[18], Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998). [27] She also supported initiatives aimed at reducing fashion's effect on the environment,[17] including Oxfam's "Second Hand September". 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 . 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 Fisher/Shutterstock. (2011), Ferdinand (2017), Final Space (20182021), gen:LOCK (2019present), the How to Train Your Dragon films (20102019), and as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales (20172021). Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. [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. By Max Goldbart. 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. 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. [25], Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. And indeed, Tennant took the time to quench fans . Photo: David Fisher/Shutterstock. 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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 . He and their children survive her. The model was known for her androgynous looks during her 1990s heyday and became a muse for Karl Lagerfeld. Georgia Moffett later became David Tennant's wife. [73] Tennant filmed the second series of Broadchurch during mid-2014,[74][75] and the third between May and October 2016. [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. The iconic supermodel rose to runway superstardom in the '90s serving as a muse for brands including Versace, Chanel and Alexander McQueen He began filming the new series of Doctor Who in late July 2005. She replied 'not just yet'. He appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006. On 9 February 2015, Tennant appeared on the Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute, becoming the show's most successful debut contestant. The pair met when Mario Testino hired him as an assistant after he was talent spotted by the iconic fashion designer while drinking coffee outside a Paris cafe. Lambing and ewes, blood and guts and sex.. [78], In 2012 he appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media, starring in three adverts. [100], In 2020 and 2021 he starred in the TV series Staged, with Michael Sheen. He made his directorial debut on the Doctor Who Confidential episode that accompanies Steven Moffat's episode "Blink", entitled "Do You Remember The First Time? The drama was based on the 10-year fight of Marina Litvinenko and the London police force as they work to prove the guilt and release the names of those responsible for the 2006 poisoning of Litvinenko. What was David Tennant last episode of Doctor Who called? 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[119] In 2012, he introduced Labour Party leader Ed Miliband onstage at the Labour Party Conference. 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 . In a statement shared with The Telegraph, the model's family revealed that Tennant had been . 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. When he moved to London shortly afterwards, he lodged with Weir for five years[10] and became godfather to her youngest child. In 2015, he also lent his voice to a Labour Party General Election broadcast. Tennant, who lived in Duns, a town in the Scottish borders, died on 22 December . 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. His first such role was in the Seventh Doctor audio Colditz, where he played a Nazi lieutenant guard at Colditz Castle. 13. Stella was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the daughter of Lady Emma Cavendish and The Hon. UNIT: The Wasting, was recorded between Tennant getting the role of the Doctor and it being announced. [14], Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school. She came from a completely . The character when interacted with makes a number of references to Doctor Who. DAVID Lasnet is the husband of the late model Stella Tennant. 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. 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. One of his earliest big-screen roles was in Jude (1996), in which he shared a scene with Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect. McLeod was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull. 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. I had to give up eating,' she recalled. [8][26], In 2009, Tennant worked with green lifestyle organisation Global Cool to promote using less energy at home. Scotland . [citation needed], Tennant featured in an episode of Trick or Treat on Channel 4 in May 2008. Despite much of his work being television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being". , updated [11][18], Tennant married French photographer and osteopath David Lasnet in the village of Oxnam, Roxburghshire, on 22 June 1999. 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. 'I'm not really pursuing my modelling in the same way. Ki Price/Getty Images. 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. Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. But that was the only thing that gave the impression she wasnt completely happy.. [127][128] They have five children,[129][130] including actor Ty Tennant, Moffett's child from a previous relationship whom Tennant adopted. [133][134] At the age of two, Olive had a cameo as John Barrowman's daughter in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. [53] He returned to his role in the production on 3 January 2009, and appeared until the run ended on 10 January. 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. Stella's mother was Lady Emma Cavendish, daughter of Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, whose seat is the famous Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. I'm not going to dye my hair I don't want to pretend to be something that I'm not,' she said. Her family announced Tennant's death in a statement to The Guardian on Wednesday. British supermodel Stella Tennant died on December 22 at the age of 50. September 10, 1933. . Jessica Jones for Netflix", "David Tennant sets Radio 4 Just a Minute record", "Did you know David Tennant was in Just Cause 3? 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. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. 