Matt Smith's first significant part in TV was in the BBC series Party Animals.
 In 1933, BBC executive Colonel Alan Dawnay began to meet the head of MI5, Sir Vernon Kell, to informally trade information; from 1935, a formal arrangement was made wherein job applicants would be secretly vetted by MI5 for their political views (without their knowledge)
 Smith is the first actor in the role to garner a nomination for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

