[28], In August 2014, Tennant was one of 200 celebrities who signed a letter to The Guardian newspaper expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. She came from a completely different background and was super-supportive of me always. I had to give up eating,' she recalled. [70] Tennant repeated his performance as Richard II in the RSC's 'King and Country' cycle in 2016, starting at the Barbican Theatre in London[71] before transferring to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. [10] He also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transgender barmaid called Davina. 'Her family ask for their privacy to be respected. [7] Her family announced the following month that she had died by suicide after being unwell for a prolonged period of time.[8]. [26] Writer Russell T Davies made the decision not to use Tennant's own Scottish accent for the character as he did not want the Doctor's accent "touring the regions", using Estuary English instead. [107][108], Tennant was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. [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. She joked that "we're like George and Mildred in 20 years' time we'll probably be doing a ropey old sitcom in a terraced house in Preston". 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 couple's daughter Olive was born in 2011. The cast also included Charlotte Randle (Dawn), with Dominic Rowan (Bill), and Gary McDonald (William), and was again directed by Mark Brokaw. [115] In October 2006, he was named "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards. [76], Between late January and March 2013, Tennant filmed The Escape Artist for BBC One in which he played a talented junior barrister who had yet to lose a case. It marked the start of a relationship that would span more than 20 years and give them four children, Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine, and Iris, now aged between 15 and 22. British supermodel Stella Tennant took her own life after being "unwell for some time", her family have confirmed. It was love at first sight, she recalled. The couple then moved to an 18th-century house on the . He played the title role in Big Finish's adaptation of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2005). 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. And it's very easy to destroy something. On 13 March 2009, he presented Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall. The gorgeous young lady, Cecily Lasnet was born to David Lasnet and Stella Tennant. At the time, Tennant herself was a graduate in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, who, realising she did not have enough to say to become an artist, had tried and failed to monetise her near 6ft height and remarkable bones in modelling. He and their children survive her. [79] One advert was voluntarily withdrawn after a complaint lodged by BBC Worldwide, which believed that the advert broke the corporation's guidelines by featuring references to Doctor Who that appeared to be a commercial endorsement of the service. Stella Tennant - a life in pictures The model married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999, after meeting him on a shoot. By [16] During filming of Takin' Over the Asylum he met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. [123] He has said that he believes religion "must have" shaped his character, and revealed that he is an occasional churchgoer. Elle est ne Londres, au Royaume-Uni. Another said: "9 year old me who sobbed for a week once David Tennant regenerated is throwing a . 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 . [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. In a statement shared with The Telegraph, the model's family revealed that Tennant had been . [11][21], In 2016, Tennant and Lady Isabella Cawdor premiered a new ready to wear collection they designed for the gunmaker and clothing retailer Holland & Holland. His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Peter Vincent in the horror remake Fright Night (2011), DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series Broadchurch (20132017), Kilgrave in the Netflix superhero series Jessica Jones (20152019), Crowley in the Amazon Prime fantasy series Good Omens (2019present), and Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days (2021). Unusually for a fashion star, Tennant stayed faithful to her home territory. She shot to fame after . [3] She worked for haute couture names like Valentino, and Dior by John Galliano and with photographers Steven Meisel, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, and Tim Walker. British supermodel Stella Tennant died on December 22 at the age of 50. [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. He is student Cody Tennant, still just 19, who three years ago launched a legal bid to challenge his eccentric grandfather Lord Glenconner's will in the High Court of St Lucia. [111] Tennant's popularity has led to impersonations of him on various social networking sites, leading the BBC to issue a statement making it clear that Tennant does not use any of these sites and any account or message purporting to be from him is fake. . Stella Tennant, model and designer, born 17 December 1970; died 22 December 2020, Model who rose to fame in the 1990s, capturing the attention of Karl Lagerfeld and gracing the pages of Vogue, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. "Stella really lifted me out of it without knowing. [25], Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. Stella Tennant was a Scottish-English model and fashion designer. Her family announced Tennant's death in a statement to The Guardian on Wednesday. Where is Glen in the Scottish Borders? During the Christmas season of 2002, he starred in a series of television advertisements for Boots the Chemists. She was raised on a sheep farm on the Scottish Borders. Tennant had a cameo appearance as the Doctor in the 2007 finale episode of the BBC/HBO comedy series Extras with Ricky Gervais. I saw her recently out on her horse, and we had a good chat. On 9 February 2015, Tennant appeared on the Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute, becoming the show's most successful debut contestant. The Scot made her name in the early 1990s on catwalks for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers . Read more. 