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. [2][3] He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston,[4] where his father was the local minister. [54][55] In 2009, he worked on a TV film version of the RSC's 2008 Hamlet for BBC Two. In November 2017, three new audio dramas were released by Big Finish Productions with Tennant once again starring as the Tenth Doctor, alongside Billie Piper as Rose Tyler. At the time, the cause of death was unknown, but it is believed that Stella and her photographer husband David Lasnet had split. 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. [7] Her family announced the following month that she had died by suicide after being unwell for a prolonged period of time.[8]. Elle est ne Londres, au Royaume-Uni. David Tennant's Time Lord also used up an extra regeneration to save himself in an episode called Journey's End. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. [45] The pilot was not picked up and the project was shelved. The first series was filmed in Clevedon, North Somerset, and Bridport, Dorset, between August and November 2012, and aired in March 2013. [59] In October 2011, Tennant started shooting the semi-improvised comedy film, Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger in Coventry. 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. Stella Tennant modelling in Paris in 2003. In 2006, he recorded abridged audio books of The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner, The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole and The Resurrection Casket by Justin Richards, for BBC Worldwide.[28]. Then David and I decided we wanted to have a family." She married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999 and had four children. The film was released in December 2009. [110], Tennant was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media on 9 July 2007, according to MediaGuardian. 'Stella really lifted me out of it without knowing. [11] In 2010, she starred in L.K.Bennett's Spring Summer campaign photographed by Tim Walker. [63] Between April and June, he filmed Spies of Warsaw for BBC Four, in the lead role of Jean-Franois Mercier. Also in 2008, he voiced the character of Hamish the Hunter in the 2008 English language DVD re-release of the 2006 animated Norwegian film, Free Jimmy, alongside Woody Harrelson. David Tennant returned to Doctor Who last night as the 14th Doctor after a 12-year hiatus and the Good Omens star . Stella Tennant, a British supermodel who rose to fame in the '90s, has died days after her 50th birthday. [77] Tennant starred opposite Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly in What We Did on Our Holiday, a semi-improvised comedy film; shooting took place from 17 June to 30 July 2013 in Scotland. Stella Tennant was born on 17 December 1970 in London, England,[9][10] the youngest of three children to the Hon. 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. [5] T Magazine; In an interview, he revealed that when he was 18-20 years old, he was suffering from depression, and his wife, Stella Tennant, had helped him in recovering from it. Iris Lasnet was welcomed by David and Stella, in 2004. . Her death is considered sudden, but police say there are no suspicious circumstances. [116], Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research. However, he was pleased to be able to use his own accent in one episode, when the Doctor briefly masquerades as "Dr. James McCrimmon" of Edinburgh in Tooth and Claw a nod to the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon. Tennant leaves behind four children, Iris, 15, Jasmine, 17, Cecily, 20, and Marcel, 22, who she shared with husband David Lasnet. [66][67] Tennant also presented the new comedy quiz show Comedy World Cup, in 2012 which ran on Saturday nights for seven episodes. Following news of the model's death on Wednesday morning, the global editorial director of Vogue and Cond Nast's worldwide chief content officer shared a moving tribute about the late star in a statement to PEOPLE. British supermodel Stella Tennant died on December 22 at the age of 50. He rose to fame for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (20052010; 2013), returning to the show as the fourteenth incarnation of the character in 2022. He is a dog lover and owns a pet dog named Feud. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man in the World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey. Biography, news, photos and videos . Tennant emerged as a top model in the 1990s and her career spanned nearly three decades. She had recently had her nasal septum pierced, which was an unusual look for models at the time. British supermodel Stella Tennant took her own life after being "unwell for some time", her family have confirmed. 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. 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. [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. Catwalk icon's career in pictures. Lagerfeld had shrewdly seen in her a resemblance to the young Coco Chanel, who wore actual mens clothes for sports and larks, underplaying her femininity. [121] However, in the wake of Brexit, which he called "depressing", he stated in 2017 that he would support an independent Scotland in the event of a second referendum. December 23, 2020, 9:38 AM. In 2006, readers of Doctor Who Magazine voted Tennant "Best Doctor" over perennial favourite Tom Baker. Growing up on a farm kept her grounded, she said. Previous; 1; 2; . 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 island of . [37] The three 60th anniversary special episodes will air in November 2023. It was love at first sight, she recalled. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. News of her death was confirmed only months after their split and just five days after her 50th birthday. Answer: Stella Tennant: Model Dies Days After 50th Birthday English model Stella Tennant has passed on at 50 years old, her family have said. [88] Between March and June 2017 Tennant appeared in Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho at the Wyndham's Theatre. Model Stella Tennant walks the runway during the Versace show as part of Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014-2015 on 6 July 2014 in Paris, Getty Images Model Stella Tennant attends . [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]. "Ask Me Anything!" the title of the post read. 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. [42] Tennant is the voice behind the 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos, and appeared in adverts for The Proclaimers' 2007 album and learndirect in June 2008.
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