[10] Hamlet transferred to the Novello Theatre in London's West End in December 2008, but Tennant suffered a prolapsed disc during previews and was unable to perform from 8 December 2008 until 2 January 2009, during which time the role was played by his understudy Edward Bennett. British supermodel Stella Tennant took her own life last month, her family has confirmed, saying the pioneering 90s star "felt unable to go on." Tennant, who shunned traditionally feminine . [14], Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school. When asked by Collider if there's ever been a television show he's watched and wished he was a part of, Tennant copped to being a huge fan . 'Stella was a wonderful woman and an inspiration to us all. 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. Totally Tennant. In an Adventure with Scientists! The three-part series aired on BBC One in October and November 2013. The stories feature current and previous Doctor Who actors, including Strax actor Dan Starkey, former Davros actor Terry Molloy, and many veterans of Big Finish, including Niky Wardley, who portrayed Eighth Doctor companion Tamsin. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. "It's exciting in part," she told Vogue, "but it can be excruciatingly dull.". [123] He has said that he believes religion "must have" shaped his character, and revealed that he is an occasional churchgoer. The very opposite of a social butterfly, quite unstarry, and all the more popular in the community for it, one of them said yesterday. Tennants manner was so fresh that she soon had an agent, a flat in New York, and the unofficial record for being in the most catwalk shows, 75, in a season. Although the casting was not officially announced until later in April,[24] both castmates and crew became aware of the speculation surrounding Tennant; in the live broadcast Jason Flemyng (Quatermass) changed his first line to Tennant's Dr. Briscoe from "Good to have you back, Gordon" to "Good to have you back, Doctor" as a deliberate reference. Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse . [133][134] At the age of two, Olive had a cameo as John Barrowman's daughter in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010. 'There's nothing better than growing old together. . He is a dog lover and owns a pet dog named Feud. [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. For the last decade, she devoted most of her time looking after her four children and promoting sustainable causes. David Tennant is dying to work with Aaron Sorkin. [50] In October 2010 he starred as Dave, a man struggling to raise five children after the death of his partner, in the British drama Single Father. Her parents ran a farm at Newcastleton in the Scottish Borders, where, like older brother Eddy and sister Isabel, she went to the local primary before being sent to St Leonards school in St Andrews. (Her farmer father offered to lead her round his bull pen.). [116], Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research. On 13 March 2009, he presented Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall. The iconic supermodel rose to runway superstardom in the '90s serving as a muse for brands including Versace, Chanel and Alexander McQueen [107][108], Tennant was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. "[101], In September 2022, Tennant starred as Reverend Harry Watling in BBC1's Inside Man, which was written by Steven Moffat. Stella Tennant mother, model and David Lasnet's wife had come to pick us up from the train station, so the first time I saw David I was standing on the steps of their grand 18th-century house in the Scottish Borders, and he was waving from a tractor. As Tennant recalled from the audition, "they needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers". David Tennant's Time Lord also used up an extra regeneration to save himself in an episode called Journey's End. A show source explained: "There have been two David Tennant Doctor Whos technically and with John Hurt playing another Doctor in the film, it basically means he can't regenerate again . David Fisher/Shutterstock. In this two-part TV movie, David Tennant plays the character of Brendan Block, who finds himself engaged to his ex-girlfriend's sister after a particularly nasty break-up. [103][104][105][106], In December 2022, Tennant starred as Alexander Litvinenko in the ITV1 dramatisation Litvinenko. British supermodel Stella Tennant died on December 22 at the age of 50. They couple shared lunch after the shoot. He and their children survive her. British model Stella Tennant during Chanel's 1996-97 fall-winter . Secret Smile might just be one of David Tennant's most underappreciated projects to date. She was always Scottish first, born the youngest child of Tobias Tennant of the Glenconner family, which had made its fortune developing bleach for cotton cloth, and Lady Emma Cavendish, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (born Deborah Mitford). [22] She continued to sculpt, and with her sister, a gilder, operated a luxury homewares company, Tennant & Tennant. Elle est ne Londres, au Royaume-Uni. Stella Tennant, a British supermodel who rose to fame in the '90s, has died days after her 50th birthday. [86] However, as