[135] In 2013, Tennant and Moffett had a son named Wilfred. 2. December 23, 2020, 9:38 AM. This drama series shot in Poland is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel The Spies of Warsaw. 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. [87], In 2017, Tennant appeared in writer/director Daisy Aitkens' first feature film, You, Me and Him. Between January and May 2014, Tennant also filmed the US remake of Broadchurch, re-titled Gracepoint. 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. [57], In 2011, he starred in United, about the Manchester United "Busby Babes" team and the 1958 Munich air disaster, playing coach and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy. Iris Lasnet was welcomed by David and Stella, in 2004. . Another said: "9 year old me who sobbed for a week once David Tennant regenerated is throwing a . [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. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man in the World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey. This personal enthusiasm for the series had also been expressed by his participation in several audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series which had been produced by Big Finish Productions, although he did not play the Doctor in any of these productions. David John Tennant (n McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. In summer 2009, Tennant filmed St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. He made the coments in a candid interview about their marriage nine years before her death. [124], Tennant is married to English actress Georgia Moffett, making him the son-in-law of actress Sandra Dickinson and Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison. [10] He also starred in the 2003 London production of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. [79] One advert was voluntarily withdrawn after a complaint lodged by BBC Worldwide, which believed that the advert broke the corporation's guidelines by featuring references to Doctor Who that appeared to be a commercial endorsement of the service. Much Ado About Nothing (Production) by William Shakespeare . [5], In 2016, she co-designed a collection with Lady Isabel Cawdor for the Chanel owned London-based brand, Holland & Holland, she also ran Tennant & Son, a line of hand-knitted cashmeres and a luxury homewares company with her sister. The model married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999, after meeting him on a shoot. [113], In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. [123] He has said that he believes religion "must have" shaped his character, and revealed that he is an occasional churchgoer. She later returned to the runway and worked on several campaigns behind the camera. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. September 10, 1933. . Related profiles. 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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 . 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. 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. David Tennant's Time Lord also used up an extra regeneration to save himself in an episode called Journey's End. From then on, everything got better.'. "Stella had been unwell for some time," a spokesperson for Tennant said. [24], Tennant died on 22 December 2020, aged 50,[17][25] in Duns, Scottish Borders, Scotland. [7][8], At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who,[9] but they encouraged him to aim for more conventional work. 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. . In this May 22, 1999 photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. 13. . [107][108], Tennant was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 11 November 2007. Stella met David while at the height of her fame, when he was a dashing French photographer assigned to a New York shoot with her. David Lasnet is a French photographer while Stella Tennant was a British model. It . . British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of 50, her family have said. Tennant is survived by her four children, her husband David Lasnet, her parents Tobias Tennant and Lady Emma Cavendish, a brother and a . [70] Tennant repeated his performance as Richard II in the RSC's 'King and Country' cycle in 2016, starting at the Barbican Theatre in London[71] before transferring to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. [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. David Tennant is dying to work with Aaron Sorkin. [22] He began to appear on television more prominently in 2004 and 2005, when he appeared in a dramatisation of He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005), and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). 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. Doctor Who BBC Studios screen grab. 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]. In the 1990s, he appeared in several plays at the Dundee Repertory Theatre.[15]. David Tennant returned to Doctor Who last night as the 14th Doctor after a 12-year hiatus and the Good Omens star . 'I'm incredibly glad to be where I am. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. [102] The series premiered on 26 September 2022 to mixed reviews from viewers and critics alike. At the time, the cause of death was unknown, but it is believed that Stella and her photographer husband David Lasnet had split. [63] Between April and June, he filmed Spies of Warsaw for BBC Four, in the lead role of Jean-Franois Mercier. The cast also included Charlotte Randle (Dawn), with Dominic Rowan (Bill), and Gary McDonald (William), and was again directed by Mark Brokaw. They couple shared lunch after the shoot. 