Catwalk icon's career in pictures. The couple then moved to an 18th-century house on the Scottish borders, where - between modelling jobs - Tennant grew her own vegetables and raised four children, Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine and Iris, now in their teens and . In television, he appeared in the first episode of Reeves and Mortimer's revamped Randall and Hopkirk in 2000, playing an eccentric artist. 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). David lasnet and aristocratic supermodel Stella Tennant married in 1999 in Oxnam, a town on the Scottish borders. [64] Tennant auditioned for the role of Hannibal Lecter in NBC's Hannibal; he was narrowly beaten for the part by Mads Mikkelsen. 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. [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 revived this performance for the anniversary of the Royal Court Theatre in a rehearsed reading. [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. [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. [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. She made a video and became one of the faces of its campaign titled Turn Up the Style, Turn Down the Heat. Totally Tennant. October 24, 2022 12:46am. It was love at first sight, she recalled. By Reuters. 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. Secret Smile might just be one of David Tennant's most underappreciated projects to date. His first such role was in the Seventh Doctor audio Colditz, where he played a Nazi lieutenant guard at Colditz Castle. Rest In Peace." In 1993, aged 23, Mrs Tennant broke into modelling, posing for magazines such as French, British and . 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. Tennant won VH1/Vogue Model of the Year Award in 2001, Model of the Year at the 2011 British Fashion Awards and the Contribution to British Fashion award at the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year 2016 awards; she was also inducted into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame as Model of the Year in 2012. [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. On Wednesday, Tennant's family confirmed she died by suicide in a statement shared with The Telegraph. Anna Wintour is mourning the loss of fashion industry icon Stella Tennant. 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. [54][55] In 2009, he worked on a TV film version of the RSC's 2008 Hamlet for BBC Two. He remarked in a radio interview: "Who wouldn't want to be the Doctor? [2][3] He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston,[4] where his father was the local minister. RELATED: David Tennant's 10 Best Roles, Ranked (According to Rotten Tomatoes) Things . 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. British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of 50, her family have said. [13] Steven Meisel then used her on the cover of Italian Vogue. The film was released in September 2014. Her family confirmed the news to the PA news agency (via BBC . David Tennant returned to Doctor Who last night as the 14th Doctor after a 12-year hiatus and the Good Omens star . Tennant was born into the Scottish aristocracy. David Lasnet also credited the model with 'lifting him out of depression' early in their marriage but said she did not know the depths of the support she had given him. [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. He and their children survive her. He declared his support for then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2010, and labelled David Cameron a "terrifying prospect". The Scot made her name in the early 1990s on catwalks for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers . [13] Soon after, Karl Lagerfeld announced Tennant as the new face of Chanel, with an exclusive contract. At the time, the cause of death was unknown, but it is believed that Stella and her photographer husband David Lasnet had split. 'Stella was a wonderful woman and an inspiration to us all. [12], In 1993, Tennant sent photographs of herself to a high fashion magazine, and a friend introduced her to fashion writer Plum Sykes (Victoria Rowland). [131][132] Ty has acted in the film Tolkien and the 2019 television adaptation of War of the Worlds. [39], On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC One drama written by Tony Marchant. It was good, and it was smart, and it played perfectly with the boundaries of the format it was in. In a statement shared with The Telegraph, the model . 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[4] He later said that he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing an acting career. David Fisher/Shutterstock Stella Tennant at the UK Fashion Awards in 2019. We do not have the related information on Cecily Lasnet's boyfriend and her dating life. She was a second cousin of artist Daphne Guinness, through their great-grandparents, Sydney and David . [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. 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. When asked for the secret to the longevity of their marriage, Lasnet said: 'Well, I think we want to make it work, you know? [69] It was announced on 23 January 2013 that Tennant would return to the RSC for the company's 2013 winter season, playing the title role in Richard II at Stratford-upon-Avon (from 10 October to 16 November) and transferring to the Barbican Centre in London (from 9 December to 25 January 2014). Despite much of his work being television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being". He played the title role in Big Finish's adaptation of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2005). The pair split in August Stella Tennant died this week just weeks after her 50th . [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. Stella Tennant and David Lasnet married at a parish church in the Scottish Borders in 1999 Credit: PA . 