Christopher Eccleston

English actor (born 1964)

Christopher Eccleston

Eccleston in November 2019

Born|  (1964-02-16) 16 February 1964 (age 61)

Salford, Lancashire, England

Education| University of Salford
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation| Actor
Years active| 1989–present
Known for| Let Him Have It, Cracker, Gone In 60 Seconds, Ninth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who
Spouse|

Mischka Eccleston

(m. 2011; div. 2015)​

Children| 2
Signature

Christopher Eccleston (/ˈɛkəlstən/; born 16 February 1964) is an English actor whose work has encompassed Hollywood blockbusters and arthouse films, television dramas, Shakespearean stage performances and science fiction, most notably the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who (2005). He starred as Matt Jamison in The Leftovers (2014–2017), and has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Michael Winterbottom.

Eccleston first rose to prominence for his portrayal of Derek Bentley in the film Let Him Have It (1991). His television performance in Our Friends in the North (1996) resulted in his first BAFTA Award nomination. He received a second nomination for The Second Coming (2003). Eccleston won an International Emmy Award for his performance in Accused (2010). On stage, he has played the title roles in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth, and starred in Strindberg's Miss Julie, Ibsen's A Doll's House, as well as the Greek tragedy Antigone. Since 2017, he has narrated the documentary series Ambulance.

## Early life

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Eccleston was born on 16 February 1964 into a working-class family in the Langworthy area of Salford, then part of Lancashire. He is the son of Elsie and Ronnie Eccleston.[1] He has twin brothers, Alan and Keith, who were born eight years before he was.[2][3][4] On his religious upbringing, he said, "My dad's family were Catholic. My mum was very Church of England – still is – but it doesn't work for me."

The family lived in a small terraced house on Blodwell Street before moving to Little Hulton when Eccleston was seven months old.[5][6][7] He attended Joseph Eastham High School, where he became head boy.[8]

At the age of 19, Eccleston was inspired to pursue acting by such television dramas as Boys from the Blackstuff. He completed a two-year Performance Foundation Course at Salford Tech,[9] then went on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama.[10] He was influenced in his early years by Ken Loach's film Kes and Albert Finney's performance in the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. He soon found himself performing the classics as well, including the works of William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, and Molière.

At the age of 25, he made his professional stage debut in the Bristol Old Vic's production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Underemployed as an actor for some years after graduating from college, he took a variety of odd jobs: at a supermarket, on building sites, and as an artist's model.[11]

## Career

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### Early work (1991–1994)

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Eccleston in May 2012

Eccleston first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in the film Let Him Have It, and for a guest appearance in the Inspector Morse episode "Second Time Around", both 1991. The following year he portrayed Sean Maddox in the BBC miniseries Friday on my Mind.[12] A regular role in the hit crime drama Cracker (1993–94) brought him widespread recognition in the UK. After he decided to leave the series, his character was killed off in October 1994. At around the same time, Eccleston appeared in the Poirot episode "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe".

In 1994, he co-starred with Ewan McGregor in the low-budget Danny Boyle film Shallow Grave, and also landed the part of Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends in the North, as part of an ensemble cast which featured Mark Strong, Gina McKee and Daniel Craig. The broadcast of the epic serial in 1996 on BBC Two helped to make Eccleston a household name in the UK. Also in 1996, he starred in the television film Hillsborough, written by Jimmy McGovern, portraying Trevor Hicks, who lost both of his daughters in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. When Hicks got married in March 2009, Eccleston was his best man.[13]

### Established actor (1995–2004)

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During this period Eccleston built on his early successes, appearing in a wide variety of films and working with high profile directors including David Cronenberg in eXistenZ (1999), Michael Winterbottom in Jude (1996) and 24 Hour Party People (2002), and collaborated again with Danny Boyle on 28 Days Later (2002). He played the Duke of Norfolk in Elizabeth (1998), appeared in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) - years before taking his driving test in January 2004[14] \- and The Others (2001). Eccleston took the lead role in Revengers Tragedy (2002), adapted from Thomas Middleton's play of the same name.[15] He starred in the independent films A Price Above Rubies (1998) and The Invisible Circus (2001).

