David Fisher/Shutterstock Stella Tennant at the UK Fashion Awards in 2019. Their relationship appeared idyllic, and they built a happy home in their countryside estate on the Scottish borders. 12:14 EST 24 Dec 2020. In February 2016, he began filming Mad to Be Normal (previously titled Metanoia), a biopic of the renowned Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, produced by Gizmo Films. As Tennant recalled from the audition, "they needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers". [107][108], Tennant was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. [3] Stella Tennant, model and designer, born 17 December 1970; died 22 December 2020. 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. During the Christmas season of 2002, he starred in a series of television advertisements for Boots the Chemists. Then David and I decided we wanted to have a family." She married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999 and had four children. 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. The couple's daughter Olive was born in 2011. Neighbours were shocked at the news saying that, since the separation, David had seemingly moved to Edinburgh, where the couple had a mews house, and continued working as an osteopath while Stella had taken up riding. Tennant appeared in the 2008 episode "Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm" of the radio series Nebulous (a parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent. "[101], In September 2022, Tennant starred as Reverend Harry Watling in BBC1's Inside Man, which was written by Steven Moffat. In December 2008, he was named as one of the most influential people in show business by British theatre and entertainment magazine The Stage, making him the fifth actor to achieve a ranking in the top 20 (in a list typically dominated by producers and directors). [45] The pilot was not picked up and the project was shelved. 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.. From October 2009, he hosted the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service. [18], Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998). "Stella had been unwell for some time," a spokesperson for Tennant said. She came from a completely . One of his earliest big-screen roles was in Jude (1996), in which he shared a scene with Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect. Unusually for a fashion star, Tennant stayed faithful to her home territory. I mean, what else is there really?'. 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 . 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. In 2006, readers of Doctor Who Magazine voted Tennant "Best Doctor" over perennial favourite Tom Baker. Cecily is the eldest of three sisters. [17] He subsequently specialised in comic roles, playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. We will miss you forever Stella. [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. The first series was filmed in Clevedon, North Somerset, and Bridport, Dorset, between August and November 2012, and aired in March 2013. The play follows the story of two sisters, Blanche and Stella, and Stella's husband Stanley. She was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah Mitford, the youngest of the Mitford sisters. All about Stella Tennant. December 23, 2020, 9:38 AM. 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. In a statement shared with The Telegraph, the model's family revealed that Tennant had been . [103][104][105][106], In December 2022, Tennant starred as Alexander Litvinenko in the ITV1 dramatisation Litvinenko. [81], Tennant also portrayed the villainous Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, a television series from Marvel and Netflix. [118] In April 2010, he lent his voice to a Labour election broadcast. On 9 February 2015, Tennant appeared on the Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute, becoming the show's most successful debut contestant. ", which aired on 9 June 2007. 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. FILE In this May 22, 1999 file photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. 'Stella really lifted me out of it without knowing. In this May 22, 1999 photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. [26] Writer Russell T Davies made the decision not to use Tennant's own Scottish accent for the character as he did not want the Doctor's accent "touring the regions", using Estuary English instead. Tennant was invited to set for a photoshoot with Testino in New York and the pair hit it off. [27] She also supported initiatives aimed at reducing fashion's effect on the environment,[17] including Oxfam's "Second Hand September". They lived briefly in Manhattan before returning to Scotland, where they had a mews house in Edinburgh and a home in Edrom, Berwickshire, with a vegetable garden and chickens. But it took a while for them to get together as a couple due to the language barriers between French-born Lasnet and aristocratic Brit Tennant. [110], Tennant was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media on 9 July 2007, according to MediaGuardian. Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse for many designers . Her death is considered sudden, but police say there are no suspicious circumstances. [12][13] He later legally changed his surname to comply with rules set by the American Screen Actors Guild (which was later merged into SAG-AFTRA). [72], Tennant starred in the ITV detective series Broadchurch as DI Alec Hardy between 2013 and 2017. 'Her family ask for their privacy to be respected. The character when interacted with makes a number of references to Doctor Who. Biography, news, photos and videos . She was a muse of the designers Karl Lagerfeld,[18] Gianni Versace,[17][19] Alexander McQueen, Nicolas Ghesquire, Riccardo Tisci and Victoria Beckham. 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. 2. Tennant in a Linton tweed overcoat and two-tone desert boots, raking her fingers through her choppy hair, was classic Chanel. British model Stella Tennant during Chanel's 1996-97 fall-winter . [16] During filming of Takin' Over the Asylum he met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. They were then the money generator, though Tennant worked without demanding supermodel premiums just to get out of bed. [8][26], In 2009, Tennant worked with green lifestyle organisation Global Cool to promote using less energy at home. 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. 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. Read more. [14][15] He is reported to have thought her reminiscent of Coco Chanel. 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. 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It was good, and it was smart, and it played perfectly with the boundaries of the format it was in. However, on 29 October 2008, he announced that he would be stepping down from the role after three full series. 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. LONDON Stella Tennant took her own life last month, . [99] For his performance, he won the International Emmy Award for Best Actor. [114] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted him the "Sexiest Man in the Universe". [citation needed], Tennant featured in an episode of Trick or Treat on Channel 4 in May 2008. "It's exciting in part," she told Vogue, "but it can be excruciatingly dull.". December 23, 2020. If it wants to pursue me, that's a different thing, but me as I am. They had four children together. The English-language version of the film has dialogue written by Simon Pegg, who also starred in it as a main voice actor. 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. [83] He also voiced the Propaganda Minister in the 2015 Square Enix video game Just Cause 3. 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. [13] Steven Meisel then used her on the cover of Italian Vogue. [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. Tennant, 50, was found dead on December 22. (Lasnet later retrained as an osteopath.) [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. [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. David Fisher/Shutterstock. [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". Stella Tennant - a life in pictures The model married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999, after meeting him on a shoot. 