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Biography

 

Christopher Eccleston is a British actor who has played in many movies and shows. He was trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. His professional debuts were on the Bristol Old Vic stage in the famous production of A Streetcar Named Desire as Pablo Gonzalez in 1988. His first big part in the cinema industry was for the movie Let him have it – based on a true story – in which he was playing Derek Bentley, a young illiterate and epileptic adult who had been unfairly hung for the crime of his friend, in 1991. His performances as David Stephens in Shallow Grave (1994), Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends in the North (1996) and Jude in Jude (1996) made him a big name in the English acting world.

Since his debuts, Christopher Eccleston shows incredible acting skills whether it is on movies, shows or plays. He himself admits that theatre is a much more rewarding activity than playing in movies. Yet, he only played in a couple of plays during his long career including classics such as Hamlet (2002) and Antigone (2012). He won a National Television Award for his part as the Doctor in the revival of the famous show Doctor Who (2005) and was nominated for a Broadcast Press Guild Award and a BAFTA Cymru Award for this same performance. He also won an International Emmy Award for his part in Accused (2010).

More recently, he starred in the new BBC show Come Home (2018) and movie King Lear (2018) and was playing the leading part in Macbeth, the new production of Polly Findlay for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Barbican Centre in London (2018 – 2019). In 2019, he released his memoirs entitled I Love the Bones of You in which he opened up about his relation with his father, the choice of his career, his battles with depression and anorexia. He is now working on his own production company called Correct Productions and will come back on telly as Maurice Scott in the third season of The A Word (2020).

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