He also appeared in a variety of television roles, mostly British dramas, including Hearts and Minds (1995) for Channel 4, Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh and Blood (2002) for the BBC, a modern version of Othello (2001), and the religious fantasy epic The Second Coming (2003) for ITV, in which he played Steve Baxter, the son of God. He made guest appearances in the comedy-drama Linda Green (2001) and the macabre sketch show The League of Gentlemen (2002). Eccleston appeared in Hamlet in the 2002 production at Leeds's West Yorkshire Playhouse. From March to April 2004, he returned to the venue in a play called Electricity.[16]

Eccleston has been twice nominated in the Best Actor category at the British Academy Television Awards, both during this period, the first in 1997 when he lost to Nigel Hawthorne in The Fragile Heart. He was nominated again in 2004, losing to Bill Nighy who took the award for his performance in State of Play. Eccleston won the Best Actor category at the 1997 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards for Our Friends in the North. In 2003, he won the Royal Television Society Best Actor award for his performance in Flesh and Blood.[17]

### Doctor Who (2005, 2006)

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On 2 April, 2004, the BBC revealed that Eccleston was to play the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the revival of Doctor Who. Eccleston was the first actor born after the inception of the original series to play the role. It debuted on 26 March, 2005, and a few days later, on 30 March, the BBC released a statement, ostensibly from Eccleston, saying that he had decided to leave the role after just one series to avoid becoming typecast. On 4 April, the BBC revealed that the statement had been falsely attributed and released without Eccleston's consent. The broadcaster admitted that it had broken an agreement made in January not to disclose publicly that the actor had only intended to do one series. The statement had been issued following inquiries from journalists to the press office.[18] Following his departure, Eccleston was replaced by David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor from 2005 to 2010.[19]

For his performance, Eccleston won a National Television Award and was nominated for a Broadcasting Press Guild Award and BAFTA Cymru Award

On 11 June, 2005, when asked about his feelings about working on Doctor Who, Eccleston told a BBC interviewer: "Mixed, but that's a long story". Eccleston's reasons for leaving the role continued to be debated in Britain's newspapers: On 4 October, 2005 Alan Davies told The Daily Telegraph that Eccleston had been "overworked" by the BBC and had left the role because he was "exhausted".[20] Eccleston later stated that he had left the show because he "didn't enjoy the environment or the culture that the cast and crew had to work in", but that he was proud of having played the role.[21] He subsequently said: "My relationship with my three immediate superiors – the showrunner, the producer and co-producer – broke down irreparably during the first block of filming, and it never recovered."[22] Eccleston said that The Daily Telegraph's quote was partially falsified, stating that he "didn't find [the job], physically, too tiring. When The Telegraph said that, any other producer reading that would go 'Oh, no, we can't employ Chris Eccleston because he gets tired.' So, it was a lie."[23]

Eccleston was voted "Most Popular Actor" at the 2005 National Television Awards for his portrayal of the Doctor.[24] In July 2012, Eccleston spoke positively of his time on Doctor Who during a talk at the National Theatre.[25] This led to speculation he was considering making a return appearance as the Doctor for the show's 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", in 2013. Matt Smith, who portrayed the Eleventh Doctor, stated that he would have loved Eccleston to return.[26] After discussions with executive producer Steven Moffat, Eccleston declined to return.[27] In a 2018 interview Eccleston said that the BBC had "put [him] on a blacklist" when he left.[28]

Eccleston began appearing as a guest at Doctor Who conventions for the first time in 2018.[29] He had previously expressed his reluctance to appear at conventions, saying in 2017 that he preferred to "just earn [his] living by acting".[30] He has since said that his experience of meeting fans at conventions "healed something in [him]" and made him re-evaluate his relationship to the series.[31]