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. He also received his first credit as an executive producer for the series. Photo: David Fisher/Shutterstock. [118] In April 2010, he lent his voice to a Labour election broadcast. [83] He also voiced the Propaganda Minister in the 2015 Square Enix video game Just Cause 3. The pair married in 1999 at the local church in Oxnam, Scotland - Stella's hometown. In January 2006, he took a one-day break from shooting Doctor Who to play Richard Hoggart in a dramatisation of the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial, The Chatterley Affair. The play follows the story of two sisters, Blanche and Stella, and Stella's husband Stanley. She was a muse of the designers Karl Lagerfeld,[18] Gianni Versace,[17][19] Alexander McQueen, Nicolas Ghesquire, Riccardo Tisci and Victoria Beckham. 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. He was an avid "Doctor Who" fan, and even met 4th . When his mother married Scottish actor David Tennant in 2011, whom she had met in 2008, Tennant adopted Ty, who gained Tennant's surname. 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 . [20] The UK premire was staged at the Donmar Warehouse, in previews on April 4, opening April 10 and closing on May 4, 2002. [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. [31] He played the Doctor in four special episodes in 2009, before his final episode aired on 1 January 2010, where he was replaced by the Eleventh Doctor, portrayed by Matt Smith. [27] She also supported initiatives aimed at reducing fashion's effect on the environment,[17] including Oxfam's "Second Hand September". Then David and I decided we wanted to have a family." She married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999 and had four children. Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. She replied 'not just yet'. [66][67] Tennant also presented the new comedy quiz show Comedy World Cup, in 2012 which ran on Saturday nights for seven episodes. [119] In 2012, he introduced Labour Party leader Ed Miliband onstage at the Labour Party Conference. Stella Tennant and David Lasnet married at a parish church in the Scottish Borders in 1999 Credit: PA . October 24, 2022 12:46am. But Tennant at Chanel gave up grunge other than her Sam McKnight spiked coiffure. [27], He previously had a small role in the BBC's animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. [5], In 2016, she co-designed a collection with Lady Isabel Cawdor for the Chanel owned London-based brand, Holland & Holland, she also ran Tennant & Son, a line of hand-knitted cashmeres and a luxury homewares company with her sister. His first full-length outing as the Doctor was a 60-minute special, "The Christmas Invasion", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005. The three stories were released in May 2016.[33]. In an Adventure with Scientists! 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. David Fisher/Shutterstock Stella Tennant at the UK Fashion Awards in 2019. What was David Tennant last episode of Doctor Who called? Tobias William Tennant. 'David was sitting opposite me. "Ask Me Anything!" the title of the post read. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. [64] Tennant auditioned for the role of Hannibal Lecter in NBC's Hannibal; he was narrowly beaten for the part by Mads Mikkelsen. [87], In 2017, Tennant appeared in writer/director Daisy Aitkens' first feature film, You, Me and Him. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010. A friend arranged for Tennant to send passport pictures to an assistant at British Vogue, Plum Sykes, then working with the stylist Isabella Blow on a shoot called Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, with the US grunge look modelled by some ruined-looking English roses. [3] Tennant was born David John McDonald in Bathgate on 18 April 1971, the son of Helen (ne McLeod; 19402007) and Alexander "Sandy" McDonald (19372016). Neighbours were shocked at the news saying that, since the separation, David had seemingly moved to Edinburgh, where the couple had a mews house, and continued working as an osteopath while Stella had taken up riding. Her famil. He's a real screamer!". [68], In January 2012, Tennant was appointed to the Royal Shakespeare Company board, to be on the selection committee interviewing and choosing the new artistic director. [103][104][105][106], In December 2022, Tennant starred as Alexander Litvinenko in the ITV1 dramatisation Litvinenko. Tennant split from her husband of two decades, earlier this year. When asked for the secret to the longevity of their marriage, Lasnet said: 'Well, I think we want to make it work, you know? Stella met David while at the height of her fame, when he was a dashing French photographer assigned to a New York shoot with her. [16][17] She also modelled frequently for other influential fashion photographers of the 1990s, including Mario Testino, David Sims and Mark Borthwick. She found she had style, and just what that style was, wandering the hills in unsuitable footwear and smoking rebel cigarettes round the back of fathers barn. DAVID Lasnet is the husband of the late model Stella Tennant. England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. The film was released in December 2009. 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. 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 . Tennant featured as the Doctor in an animated version of Doctor Who for Totally Doctor Who, The Infinite Quest, which aired on CBBC. 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. After Stella Tennant's sudden death at the age of 50, fashion designers and photographers paid tribute to the iconic model on social media. Biography, news, photos and videos . [80] He is the narrator on Xbox One video game Kinect Sports Rivals, released in 2014. 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 . Not originally cast in the production, Tennant was recording a radio play in a neighbouring studio, and when he discovered what was being recorded next door convinced the director to give him a small role. [65] On 9 June 2012, he started filming the 3-part political drama series The Politician's Husband for BBC Two, playing an ambitious cabinet minister who takes drastic action when his wife's career starts to outshine his. Stella Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace, died suddenly at the age of 50, her family said Wednesday. Lambing and ewes, blood and guts and sex.. Stella Tennant, model and designer, born 17 December 1970; died 22 December 2020. The End of Time was the two-part story that served as the 2009 Christmas Special and 2010 New Year Special of Doctor Who. Karl Lagerfeld offered her bigger money in 1996, to replace Claudia Schiffer as the face, and thinner body, of Chanel. They moved to the 18th-century house from New York in the US where Lasnet had forged a successful career as a photographer while Stella excelled as a model. Secret Smile might just be one of David Tennant's most underappreciated projects to date. Georgia Moffett later became David Tennant's wife. Doctor Who BBC Studios screen grab. 