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). Anna Wintour is mourning the loss of fashion industry icon Stella Tennant. Related profiles. Lasnet asked Stella to have children with him within two months of their relationship starting. The iconic supermodel rose to runway superstardom in the '90s serving as a muse for brands including Versace, Chanel and Alexander McQueen David Tennant 's wife Georgia has taken to Instagram with a very sweet snapshot of her family. It . In this May 22, 1999 file photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. 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. [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. [113], In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. 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. He declared his support for then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2010, and labelled David Cameron a "terrifying prospect". Supermodel Stella Tennant 's family has confirmed her cause of death. 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. He was hired as a set assistant after declining the designer's offer to model for him, instead asking for a job behind the camera. UNIT: The Wasting, was recorded between Tennant getting the role of the Doctor and it being announced. [10] He also starred in the 2003 London production of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. [11] The following year, he played a role in an episode of Dramarama. He began filming the new series of Doctor Who in late July 2005. (At art college she imitated favourite photographer Cindy Shermans technique of posing as stereotypes, and got them out of her system.). [4] He later said that he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing an acting career. 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. 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. [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). [100], In 2020 and 2021 he starred in the TV series Staged, with Michael Sheen. For the last decade, she devoted most of her time looking after her four children and promoting sustainable causes. Stella Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace, has died suddenly at the age of 50, her family said Wednesday. (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.) [66][67] Tennant also presented the new comedy quiz show Comedy World Cup, in 2012 which ran on Saturday nights for seven episodes. 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). [16][17] She also modelled frequently for other influential fashion photographers of the 1990s, including Mario Testino, David Sims and Mark Borthwick. In both audio productions, he worked alongside Nicholas Courtney, who reprised the character of Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. Born David John McDonald in 1971, David Tennant had always wanted to be an actor. The very opposite of a social butterfly, quite unstarry, and all the more popular in the community for it, one of them said yesterday. Later that same year, he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Blanche hides the fact she has lost her job and slowly develops a mental break with reality and comes . [23] The family lived near Duns, in the small village of Edrom in Berwickshire, also in the Scottish Borders. [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. "Ask Me Anything!" the title of the post read. He also starred as the Doctor in another animated six-part Doctor Who series, Dreamland. [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. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010. Stella Tennant - a life in pictures. Iris Lasnet was welcomed by David and Stella, in 2004. . RELATED ARTICLES. He is a dog lover and owns a pet dog named Feud. By Despite much of his work being television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being". In summer 2009, Tennant filmed St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. "Its that . [10] He also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transgender barmaid called Davina. The aristocratic supermodel - famed for her androgynous punk style - was found dead at their home on the Scottish borders this week. David loves surfing and skate boarding in his leisure time. She was a second cousin of artist Daphne Guinness, through their great-grandparents, Sydney and David . He also received his first credit as an executive producer for the series. David Tennant returned to Doctor Who last night as the 14th Doctor after a 12-year hiatus and the Good Omens star . Previous; 1; 2; . Stella Tennant Family With Daughter,Son and Husband David Lasnet 2020 https://youtu.be/9CFNdHxAtAoReal Name : Stella TennantBorn : 17 December 1970Died : 22 . We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Their children's names are Cecily, Marcel Lasnet, Iris Lasnet, and Jasmine Lasnet. [78], In 2012 he appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media, starring in three adverts. [137] In 2019, they had another daughter named Birdie. The pair split in August Stella Tennant died this week just weeks after her 50th . Tennant is survived by her four children, her husband David Lasnet, her parents Tobias Tennant and Lady Emma Cavendish, a brother and a . [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. Mark Gatiss, Trevor Hampton, David Tennant, Alison Willett (2005). 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. Death More from News. Stella Tennant with Karl Lagerfeld in 2011. [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. And it's very easy to destroy something. Tennant emerged as a top model in the 1990s and her career spanned nearly three decades. All 13 episodes were released on 20 November 2015.[82]. [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". [4] He was educated at Ralston Primary School and Paisley Grammar School and acted in various school productions. 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, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers including Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace, has died suddenly at the age of 50, her family said Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in . 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. Supermodel Stella Tennant 's family has confirmed her cause of death. 'I'm not really pursuing my modelling in the same way. In early 2009, Tennant narrated the digital planetarium space dome film "We Are Astronomers"[43] commissioned by the UK's National Space Centre. [68], In January 2012, Tennant was appointed to the Royal Shakespeare Company board, to be on the selection committee interviewing and choosing the new artistic director. [65] On 9 June 2012, he started filming the 3-part political drama series The Politician's Husband for BBC Two, playing an ambitious cabinet minister who takes drastic action when his wife's career starts to outshine his. 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 . 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. 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 couple married in 1999 Credit: PA:Press . [11][18], Tennant married French photographer and osteopath David Lasnet in the village of Oxnam, Roxburghshire, on 22 June 1999. The couple's move across the Atlantic inspired Lasnet to retrain and he studied to be an osteopath - a profession choice he recalls was sparked by his son Marcel developingwhooping cough as a toddler. 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. Tennant, who maintained her edge throughout her lengthy career in fashion, died this week at age 50, Vogue reported. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. On 13 March 2009, he presented Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall. Antonia Paget For Mailonline This does mean viewers should be wary of assuming Tennant is playing the same Tenth Doctor character.
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