On 9 August, 2020, it was announced that Eccleston would reprise his role of the Ninth Doctor in audio dramas for Big Finish Productions,[32] across four boxsets to be released between May 2021 and February 2022. This would be the first time he had portrayed the role in 16 years.[33] Eccleston was later confirmed to appear in a further four boxsets, releasing in 2022 and 2023,[34] as well as an episode of the 60th anniversary audio series Once and Future.[35] He has said that it is unlikely that he will reprise the role on television as his relationship with the BBC "has not healed".[23] When asked in 2023 what it would take for him to return to the character on television, Eccleston replied, "sack Russell T Davies, sack Jane Tranter, sack Phil Collinson, sack Julie Gardner and I'll come back."[36]

### Other work (2005–2010)

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Eccleston at the premiere of Thor: The Dark World in 2013

On 30 October 2005, Eccleston appeared on stage at The Old Vic theatre in London in the one-night play Night Sky alongside Navin Chowdhry, Bruno Langley, David Warner, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel. Eccleston sat on the 2nd Amazonas International Film Festival Film Jury in November 2005. The Canadian born director Norman Jewison was chairman of the Jury.[37] In December 2005, Eccleston travelled to Indonesia's Aceh province for the BBC Breakfast news programme, examining how survivors of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami were rebuilding their lives.[38]

Late in 2006 he starred in Perfect Parents, an ITV drama written and directed by Joe Ahearne, who had directed him in Doctor Who.[39] Eccleston joined the cast of the NBC TV series Heroes in the episode "Godsend", which was broadcast on 22 January 2007. Eccleston played a character named Claude who has the power of invisibility, and helps Peter Petrelli with his powers.[40] Eccleston appeared as the Rider in a film adaptation of Susan Cooper's novel The Dark Is Rising.[41]

Eccleston appeared on the BBC Four World Cinema Award show in February 2008, arguing the merits of five international hits such as The Lives of Others and Pan's Labyrinth with Jonathan Ross and Archie Panjabi. In 2009, Eccleston starred opposite Archie Panjabi in a short film called The Happiness Salesman. Eccleston agreed to do the film because of Panjabi and the fact that it was a winner of the British Short Screenplay Competition.[citation needed] He also appeared as the villainous Destro in the G.I. Joe film, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.[42] In 2018 he described his experience working on the film as "horrendous".[43] He did not return for the 2013 sequel.[44]

Eccleston was cast as John Lennon in a BBC production called Lennon Naked which aired in the UK on 23 June 2010,[45][46] with Eccleston playing the title role, and Naoko Mori, who had previously appeared with him in Doctor Who, as Yoko Ono. In November 2010, Eccleston starred in the first episode of BBC One anthology drama Accused. He won an International Emmy Award for his role. In May 2011, he starred as Joseph Bede in The Shadow Line, a seven-part television drama serial for BBC Two.[47]

### Later work (2011–present)

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On 31 December 2011, Eccleston played the role of Pod Clock in an adaptation of Mary Norton's children's novel The Borrowers on BBC One. In July 2012, he starred in the political thriller Blackout on BBC One. In the same month, he starred as Creon in an adaptation of Antigone at the Royal National Theatre; his performance in the play was called "charismatic" and "intense".[48] In September 2012, Eccleston starred in the film Song for Marion, also known as Unfinished Song with Terence Stamp.[49]

Eccleston in 2021

In 2013, Eccleston portrayed the villainous Malekith in Thor: The Dark World, the sequel to Thor and the eighth instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 2018 he compared working on the film to having a "gun in your mouth".[43][50] Later that year, he played John Aspinall in Lucan, a mini-series about the disappearance of Lord Lucan.[51] From 2014 to 2017, Eccleston starred as Reverend Matt Jamison on the HBO drama series The Leftovers and earned consistent acclaim for his performance across all three seasons.[52] In 2015, Eccleston starred in the television series Fortitude as a scientist based in Arctic Norway alongside Stanley Tucci and Michael Gambon[53] before he and Marsha Thomason played a married couple who own a guest house in the Lake District in the series Safe House.[54] Later in 2015, Eccleston starred as Leonard "Nipper" Read in Legend, a film about the Kray twins, opposite Tom Hardy.[55]

In 2016, Eccleston began appearing as Maurice Scott in the BBC drama The A Word. Maurice is the eccentric but lovable dad to his daughter who, with her husband, has an autistic son. The second series began airing in November 2017 both in the UK and the US, where The A Word airs on Sundance TV. A third series was confirmed and aired in the spring of 2020.[56][57]

