Christopher Eccleston Wallpapers

Christopher Eccleston Wallpapers

Christopher Eccleston Actor Wallpapers, Biography, Filmography

Christopher Eccleston (born on February 16, 1964) is an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and for his roles in several high profile low budget films and television work.
Eccleston was born in in Salford, Lancashire and he enjoyed a happy working-class upbringing. He considered himself to have been a "poor student" with a love of television with an ambition was to play football for his beloved Manchester United. However, at the age of 19, he found himself to be a much better actor than he was a footballer, and inspired by television dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff, he took to acting as his profession. Eccleston trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. As an actor, his early influences had been Ken Loach's Kes and Albert Finney's performance in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, but he soon found himself interpreting the classics, performing the works of Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Molière. At the age of 25, Eccleston made his professional stage debut in the Bristol Old Vic's production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Relatively unemployed as an actor for some years after his graduation, Eccleston took a variety of odd jobs at a supermarket, on building sites, and as an artist's model.
Eccleston first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It, based on true events. However, it was a regular role in the TV series Cracker (1993–94) — culminating in his character's dramatic death in the second series — that made him a recognisable figure in the UK.

He appeared in the low-budget Danny Boyle film Shallow Grave in 1994, in which he co-starred with the up-and-coming Ewan McGregor. The same year, he won the part of Nicky Hutchinson in the epic BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North, and it was the transmission of this production on BBC Two in 1996 that perhaps really made him into a household name in the UK.

His film career has since taken off with a variety of high-profile but not — except in one or two cases — major roles, including parts in Jude (1996), Elizabeth (1998), eXistenZ (1999), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), The Others (2001), 24 Hour Party People (2002) and another Danny Boyle film, the horror movie 28 Days Later (2002). He did play a major role as the protagonist of Alex Cox's 2002 Revengers Tragedy, adapted from Thomas Middleton's play of the same name. He has starred alongside two major Hollywood actresses in smaller independent movies, playing opposite Renée Zellweger in A Price Above Rubies (1998) and Cameron Diaz in The Invisible Circus (2001). Despite starring in the car-heist movie Gone in 60 Seconds, he did not actually take his driving test until January 2004 and is only licenced to drive automatic transmission cars.

Despite his successful film career, he has continued to appear in a variety of television roles, racking up credits in British television dramas of recent years. These have included Hearts and Minds (1995) for Channel 4, Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh and Blood (2002) for the BBC and Hillsborough (1996), a modern version of Othello (2002), playing 'Ben Jago', (the Iago character) and the religious telefantasy epic The Second Coming (2003, for ITV, playing Steve Baxter, the son of God, a role which some found ironic as Eccleston is an atheist). He also finds time for the occasional light-hearted role, however, as his guest appearances in episodes of the comedy drama Linda Green (2001) and macabre sketch show The League of Gentlemen (2002) have shown.

On stage, his highest-profile production has been his starring role in Hamlet at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds in 2002. The West Yorkshire Playhouse is a favourite venue of his, and he most recently returned there in the new play Electricity, which ran in March and April 2004.

A very highly-regarded actor, Eccleston has twice been nominated in the Best Actor category at the British Academy Television Awards, the UK's premier television awards ceremony. His first nomination came in 1997 for Our Friends in the North, when he lost out to Nigel Hawthorne (for The Fragile Heart), and he was nominated again in 2004 for The Second Coming, this time being beaten by Bill Nighy (for State of Play). He did, however, triumph in the Best Actor categories at the 1997 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and the Royal Television Society Awards, winning for Our Friends in the North. He won the RTS Best Actor award for a second time in 2003, this time for his performance in Flesh and Blood. In 2005 he received the Most Popular Actor award in the National Television Awards for Doctor Who.

In July 2004 a poll of industry experts, conducted by Radio Times magazine, voted Eccleston the 19th Most Powerful Person in Television Drama.

FILMOGRAPHY
2002 28 Days Later Major Henry West Directed by Danny Boyle
2002 Revengers Tragedy Vindici Directed by Alex Cox
2002 I Am Dina Leo Zukowskij Directed by Ole Bornedal
2002 24 Hour Party People Boethius Directed by Michael Winterbottom
2001 The Invisible Circus Wolf Directed by Adam Brooks
2001 The Others Charles Stewart Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
2000 Gone in Sixty Seconds Raymond Calitri Directed by Dominic Sena
1999 With or Without You Vincent Boyd Directed by Michael Winterbottom
1999 eXistenZ Seminar Leader Directed by David Cronenberg
1999 Heart Gary Ellis Directed by Charles McDougall
1998 A Price Above Rubies Sender Horowitz Directed by Boaz Yakin
1998 Elizabeth Duke of Norfolk Directed by Shekhar Kapur
1996 Jude Jude Fawley Directed by Michael Winterbottom
1994 Shallow Grave David Directed by Danny Boyle
1993 Anchoress Priest Directed by Chris Newby
1992 Death and the Compass Alonso Zunz Directed by Alex Cox
1991 Let Him Have It Derek Bentley Directed by Peter Medak

Television

Eccleston as Strayman in Strumpet
Year Title Role Other notes
2006 Perfect Parents Stuart Written and directed by Joe Ahearne
2005 Doctor Who The Doctor Written by Russell T. Davies, Mark Gatiss, Rob Shearman, Paul Cornell and Steven Moffat
2003 The Second Coming Stephen Baxter Written by Russell T. Davies
2003 I Am Kloot - Proof Music video for band Directed by Krishna Stott
2002 The King and Us Anthony Written by Peter Bowker
2002 Sunday General Ford Written by Jimmy McGovern
2002 Othello Ben Jago Written by Andrew Davies, based on the play by William Shakespeare
2002 Flesh and Blood Joe Broughton Written by Peter Bowker
2002 The League of Gentlemen Dougal Siepp
2001 Linda Green Tom Sherry/Neil Sherry Written by Paul Abbott
2001 Strumpet Stray Man DVD to be released in May 2006.
Written by Jim Cartwright
2001 This Little Piggy Cabbie Short by Chris McHallem
2000 Clocking Off Jim Calvert Written by Paul Abbott
2000 Wilderness Men Alexander Von Humboldt
2000 The Tyre Salesman Written by Simon Armitage and Brian Hill
1999 "Killing Time - The Millennium Poem" Millennium Man Poem written by Simon Armitage
1996 Hillsborough Trevor Hicks Written by Jimmy McGovern
1996 Our Friends in the North Nicky Hutchinson Written by Peter Flannery
1995 Hearts and Minds Drew Mackenzie Written by Jimmy McGovern
1993 Cracker DCI David Bilborough Written by Jimmy McGovern
1992 Business with Friends Angel Morris
1992 Friday on my Mind Sean Maddox
1992 Poirot Frank Carter
1992 Rachel's Dream Man in Dream
1991 Boon Mark
1991 Chancer Radio
1991 Inspector Morse Terrence Mitchell Written by Danny Boyle
1990 Casualty Stephen Hills
1990 Blood Rights Dick

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