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. . Tennant, who maintained her fashionable edge throughout her lengthy career in the industry, died by suicide on December 22, 2020, at the age of 50. [18], Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998). [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 British supermodel who rose to fame in the '90s, has died days after her 50th birthday. Their relationship appeared idyllic, and they built a happy home in their countryside estate on the Scottish borders. Biography, news, photos and videos . The fashion designer attributed to her resemblance to Coco Chanel. Although the casting was not officially announced until later in April,[24] both castmates and crew became aware of the speculation surrounding Tennant; in the live broadcast Jason Flemyng (Quatermass) changed his first line to Tennant's Dr. Briscoe from "Good to have you back, Gordon" to "Good to have you back, Doctor" as a deliberate reference. Lasnet asked Stella to have children with him within two months of their relationship starting. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III as Galanar, a young man who is given an assignment to discover the secrets of the Daleks. For the last decade, she devoted most of her time looking after her four children and promoting sustainable causes. Tennants appeal had been prefigured in the release that year of Sally Potters film of the Virginia Woolf fantasy novel Orlando, its hero/heroine (nothing so simple as androgynous) played by Tilda Swinton; pipe-cleaner thin, tall, pale, unpainted, with a body language both male and female, and an ever-unready smile. They moved to the 18th-century house from New York in the US where Lasnet had forged a successful career as a photographer while Stella excelled as a model. [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. Karl Lagerfeld named Tennant the face of Chanel in 1996, and she was cited by several designers as their . Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. 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. 'And that's how I met Stella,' he recalled in an interview with the New York Times Magazine in 2011. The aristocratic supermodel - famed for her androgynous punk style - was found dead at their home on the Scottish borders this week. [16][17] She also modelled frequently for other influential fashion photographers of the 1990s, including Mario Testino, David Sims and Mark Borthwick. Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, List of awards and nominations received by David Tennant, "David Tennant's father and ex-Kirk moderator Sandy McDonald dies", "David Tennant pays tribute to his late mum", "Frost's Scottish Who's Who Very Rev. He has also been a voice actor in The Pirates! [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". 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. (Lasnet later retrained as an osteopath.) David Lasnet is a French photographer while Stella Tennant was a British model. 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. According to her family, she died by suicide after struggling with her mental health.
[78], In 2012 he appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media, starring in three adverts. 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. His first Shakespearean role for the RSC was in As You Like It (1996); having auditioned for the role of Orlando, the romantic lead, he was instead cast as the jester Touchstone, which he played in his natural Scottish accent. At the time, Tennant herself was a graduate in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, who, realising she did not have enough to say to become an artist, had tried and failed to monetise her near 6ft height and remarkable bones in modelling. Her unconventional . [35][36] Previously thought to be returning as the Tenth Doctor, in October 2022, the ending of the special episode "The Power of the Doctor" revealed that Tennant would return as the Fourteenth Doctor, a role previously thought to be played by Ncuti Gatwa, who would follow on as the Fifteenth Doctor instead. She was raised on a sheep farm on the Scottish Borders. Fashion house Versace paid tribute to Tennant on Twitter, saying: "Versace is mourning the death of Stella Tennant. 'Her family ask for their privacy to be respected. The Scot made her name in the early 1990s on catwalks for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers . The teenager from . Stella Tennant, the iconic British model famed for her statuesque beauty and inimitable personal style, has passed away at the age of 50. [111] Tennant's popularity has led to impersonations of him on various social networking sites, leading the BBC to issue a statement making it clear that Tennant does not use any of these sites and any account or message purporting to be from him is fake. Mark Gatiss, Trevor Hampton, David Tennant, Alison Willett (2005). Tennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999 Stella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month. 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. [22] She continued to sculpt, and with her sister, a gilder, operated a luxury homewares company, Tennant & Tennant. Her first shoot made the cover of British Vogue in December 1993, which Mrs Tennant later said came about 'by accident', and at the end of that day's work she was asked to do a Versace campaign in Paris, which ended up as the cover of the Italian edition. [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. 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. [127][128] They have five children,[129][130] including actor Ty Tennant, Moffett's child from a previous relationship whom Tennant adopted. 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. 'I'm incredibly glad to be where I am. 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. It marked the start of a relationship that would span more than 20 years and give them four children, Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine, and Iris, now aged between 15 and 22. It was the final chronological appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and introduced Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor in the closing moments of part two. Tennant was more interested in art at the time, not terribly taken with modeling. 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. Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. Unusually for a fashion star, Tennant stayed faithful to her home territory. Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers . News of her death was confirmed only months after their split and just five days after her 50th birthday. His costar in the drama was friend Sarah Parish, with whom he had previously appeared in Blackpool and an episode of Doctor Who. Another said: "9 year old me who sobbed for a week once David Tennant regenerated is throwing a . "Stella really lifted me out of it without knowing. [77] Tennant starred opposite Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly in What We Did on Our Holiday, a semi-improvised comedy film; shooting took place from 17 June to 30 July 2013 in Scotland. [62], In April 2012, Tennant played lead in a one-off drama The Minor Character for Sky Arts. She liked the small, close teams of the 90s, and learning at fittings about clothing crafts. 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. From then on, everything got better.'. In November 2017, three new audio dramas were released by Big Finish Productions with Tennant once again starring as the Tenth Doctor, alongside Billie Piper as Rose Tyler. Tennant in a Linton tweed overcoat and two-tone desert boots, raking her fingers through her choppy hair, was classic Chanel. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. He made his directorial debut on the Doctor Who Confidential episode that accompanies Steven Moffat's episode "Blink", entitled "Do You Remember The First Time? Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse . BBC Two. Tennant, 50, was found dead on December 22. [66][67] Tennant also presented the new comedy quiz show Comedy World Cup, in 2012 which ran on Saturday nights for seven episodes. 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. [10] After discovering that there was another David McDonald already represented by the actor's union Equity, he created his stage name by adopting the surname of Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant, whom he had seen in Smash Hits magazine while deciding on a new name. 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. He and their children survive her. 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. [125] The couple met in 2008 during the filming of the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter", in which she played the genetically engineered daughter of Tennant's Tenth Doctor. [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. I mean, what else is there really?'. Tobias Tennant, son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner, and his wife, Lady Emma Cavendish. 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. In this May 22, 1999 photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. [88] Between March and June 2017 Tennant appeared in Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho at the Wyndham's Theatre. The Pirates! 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. 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. Over the years she appeared in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Herms and Burberry. [11] In 2010, she starred in L.K.Bennett's Spring Summer campaign photographed by Tim Walker. [102] The series premiered on 26 September 2022 to mixed reviews from viewers and critics alike. Tennant was married to photographer David Lasnet for . [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. Furthermore, Cecily Lasnet was born to her parents David Lasnet (Father) who is a French photographer, and Stella Tennant (Mother) who was a British model. In November 2008, Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the BBC and HBO biographical film Einstein and Eddington, which was filmed in Cambridge and Hungary. Tennant was born David John McDonald in Bathgate on 18 April 1971, the son of Helen (ne McLeod; 19402007) and Alexander "Sandy" McDonald (19372016). David loves surfing and skate boarding in his leisure time. [10] He also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transgender barmaid called Davina. Tennant's first professional role upon graduating from drama school was in a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui co-starring Ashley Jensen; one of a few plays in which he performed as part of the agitprop 7:84 Theatre Company. December 23, 2020. I was so nervous that the rice kept falling off my fork. [107][108], Tennant was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. Paris-born photographer Mr Lasnet previously described his wife as 'super-supportive' and credited her with improving his mental health after he suffered depression in his 20s. The Doctor's face may be familiar, but this is a whole new incarnation, and he could be very different. , updated 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 . [90], Tennant played psychopathic villain Cale Erendreich in the thriller film Bad Samaritan (2018), written by Brandon Boyce and directed by Dean Devlin. Tennant is survived by her four children, her husband David Lasnet, her parents Tobias Tennant and Lady Emma Cavendish, a brother and a . She was well liked, warm and friendly. 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. Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 11 November 2007. He played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. In an Adventure with Scientists! Born in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010. He won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. [41] Tennant was the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" on Top Gear in December 2007, where he claimed to have unsuccessfully auditioned for a role on Taggart 26 times. 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. [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. In August, it emerged that Stella had quietly separated from her husband some 21 years. Growing up on a farm kept her grounded, she said. [14] In August 2020, Tennant and Lasnet announced they had separated. Her family announced Tennant's death in a statement to The Guardian on Wednesday. In a statement shared with The Telegraph, the model's family revealed that Tennant had been . 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'. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. [138], For other people named David Tennant, see.
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