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. For the last decade, she devoted most of her time looking after her four children and promoting sustainable causes. Later that same year, he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 'David was sitting opposite me. He declared his support for then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2010, and labelled David Cameron a "terrifying prospect". [89] Also in 2017, he became the voice of Scrooge McDuck for Disney XD's DuckTales reboot, replacing the character's longtime voice actor Alan Young, who died in May 2016. . David Tennant 's wife Georgia has taken to Instagram with a very sweet snapshot of her family. [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. Model Stella Tennant dies aged 50. [137] In 2019, they had another daughter named Birdie. Stella Tennant, model, born 17 December 1970, died 22 December . 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". [79] One advert was voluntarily withdrawn after a complaint lodged by BBC Worldwide, which believed that the advert broke the corporation's guidelines by featuring references to Doctor Who that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. Tennant emerged as a top model in the 1990s and her career spanned nearly three decades. In the 1990s, he appeared in several plays at the Dundee Repertory Theatre.[15]. On 9 February 2015, Tennant appeared on the Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute, becoming the show's most successful debut contestant. In May 2022, in relation to the show's 60th anniversary, it was announced that Tennant would once again return to the show, alongside Tate, who would reprise her role as Donna Noble. Stella Tennant and David Lasnet married at a parish church in the Scottish Borders in 1999 Credit: PA . 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 . [54][55] In 2009, he worked on a TV film version of the RSC's 2008 Hamlet for BBC Two. Tennant, who maintained her edge throughout her lengthy career in fashion, died this week at age 50, Vogue reported. In a statement shared with The Telegraph, the model's family revealed that Tennant had been . The aristocratic supermodel - famed for her androgynous punk style - was found dead at their home on the Scottish borders this week. It was good, and it was smart, and it played perfectly with the boundaries of the format it was in. He appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006. [59] In October 2011, Tennant started shooting the semi-improvised comedy film, Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger in Coventry. Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse for many designers . 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. Karl Lagerfeld. She later returned to the runway and worked on several campaigns behind the camera. 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 . [39], On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC One drama written by Tony Marchant. Cecily is the eldest of three sisters. After Stella Tennant's sudden death at the age of 50, fashion designers and photographers paid tribute to the iconic model on social media. In television, he appeared in the first episode of Reeves and Mortimer's revamped Randall and Hopkirk in 2000, playing an eccentric artist. Lambing and ewes, blood and guts and sex.. In this May 22, 1999 file photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. [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. She came from a completely different background and was super-supportive of me always. [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. 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. [14], Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school. [110], Tennant was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media on 9 July 2007, according to MediaGuardian. 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. Arrangements for a memorial service will be announced at a later date.'. Supermodel Stella Tennant 's family has confirmed her cause of death. Fashion. The model was known for her androgynous looks during her 1990s heyday and became a muse for Karl Lagerfeld. [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". Previous; 1; 2; . Also in 2008, he voiced the character of Hamish the Hunter in the 2008 English language DVD re-release of the 2006 animated Norwegian film, Free Jimmy, alongside Woody Harrelson. She replied 'not just yet'. 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. Lagerfeld had shrewdly seen in her a resemblance to the young Coco Chanel, who wore actual mens clothes for sports and larks, underplaying her femininity. The Doctor's face may be familiar, but this is a whole new incarnation, and he could be very different. Tennant featured as the Doctor in an animated version of Doctor Who for Totally Doctor Who, The Infinite Quest, which aired on CBBC. Another said: "9 year old me who sobbed for a week once David Tennant regenerated is throwing a . British model Stella Tennant during Chanel's 1996-97 fall-winter . His roles include a reprisal of his Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, as well as Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, Edgar in King Lear, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, all of which he performs in his natural accent. 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. Tennant has gone on record as saying that, contrary to tabloids reports, he was not upset at not being able to play the role in his own accent and in fact had never wanted to. [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. . 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. . All 13 episodes were released on 20 November 2015.[82]. They were then the money generator, though Tennant worked without demanding supermodel premiums just to get out of bed. David John Tennant (n McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor.He rose to fame for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (2005-2010; 2013), returning to the show as the fourteenth incarnation of the character in 2022. He follows a non-vegetarian diet. She said that by the time people were allowed to travel again and the catwalk shows re-started, she would be regarded as too old. Tennant attended Arts Educational Schools (ArtsEd) for . [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. Tennant in a Linton tweed overcoat and two-tone desert boots, raking her fingers through her choppy hair, was classic Chanel. [58] In September 2011, he appeared in a guest role in one episode of the comedy series This is Jinsy, and also started filming True Love, a semi-improvised BBC One drama series, on location in Margate, Kent; the series aired in June 2012. In Hamlet, David Tennant, whose own RSC performance was a huge hit, meets other actors who have played the role - from the legendary David Warner in the 1960s to the recent Jude Law. David Fisher/Shutterstock. By Liam Hess. They had been married for over two decades and were in the process of splitting. Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 11 November 2007. Tennant was married to photographer David Lasnet for . But that was the only thing that gave the impression she wasnt completely happy.. The Scot made her name in the mid 1990s on catwalks for planners like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. [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. [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. 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[14] In August 2020, Tennant and Lasnet announced they had separated. 06:05 EST 24 Dec 2020 [24], Tennant died on 22 December 2020, aged 50,[17][25] in Duns, Scottish Borders, Scotland. In an Adventure with Scientists! Stella Tennant with Karl Lagerfeld in 2011. 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. [78], In 2012 he appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media, starring in three adverts. 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. [16][17] She also modelled frequently for other influential fashion photographers of the 1990s, including Mario Testino, David Sims and Mark Borthwick. He also played an unnamed Time Lord in another Doctor Who Unbound play Exile. [1] His father was a minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Unusually for a fashion star, Tennant stayed faithful to her home territory. Their children's names are Cecily, Marcel Lasnet, Iris Lasnet, and Jasmine Lasnet. "Stella had been unwell for some time," a spokesperson for Tennant said. She was always Scottish first, born the youngest child of Tobias Tennant of the Glenconner family, which had made its fortune developing bleach for cotton cloth, and Lady Emma Cavendish, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (born Deborah Mitford). "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. [50] In October 2010 he starred as Dave, a man struggling to raise five children after the death of his partner, in the British drama Single Father. 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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. [51] He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), to play Hamlet with Patrick Stewart and Berowne in Love's Labours Lost in 2008. The couple married in 1999 Credit: PA:Press . (2011), Ferdinand (2017), Final Space (20182021), gen:LOCK (2019present), the How to Train Your Dragon films (20102019), and as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales (20172021). Early life. She liked the small, close teams of the 90s, and learning at fittings about clothing crafts. 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]. 'And that's how I met Stella,' he recalled in an interview with the New York Times Magazine in 2011.