Eccleston played the lead role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth in 2018. The production was streamed on BBC Four.[58] Also in 2018, Eccleston starred in two films; opposite Tom Wilkinson as crime boss Harvey in Dead in a Week or Your Money Back[59] and as a Nazi officer Heinz in Where Hands Touch.[60] That same year he appeared in King Lear as Oswald and in the television mini-series Come Home, the latter of which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actor.[61] In 2021, Eccleston starred in the six-part television mini-series Close to Me.[62]

Further projects include playing Fagin in the series Dodger[63] and in a television adaptation of the award-winning novel My Name is Leon.[64]

## Personal life

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Eccleston married Mischka, a copywriter, in November 2011.[65] Their first child, a son named Albert, was born in February 2012.[66][67] Their second child, a daughter named Esme, was born in 2013.[5][68] They were divorced in December 2015.[69]

Eccleston is a lifelong supporter of Manchester United,[70] and was a regular marathon runner until 2000.[4][71]

In September 2007, as part of a £9.5 million building project, Salford's Pendleton College named its new 260-seat auditorium the Eccleston Theatre.[72]

Eccleston became a Mencap charity ambassador on 28 April 2005,[73] and is a supporter of the British Red Cross.[74] He also supports research for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia; his father, Ronnie, had vascular dementia in his later years, from 1998 until his death in 2012.[75][76]

In his autobiography, Eccleston described chronic anorexia, body dysmorphia and depression, and said that he had considered suicide. Speaking about his poor mental health, he wrote that he was "a lifelong body hater".[77] He was hospitalised in 2016 with severe clinical depression.[78]

Eccleston is an atheist.[79]

### Political views

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Eccleston has criticised the Conservative Party and expressed concern at opportunities for actors from his background to achieve his level of success in the future. He said in July 2017, "It's always been a policy of the Conservative government and party to destroy working class identity. If you prevent them from having a cultural voice, which is what's happening, they achieve that. They hate us, they want to destroy us, so we're being ruled out of having a voice."[80]

Eccleston endorsed Labour Party incumbent Andy Burnham in the 2021 Greater Manchester mayoral election.[81]

Eccleston is a British republican who supports the abolition of the British monarchy.[82][83]

## Filmography

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### Film

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes  | Refs.

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1991  | Let Him Have It | Derek Bentley |
1992  | Death and the Compass | Alonso Zunz |  |
1993  | Anchoress | Priest |  |
1994  | Shallow Grave | David Stevens |  |
1996  | Jude | Jude Fawley |  |
1998  | A Price Above Rubies | Sender Horowitz |  |
Elizabeth | Duke of Norfolk |  |
1999  | Heart | Gary Ellis |  |
Existenz | Seminar Leader |  |
With or Without You | Vincent Boyd |  |
2000  | Gone in 60 Seconds | Raymond Calitri |  |
2001  | The Others | Charles Stewart |  |
The Invisible Circus | Wolf |  |
2002  | 24 Hour Party People | Boethius |  |
I Am Dina | Leo Zhukovsky |  |
Revengers Tragedy | Vindici |  |
28 Days Later | Major Henry West |  |
2007  | The Seeker | The Rider |  | [41]
2008  | New Orleans, Mon Amour | Dr. Henry |  |
2009  | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | James McCullen / Destro |  | [43]
Amelia | Fred Noonan |  |
2012  | Song for Marion | James Harris |  |
2013  | Thor: The Dark World | Malekith |  | [84]
2015  | Legend | Leonard "Nipper" Read |  |
2018  | Dead In A Week Or Your Money Back | Harvey |  |
Where Hands Touch | Heinz |  |
2024  | Young Woman and the Sea | Jabez Wolffe |  |

### Television

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes  | Refs.

