If it wants to pursue me, that's a different thing, but me as I am. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010. He later performed alongside Davison's daughter, Georgia Moffett (as "Jenny") in the 2008 episode "The Doctor's Daughter". His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in . Tennant is survived by her four children, her husband David Lasnet, her parents Tobias Tennant and Lady Emma Cavendish, a brother and a . [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 was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the daughter of Lady Emma Cavendish and The Hon. It . [11] Priya Elan, writing in her Guardian obituary, credits her, together with Kate Moss and Erin O'Connor, with having "introduced an era of androgyny on the catwalk". Karl Lagerfeld offered her bigger money in 1996, to replace Claudia Schiffer as the face, and thinner body, of Chanel. The film was released in December 2009. Then David and I decided we wanted to have a family." She married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999 and had four children. 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. [29] Tennant guest starred as the Doctor in a two-part story in Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, broadcast in October 2009. Tennant, who lived in Duns, a town in the Scottish borders, died on 22 December . Tennant was married to photographer David Lasnet for . (Though they never went as far as her thermal layer; she always wore a warm vest beneath those sweaters and shirts from Paris or Milan.) [60][61] He played dual roles: the main character, put-upon teacher Mr. Peterson, and his "golden boy" twin brother and rival. Photo: David Fisher/Shutterstock. He and their children survive her. [133][134] At the age of two, Olive had a cameo as John Barrowman's daughter in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. The English-language version of the film has dialogue written by Simon Pegg, who also starred in it as a main voice actor. [32], In October 2015, Big Finish Productions announced that Tennant would return to the role of the Tenth Doctor alongside Catherine Tate as his former companion Donna Noble in three new stories from Big Finish. The very opposite of a social butterfly, quite unstarry, and all the more popular in the community for it, one of them said yesterday. British supermodel Stella Tennant took her own life after being "unwell for some time", her family have confirmed. McLeod was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull. Topics. 'The first six months were very dampened by our capacity to communicate with each other,' he said previously. He played the title role in Big Finish's adaptation of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2005). 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]. 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. He appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006. By Liam Hess. She was raised on a sheep farm on the Scottish Borders. News of her death was confirmed only months after their split and just five days after her 50th birthday. His costar in the drama was friend Sarah Parish, with whom he had previously appeared in Blackpool and an episode of Doctor Who. [116], Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research. When he moved to London shortly afterwards, he lodged with Weir for five years[10] and became godfather to her youngest child. Fashion house Versace paid tribute to Tennant on Twitter, saying: "Versace is mourning the death of Stella Tennant. He revived this performance for the anniversary of the Royal Court Theatre in a rehearsed reading. The 35-year-old actress posted a picture showing all . Stella Tennant and David Lasnet at their wedding in 1999 Credit: David Cheskin/PA Only days before she died, Tennant had turned 50, and clearly middle age can be a dangerous time. Their relationship appeared idyllic, and they built a happy home in their countryside estate on the Scottish borders. By Max Goldbart. UNIT: The Wasting, was recorded between Tennant getting the role of the Doctor and it being announced. 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. [10] He also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transgender barmaid called Davina. In both audio productions, he worked alongside Nicholas Courtney, who reprised the character of Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. 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. Stella Tennant splits . In summer 2009, Tennant filmed St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. He played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. Tennant called in former Vogue stylist Isabella Cawdor as partner, and over the course of five years they created a range: their criterion was, whatever the garment, You have to be able to climb over a barbed-wire fence in it.. In 2015, he also lent his voice to a Labour Party General Election broadcast. Later that same year, he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. [11][18], Tennant married French photographer and osteopath David Lasnet in the village of Oxnam, Roxburghshire, on 22 June 1999. "Stella had been unwell for some time," a spokesperson for Tennant said. "It's exciting in part," she told Vogue, "but it can be excruciatingly dull.". Later in September 2011, it was announced that Tennant would voice a character in the movie adaptation of Postman Pat named You Know You're the One with a planned 3D theatrical release for spring 2013. [52] From August to November 2008 he appeared at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as Hamlet, playing that role in repertory with Berowne that October and November. Mark Gatiss, Trevor Hampton, David Tennant, Alison Willett (2005). [78], In 2012 he appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media, starring in three adverts. Tennant's performance of Hamlet was critically acclaimed. In one of her final interviews, Stella said she was delighted to be growing old gracefully, joking that - at her husband's request - she had even stopped dyeing her greying hair. [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. [4] At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she was one of the British supermodels, with models Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, walking the runway in the closing ceremony. David Tennant's Time Lord also used up an extra regeneration to save himself in an episode called Journey's End. She has died suddenly, shortly after her 50th birthday. [39], On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC One drama written by Tony Marchant. Elle est ne Londres, au Royaume-Uni. Tennant, 50, was found dead on December 22. When asked for the secret to the longevity of their marriage, Lasnet said: 'Well, I think we want to make it work, you know? Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to . Joel Golby of the Guardian described it: "David Tennant and Michael Sheen squabbled over Zoom as exaggerated, frustrated, hyper-thespian versions of themselves, in an actors-playing-actors miniseries with the exact same energy of a late-night Comic Relief sketch; 15-minute episodes where you got to see familiar actors with their off-duty haircuts saying words that seemed real. ", which aired on 9 June 2007. Mrs Tennant also appeared in numerous advertising campaigns for the likes of Calvin Klein, Chanel, Hermes, and Burberry before retiring in 1998 as she was pregnant with her first child. In August, it emerged that Stella had quietly separated from her husband some 21 years. 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. [120], Tennant remained neutral on the issue of Scottish independence in the run-up to the 2014 referendum, stating that it was not his business as he no longer lived in Scotland. [citation needed], Tennant featured in an episode of Trick or Treat on Channel 4 in May 2008. Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, List of awards and nominations received by David Tennant, "David Tennant's father and ex-Kirk moderator Sandy McDonald dies", "David Tennant pays tribute to his late mum", "Frost's Scottish Who's Who Very Rev. David Fisher/Shutterstock Stella Tennant at the UK Fashion Awards in 2019. Her unconventional . Furthermore, Cecily Lasnet was born to her parents David Lasnet (Father) who is a French photographer, and Stella Tennant (Mother) who was a British model. 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. He has subsequently appeared with Weir in many productions: as a guest in her spoof television series Posh Nosh, in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile (during which Weir played an alternative version of the Doctor), and as panellists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4 (Weir later guest-starred on Doctor Who itself after Tennant left the series). The episode showed Tennant apparently predicting future events correctly by using automatic writing. [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. Lasnet recalled that his mental health also contributed to the realtionship getting off to a rocky start. She was well liked, warm and friendly. Stella Tennant stepping down the aisle with French born David Lasnet in the small parish church of Oxnam / PA In 1993, aged 23, Mrs Tennant broke into modelling, posing for magazines such as . Stella Tennant was a Scottish-English model and fashion designer. [72], Tennant starred in the ITV detective series Broadchurch as DI Alec Hardy between 2013 and 2017. (Lasnet later retrained as an osteopath.) I've even got my own TARDIS!" She shot to fame after . 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. 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. [90], Tennant played psychopathic villain Cale Erendreich in the thriller film Bad Samaritan (2018), written by Brandon Boyce and directed by Dean Devlin. [102] The series premiered on 26 September 2022 to mixed reviews from viewers and critics alike. [83] He also voiced the Propaganda Minister in the 2015 Square Enix video game Just Cause 3. [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. From October 2009, he hosted the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service. 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? 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". He follows a non-vegetarian diet. 2. Tobias William Tennant. According to her family, she died by suicide after struggling with her mental health. [110], Tennant was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media on 9 July 2007, according to MediaGuardian. [14] In August 2020, Tennant and Lasnet announced they had separated. British supermodel Stella Tennant died on December 22 at the age of 50. Stella Tennant, model and designer, born 17 December 1970; died 22 December 2020. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III as Galanar, a young man who is given an assignment to discover the secrets of the Daleks. David Tennant's Time Lord also used up an extra regeneration to save himself in an episode called Journey's End. Couple David and Stella were blessed with four children. I mean, what else is there really?'. 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. In the 1990s, he appeared in several plays at the Dundee Repertory Theatre.[15]. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. The couple married in 1999 Credit: PA:Press . 'I'm not really pursuing my modelling in the same way. 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. . Stella Tennant and David Lasnet married at a parish church in the Scottish Borders in 1999 Credit: PA . 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. 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 . As Tennant recalled from the audition, "they needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers". 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. [123] He has said that he believes religion "must have" shaped his character, and revealed that he is an occasional churchgoer. ', 'When we moved here, Stella's mom watched me cutting down trees and said: 'Yeah, it takes 10 minutes to chop down a tree and 10 years to see it grow.'. He watched almost every Doctor Who episode for years and once spoke to Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker at a book-signing event in Glasgow. 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. Despite much of his work being television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being". Antonia Paget For Mailonline Secret Smile might just be one of David Tennant's most underappreciated projects to date. Tennant also returned for the final episode of the series with the rest of the participants from the other episodes in the series to take part in one final experiment. In TV & Satellite Week (26 April 2 May issue), the host of the show, Derren Brown, is quoted as saying: "One of the appeals of Doctor Who for David is time travel, so I wanted to give him that experience. 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. 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. 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. She will be greatly missed. She made a video and became one of the faces of its campaign titled Turn Up the Style, Turn Down the Heat. The same month, he also appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot directed by Peter Davison. 'There's nothing better than growing old together. It was love at first sight, she recalled. Doctor Who BBC Studios screen grab. She had recently had her nasal septum pierced, which was an unusual look for models at the time. [95], Tennant stars as a doctor suspected of murdering his family in Deadwater Fell, a Scottish true crime miniseries, which premiered in January 2020 on Channel 4. I'm not going to dye my hair I don't want to pretend to be something that I'm not,' she said. David loves surfing and skate boarding in his leisure time. [1] His father was a minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 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 John Tennant (n McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. Iris Lasnet was welcomed by David and Stella, in 2004. . Previous; 1; 2; . [6], Raised on a 1,500-acre (6km2) sheep farm that her parents ran at Newcastleton, in the Scottish Borders,[7] Tennant went to the local primary then attended St Leonards School in St Andrews[9] followed by Marlborough College[11] before completing a degree in sculpture at the Winchester School of Art. Tennant did not intend to keep modelling after the birth of their children, Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine and Iris, but it proved unexpectedly easy to take limited-length gigs, and she remained in demand for the rest of her life for ads, magazine work, regular catwalks, and an appearance in the 2012 Olympics ceremony as a distinctive British asset: I havent found a better part-time job., In 2015, the London gunmakers Holland & Holland, now owned by the Chanel group, asked Tennant to help design their country gear: her own off-duty uniform, from solid wet heather proof shoes through to shepherds plaid wrap, was their ideal. [112] In the expansion EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction for the game EverQuest, a character was introduced called Tavid Dennant, named after David Tennant. Over the years she appeared in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Herms and Burberry. [18], Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998). He was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero. Catwalk icon's career in pictures. 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 . The three stories were released in May 2016.[33]. [69] It was announced on 23 January 2013 that Tennant would return to the RSC for the company's 2013 winter season, playing the title role in Richard II at Stratford-upon-Avon (from 10 October to 16 November) and transferring to the Barbican Centre in London (from 9 December to 25 January 2014). 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 . Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. 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.