the eleventh incarnation of the alien time traveller known as the Doctor, portrayed by Matt Smith, first appearing as Oswin Oswald in the seventh series premiere, then as Clara Oswin Oswald, a Victorian governess and barmaid, then as a woman in contemporary London named simply Clara Oswald. After the death of the first two incarnations which the Doctor meets, there remains much mystery about her origins as he begins his travels with the third.