Christopher Eccleston
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1964-02-16
- Works
- 7
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Film & TV
Acting · Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
Christopher Eccleston (born 16 February 1964) is an English stage, film and television actor. His films include Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Others, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2005, he became the ninth incarnation of The Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who.
Known for
- Unchosen — Mr Phillips2026
- Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War — Doctor Who (archive footage) (uncredited)2025
- Young Woman and the Sea — Jabez Wolffe2024
- An Angel on Oxford Street — Saul (voice)2024
- Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (9) (archive footage)2024
- Whispers of Freedom — Herbert Köfer2024
- The Guilty Innocent with Christopher Eccleston — Presenter2024
- The Kemps: All Gold — Luke Dunmore2023
- Dodger Special: Coronation — Fagin2023
- Dodger Special: Bad Egg — Fagin2023
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 129
- Total plays
- 1,265
Christopher Eccleston (born on 16 February 1964) is an English stage, television and film actor, best known for his roles in several high profile low budget films and television work. He played the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who. Christopher Eccleston is also the name of the guitarist from the band My Distant Memories <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Christopher+Eccleston">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,483x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,708x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,227x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1964-02-16 ) 16 February 1964 (age 62) , Salford , Lancashire , England
- Education
- University of Salford , Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1989–present
- Spouse
- Mischka Eccleston ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. November 2011</span>"}]]}'>2011 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. December 2015</span>"}]]}'>2015 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 16 February 1964
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christopher
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- christophereccleston.com
- Image
- Christopher Eccleston GalaxyCon Minneapolis 2019 (cropped).jpg
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Article
Christopher Eccleston (/ˈɛkəlstən/; born 16 February 1964) is an English actor. He is known for his work in various social realist television dramas, as well as for playing the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2005).
Born in Salford, Eccleston first rose to prominence for his portrayal of Derek Bentley in the biographical film Let Him Have It (1991), and gained widespread recognition in the UK for his roles in Cracker (1993–1994) and Our Friends in the North (1996), the latter earning him a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He received a second nomination for the drama serial The Second Coming (2003) and an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the anthology series Accused (2010).
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