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. [11][18], Tennant married French photographer and osteopath David Lasnet in the village of Oxnam, Roxburghshire, on 22 June 1999. Tennant, who maintained her edge throughout her lengthy career in fashion, died this week at age 50, Vogue reported. She made a video and became one of the faces of its campaign titled Turn Up the Style, Turn Down the Heat. 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. I was so nervous that the rice kept falling off my fork. Stella Tennant was born in London on Dec. 17, 1970, the youngest of three children of Lady Emma Cavendish and the Honorable Tobias William Tennant, son of the second Baron Glenconner, himself the . [37] The three 60th anniversary special episodes will air in November 2023. All about Stella Tennant. 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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. Tennant emerged as a top model in the 1990s and her career spanned nearly three decades. The photographer, who is now trilingual, said:'I went through a period of depression from the age of 18 to 20-something. The pair married in 1999 at the local church in Oxnam, Scotland - Stella's hometown. [11], Tennant attended Saturday classes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland before passing an official audition at age 16, becoming one of their youngest students and studying there between the ages of 17 and 20. She had recently had her nasal septum pierced, which was an unusual look for models at the time. [51] He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), to play Hamlet with Patrick Stewart and Berowne in Love's Labours Lost in 2008. She was a second cousin of artist Daphne Guinness, through their great-grandparents, Sydney and David . 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.. Their children's names are Cecily, Marcel Lasnet, Iris Lasnet, and Jasmine Lasnet. Fashion house Versace paid tribute to Tennant on Twitter, saying: "Versace is mourning the death of Stella Tennant. Schiffer had looked like an Amazon Brigitte Bardot, bosom bursting out of bared bra, and she grumbled about Tennant that being cool now meant heroin chic, looking like a junkie. Tennant also lent his voice to adverts for Tesco Mobile, Nintendo Wii, and American Express. She had had a unique look since childhood chopped her own black hair urchin-tousled, flaunted the punk clothes her older sister forwarded from London and wore a nose ring. As Tennant recalled from the audition, "they needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers". Tennant's maternal grandfather, footballer Archie McLeod, met William and Agnes' daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City FC. The three-part series aired on BBC One in October and November 2013. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. The BBC has confirmed David Tennant is the Fourteenth Doctor, which makes sense given he has now succeeded Whittaker. [citation needed], Tennant featured in an episode of Trick or Treat on Channel 4 in May 2008. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. [16] During filming of Takin' Over the Asylum he met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. [138], For other people named David Tennant, see. 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 . She came from a completely . [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. 6 in its "Top Ten" list of the most influential British television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile, and Doctor Who. McLeod was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull. In 2006, readers of Doctor Who Magazine voted Tennant "Best Doctor" over perennial favourite Tom Baker. In 2015, he received the National Television Award for Special Recognition. 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). Karl Lagerfeld. [76], Between late January and March 2013, Tennant filmed The Escape Artist for BBC One in which he played a talented junior barrister who had yet to lose a case. 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. [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. Stella Tennant, model, born 17 December 1970, died 22 December . Stella Tennant Enfants.Stella Tennant est ne le 17 dcembre 1970. [5][6] Two of his maternal great-grandparents, William and Agnes Blair, were Northern Irish Protestants from County Londonderry who were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912; William was also a member of the Orange Order. [137] In 2019, they had another daughter named Birdie. David lasnet and aristocratic supermodel Stella Tennant married in 1999 in Oxnam, a town on the Scottish borders. DAVID Lasnet is the husband of the late model Stella Tennant. Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers . In January 2006, he took a one-day break from shooting Doctor Who to play Richard Hoggart in a dramatisation of the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial, The Chatterley Affair. Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse for many designers . [122], Tennant rarely discusses his private life in interviews,[10] citing his belief that "relationships are hard enough with the people you're having them with, let alone talking about them in public". She was raised on a sheep farm on the Scottish Borders. British supermodel Stella Tennant died on Tuesday at the age of 50. [27], He previously had a small role in the BBC's animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. When David Tennant was cast as the Doctor in 2005, one of the biggest creative decisions regarding his incarnation involved what accent he would use. Hoggart's son, Simon, praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper. Tennant was born Ty Peter Martin-Moffett at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in the White City area of West London to then 17-year-old actress Georgia Moffett and grew up in Chiswick. [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 later retrained as an osteopath.) In an Adventure with Scientists! Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. [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 iconic supermodel rose to runway superstardom in the '90s serving as a muse for brands including Versace, Chanel and Alexander McQueen [34] Tennant also returned to the role on 13 July 2018, as part of the live Muppets show The Muppets Take the O2 in London (in which the Tenth Doctor appeared onstage as part of a live Pigs in Space sketch). The couple married in 1999 Credit: PA:Press . 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. Tennant was married to photographer David Lasnet for . Stella Tennant - a life in pictures. 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 . The husband of Stella Tennant spoke candidly about their marriage years before her death saying the secret to their 20 year marriage was: 'We want to make it work'. Tennant leaves behind four children, Iris, 15, Jasmine, 17, Cecily, 20, and Marcel, 22, who she shared with husband David Lasnet. She shot to fame after . 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. ', '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.'. And it's very easy to destroy something. [20] During the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, Tennant, along with Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, was one of the British models wearing fashions created by British designers specifically for the event. Stella Tennant with Karl Lagerfeld in 2011. Tennant attended Arts Educational Schools (ArtsEd) for . When he moved to London shortly afterwards, he lodged with Weir for five years[10] and became godfather to her youngest child. [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. Jessica Jones for Netflix", "David Tennant sets Radio 4 Just a Minute record", "Did you know David Tennant was in Just Cause 3? RELATED: David Tennant's 10 Best Roles, Ranked (According to Rotten Tomatoes) Things . Is Stella Tennant related to Colin Tennant? The aristocratic supermodel - famed for her androgynous punk style - was found dead at their home on the Scottish borders this week. She seemed well, but did say she was very worried about [the impact of] Covid [on fashion] because she thought it might mean she never worked again. Her family announced Tennant's death in a statement to The Guardian on Wednesday. , updated "Ask Me Anything!" the title of the post read. [84][85] In autumn 2015, Tennant's name was announced for Scottish feature film I Feel Fine, a thriller set in Glasgow in the 1980s. Although the circumstances of her death are unknown, it was claimed that the model was concerned about the impact of Covid on the fashion industry and had concerns she would not work again. [53] He returned to his role in the production on 3 January 2009, and appeared until the run ended on 10 January. Tennant has worked extensively on stage, including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet that was later adapted for television. 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. [136] In November 2015, Tennant announced that they had recently had a daughter named Doris. [117], Tennant is a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a party political broadcast for them in 2005. [27] She also supported initiatives aimed at reducing fashion's effect on the environment,[17] including Oxfam's "Second Hand September". Stella Tennant - a life in pictures The model married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999, after meeting him on a shoot. [72], Tennant starred in the ITV detective series Broadchurch as DI Alec Hardy between 2013 and 2017. He won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. Meisel and the Vogue team invited her to Paris the next week to model for a Versace campaign (Tennant recalled I thought, well, OK, that sounds fun), and a resulting Meisel shot made the cover of Italian Vogue. Tennant, who lived in Duns, a town in the Scottish borders, died on 22 December . The couple then moved to an 18th-century house on the . Born David John McDonald in 1971, David Tennant had always wanted to be an actor. He appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006. He's a real screamer!". British model Stella Tennant during Chanel's 1996-97 fall-winter . Her death is considered sudden, but police say there are no suspicious circumstances. Tennant and Billie Piper returned to Doctor Who for the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" broadcast on 23 November 2013, with then-stars Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman and guest star John Hurt. The couple's daughter Olive was born in 2011. [13] Steven Meisel then used her on the cover of Italian Vogue. [9] Stella was the great niece of the flamboyant socialite Stephen Tennant, and was directly descended from Bess of Hardwick, a notable figure of Elizabethan English society,[9] and a fourth cousin, once removed, to Diana, Princess of Wales. LONDON (Reuters) - Stella Tennant, one of Britain's top models, has died at the age of 50, British media reported on Wednesday. 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. England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. Stella Tennant was born on 17 December 1970 in London, England,[9][10] the youngest of three children to the Hon. For the last decade, she devoted most of her time looking after her four children and promoting sustainable causes. His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Peter Vincent in the horror remake Fright Night (2011), DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series Broadchurch (20132017), Kilgrave in the Netflix superhero series Jessica Jones (20152019), Crowley in the Amazon Prime fantasy series Good Omens (2019present), and Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days (2021).

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