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1990  | Blood Rights | Dick | Episode: #1.1  |
Casualty | Stephen Hills | Episode: " A Reasonable Man"  |
1991  | Inspector Morse | Terrence Mitchell | Episode: "Second Time Around"  |
Chancer | Radio | Episode: "Jo"  |
Boon | Mark | Episode: "Cover Up"  |
1992  | Rachel's Dream | Man in Dream | TV film  |
Poirot | Frank Carter | Episode: "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"  |
Friday on my Mind | Sean Maddox | 3 episodes  |
Business with Friends | Angel Morris | TV film  |
1993–1994  | Cracker | DCI David Bilborough | 10 episodes  |
1995  | Hearts and Minds | Drew Mackenzie | 4 episodes  |
1996  | Our Friends in the North | Nicky Hutchinson | 9 episodes  |
Hillsborough | Trevor Hicks | TV film  |
2000  | Wilderness Men | Alexander Von Humboldt | 3 episodes  |
Clocking Off | Jim Calvert | 2 episodes  |
2001  | Strumpet | Strayman | TV film  |
Linda Green | Tom Sherry / Neil Sherry | Episode: "Twins"  |
Othello | Ben Jago | TV film  |
2002  | The League of Gentlemen | Dougal Siepp | Episode: "How the Elephant Got Its Trunk"  |
Flesh and Blood | Joe Broughton | TV film  |
The King and Us | Anthony  |
Sunday | General Ford |
2003  | The Second Coming | Stephen Baxter | 2 episodes  |
2005  | Doctor Who | Ninth Doctor | Series 1; 13 episodes  | [32]
2006  | Perfect Parents | Stuart | TV film  |
2007  | Heroes | Claude | 5 episodes  |
2008  | The Sarah Silverman Program | Dr. Lazer Rage | Episode: "I Thought My Dad Was Dead, But It Turns Out He's Not"
2010  | Lennon Naked | John Lennon | TV film  |
Accused | Willy Houlihan | Episode: "Willy's Story"  |
2011  | The Shadow Line | Joseph Bede | All 7 episodes  |
The Borrowers | Pod Clock | TV film  |
2012  | Blackout | Daniel Demoys | All 3 episodes  |
2013  | Lucan | John Aspinall | Both 2 episodes  |
2014–2017  | The Leftovers | Matt Jamison | 23 episodes  |
2015  | Fortitude | Professor Stoddart | 3 episodes  |
Safe House | Robert | 4 episodes  |
2016  | The Life of Rock with Brian Pern | Luke Dunmore | 2 episodes
2016–2020  | The A Word | Maurice Scott | All 18 episodes  |
2017  | Brian Pern: A Tribute | Luke Dunmore | TV film  |
2018  | Come Home | Greg | All 3 episodes  |
King Lear | Oswald | TV film  |
Danger Mouse | J. Woolington Sham | Voice; Episode: "No More Mr Ice Guy"  |
2020  | 2019: A Year in the Life of a Year | Himself | TV film  |
The Kemps: All True |
2021  | Close to Me | Rob Harding | All 6 episodes  |
2022  | My Name is Leon | Mr. Devlin | TV film  |
Would I Lie to You? | Himself | Series 16 Xmas Special  |
2022–2023  | Dodger | Fagin | Main role; 14 episodes  |
2024  | True Detective | Captain Ted Connelly | Season 4 Main Cast  |
The Guilty Innocent with Christopher Eccleston | Himself  | All 2 episodes  |
TBA | Out of the Dust | Mr Phillips | Main Cast  | [85]

### Stage

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes  | Refs.

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1988  | A Streetcar Named Desire | Pablo Gonzalez | Bristol Old Vic |
1989  | Dona Rosita the Spinster | Phyllida Lloyd  |
1990  | Bent | Lieutenant | Royal National Theatre |
Abingdon Square |  |
Aide-Memoire |  | Royal Court Theatre |
1993  | Waiting at the Water's Edge | Will | Bush Theatre |
2000  | Miss Julie | Jean | Haymarket Theatre |
2002  | Hamlet | Hamlet | West Yorkshire Playhouse |
2004  | Electricity | Jakey  |
2009  | A Doll's House | Neil Kelman | Donmar Warehouse |
2012  | Antigone | Creon | Royal National Theatre  |
2018  | Macbeth | Macbeth | Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
Barbican Theatre, London |
2023  | NASSIM |  | Traverse Theatre |
A Christmas Carol | Ebenezer Scrooge | The Old Vic |

#### Performances with unknown dates

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* Woyzeck – Birmingham Repertory Theatre
* The Wonder – Gate Theatre
* Encounters – National Theatre Studio

### Short films

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Year  | Artist  | Title  | Refs.