of January2016[update], the film has been postponed indefinitely. When he was 16, he acted in an anti-smoking film made by the Glasgow Health Board which aired on television and was also screened in schools. When he moved to London shortly afterwards, he lodged with Weir for five years[10] and became godfather to her youngest child. He won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. [109], In 2008, Tennant was voted "Greenest Star on the Planet" in an online vote held by Playhouse Disney as part of the Playing for the Planet Awards. His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in . She was well liked, warm and friendly. [49] On 7 March 2010, he also appeared as George in a one-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Of Mice and Men in the Classic Serial strand. I'm not going to dye my hair I don't want to pretend to be something that I'm not,' she said. [citation needed], Tennant featured in an episode of Trick or Treat on Channel 4 in May 2008. (2011), Ferdinand (2017), Final Space (20182021), gen:LOCK (2019present), the How to Train Your Dragon films (20102019), and as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales (20172021). But Tennant at Chanel gave up grunge other than her Sam McKnight spiked coiffure. Fashion house Versace paid tribute to Tennant on Twitter, saying: "Versace is mourning the death of Stella Tennant. [125] The couple met in 2008 during the filming of the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter", in which she played the genetically engineered daughter of Tennant's Tenth Doctor. He remarked in a radio interview: "Who wouldn't want to be the Doctor? Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 11 November 2007. British supermodel Stella Tennant died on December 22 at the age of 50. Early life. She was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah Mitford, the youngest of the Mitford sisters. 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". The film is co-produced by Tennant's wife, Georgia, and had originally been due to co-star his father-in-law, Peter Davison; however, Davison withdrew from the film in October 2016 due to a scheduling clash. They married on 30 December 2011,[126] and live in the Chiswick district of London. The photographer, who is now trilingual, said:'I went through a period of depression from the age of 18 to 20-something. Tennant, who maintained her edge throughout her lengthy career in fashion, died this week at age 50, Vogue reported. Her famil. I was so nervous that the rice kept falling off my fork. 2. He joined Franz Ferdinand onstage to play the guitar on their song "No You Girls" on a special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops. [39], On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC One drama written by Tony Marchant. 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. Is Stella Tennant related to Colin Tennant? [30] He continued to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme's fourth series in 2008. A show source explained: "There have been two David Tennant Doctor Whos technically and with John Hurt playing another Doctor in the film, it basically means he can't regenerate again . She said that by the time people were allowed to travel again and the catwalk shows re-started, she would be regarded as too old. News of her death was confirmed only months after their split and just five days after her 50th birthday. He's a real screamer!". But it took a while for them to get together as a couple due to the language barriers between French-born Lasnet and aristocratic Brit Tennant. It . Mrs Tennant was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire and Deborah Mitford, one of the well-known aristocratic siblings, who died in 2014. [4] He later said that he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing an acting career. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. However, on 29 October 2008, he announced that he would be stepping down from the role after three full series. Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. Related profiles. [2][3] He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston,[4] where his father was the local minister. Tennant leaves behind four children, Iris, 15, Jasmine, 17, Cecily, 20, and Marcel, 22, who she shared with husband David Lasnet. Where is Glen in the Scottish Borders? [38], While playing the Doctor, Tennant was also in the early December 2005 ITV drama Secret Smile. Tennants appeal had been prefigured in the release that year of Sally Potters film of the Virginia Woolf fantasy novel Orlando, its hero/heroine (nothing so simple as androgynous) played by Tilda Swinton; pipe-cleaner thin, tall, pale, unpainted, with a body language both male and female, and an ever-unready smile. [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. Stella Tennant - the iconic British model who was known for her blunt pixie haircut, androgynous features, commanding 5-foot-11 presence and piercing stare - changed the fashion industry by helping usher in an era of androgyny in the 1990s. David Lasnet also credited the model with 'lifting him out of depression' early in their marriage but said she did not know the depths of the support she had given him.