Tennant was invited to set for a photoshoot with Testino in New York and the pair hit it off. His first Shakespearean role for the RSC was in As You Like It (1996); having auditioned for the role of Orlando, the romantic lead, he was instead cast as the jester Touchstone, which he played in his natural Scottish accent. It was the final chronological appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and introduced Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor in the closing moments of part two. David's career began in theater and small TV roles. [115] In October 2006, he was named "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards. [84][85] In autumn 2015, Tennant's name was announced for Scottish feature film I Feel Fine, a thriller set in Glasgow in the 1980s. News of her death was confirmed only months after their split and just five days after her 50th birthday. David John Tennant (n McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. In 2007, Tennant's Tenth Doctor appeared with Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor in a Doctor Who special for Children in Need, written by Steven Moffat and entitled "Time Crash". In television, he appeared in the first episode of Reeves and Mortimer's revamped Randall and Hopkirk in 2000, playing an eccentric artist. This personal enthusiasm for the series had also been expressed by his participation in several audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series which had been produced by Big Finish Productions, although he did not play the Doctor in any of these productions. [56] On 12 April 2011, a photograph of Tennant as Hamlet featured on a stamp issued by the Royal Mail to mark the RSC's fiftieth anniversary. They lived briefly in Manhattan before returning to Scotland, where they had a mews house in Edinburgh and a home in Edrom, Berwickshire, with a vegetable garden and chickens. They were then the money generator, though Tennant worked without demanding supermodel premiums just to get out of bed. [60][61] He played dual roles: the main character, put-upon teacher Mr. Peterson, and his "golden boy" twin brother and rival.
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"Its that . And indeed, Tennant took the time to quench fans . They had four children together. Tennant was more interested in art at the time, not terribly taken with modeling. Related Topics. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010. (At art college she imitated favourite photographer Cindy Shermans technique of posing as stereotypes, and got them out of her system.). He was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero. 06:05 EST 24 Dec 2020 [1] His father was a minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 13. Tennant replaced him as of the second series, making his first, brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode "The Parting of the Ways" (2005) at the end of the regeneration scene, and also appeared in a special 7-minute mini-episode shown as part of the 2005 Children in Need appeal, broadcast on 18 November 2005. The fashion designer attributed to her resemblance to Coco Chanel. I mean, what else is there really?'. Scotland . Tennant was married to photographer David Lasnet for . In Hamlet, David Tennant, whose own RSC performance was a huge hit, meets other actors who have played the role - from the legendary David Warner in the 1960s to the recent Jude Law. When asked for the secret to the longevity of their marriage, Lasnet said: 'Well, I think we want to make it work, you know? Joel Golby of the Guardian described it: "David Tennant and Michael Sheen squabbled over Zoom as exaggerated, frustrated, hyper-thespian versions of themselves, in an actors-playing-actors miniseries with the exact same energy of a late-night Comic Relief sketch; 15-minute episodes where you got to see familiar actors with their off-duty haircuts saying words that seemed real. Iris Lasnet was welcomed by David and Stella, in 2004. . As previous Doctor Christopher Eccleston had retained his northern tones, then-current showrunner Russell T Davies opted against the idea of having two consecutive Doctors with strong regional . 12:14 EST 24 Dec 2020. 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The End of Time was the two-part story that served as the 2009 Christmas Special and 2010 New Year Special of Doctor Who. David John Tennant (n McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor.He rose to fame for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (2005-2010; 2013), returning to the show as the fourteenth incarnation of the character in 2022. [10] His talent was noticed by actress Edith MacArthur, who told his parents that she believed he would become a successful theatre actor after she saw him perform when he was 10 years old. Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers including Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace, has died suddenly at the age of 50, her family said Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. [7][8], At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who,[9] but they encouraged him to aim for more conventional work. [16] She also appeared in numerous other advertising campaigns, including Calvin Klein, Herms, and in 2002 in an influential campaign for Burberry. David John Tennant (n McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. In 2015, he also lent his voice to a Labour Party General Election broadcast. They married on 30 December 2011,[126] and live in the Chiswick district of London. Tennant was born Ty Peter Martin-Moffett at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in the White City area of West London to then 17-year-old actress Georgia Moffett and grew up in Chiswick.