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. The unexpected next big things turned out to be very particularly British: bad-waif Kate Moss, and cool aristo Stella Tennant, who arrived on the pages of British Vogue in 1993. [116], Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research. Ki Price/Getty Images. [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. They had four children together. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. I mean, what else is there really?'. David Tennant 's wife Georgia has taken to Instagram with a very sweet snapshot of her family. December 23, 2020. September 28, 2020 - 09:33 BST Gemma Strong. Tennant was more interested in art at the time, not terribly taken with modeling. The same month, he also appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot directed by Peter Davison. David Fisher/Shutterstock. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. [90], Tennant played psychopathic villain Cale Erendreich in the thriller film Bad Samaritan (2018), written by Brandon Boyce and directed by Dean Devlin. They were then the money generator, though Tennant worked without demanding supermodel premiums just to get out of bed. 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. [117], Tennant is a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a party political broadcast for them in 2005. [29], In June 2012, Tennant was inducted as Model of the Year into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame at its annual awards event.[30]. Stella Tennant at the UK Fashion Awards in 2019. Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to . He made the coments in a candid interview about their marriage nine years before her death. David Tennant surprised Doctor Who fans as he reprised his role as the Time Lord - with the actor set to star in three special episodes before handing over control of the Tardis next Christmas. Early life. David's career began in theater and small TV roles. Tennant, who lived in Duns, a town in the Scottish borders, died on 22 December . [10] After discovering that there was another David McDonald already represented by the actor's union Equity, he created his stage name by adopting the surname of Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant, whom he had seen in Smash Hits magazine while deciding on a new name. The couple's move across the Atlantic inspired Lasnet to retrain and he studied to be an osteopath - a profession choice he recalls was sparked by his son Marcel developingwhooping cough as a toddler. Stella Tennant (17 December 1970 - 22 December 2020) was a British model and fashion designer, [2] who rose to fame in the early 1990s and had a career that spanned almost 30 years. 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. His first such role was in the Seventh Doctor audio Colditz, where he played a Nazi lieutenant guard at Colditz Castle. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. I was so nervous that the rice kept falling off my fork. [14][15] He is reported to have thought her reminiscent of Coco Chanel. David John Tennant (n McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. 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. [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. . [86] However, as of January2016[update], the film has been postponed indefinitely. 12:14 EST 24 Dec 2020. From then on, everything got better.'. David Tennant is dying to work with Aaron Sorkin. Cecily is the eldest of three sisters. "Its that . He also liked Tennants emphatic rootedness in Scotland; Chanel on a visit there had so fallen in love with its tweeds and woollens she made them a permanent element of her designs. [112] In the expansion EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction for the game EverQuest, a character was introduced called Tavid Dennant, named after David Tennant. [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. Stella's father, Tobias William Tennant, meanwhile, was the son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner, and younger brother of Colin Tennant, the 3rd Baron Glenconner, who bought the Caribbean . By [127][128] They have five children,[129][130] including actor Ty Tennant, Moffett's child from a previous relationship whom Tennant adopted. In summer 2009, Tennant filmed St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. This drama series shot in Poland is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel The Spies of Warsaw. [11] The following year, he played a role in an episode of Dramarama. [35][36] Previously thought to be returning as the Tenth Doctor, in October 2022, the ending of the special episode "The Power of the Doctor" revealed that Tennant would return as the Fourteenth Doctor, a role previously thought to be played by Ncuti Gatwa, who would follow on as the Fifteenth Doctor instead. Answer: Stella Tennant: Model Dies Days After 50th Birthday English model Stella Tennant has passed on at 50 years old, her family have said. Her death is considered sudden, but police say there are no suspicious circumstances. At the time, the cause of death was unknown, but it is believed that Stella and her photographer husband David Lasnet had split. 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. Despite much of his work being television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being". 'Stella really lifted me out of it without knowing. [12][13] He later legally changed his surname to comply with rules set by the American Screen Actors Guild (which was later merged into SAG-AFTRA). Tennant had been formally offered the role of the Doctor during rehearsals for The Quatermass Experiment. 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. Stella Tennant splits . I'm not going to dye my hair I don't want to pretend to be something that I'm not,' she said. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter.

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