Christopher Eccleston

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Christopher Eccleston (2020)

Christopher Eccleston (born February 16, 1964 in Salford , Lancashire ) is a British actor . Eccleston is known for portraying complex characters in cinema and television films and as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who .

Life

Eccleston comes from a working class family. As a child, he was interested in both acting and playing football (his favorite club is Manchester United ). He chose the arts and attended drama school. He made his professional stage debut at the age of 25 in a production of Tennessee Williams ' end of the line yearning . The breakthrough was a long time coming, however, and Eccleston worked on the side in supermarkets, as a construction worker and model for art students.

Eccleston's first success was the role of the wrongly executed Derek Bentley in the true story-based film Give Him Chris! ( Let Him Have It , 1991). His role as a cop in the first two seasons (1993–1994) of the TV series Fitz ( Cracker ) helped make him known to a wider audience.

Eccleston became known for playing complex, internally torn characters in unusual films, sometimes with engaging and controversial subjects. His best-known films are Little Murders Among Friends (1994), Hearts in Unrest (1996), Elizabeth (1998), eXistenZ (1999) and The Others (2001). In 2002 he played Hamlet on stage at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds .

In 2003 he starred in the television series The Second Coming , written by Russell T Davies .

After Davies co-initiated the new episodes of Doctor Who , it was announced in 2004 that Eccleston would play the ninth incarnation of the Doctor. The TV premiere was on March 26, 2005. The show was a great success, especially because the serious Eccleston played the role with deliberate eccentricity and dry humor.

Christopher Eccleston left the series after just one season. Since Eccleston himself did not comment on it, it was long unclear what caused his departure. Differences with the BBC (which published his exit earlier than planned) were suspected; but also the rumor that Eccleston did not want to be pigeonholed with the role of doctor was in circulation. In 2010, Eccleston said in an interview with the Radio Times that he didn't like the way employees were treated. The decision for success or whether he could be his own master was made against success. Eccleston stated that he was proud to have helped revive the series, but that he should have stood for things that he believed were wrong and was unwilling to take them further.

In 2004, Eccleston was ranked 19th most influential person in British television in a Radio Times poll of film industry insiders. In December 2005, Eccleston traveled to the Indonesian province of Aceh for BBC breakfast television to cover the effects of the 2004 Christmas tsunami . In 2007 Eccleston joined the NBC series Heroes as a cast member . Until 2010 he played a character named Claude, who can make himself invisible. From 2014 to 2017 he starred in the television series The Leftovers . In 2015, he starred in the television series Safe House . After the first season he left the series.

Eccleston sponsors the Celebrity Pig theater group , whose members are learning disabled.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exit from Doctor Who. July 21, 2011, accessed May 22, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Exit from Doctor Who. Doctor Who Magazine online, June 15, 2010, accessed June 23, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Stephen Moyer replaces Christopher Eccleston. Retrieved November 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Eccleston, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Salford , Lancashire, England