British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of 50, her family have said. Catwalk icon's career in pictures. David Tennant returned to Doctor Who last night as the 14th Doctor after a 12-year hiatus and the Good Omens star . Her first shoot made the cover of British Vogue in December 1993, which Mrs Tennant later said came about 'by accident', and at the end of that day's work she was asked to do a Versace campaign in Paris, which ended up as the cover of the Italian edition. [2][3] He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston,[4] where his father was the local minister. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man in the World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey. [30] He continued to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme's fourth series in 2008. In this May 22, 1999 photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. For the last decade, she devoted most of her time looking after her four children and promoting sustainable causes. Tennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999 Stella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month. The pair were in the process of divorce after being married for 21 . [4] He later said that he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing an acting career. [124], Tennant is married to English actress Georgia Moffett, making him the son-in-law of actress Sandra Dickinson and Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. He's a real screamer!". On Wednesday, Tennant's family confirmed she died by suicide in a statement shared with The Telegraph. Tennant was summoned to London from a Highlands holiday, travelled by sleeper train, arriving late on location in Spitalfields, and was immediately spotted as the newest face by the-then hottest photographer, Steven Meisel, despite that face being obscured by panda black eyepaint as well as the nose ring. [44] In December 2009, he filmed the lead in an NBC pilot, Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, playing Rex, a Chicago lawyer who starts to coach clients to represent themselves when he starts suffering panic attacks. We do not have the related information on Cecily Lasnet's boyfriend and her dating life. Her death is considered sudden, but police say there are no suspicious circumstances. [citation needed]. Later in September 2011, it was announced that Tennant would voice a character in the movie adaptation of Postman Pat named You Know You're the One with a planned 3D theatrical release for spring 2013. [89] Also in 2017, he became the voice of Scrooge McDuck for Disney XD's DuckTales reboot, replacing the character's longtime voice actor Alan Young, who died in May 2016. [54][55] In 2009, he worked on a TV film version of the RSC's 2008 Hamlet for BBC Two. [137] In 2019, they had another daughter named Birdie. [83] He also voiced the Propaganda Minister in the 2015 Square Enix video game Just Cause 3. His first full-length outing as the Doctor was a 60-minute special, "The Christmas Invasion", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005. Tennant has worked extensively on stage, including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet that was later adapted for television. 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The play was written by Andrew Davies and directed by Doctor Who's James Hawes for the digital television channel BBC Four. [12], In 1993, Tennant sent photographs of herself to a high fashion magazine, and a friend introduced her to fashion writer Plum Sykes (Victoria Rowland). 'Her family ask for their privacy to be respected. Tobias William Tennant. The play follows the story of two sisters, Blanche and Stella, and Stella's husband Stanley. The pair married in 1999 at the local church in Oxnam, Scotland - Stella's hometown. Model Stella Tennant walks the runway at the Ralph Lauren fashion show during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Skylight Clarkson Sq on September 14, 2016, in New York . She announced her first retirement from modelling before she was 30, when she married (dressed by favourite designer Helmut Lang) in the local kirk with no celebs invited. Doctor Who BBC Studios screen grab. By Liam Hess. He remarked in a radio interview: "Who wouldn't want to be the Doctor? He is a dog lover and owns a pet dog named Feud. Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse . Read more. He appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006. [99] For his performance, he won the International Emmy Award for Best Actor. 'I'm incredibly glad to be where I am. His performance as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, was recorded by the National Video Archive of Performance for the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre Collection. Tennant's maternal grandfather, footballer Archie McLeod, met William and Agnes' daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City FC. LONDON Stella Tennant took her own life last month, . [14][15] He is reported to have thought her reminiscent of Coco Chanel. [11], Tennant attended Saturday classes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland before passing an official audition at age 16, becoming one of their youngest students and studying there between the ages of 17 and 20. [102] The series premiered on 26 September 2022 to mixed reviews from viewers and critics alike. Jessica Jones for Netflix", "David Tennant sets Radio 4 Just a Minute record", "Did you know David Tennant was in Just Cause 3? It . [58] In September 2011, he appeared in a guest role in one episode of the comedy series This is Jinsy, and also started filming True Love, a semi-improvised BBC One drama series, on location in Margate, Kent; the series aired in June 2012. [9] Stella was the great niece of the flamboyant socialite Stephen Tennant, and was directly descended from Bess of Hardwick, a notable figure of Elizabethan English society,[9] and a fourth cousin, once removed, to Diana, Princess of Wales. She came from a completely . Their relationship appeared idyllic, and they built a happy home in their countryside estate on the Scottish borders. I'm not going to dye my hair I don't want to pretend to be something that I'm not,' she said. She made a video and became one of the faces of its campaign titled Turn Up the Style, Turn Down the Heat. She was a muse of the designers Karl Lagerfeld,[18] Gianni Versace,[17][19] Alexander McQueen, Nicolas Ghesquire, Riccardo Tisci and Victoria Beckham. The first series was filmed in Clevedon, North Somerset, and Bridport, Dorset, between August and November 2012, and aired in March 2013. Georgia Moffett later became David Tennant's wife. Karl Lagerfeld named Tennant the face of Chanel in 1996, and she was cited by several designers as their . Her unconventional . By
The Scot made her name in the early 1990s on catwalks for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers . Tennant appeared in the 2008 episode "Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm" of the radio series Nebulous (a parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent. [23] The family lived near Duns, in the small village of Edrom in Berwickshire, also in the Scottish Borders. [16], Tennant appeared on fashion catwalks for Shiatzy Chen, Bill Blass, Dior and Chanel. "Stella was Gianni Versace's muse for many years and friend of the family.