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2000  | The Tyre | Salesman  |
2001  | This Little Piggy | Cabbie  |
2010  | The Happiness Salesman | Salesman  |
2025  | Whispers of Freedom | Herbert Köfer |

### Music videos

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Year  | Artist  | Title  | Refs.

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2003  | I Am Kloot | "Proof"  |
2010  | "Northern Skies"  |

### Radio and narration

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes  | Refs.

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1998  | Room of Leaves | Frank |  |
Pig Paradise | Jack |  |
2001  | Some Fantastic Place | Narrator |  |
Bayeux Tapestry | Harold |  |
2002  | The Importance of Being Morrissey | Narrator |  |
Iliad | Achilles |  |
2003  | Cromwell – Warts and All | Narrator |  |
2004  | Life Half Spent | Roger |  |
2005  | Crossing the Dark Sea | Squaddie |  |
Sacred Nation | Narrator |  |
Born to be Different | Narrator |  |
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Brian |  |
E=mc² (Einstein's Big Idea) | Narrator |  |
Dubai Dreams | Narrator |  |
Wanted: New Mum and Dad | Narrator |  |
Children in Need | Narrator |  |
This Sceptred Isle | Various Characters |  |
2005–2006  | The Dark Side of Porn | Narrator | Season 1–2; 9 Episodes  |
2006  | The 1970s: That Was The Decade That Was | Narrator |  |
2008  | The Devil's Christmas | Narrator |  |
2009  | Wounded | Narrator |  |
2011  | The Bomb Squad | Narrator |  |
2012  | Timeshift: Wrestling's Golden Age: Grapplers, Grunts & Grannies | Narrator |  |
2013  | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Protagonist |  |
2016  | The Last Miners | Narrator | 2 episodes  |
2017–present  | Ambulance | Narrator | 44 episodes  |
2017  | Manchester: 100 Days After the Attack | Narrator | Television special  |
2019  | Cold Bath Street, a Lancashire ghost story by A.J. Hartley | Narrator |  |
I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me | Narrator |  |

### Audio dramas

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes  | Refs.

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2021–present  | Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures | Ninth Doctor | Series 1–3; 34 episodes  | [32]
2023  | Doctor Who: Once and Future | Episode: "Time Lord Immemorial"  | [35]

## Books

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2019  | The Whisper Man  | Audiobook (Narrator)

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2019 | I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me | Autobiography

## Awards and nominations

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### BAFTA Awards

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#### BAFTA TV Awards

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Year  | Category  | Nominated work  | Result  | Ref.

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1997  | Best Actor  | Our Friends in the North | Nominated  | [86]
2004  | The Second Coming | Nominated

#### BAFTA Cymru Awards

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Year  | Category  | Nominated work  | Result  | Ref.

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2005  | Best Actor  | Doctor Who | Nominated  | [86]

### Emmy Awards

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#### International Emmy Awards

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Year  | Category  | Nominated work  | Result  | Ref.

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2011  | Best Actor | Accused | Won  |
2019  | Come Home | Nominated  |

### Others

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Year  | Work  | Award  | Category  | Result

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1997  | Jude | Golden Satellite Award | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Nominated
Our Friends in the North | Broadcasting Press Guild Award | Best Actor  | Won
2003  | Flesh and Blood | Royal Television Society Award | Best Actor  | Won
2005  | Doctor Who | TV Choice Award | Best Actor  | Won
National Television Awards | Most Popular Actor  | Won
Broadcasting Press Guild Award | Best Actor  | Nominated
2007  | Heroes | SyFy Genre Awards | Best Special Guest  | Nominated
2015  | The Leftovers | Satellite Award | Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film | Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Award | Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Nominated
2016  | Critics' Choice Television Award | Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Nominated

## Notes

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