Christopher Eccleston

Christopher Eccleston ( born February 16, 1964 in Salford, Lancashire ) is a British actor. Eccleston is known for his portrayal of 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. Even as a child he was interested in both for acting and for the football games (his favorite team is Manchester United). He opted for the Arts and attended a drama school. He made his professional stage debut at age 25 in a production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. However, the breakthrough was slow in coming, and Eccleston worked part-time in supermarkets, as a construction worker and model for art students.

Ecclestons first success was the role of the executed wrongly Derek Bentley in the based on a true story film Give it to him, Chris! ( Let Him Have It, 1991). His role as a police officer in the first two seasons (1993-1994) of the television series Cracker ( Cracker ) helped to make him known to a wider audience.

Eccleston has been known to play in unusual films with dedicated and sometimes controversial issues complex, internally torn characters. His best-known movies are Shallow Grave (Shallow Grave, 1994), Jude ( Jew, 1996), Elizabeth (1998), eXistenZ (1999) and The Others ( 2001). On stage he played Hamlet at the 2002 West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds.

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

After Davies the new episodes of Doctor Who helped to start, was announced in 2004 that Eccleston would be the ninth actor who plays the doctor. Television premiere was on 26 March 2005. The show was a great success, mainly because of Eccleston regarded as seriously played the role with deliberate eccentricity and dry humor.

Christopher Eccleston left the show after only one season. Since Eccleston himself unable to do so expressed, has long been unclear what caused his departure. Were suspected differences with the BBC (which published his exit earlier than was planned); but also the rumor that Eccleston did not want to be stuck with the role of the Doctor in a " drawer " was in circulation. In 2010, Eccleston said in an interview with the Radio Times that he did not feel comfortable with the role and culture series. The decision for the success or if he could be his own master had fallen against the success. Eccleston stated that he was proud to have helped revive the series, but he would have had to stand for the things he thought were wrong and that he was not willing to take this further with.

2004 saw Eccleston in a poll of Radio Times insiders, the film industry at number 19 of the most influential people in the British television film. In December 2005, Eccleston traveled for BBC Breakfast TV in the Indonesian province of Aceh to report on the impact of the tsunami of Christmas 2004. 2007 rose Eccleston as an ensemble member in the NBC series Heroes a. He plays a character named Claude who can make himself invisible.

Eccleston promotes theater group Celebrity Pig, whose members are having learning difficulties.

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